ICB & RASOR Technology Showcase Event 2010
"New Tools and Technologies for Drug Discovery and Quantitative Biology"
Wednesday 30th June 2010
Featuring presentations, stands and posters highlighting recent developments from the ICB and from RASOR
Concluding with a Dragons' Den competition in which PhD students will showcase the commercial potential of their work to a panel of guest experts.
Evan Davis, presenter of the BBC Dragons' Den programme, has filmed special footage for the event, allowing him to digitally host it. The Dragons Den panel includes:
- Professor David Delpy (Chief Executive, Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
- Professor Douglas Kell (Chief Executive, Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council)
- Sir Leszek Borysiewicz (Chief Executive, Medical Research Council)
- Dr Richard Pither (Global Head of Research & Development, GE Healthcare)
- Charles de Rohan (Chief Executive, Genetix Limited)
Conference Programme
| Time | |
|---|---|
| 10.30am | Registration, coffee and stand/poster viewing |
| 11.45am | Opening speech by the Rector of Imperial College |
| 12.00pm | Talk 1: Total Human Proteome on a Chip: Making and Reading a novel proteomic format using 2DIR (Prof David Klug, ICB) |
| 12.20pm | Talk 2: Acoustically Activated Microfluidic Manipulations (Dr Julien Rebound, RASOR) |
| 12.40pm | Talk 3: Chemical proteomic technologies for drug discovery (Dr Edward Tate, ICB) |
| 1.00pm | Talk 4: LC and MS integratable digital microfluidic devices (Dr C Logan Mackay, RASOR) |
| 1.30pm | Lunch and stand/poster viewing |
| 3.00pm | Talk 5: Ultrasensitive quantitative proteomics by microfluidic single molecule analysis(Prof Keith Willison, ICB) |
| 3.20pm | Talk 6: Protein array based toolkits for clinical diagnostic and marker screening (Dr Andrew Pitt, RASOR) |
| 3.40pm | Talk 7: Druggable Inhibitors (Dr Rüdiger Woscholski, ICB) |
| 4.00pm | Talk 8: Multidimensional fluorescence imaging and metrology – for cell biology, drug discovery and label-free tissue studies (Prof Paul French, ICB) |
| 4.30pm | Refreshments and stand/poster viewing |
| 5.30pm | Poster prize announcement |
| 5.45pm | Dragons’ Den opening |
| 6.00pm | Dragons’ Den 1 |
| 6.15pm | Dragons’ Den 2 |
| 6.30pm | Dragons’ Den 3 |
| 6.45pm | Dragons’ Den 4 |
| 7.00pm | Panel deliberation / drinks reception |
| 7.30pm | Dragons’ Den prize announcement and ICB celebration |
| 8.00pm | Close |
