Cell: is the smallest structural and functional unit of an organism, typically microscopic and consisting of cytoplasm and a nucleus enclosed in a membrane. Microscopic organisms typically consist of a single cell, which is either eukaryotic or prokaryotic.
DATE: October 4, 2016
TIME: 8:00am PT, 11:00am ET
Extracting robust expression data from clinical samples represents a unique opportunity to find actionable biomarkers. But it...
PRESENTED BY:DATE: September 29, 2016TIME: 8:00AM PT, 11AM ETInterest in 3D cell culture has grown exponentially in recent years, partially due to 3D cultures hel...
DATE: September 28, 2016TIME: 9:00am Pacific time, 12:00pm Eastern timeNK cells play critical roles in immune defense and reproduction but remain the most poorly under...
DATE: September 22, 2016
TIME: 4:00am PT, 7:00am ET, 11:00am GMT
Here, we present a novel approach that combines the principles of the western blot (protein separation by SDS-PAGE; ...
The most important job of automated biology is to produce results that moves your research forward. If automation only executes a program of pre-determined set of steps, the researcher is lef...
DATE: September 20, 2016
TIME: 8:00am PST, 11:00 EST
Studies of cell-substrate interactions are important for an array of biotechnology applications. The nature of specific, recepto...
DATE: September 20th, 2016TIME: 7:00AM PST, 10:00AM ETThere is a growing trend towards developing in vitro cell models that recapitulate the in vivo environment in basic research,...
Multi-Drug Resistant Organisms (MDROs) are becoming a bigger and bigger concern throughout the world. Antibiotic resistance forms and spreads faster than pharmaceutical companies have been ab...
This presentation will be demonstrating several different approaches to explore the diversity, function, and ecology of microbial communities. In Metagenomics, the sequencing of DNA dir...
Virus Ecology is a field that is gaining momentum, fueled in part by metagenomic studies from many environments previously ignored. Biodiversity studies of plant viruses show that they...
The global trend towards industrialization and urbanization has led to ever more people living and working indoors. Some studies estimate that humans in industrialized countries spend as much...
ME/CFS is a debilitating disease with a controversial history and multiple names. The Institute of Medicine recently recommended renaming the disease “Systemic Exertion Intoleranc...
Our speaker, Wenjie Xu, Ph.D., will present his publication data demonstrating how nCounter® technology can advance your infectious disease research faster and more accurately with unprec...
The Infectious Diseases Pathology Branch of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) routinely receives autopsy and biopsy tissues for diagnostic evaluation. These tissues are typ...
The research community has begun correlating the makeup of individual microbiomes with disorders and diseases such as obesity, atherosclerosis and cancer. To accomplish this, researchers must...
Healthcare associated infections can be a consequence of a microbiome alteration. Increasingly, treatment and prevention strategies focus on manipulating host microbiota, the two most common...
It is well accepted that microorganisms can exist as self-organized communities attached to surfaces and one another (i.e., biofilm), often surrounded by extracellular polymeric substances (E...
Community acquired pneumonia affects over 5 million Americans and 6 million Europeans annually. Typically 5-10% will be admitted to hospital. It is a condition that more often affects the eld...
The field of infectious disease diagnostics is ever changing with both newly identified infections such as SARS, Ebola, and Zika virus as well as yearly epidemics and potential for pandemic w...
The human body is populated with trillions of microorganisms, collectively termed the human microbiome, that play vital roles in health including nutrition and metabolism, immune development,...
In an era of healthcare reform and evidenced-based medicine, it is important to use the most clinically relevant and cost effective methods in all aspects of microbiology. This session will c...
Despite FDA-approved vaccines and antivirals, seasonal and pandemic influenza remains a serious threat associated with substantial morbidity and mortality. The present modalities and va...
Oxford Nanopore’s MinION is a small sensing device which can sequence DNA and RNA directly, without the need to perform an enzymatic synthesis reaction. The device is portable and is po...
