Tecan Symposium 2007 in Zürich, Switzerland
Systems Biology - moving towards automated science

It has been a great honour for Tecan to host the first Tecan scientific forum in Switzerland September 12-14, 2007. We are pleased that you accepted our invitation and hope that you were able to benefit from the event.

Below you will find the link to the speakers list, evaluation form, abstract booklet and impressions for you to download.
In addition the presentations are also available and listed as a link for the pdf documents for your convenience.

We hope this has been a memorable experience for you and look forward to receiving your feedback.

• Abstract booklet
• Impressions

		Dr. Frank Buchholz, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology (CBG) (Germany) From RNAi phenotypes to molecular function: A pipeline to validate and characterize hits from RNAi screens in mammalian tissue culture cells
		Ph.D. Marian Walhout, University of Massachusetts (USA) Gene-centered transcription regulatory networks
		Dr. Colin Campbell, University of Edinburgh (UK) Improved surface technology for protein detection
		Dr. Kris Gunsalus, NYU Department of Biology (USA) Context-dependent molecular networks in C. elegans
		Dr. Reinhard Hiller, CPGR (South Africa) Integrated microarray solutions in research and diagnostics at the CPGR in Cape Town, South Africa
		Prof. Anthony Hyman, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology (CBG) (Germany) Genomics approaches to mitotic Spindle function
		Ph.D. Joshua LaBaer, Harvard Institute of Proteomics (USA) Building high quality ORF collections for functional proteomics
		Dr. John McCafferty, Sanger Institute (UK) Proteomic approaches to the cell surface
		Ph.D. Robert Negm, Gentel (USA) Protein biomarker screening using PATH surface technology
		Prof. Fabio Piano, NYU Department of Biology (USA) Global, local and comparative networks in early nematode embryos: models for a systems view of development
		Ph.D. Niroshan Ramachandran, Harvard Medical School (USA) On-chip peptide synthesis
		Gordon Robb, Alba Bioscience (UK) Blood typing and immunodiagostics
		Prof. Nadia Rosenthal, EMBL Monterotondo (Italy) The automated mouse – systematic generation of disease models
		Alan Sawyer, Monash University (Australia), Head of EMBL Monoclonal Core Facility (Italy) The Monash Antibody Technologies Facility: A high throughput monoclonal antibody production platform for phospho-kinomics
		Prof. Ian Smith, Monash University (Australia) Cryptomics: Identification of Novel Bioactive Peptides from Human Tissue Extracts
		Dr. Markus Templin, Natural and Medical Sciences Institute at the University of Tuebingen, NMI (Germany) Making it small: Quantitative Tumour Proteomics using an integrated Protein Microarray Platform