Affinity 2007 Conference
NYU Kimmel Center, New York, NY
July 8 - 12, 2007

Program and Speaker Biographies (as of June 30, 2007)

Sunday, July 8, 2007
Affinity 2007 Welcoming Reception (5 pm)

Introduction
6:30 pm to 6:45 pm

George Ehrlich, Hoffmann - La Roche, Nutley, NJ

Keynote Lecture
6:45 pm to 7:45 pm

A Human Protein Atlas Based on Affinity Proteomics
Mathias Uhlén
Department of Biotechnology, AlbaNova University Center, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden

Monday, July 9, 2007

Opening Ceremonies
8:45 am to 9:00 am

Richard Willson, University of Houston, Houston, TX

Chairman Introduction
9:00 am to 9:15 am

Session 1:  Affinity:  Past, Present and Future
Mathias Uhlén, Department of Biotechnology, AlbaNova University Center, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden

101
9:15 am - 10:00 am

My Life with Affinity:  Essentials of Biorecognition and its Application
Meir Wilchek
Department of Biological Chemistry, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel

102
10:00 am to 10:30 am

Monolith Supports with Affinity and Pseudo Affinity Ligands for Superfast Purification of Biomolecules
M. A. Vijayalakshmi1,2
1Laboratoire d'Interactions Moléculaires et de Technologie de Séparation (LIMTech.S),  Centre de Recherche de Royallieu, BP 20.529, 60205 Compiègne Cedex, France
2Center for BioSeparations Technology, VIT University, Vellore, 632014, India

Break
10:30 am to 10:50 am

Coffee/Posters/Exhibits

103
10:50 am to 11:20 am

Immunodepletion - What's Beneath the Tip of the Plasma Proteome Iceberg?
Mark S. Baker1,2, Alamgir Khan1, Wai-Kei Shum2, Sock-Hwee Tan2, Veronika Polaskova2 and Amit Kapur2
1Australian Proteome Analysis Facility Ltd (APAF)
2Dept. of Chemistry and Biomolecular Sciences, Macquarie University, 2109. Sydney, Australia

104
11:20 am to 12:00 pm

The NCI’s Clinical Proteomic Technology Initiative for Cancer - The Reagent Resource Core 
Adam Michael Clark
National Cancer Institute, Office of Technology and Industrial Relations, Bethesda MD

Lunch/Workshop
12:00 pm to 1:30 pm

Flexible Formats for Characterizing and Screening Protein-Protein Interactions using Bio Layer Interferometry on the Octet System
Matthew Kirtley
ForteBio, Inc. Menlo Park, CA

Chairman Introduction
1:30 pm to 1:45 pm

Session 2:  Advances in Affinity Technologies
Lars Hagel, GE Healthcare, Uppsala, Sweden

201
1:45 pm to 2:30 pm

Evolution of Industrial Affinity in Biopharmaceutical Production
Duncan Low
Process Development, Amgen, Inc., Thousand Oaks, CA

202
2:30 pm to 3:00 pm

Efficiency Improvements in the Discovery and Development of Novel Antibody Format and Protein-Based Biotherapeutics Using CaptureSelect® Affinity Ligands and Yeast Display Discovery Tools
Hendrik Adams and Pim Hermans
BAC bv (The BioAffinity Company), Huizerstraatweg 28, 1411 GP Naarden, Naarden, The Netherlands

Break
3:00 pm to 3:20 pm

Coffee/Posters/Exhibits

203
3:20 pm to 3:50 pm

Generation of Fully Human Antibodies Derived from Fab-on-phage Display Libraries.  Rapid Kinetic-based Screening of Fab Fragments for Lead Identification
Marc Vanhove
Dyax s.a., Boulevard du Rectorat 27B, Building 22, B-4000 Liege (Sart-Tilman), Belgium

