On Tuesday, April 7 the LRIG Mid Atlantic and LRIG New England Chapters will be holding their seventh annual sample management conference, focused on automated biorepositories. It will be held at the Groton Inn & Suites in Groton, CT. For more information go to http://lab-robotics.org/meetings/0904.htm
I have gone to a number of LRIG New England conferences and have found them to be good quality and well attended. I would recommend that anybody interested in sample management should make an effort to get there.
Besides the conference, Pfizer in Groton will be hosting tours of the Pfizer Kings Heights Technology Center, including their sample management operations, Compound Liquid Store, and DNA and BioFluids Store. This Pfizer location contains one of the two largest automated biorepositories in the world, so it should be quite interesting.
The technology exhibition and social networking time will also include a buffet, and presentations will be held at the Groton Inn as well. Transportation between the conference center and Pfizer will be provided.
There will be quite a few exhibitors showing the latest in sample managemen technology at the conference as well.
The Cambridge Healthtech Institute will be holding their 2009 RNA Interference Summit this year from June 8 through June 10 at the Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco.
Early registration up until March 20 will save you $350 pp for commercial applicants for the entire summit. The Deadline for Advanced Registration is from March 21 to May 1, which will save you $200 pp. So if you are interested, now is the time to sign up. The early bird catches the fattest discount.
For more information, go to the conference website at https://chidb.com/register/2009/gtac/reg.asp.
As a point of interest, I have known about the CHI for years, having gone to several of their conferences, but while preparing the above information, I decided to check out their website for myself just to see what else they do besides conferences and a few trade journals of theirs that I’ve read.
To clear the air right up front, the following information is not a paid advertisement. CHI is not paying me to put this information in my blog. I just found it interesting because I’ve never dealt with them, except to go to their shows, and had no idea of what they do. So I figured I would let my readers know as well. You are welcome to do as much or as little with the following information as you wish. (more…)
ASMS is another show that I rarely miss. It’s not a huge show by Pittcon standards, but very well attended and they cover their niche very well.
There will be a workshop at ASMS that week on Monday, June 1 covering FTMS. Several hundred people are expected to attend.
Numerous topics will be covered, including ICR cells. Underlying physics of induced current signal generation, ion motion control, design and associated signal processing in ICR and Orbitrap cell development may be one (or only one) topic of choice this year.
For more detailed information, check out the FTMS Interest Group at the ASMS website at www.asms.org.
Both biotech companies and VC’s, deal makers and Angel investors are streaming into San Francisco this week. Starting tomorrow, Monday January 12 through January 16 about 300 companies will try to catch the attention of over 4,000 movers and shakers from the life science and financial industries.
During this period there will be numerous financing deals, buyouts, partnerships and collaborations forged.
Participation in this conference is “by invitation only” meaning that you need to know someone important inside of JP Morgan to get an invitation.
All day for 4 days straight, the 300 companies will be given a half hour each to make a presentation and then after the presentation is done, they will move to a different room for a 30 minute question and answer period. Careers will be both made and broken during this meeting.
On April 28 and 29 a conference will be held in London on Advances in Synthetic Biology. The three Keynote presentations will be on various areas of design for synthetic biology. It will be held at the Centre Point Tower in London, and accommodations will be available at The Strand Palace Hotel.
Bookings can be made at a reduced rate at www.syntheticbiologyadvances.com.
The conference will be held in lovely Palm Springs on January 20th through January 22nd. It will be at the Wyndam Hotel in Palm Springs. They have a “bring a buddy” program going right now where a second person can go for $500, which is half price.
I’ve never gone to this show so I can’t give my opinion of it, but any show in Palm Springs during the New England winter gets my vote.
You can check out the website at http://www.selectbiosciences.com/conferences/SCWC2009/index.aspx
A little more advanced notice on this one.
Lab Automation is one of my favorite shows. It is very well run, I do a ton of business there, and Palm Springs is a great place for a New Englander to go in mid-winter. If you can make it to the show, do what I do. Fly out late Friday afternoon, bring your golf clubs and spend the Saturday and Sunday before the show on the links, sitting by the pool and doing the tourist thing. There are some interesting tours you can take, including one that will take you by the homes of the stars in the area. If you’re really lucky you might get to see Barbara Streisand sunbathing.
Following is part of their press release for the show:
The Association for Laboratory Automation (ALA) presents LabAutomation2009, January 24-28, in Palm Springs, CA. LabAutomation2009, the world’s largest conference and exhibition focused exclusively on the rapidly growing field of laboratory automation, brings together a diverse group of academicians, scientists, engineers, business leaders, post-docs and graduate students.
You can check out the ALA web page for the show at http://www.labautomation.org/la09/index.cfm
See you there at the 19th hole.
If you are interested, this is a very good meeting, and it’s still not too late to make arrangements. Unfortunately for me, it is too close to Christmas. The meeting will be held from December 13th to 17th and will take place in San Francisco.
For those who have never gone, it is a good sized meeting and in a good venue. From their website it appears they are going to have 100+ scientific sessions and 3,500 poster presentations and I believe about 350 exhibitors in the Exhibit hall. Numerous special interest subgroups, special events to boot.
You can check out this meeting on the ASCB website: www.ascb.org/meetings/
I just wish this had been scheduled for early December or January, not a week before Xmas. By the time this show starts, I’ll just be beginning my Christmas shopping.
Over the years I have been to dozens of networking events, most of which can be deadly boring but useful. But the Massachusetts Biotechnology Council really knows how to put one on. On Thursday, December 4 at 6-8PM at the Le Meridien Hotel in Cambridge, they will be having a Networking and Wine Tasting event. It is for people involved in licensing and business development activities. I had wanted to go but had forgotten about it until just now. Just my luck, they are “at capacity” and will only take names and put me on a waiting list. Now there’s a networking meeting that I could really enjoy.
I’ll have to start early and arrange a designated driver for next year.
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