Speakers - Program - Planet xMap

Tom Copa

Luminex Corporation
Vice President, Life Science Research & Food Safety

It's about Time
Richard M. Anthony, Ph.D.

KIT-Biomedical Research,
Royal Tropical Institute,
Amsterdam,
The Netherlands

Capture of unamplified mycobacterial rRNA on a liquid bead array for species determination from liquid cultures
Prof. Dr. Matthias Mack

Institute for Technical Microbiology Mannheim University of Applied Sciences,
Mannheim,
Germany

A high-throughput microtiter plate-based screening method for the detection of full-lenght recombinant proteins
Paul Ashwood, Ph.D.

Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, University of California,
School of Medicine, USA

The role of cytokines in the pathogenesis of autism
Niro Ramachandran, Ph.D.

Life Technologies

Select and Assay the human proteome using xMAP Technology
Mami Taniuchi, Ph.D.

University of Virginia Division of Infectious Diseases and International Health

Development of multiplex PCR – Luminex assay to detect multiple enteropathogens from stool samples
Katsuyuki Saito, Ph.D.

Director of Molecular Diagnostics
One Lambda, Inc.

Expanding the HLA gene typing system using FLEXMAP 3D® technology
Joanne Mason, FRCPath

Birmingham Women’s Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Evaluation of a qualitative in vitro diagnostic device for the multiplex detection of specific fusion transcripts to aid in the diagnosis of leukaemia
Dr. William Potter

To be confirmed

Use of multiplex panels to identify novel CSF and plasma biomarkers of Alzheimer’s disease
Dr. Wilco de Jager

Head biomarker core facility,
Centre for Cellular and Molecular Intervention, Department of Paediatric Immunology,
University Medical Centre Utrecht,
Utrecht, The Netherlands

Biomarker assay development; applications for immunopathology and clinical intervention
Dr. Trudi McDevitt

National Centre for Medical Genetics,
Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital, Crumlin, Dublin, UK

Validation of Luminex xTAG™ Cystic Fibrosis 39 Kit v2 for Diagnostic Testing & Newborn Screening using Dried Blood Spots
Dr. Toomas Neuman

CSO, Protobios,
Tallinn, Estonia

Immunome profiling: a powerful tool for diagnostics and therapeutics
Dr. Stefan J. Erkeland

Erasmus University Medical Center,
Rotterdam,
The Netherlands

Functional miRNA studies in white blood cells using a new bar-coded retroviral miRNA expression library and the Bio-Plex 200 Technology
Dr. Sebastian Nijman

Research Center for Molucular Medicine,
CeMM,
Vienna, Austria

Functional Drug-Gene Interaction Screens in Cancer
Dr. Robert Schelonka

Doernbecher Neonatal Care Center Oregon Health & Science University,
Gaines St. Portland,
Oregon

Cytokine milieu, immune maturation and the risk of blood stream infection in extremely low birth weight infants
Dr. Ralf Kristensen

Norwegian Veterinary Institute,
Section of Mycology,
Oslo, Norway

Luminex based detection and identification of pathogenic Fusarium species
Dr. Pr Jean-Louis Merlin

Unité de Biologie des Tumeurs,
Nancy, France

Phosphoprotein array assay companion diagnostic for response prediction to monoclonal monoclonal antibodies and kinase inhibitors in oncology
Dr. Oliver Schildgen

Institut für Pathologie, Köln (Cologne), Germany

Novel GPP assay also detects novel EHEC O104:H4
Dr. Morten Ruhwald

Hvidovre Hospital,
Copenhagen,
Denmark

Immuno-diagnosis of tuberculosis infection using IP-10
Dr. Milena Ivanova

University Hospital Alexandrovska, Sofia, Bulgaria

Multiplex detection of JAK2 and MPL mutations in Myeloproliferative Neoplasmse
Dr. Mel Krajden MD. FRCPC

BC Centre for Disease Control, Vancouver, Canada

Assessment of Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) Vaccine Antibody Response by Pseudovirus-based Neutralization Assays
Dr. med. dent. Johann Lechner

Dentist,
Munich, Germany

Chronic Osteonecrosis of Jaw Bone (NICO) – Unknown Trigger for Systemic Disease?
Dr. Matthew Albert

Head, Laboratory of Dendritic Cell Immunobiology
Director, Department of Immunology
Pasteur Institute
Paris, France

How biomarker discovery can lead to new insights into disease pathogenesis and new therapeutic targets for chronic HCV infection
Dr. Karen S. Anderson

Cancer Vaccine Center,
Dana-Farber Cancer Boston,
USA

Multiplexed Detection of Antibodies using Luminex Bead Arrays
Dr. John E. Connolly

Director,
Program in Translational Immunology Principal Investigator,
Singapore Immunology Network (SIgN)

Systems Approaches to Monitoring Immune Responses in Clinical Trials
Dr. Joanna Riddoch-Contreras

Kings College London,
Institute of Psychiatry London,
UK

Plasma-based, combinatorial and multimodal biomarkers for Alzheimer’s disease
Dr. Jie Liu

University of Virginia,
Charlottesville,
Virginia

Simultaneous detection of diarrhea-causing viral and bacterial pathogens with in house PCR-Luminex Assays
Dr. Imran H. Khan

University of California,
Davis, USA

Plasma Antibody Profiles as Diagnositic Biomarkers for Tuberculosis
Dr. Henny G. Otten

UMC Utrecht,
Utrecht,
The Netherlands

The Clinical Relevance of Luminex-Defined HLA Antibodies in Kidney Transplantation
Dr. Heike Goehler

Protagen AG

From Chip to Bead
Dr. Francesca GRATI

TOMA,
Advanced Biomedical Assays Laboratory,
Busto Arsizio,
VARESE,
Italia

KaryoLiteTM BoBsTM: results of the feasibility study on 155 samples from miscarriages and prenatal specimens
Dr. Eugene Halligan

St. Thomas' Hospital
London, UK

An evaluation of the Luminex xTAG ® Gastrointestinal Pathogen Panel at a London teaching hospital 2011: The comparative performance of a rapid molecular multiplex assay and current standard laboratory investigations of gastroenteritis
Dr. Edward A. Sekinger

Senior Research Scientist
Luminex Life Sciences Division
Luminex Corporation

Development of Analytical Assays for Multiplex Interrogation of Nucleic Acid Targets
Dr. David R. Boulware

University of Minnesota, Minneapolis,
USA

Pathophysiology of Cryptococcal Immune Reconstitution Syndrome
Dr. Christophe Sola

Microbiology and Genetic Institute UMR8621, Orsay University,
Paris, France

CRISPR and RNA characterization on microspheres for academic and operational research in microbiology
Dr. Charles P. Cartwright

Chief Scientific and Technical Director,
ViroMed Laboratories.

Introduction to MultiCode®-RTx: A Users Perspective on a Novel Real-Time PCR Chemistry
Dr. Athina Markou

Laboratory of Analytical Chemistry,
University of Athens, Greece

MicroRNA expression profiling in Non Small Cell Lung Cancer and its clinical implications
Dr. Alina Deshpande

D-3, Systems Engineering and Integration Decision Applications Division,
Los Alamos, USA

Multiplexed Nucleic Acid-Based Assays for Human Disease Diagnostics
Dirk van Alewijk, Ph.D.

DDL Diagnostic Laboratory BV

Evaluation of a novel Chlamydia trachomatis assay for detection and genotyping of the different serovars in clinical samples