204
3:50 pm to 4:20 pm

Novel Approaches to Affinity Screening
Enrique Carredano, Katarina Öberg, Tryggve Bergander, Lena Kärf, Charlotte Brink, Kristina Nilsson-Valimaa, Katarina Stenklo, Jan Bergström, Carina Engstrand, Åsa Dahlstedt-Hagman, Niklas Pettersson, Mats Nilsson, Nils Stafström, Karol Lacki, Bo-Lennart Johansson, Jean-Luc Maloisel
GE Healthcare Biosciences AB, Uppsala, Sweden

Award Program
4:30 pm to 6:00 pm

Roche Younger Investigators
A. Cecilia A. Roque, Centro de Química Fina e Biotecnologia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Caparica, Portugal

4:35 - 4:50
Development of HIC Media Useful for Isolation of Proteins Carrying Single Amino Acid Substitutions
Kristian Becker*, Elisabeth Hallgren**, Enrique Carredano**, Ronnie Palmgren** and Leif Bülow**
*Department of Pure and Applied Biochemistry, Centre for Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Lund University Lund, Sweden **GE Healthcare Bio-Sciences AB, Uppsala, Sweden

4:50 - 5:05
Development of New OMNiMIPs (One Monomer Molecularly Imprinted Polymers)
Jason LeJeune and David Spivak
Department of Chemistry, Lousiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA

5:05 - 5:20
Novel Affinity Ligands for the Purification of Antibody Fragments
Jonathan M. Haigh, Christopher R. Lowe
Institute of Biotechnology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK

5:20 - 5:40
Conformational Flexibility and Kinetic Complexity in Antigen-antibody Interactions
Katerina Kourentzi, Mohan Srinivasan, Sandra J. Smith-Gill and Richard C. Willson
Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Houston, Houston, TX USA

5:40 - 6:00
Molecular Imprinted Polymers for Selective Protein Adsorption by Miniemulsion Polymerization
Marc Herold, Klaus Niedergall, Melanie Dettling, Yunxiao Wang, Guenter Tovar
Fraunhofer-Institute for Interfacial Engineering and Biotechnology & Institute for Interfacial Engineering, University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany

Day Break
6:00 pm to 8:00 pm

ISMR Council Meeting/Posters/Exhibits

Tuesday, July 10, 2007

Chairman Introduction
8:45 am to 9:00 am

Session 3:  New Developments in Chromatography
Juan A. Asenjo, Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, University of Chile, Santiago, Chile

301
9:00 am to 9:45 am

Mathematical Modeling of Elution Curves for a Protein Mixture in Chromatography Applied to the Optimal Selection of Operating Conditions
J. A. Asenjo and B.A. Andrews
Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, University of Chile, Santiago, Chile

302
9:45 - 10:15 am

Affinity Interaction under Chaotropic Conditions
Rainer Hahn1,2, Waltraud Kaar2, Barbara Kanatschnig1, Sabine Geinstetter1, Karin Ahrer1,2 and Alois Jungbauer1,2
1Austrian Center of Biopharmaceutical Technology, Muthgasse 18, 1190 Vienna, Austria
2Department of Biotechnology, University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences, Vienna, Muthgasse 18, 1190 Vienna, Austria

Break
10:15 am to 10:35 am

Coffee/Posters/Exhibits

303
10:35 am to 11:05 am

ImmunoAffinity Capillary Electrophoresis for the Identification and Characterization of Toxic Biomarkers
Norberto A. Guzman
Johnson and Johnson Pharmaceutical R&D, Global Preclinical Division, Raritan, NJ

304
11:05 am to 11:35 am

Biacore Applications for Effective Bio-therapeutic Development
Brian Lang1 and Fredrik Sundberg2
1Biacore, Inc. part of GE Healthcare, 800 Centennial Ave., Piscataway, NJ 08854
2GE Healthcare Life Sciences, Rapsgatan 7, 75450 Uppsala, Sweden

Lunch/Workshop
11:45 am to 1:15 pm

Success Story of MabSelect
Victor Bornsztejn
GE Healthcare, 800 Centennial Ave., Piscataway, NJ 08854

