Lecture Programme

(subject to change)

Tuesday, December 9, 2008

09:00    Registration

10:30    Opening
               H.-M. Biehl, Projektträger Jülich/D

10:40    Personalised Healthcare - Fitting the Treatment to the patient
               W. Fischer-Knuppertz, Roche Diagnostics GmbH, Penzberg/D

               Bioanalytical Devices, Software & Bioimaging

11:20    Lab-on-a-Chip foundry service - speeding up the miniaturization of in vitro diagnostics
            T. Metz , D. Mark, S. Lutz, R. Simon, HSG-IMIT, Villingen-Schwenningen/D; M. Focke, B. Faltin, IM-TEK-Universität Freiburg/D; J. Burger, M. Karle, G. Müller, C. Blattert, HSG-IMIT,
              Villingen-Schwenningen/D; C. Müller, IMTEK - Universität Freiburg/D; S. Messner, H. Reinecke, R. Zengerle, F. von Stetten, HSG-IMIT, Villingen-Schwenningen/D

11:35 HT-method for producing monoclonal antibodies
M. Raditsch, EMBLEM Technology Transfer GmbH, Heidelberg/D

11:50 Sample preparation of bacteria from soil by microfluidic filtration and mixing technique
J. Claußen , F. von Germar, S. Selzer, M. Sommer, I. Wick, M. Ritzi, IMM, Mainz/D

12:05 Photothermal Imaging for 3 D surface analysis for dermal drug delivery
S. Lenhert, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology/D

12:20 Biological lipid based inks for surface structuring by Dip-Pen Nanolithography
W. Faubel, R. Körber, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology/D

12:35 Lunch Break

Molecular Diagnostics & Life Science Research

14:15    Developing assays for the routine detection of metabolic markers
            C. Röhring, T. Koal, Biocrates Life Sciences AG, Innsbruck/A; W. Guggenbichler, Sandoz GmbH, Kundl/A; S.L. Ramsay, CSL Limeted, Parkville/AUS;
            S. Dammeier , Biocrates Life Sciences AG, Innsbruck/A

14:30 Non-protein coding RNAs - an emerging class of biomarkers
K. Reiche, A.K. Kretzschmar, Fraunhofer IZI, Leipzig/D; F. Horn, University of Leipzig, Leipzig/D; J. Hackermüller , Fraunhofer IZI, Leipzig/D

14:45 Mass spectrometric quantification of multiple proteins and its utility in clinical chemistry
P. Schulz-Knappe, Proteome Sciences GmbH & Co KG, Frankfurt/D

15:00 Introducing the AMODIA MultiFlow®: Easy detection of multiplex amplification products
F. Schwieger, U. Krause , AMODIA Bioservice GmbH, Braunschweig/D

15:15 High-resolution quantitative online measurement of cell signaling dynamics
D. Riester, MBM Sciencebridge, Göttingen/D

15:30    Bacterial tumor colonization and its use for tumor imaging modalities
              J. Stritzker , Genelux Corporation and University of Würzburg, Bernried/D; P.J. Hill, University of Not-tingham/UK; P. Brader, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York/USA;             S. Weibel, University of Würzburg/D; Y.A. Yu, Genelux Corp, San Diego/USA; M. Scadeng, University of California San Diego/USA; D. Haddad, T. Basse-Lüsebrink, University of
              Würzburg/D; Y., Fong, R. Blasberg, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York/USA; P. Jakob, University of Würzburg/D; A.A. Szalay, Genelux Corp and University of
              Würzburg/D

15:45 Diagnosis of human diseases using the S-sens® K5 biosensor
T. Gronewold, Biosensor GmbH, Bonn/D

16:00    Coffee Break

16:30    Metabolomics: Impact on diagnostics or pharmacogenomics or evidence based diagnostics
            G. Zurek, Bruker Daltonik GmbH, Bremen/D
              M. Spraul, Bruker BioSpin GmbH Rheinstetten/D

17:10 Strategic trends in Predictive Diagnostics & Personalised Medicine
O. Golubnitschaja, Secretary General, European Association for Predictive, Preventive and Personali-sed Medicine (EPMA), Brussels/B

17:50 Get-Together

Wednesday, December 10, 2008

08:30 Registration

09:00 Welcome

Molecular Diagnostics & Life Science Research

09:10 SuperTAG-Digital gene expression profiling: reaping the high-hanging fruits of gene expression
B. Rotter, P. Winter, GenXPro-GmbH, Frankfurt am Main/D; M.F. Nold, C.A. Dinarello, University of Colorado, Denver/USA

09:25 Antibody microarrays for the profiling of cancer proteomes
C. Schröder , A. Nieters, S. Rüffer, J. Linseisen, A. Bauer, A. Jacob, K. Fellenberg, J.D. Hoheisel, Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum, Heidelberg/D