The human race, like all macrobiological life, evolved in a sea of microbes. There was no way to keep the bacterial and archaeal hoards at bay, so instead life evolved mechanisms to live with...
DATE: October 4, 2016
TIME: 8:00am PT, 11:00am ET
Extracting robust expression data from clinical samples represents a unique opportunity to find actionable biomarkers. But it...
PRESENTED BY:DATE: September 29, 2016TIME: 8:00AM PT, 11AM ETInterest in 3D cell culture has grown exponentially in recent years, partially due to 3D cultures hel...
DATE: September 28, 2016TIME: 9:00am Pacific time, 12:00pm Eastern timeNK cells play critical roles in immune defense and reproduction but remain the most poorly under...
DATE: September 22, 2016
TIME: 4:00am PT, 7:00am ET, 11:00am GMT
Here, we present a novel approach that combines the principles of the western blot (protein separation by SDS-PAGE; ...
The most important job of automated biology is to produce results that moves your research forward. If automation only executes a program of pre-determined set of steps, the researcher is lef...
DATE: September 20, 2016
TIME: 8:00am PST, 11:00 EST
Studies of cell-substrate interactions are important for an array of biotechnology applications. The nature of specific, recepto...
DATE: September 20th, 2016TIME: 7:00AM PST, 10:00AM ETThere is a growing trend towards developing in vitro cell models that recapitulate the in vivo environment in basic research,...
Multi-Drug Resistant Organisms (MDROs) are becoming a bigger and bigger concern throughout the world. Antibiotic resistance forms and spreads faster than pharmaceutical companies have been ab...
This presentation will be demonstrating several different approaches to explore the diversity, function, and ecology of microbial communities. In Metagenomics, the sequencing of DNA dir...
Virus Ecology is a field that is gaining momentum, fueled in part by metagenomic studies from many environments previously ignored. Biodiversity studies of plant viruses show that they...
The global trend towards industrialization and urbanization has led to ever more people living and working indoors. Some studies estimate that humans in industrialized countries spend as much...
ME/CFS is a debilitating disease with a controversial history and multiple names. The Institute of Medicine recently recommended renaming the disease “Systemic Exertion Intoleranc...
Our speaker, Wenjie Xu, Ph.D., will present his publication data demonstrating how nCounter® technology can advance your infectious disease research faster and more accurately with unprec...
The Infectious Diseases Pathology Branch of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) routinely receives autopsy and biopsy tissues for diagnostic evaluation. These tissues are typ...
The research community has begun correlating the makeup of individual microbiomes with disorders and diseases such as obesity, atherosclerosis and cancer. To accomplish this, researchers must...
Healthcare associated infections can be a consequence of a microbiome alteration. Increasingly, treatment and prevention strategies focus on manipulating host microbiota, the two most common...
It is well accepted that microorganisms can exist as self-organized communities attached to surfaces and one another (i.e., biofilm), often surrounded by extracellular polymeric substances (E...
Community acquired pneumonia affects over 5 million Americans and 6 million Europeans annually. Typically 5-10% will be admitted to hospital. It is a condition that more often affects the eld...
The field of infectious disease diagnostics is ever changing with both newly identified infections such as SARS, Ebola, and Zika virus as well as yearly epidemics and potential for pandemic w...
The human body is populated with trillions of microorganisms, collectively termed the human microbiome, that play vital roles in health including nutrition and metabolism, immune development,...
In an era of healthcare reform and evidenced-based medicine, it is important to use the most clinically relevant and cost effective methods in all aspects of microbiology. This session will c...
Despite FDA-approved vaccines and antivirals, seasonal and pandemic influenza remains a serious threat associated with substantial morbidity and mortality. The present modalities and va...
Oxford Nanopore’s MinION is a small sensing device which can sequence DNA and RNA directly, without the need to perform an enzymatic synthesis reaction. The device is portable and is po...
The human race, like all macrobiological life, evolved in a sea of microbes. There was no way to keep the bacterial and archaeal hoards at bay, so instead life evolved mechanisms to live with...
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