Poster/Exhibitor Session
1:15 pm to 2:15 pm

Please stand by your poster/exhibit

Chairman Introduction
2:15 pm to 2:30 pm

Session 4:  Nano/Bio/Materials
Richard Willson, University of Houston, Houston TX

Pierce Award Lecture
2:30 pm to 3:15 pm

Molecular Recognition of Proteins on Surfaces and the Development of Critical Hydrophobicity HIC
Herbert P. Jennissen
Institut für physiologsiche Chemie, Universität-Duisburg-Essen, Hufelandstr. 55, D-45122 Essen, Germany

401
3:15 pm to 3:45 pm

Analyte-Responsive Retro-reflectors for Biochemical Assays and Diagnostics
P. Ruchhoeft, K. Han, A. Ruiz, V. Parekh, W. Xu, D. Litvinov, and S. Chellam
University of Houston, Houston, TX USA 77204

Break
3:45 pm to 4:05 pm

Coffee/Posters/Exhibits

402
4:05 pm to 4:35 pm

Gold Nanorod Substrates for Localized Surface Plasmon Resonance Sensing
Jason H. Hafner, Kathryn M. Mayer, Seunghyun Lee, Hongwei Liao, Betty C. Rostro, Peter T. Scully
Department of Physics & Astronomy, Department of Chemistry, Rice University, Houston, TX USA 77005

403
4:35 pm to 5:05 pm

Discovery and Development of OMNiMIPs: One MoNomer Molecularly Imprinted Polymers
David Spivak
Department of Chemistry, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA

Panel Discussion
5:05 pm to 6:00 pm

Trends in Label-free Interaction Analysis
Ashique Rafique, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Tarrytown, NY
Matthew Kirtley (ForteBio), Brian Lang (GE Healthcare), Voula Kodoyianni (GWC Technologies)

Day Break
6:00 pm to 8:00 pm

Posters/Exhibits/Dinner on your own

Wednesday, July 11, 2007

Chairman Introduction
8:45 am to 9:00 am

Session 5:  Insights into Intra- and Inter- Molecular Recognition
M.A.Vijayalakshmi, CBST, VIT University, TamilNadu, India

501
9:00 am to 9:45 am

Self-Assembly of Soft Molecular Networks: Crystal Design and Curvature
Michael Ward
Molecular Design Institute, Dept. of Chemistry, New York University, New YorkNY

502
9:45 - 10:15 am

Molecular Recognition of Foreign Sequences in Engineered 5S Ribosomal RNA
Xing Zhang1, Ajish S. R. Potty2, George W. Jackson2, George E. Fox1, and Richard C. Willson1, 2
Department of Biology and Biochemistry1 and Department of Chemical Engineering2, University of Houston

Break
10:15 am to 10:35 am

Coffee/Posters/Exhibits

503
10:35 am to 11:05 am

Small-molecule-mediated Rescue of Protein Function by an Inducible Proteolytic Shunt
Matthew Pratt and Tom Muir
Laboratory of Synthetic Protein Chemistry, The Rockefeller University, 1230 York Avenue, New York, NY 10021

Social Event
11:05 am to 1:30 pm

Walking Tour of the Village featuring Arthur Marks
Posters/Exhibits/Lunch on your own

Chairman Introduction
1:30 pm to 1:45 pm

Session 6:  Protein Interactions In and On Cells
Irwin Chaiken, Drexel UniversityPhiladelphia, PA

601
1:45 pm to 2:30 pm

Dynamic Visualization of Signaling Activities in Living Cells
Jin Zhang
Depts. Pharmacology/Molecular Sciences and Neuroscience, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD

602
2:30 pm to 3:00 pm

Structure and Function of Eukaryotic RNA Exosomes
C.D. Lima, Q. Liu, J.C. Greimann
Program in Structural Biology, Sloan-Kettering Institute, New York, NY 10021 USA