09:40    Reflectometric biosensor for point-of-care-diagnostics
            D. Furin , F. Proell, University of Tübingen/D; M. Saemann, J. Thielmann, University of Stuttgart/D; A. Pfaefflin, University Hospital, Tübingen/D; G. Proll, University of Tübingen/D;                     K. Koerner, H. Richter, C. Harendt, W. Osten, University of Stuttgart/D; E. Schleicher, University Hospital, Tübingen/D; M. Schubert, University of StuttgartUniversity of Stuttgart/D;
            G. Gauglitz, University of Tübingen/D

09:55    Towards automatic chip-based detection of mRNA
            T. Baier , T. Hansen-Hagge, R. Gransee, K.S. Drese, Institut für Mikrotechnik Mainz GmbH/D; L. Sol-li, A. Gulliksen, F. Karlsen, Norchip AS, Klokkarstua/N; C. Martin, H. Keegan,                       J. O'Leary, Coombe Women & Infants University Hospital, Dublin/IRL; L. Riegger, IMTEK, Freiburg/D; P. Koltay, Biofluidix GmbH, Freiburg/D; M. Mielnik, I.-R. Johansen,
              L. Furuberg, SINTEF, Oslo/N

10:10 Microfluidic chip-based preparation of complex biological samples
M. Hausmann, Bio-Rad Laboratories, Munich/D; A. Paulus, Bio-Rad Laboratories, Hercules/USA; A. Posch, Bio-Rad Laboratories, Munich/D; B. Angres, B. Hagmeyer, J. Kentsch, M. Moschallski, M. Stelzle , H. Steuer, D. Stoll, NMI, Reutlingen/D; T. Duong, G. Blankenstein, Boehringer Ingelheim microParts, Dortmund/D

10:25    Integrated microsystem for analysis of circulating tumour cells
            T. Roeser , Institut für Mikrotechnik Mainz GmbH/D; E. Borgin, Rikshospitalet, Stockholm/N; C. Fer-mer, Fujirebio Diagnostics , Oslo/S; S. Hauch, AdnaGen AG, Langenhagen/D;                     O. Henry, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona/E; N. Laddach, MRC Holland, Amsterdam/NL; L. Lagae, C. Liu, Interuni-versity Microelectronics Center IMEC, Leuven/B; A. Nygren,
MRC Holland, Amsterdam/NL; C.K. O -Sullivan, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona/E; T. Stakenborg, Interuniversity Microelectronics Center IMEC, Leuven/NL; M. Ritzi, Institut
              für Mikrotechnik Mainz GmbH/D

10:40 Integration of an ELISA assay for breast cancer analysis into disposable, microfluidic chips for automatic diagnostics
F.v. Germar, T. Hansen-Hagge, D. Latta, Institut für Mikrotechnik Mainz GmbH/D; C.K. O'Sullivan, A. Fragoso, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona/E; M. Bertschi, Centre Suisse de Electronique et de Microtechnique SA, Neuchatel/CH; L. Cognolato, olivetti-Jet S.p.A, Aosta/I

10:55 Eppendorf rap-ID(TM): A novel multiplex approach to rapid diagnostics of infectious diseases
J. Remacle, I. Alexandre, Eppendorf Array Technologies, S.A., Namur/B; C. Henne , S. Bülow, Eppendorf Biochip Systems GmbH, Hamburg/D

11:10 Coffee break

Clinical Chemistry & Immunochemistry

11:40 Biomolecule analysis: Some like it hot
P. Baaske , CeNS LMU Munich/D; S. Duhr, NanoTemper Technologies, Munich/D

11:55 CARE-MAN - Health-CARE by biosensor Measurement And Networking
M. Ehni , G. Gauglitz, University of Tübingen/D

12:10 Raman BioMed - Diagnostics with laser light
B. Küstner, M. Gellner, M. Schütz, University of Würzburg/D; S. Schlücker , University of Osnabrück/D

12:25 Point-of-care-diagnostics: Experiences from the US
J.H. Nichols, Tufts University, Springfield, MA/USA

13:05 Lunch Break

14:15 Fast and accurate determination of L-arginine and its methylated metabolites in biological fluids by HPLC-tandem mass spectrometry
J. Martens-Lobenhoffer , St. Bode-Böger, University of Magdeburg/D

14:30 TGF-beat family signaling biosensors: Smad Biosensors
G. Harms, K.V. Gromova, University of Würzburg/D

14:45 The future of software in IVD
J. Schacherl , D. Beule, MicroDiscovery GmbH, Berlin/D

15:15 Point-of-care-diagnostics: State-of-the-art & perspectives
P. Luppa, TU München, Garching/D

15:55 End of the conference

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