Infection Control
Infection Control: is the discipline concerned with preventing nosocomial or healthcare-associated infection, a practical sub-discipline of epidemiology. It is an essential part of the infrastructure of health care.
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OCT 21, 2021Microbiology
OCT 21, 2021On October 20, 2021, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced that an outbreak of Salmonella food ...Written By: Carmen LeitchOCT 20, 2021Microbiology
OCT 20, 2021Many animals, including humans and cats, harbor huge colonies of microbes, which may live in places like the skin, or th ...Written By: Carmen LeitchOCT 19, 2021Immunology
OCT 19, 2021Over millions of years, the immune system has evolved to shield us against disease-causing pathogens that we encounter e ...Written By: Tara FernandezOCT 19, 2021Clinical & Molecular DX
OCT 19, 2021Imagine walking into a party where people were socializing (unmasked) in a confined space. With the ongoing pandemic not ...Written By: Tara FernandezOCT 17, 2021Cardiology
OCT 17, 2021The flu has been associated with a significantly increased risk of a cardiac event like heart attack or stroke.Written By: Carmen Leitch
OCT 21, 2021
Microbiology
OCT 21, 2021
On October 20, 2021, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced that an outbreak of Salmonella food
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Written By:
Carmen Leitch
OCT 20, 2021
Microbiology
OCT 20, 2021
Many animals, including humans and cats, harbor huge colonies of microbes, which may live in places like the skin, or th
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Written By:
Carmen Leitch
OCT 19, 2021
Immunology
OCT 19, 2021
Over millions of years, the immune system has evolved to shield us against disease-causing pathogens that we encounter e
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Written By:
Tara Fernandez
OCT 19, 2021
Clinical & Molecular DX
OCT 19, 2021
Imagine walking into a party where people were socializing (unmasked) in a confined space. With the ongoing pandemic not
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Written By:
Tara Fernandez
OCT 17, 2021
Cardiology
OCT 17, 2021
The flu has been associated with a significantly increased risk of a cardiac event like heart attack or stroke.
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
OCT 13, 2021
Microbiology
OCT 13, 2021
When we get an infection, we can take antibiotics to get rid of it. But sometimes the situation becomes more complicated
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Written By:
Carmen Leitch
OCT 12, 2021
Immunology
OCT 12, 2021
In one of the greatest global health milestones of our time, the World Health Organization has approved the widespread d
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Tara Fernandez
OCT 11, 2021
Microbiology
OCT 11, 2021
Like other organisms, bacteria have to take nutrients up from the environment and use them in various metabolic processe
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Written By:
Carmen Leitch
OCT 08, 2021
Microbiology
OCT 08, 2021
Bacteria that grow in colonies can be extremely difficult to eliminate; the bacteria in these groups often become resist
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Written By:
Carmen Leitch
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Date: September 16, 2021 Time: 8:00am (PDT), 11:00am (EDT) High-dimensional flow cytometry generates a wealth of data. Computational approaches can help to simplify the complexity of large d...Speaker: Enrico Lugli, PhD , Bob Balderas, MBASponsored By: BD Biosciences
Date: November 4, 2021 Time: 11:00am (PDT), 1:00pm (EDT) Rapid, reliable, and accurate identification of an infective organisms has a profound impact on treatment management and clinical out...Speaker: Jose Alexander, MD., D(ABMM) FCCM, CIC, SM, MB(ASCP), BCMASSponsored By: MicroGenDXC.E. CREDITS
Influenza viruses represent a significant burden to human health. In order to limit respiratory viral disease, new approaches that can prevent viral infection and spread are needed. We have...Speaker: Nicholas Heaton, PhDPresented at: Microbiology Virtual Week 2021
AUG 11, 2021
11:00 AM PDT
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AUG 11, 2021
11:00 AM PDT
Date: August 11, 2021 Time: 8:00am (PDT), 11:00am (EDT) Procalcitonin (PCT) is a biomarker widely used to assess the risk of bacterial infection and to aid in antibiotic stewardship in patie...
Speaker:
Mike Broyles
Sponsored By: Thermo Fisher Scientific
JUN 17, 2021
11:00 AM PDT
C.E. CREDITS
JUN 17, 2021
11:00 AM PDT
Date: June 17, 2021 Time: 11:00am PDT, 8:00pm CET BACKGROUND Kidney transplant recipients and patients on hemodialysis are immunocompromised populations excluded from vaccine trials. Data ar...
Speaker:
Prof. Sébastien Hantz, MD, Ph.D.
Sponsored By: DiaSorin
Date: September 16, 2021 Time: 8:00am (PDT), 11:00am (EDT) High-dimensional flow cytometry generates a wealth of data. Computational approaches can help to simplify the complexity of large d...
Speaker:
Enrico Lugli, PhD
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Bob Balderas, MBA
Sponsored By: BD Biosciences
Date: November 4, 2021 Time: 11:00am (PDT), 1:00pm (EDT) Rapid, reliable, and accurate identification of an infective organisms has a profound impact on treatment management and clinical out...
Speaker:
Jose Alexander, MD., D(ABMM) FCCM, CIC, SM, MB(ASCP), BCMAS
Sponsored By: MicroGenDX
C.E. CREDITS
Influenza viruses represent a significant burden to human health. In order to limit respiratory viral disease, new approaches that can prevent viral infection and spread are needed. We have...