Break
3:00 pm to 3:20 pm

Coffee/Posters/Exhibits

603
3:20 pm to 3:50 pm

Electrophoretic Fingerprinting of HIV-1 Cell Interaction: a Novel Tool for Development of Charge-Based Strategies
Fairhurst, D.1, Rowell, R.2, Monahan, I.3, Stieh, D.3, McNeil-Watson, F.4, Morfesis, A.4, Romano, J.1, Shattock, RJ.3 and M. Mitchnick5
1International Partnership for Microbicides, Silver Spring, USA,
2University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA,
3St. Georges Hospital Medical School, London, UK,
4Malvern Instruments Ltd., Malvern, UK,
5Particle Sciences Inc., Bethlehem, USA

Session 6 Overview
3:50 pm - 4:20 pm

Irwin Chaiken, Drexel UniversityPhiladelphia, PA

Poster/Exhibitor Session
4:20 pm to 5:20 pm

Please stand by your poster/exhibit

Social Event
6:15 pm

Gala Dinner Cruise on New York Harbor

Thursday, July 12, 2007

Chairman Introduction
8:45 am to 9:00 am

Session 7:  Viruses and Vaccines
Daniel Malamud, New York University Dental Center, New York, NY

701
9:00 am to 9:45 am

Ligand Recognition and Plasticity in HIV Envelope Glycoprotein gp120
Wayne A. Hendrickson1,2, Hui Xie2,3, Anil Korkut2, Danny Ng4 and Amos B. Smith, III4
1Howard Hughes Medical Institute, 2Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, and 3Department of Pharmacology, Columbia University, New York, NY 10032 USA
4Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104 USA

702
9:45 - 10:30 am

The Role of Antibodies in Preventing and Treating HIV Infection
Susan Zolla-Pazner
New York VA and NYU Medical Centers, New York, NY

Break
10:30 am to 10:50 am

Coffee/Posters/Exhibits

703
10:50 am to 11:20 am

Biomolecule Recognition in Piezoelectric Immunosensors: Application of Piezoimmunosensors for Detection of HIV1 Virion Infectivity Factor
Guilherme N.M. Ferreira1*, João M. Encarnação1, Luis Rosa1, Rogério Rodrigues1, Luisa Pedro1, Frederico Aires da Silva2, João Gonçalves2
1IBB-Institute for Biotechnology and Bioengineering, Centro de Biomedicina Molecular e Estrutural, Universidade do Algarve, 8000 Faro, Portugal
2URIA-Centro de Patógenese Molecular, Faculdade de Farmácia, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal

704
11:20 am to 11:50 am

Interaction of gp340, a Glycoprotein in the Innate Immune System, with HIV-1 env
Daniel Malamud
New York University Dental Center, New York, NY

ISMR General Meeting
11:50 am to 12:15 pm

Presidential Announcements

Lunch Break
12:15 am to 1:15 pm

Posters/Exhibits/Lunch on your own

Chairman Introduction
1:15 pm to 1:30 pm

Session 8:  Drug Discovery and Diagnostics
Waseem Malick and Hitesh Chokshi, Hoffmann - La Roche, Nutley NJ

801
1:30 pm to 2:15 pm

The Economics of Personalized Medicine: Optimizing Incentives for Innovation
M. J. Finley Austin
Hoffmann - La Roche, Basel, Switzerland and Nutley, NJ

802
2:15 pm to 2:45 pm

Biomimetic and Supramolecular Scaffolds for Multivalent Display
Kent Kirshenbaum
Department of Chemistry, New York University New York, NY

803
2:45 pm to 3:15 pm

Designing for Success: The Generation of Useful Leads with Small Molecule Libraries
Robert A. Goodnow Jr.
Discovery Chemistry, Hoffmann-La Roche, Inc., Nutley, NJ

804
3:15 pm to 4:00 pm

Cancer Chemotherapy with an FDA Approved Transition State Analog Enzyme Binder
Ronald Breslow
Department of Chemistry, Columbia University, New York, NY