Speaker:
Nicholas Heaton, PhD
Presented at: Microbiology Virtual Week 2021
AUG 11, 2021
11:00 AM PDT
C.E. CREDITS
AUG 11, 2021
11:00 AM PDT
Date: August 11, 2021 Time: 8:00am (PDT), 11:00am (EDT) Procalcitonin (PCT) is a biomarker widely used to assess the risk of bacterial infection and to aid in antibiotic stewardship in patie...
Speaker:
Mike Broyles
Sponsored By: Thermo Fisher Scientific
JUN 17, 2021
11:00 AM PDT
C.E. CREDITS
JUN 17, 2021
11:00 AM PDT
Date: June 17, 2021 Time: 11:00am PDT, 8:00pm CET BACKGROUND Kidney transplant recipients and patients on hemodialysis are immunocompromised populations excluded from vaccine trials. Data ar...
Speaker:
Prof. Sébastien Hantz, MD, Ph.D.
Sponsored By: DiaSorin
APR 14, 2021
4:30 PM PDT
C.E. CREDITS
APR 14, 2021
4:30 PM PDT
When SARS-CoV-2 reached the United States in late January 2020, Labcorp immediately began development of an RT-PCR test to aid in detection and diagnosis of COVID-19 in infected patients. As...
Speaker:
Brian Krueger, PhD
Presented at: Coronavirus Virtual Event SeriesSponsored By: PacBio
MAR 24, 2021
11:00 AM PDT
MAR 24, 2021
11:00 AM PDT
Date: March 24, 2021 Time: 11:00am (PDT), 2:00pm (EDT) In 2019, roughly 10 million people developed Tuberculosis (TB) globally and 1.4 million of them died, which makes it one of the top 1...
Speaker:
Daniela Cirillo MD, PhD
Sponsored By: BD
MAR 24, 2021
9:00 AM PDT
MAR 24, 2021
9:00 AM PDT
Date: March 24, 2021 Time: 9:00am (PST), 12:00pm (EST) Determination of residual host cell DNA and RNA are regulatory expectations as they pose potential safety concerns for cell culture-der...
Speaker:
Peter Holper, B.S. Biochemistry and Cell Biology
Sponsored By: SCIEX
FEB 10, 2021
8:00 AM PST
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FEB 10, 2021
8:00 AM PST
Date: February 10, 2021 Time: 8:00am (PST), 11:00am (EST) Uncovering the interactions between the immune system and cancer cells or pathogens is key for understanding and controlling both ca...
Speaker:
Sigrun Badrnya, PhD
Sponsored By: Thermo Fisher Scientific
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SEP 14, 2021 7:00 AM PDT
SEP 14, 2021 7:00 AM PDTWorking in Tandem : 1st annual TMT Symposia Tandem Mass Tags (TMT) are isobaric labels that allow for simultaneous identification and quantification of protein expression from multiple sampl...SEP 08, 2021 6:00 AM PDT
SEP 08, 2021 6:00 AM PDTLuminex's xMAP® Technology enables the evaluation of up to 500 analytes simultaneously in a single well, known as multiplexing. xMAP Technology uses color-coded microspheres as the substrate...JUL 22, 2021 8:00 AM EDTC.E. CREDITS
JUL 22, 2021 8:00 AM EDTGene and cell engineering advances have influenced almost all branches of life sciences. From the lab to the clinic, innovative gene synthesis technologies and gene editing tools have transf...JUN 09, 2021 6:30 AM PDT
JUN 09, 2021 6:30 AM PDTBioprocess technology implementation is hard. Get ahead by getting it right. How do you know if you’re making the right decisions about bioproduction technologies? There is no universa...
SEP 14, 2021
7:00 AM PDT
SEP 14, 2021
7:00 AM PDT
Working in Tandem : 1st annual TMT Symposia Tandem Mass Tags (TMT) are isobaric labels that allow for simultaneous identification and quantification of protein expression from multiple sampl...
SEP 08, 2021
6:00 AM PDT
SEP 08, 2021
6:00 AM PDT
Luminex's xMAP® Technology enables the evaluation of up to 500 analytes simultaneously in a single well, known as multiplexing. xMAP Technology uses color-coded microspheres as the substrate...
JUL 22, 2021
8:00 AM EDT
C.E. CREDITS
JUL 22, 2021
8:00 AM EDT
Gene and cell engineering advances have influenced almost all branches of life sciences. From the lab to the clinic, innovative gene synthesis technologies and gene editing tools have transf...
JUN 09, 2021
6:30 AM PDT
JUN 09, 2021
6:30 AM PDT
Bioprocess technology implementation is hard. Get ahead by getting it right. How do you know if you’re making the right decisions about bioproduction technologies? There is no universa...
APR 07, 2021
9:30 AM EDT
APR 07, 2021
9:30 AM EDT
Accelerating Cell and Gene Therapy Treatments Since the first approved gene therapy trial in 1990, interest in cell and gene therapies has increased rapidly, changing the course of research...
MAR 16, 2021
8:00 AM EDT
MAR 16, 2021
8:00 AM EDT
Join the two-Day Virtual IVD Conference on advancing immunoassay tech and performance Making an in vitro diagnostic assay has never been easy. Now with the global lab and supply chain and di...
SEP 02, 2021
12:00 PM CDT
SEP 02, 2021
12:00 PM CDT
Transforming the Molecular Lab: Abbott Virtual Conference Abbott is committed to helping transform your molecular lab so you can take on whatever the future holds. Register for the Transform...
NOV 10, 2020
NOV 10, 2020
Please join us for this FREE workshop, as we present Agilent’s LC/MS hardware and software solutions for getting the most out of your analysis data....