Closing Remarks
4:00 pm to 4:30 pm

Affinity 2009: the 18th Biennial Meeting of the International Society for Molecular Recognition
Hordur Filippusson, Organizer and Gidi Fleminger, ISMR President Elect
Summer 2009 Reykajvik, Iceland

Speaker Biographies

Mathias Uhlén

Mathias Uhlén is Professor of Microbiology at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm, Sweden. Dr Uhlén is member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Science (IVA), the Royal Swedish Academy of Science (KVA) and the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO). He is Vice-President of the European Proteomics Association (EuPA) and member of the Human Proteome Organization (HUPO) council. He was Vice-President of the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), responsible for external relations, from 1999 to 2001 and he was the chairman of the Swedish Biochemical and Molecular Biology Society (SFMB) from 1994 to 1999. Dr Uhlén has more than 280 publications in bioscience with the focus on the development and use of affinity reagents in biotechnology and biomedicine.

In the early eighties, Dr Uhlén cloned and characterized staphylococcal protein A, which is now used extensively for purification of antibodies both in diagnostics and therapy. He showed in 1983, for the first time, the principle of affinity capture of fusion proteins. The use of affinity tags for purification of recombinant proteins are now widely used in bioscience. In the late eighties, Uhlén published the use of magnetic micro spheres with streptavidin for automated solid phase applications. Such laboratory systems based on streptavidin beads are at present frequently used both in research and diagnostics. In the 90’ies, his group described a new principle for affinity reagents, called Affibodies, and showed their use as research tool and recently as potential cancer therapeutics. Uhlen and colleagues also developed a new strategy for DNA analysis called Pyrosequencing, a method that has recently been further developed by a US company (454) into a highly parallelized sequencing instrument.

Dr Uhlén is currently working on the Human Protein Atlas (HPA) program, with the aim to systematically map the human proteome. In October 2006, version 2.0 of the Protein Atlas was published (www.proteinatlas.org) with more than 1.2 million high-resolution images representing 1,359 human proteins. He has founded several companies, including Pyrosequencing AB (Biotage AB), Affibody AB, SweTreeGenomics AB, Magnetic Biosolutions AB, Creative Peptides AB and Atlas Antibodies AB. He has received numerous awards, including The Svedberg prize in 1992, the Göran Gustavsson prize in 1993, the gold medal of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences in 2004, the Most Noble Order of the Seraphim - the Order of His Majesty the King in 2004, the Jerker Porath award and the Akzo Nobel Award in 2005 and the HUPO Distinguished Achievement Award in 2006.

Meir Wilchek

Professor Meir Wilchek has always worked in the interface between organic chemistry and biology, played a pivotal role in the use of the principles of organic chemistry (known today and chemical genetics) for the understanding of biological processes and the establishment of the modern-day concept of biorecognition and its development for the myriads of applications in the various fields of modern biology. This concept and the associated processes, which Meir Wilchek has designed, have had a profound effect on research, industry, medicine, molecular biology, and, consequently, on the human condition in general. In view of the inherent clinical and medical implications of Dr. Wilchek's discoveries, it should come as no surprise that among the list of prizes he has already received, which include the prestigious Wolf Prize, the Israel Prize, and the Pierce Prize, he was elected to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Science, USA. 

Meir Wilchek's studies have been directed towards the understanding and application of the biorecognition phenomenon using chemical methods, and his major contributions have been directed in four different but related aspects: namely, affinity chromatography, affinity labeling, affinity therapy and avidin-biotin technology. Historically, the contribution for which he is best known and for which he has received the most internationally acclaimed awards and honors is the field of affinity chromatography and the avidin-biotin system. In addition, his contributions to the other above-mentioned fields have been of critical scientific impact. In all the above fields, in which he was among the founders, he had to device chemical methods to immobilize, derivatize biological active molecules, such as protein, nucleic acid and even whole cells. All these methods are widely used all over the world.

Adam Michael Clark

Dr. Clark serves as the Program Officer for the Clinical Proteomic Technologies Initiative for Cancer (CPTI) and the Mouse Proteomic Technologies Initiative at the National Cancer Institute. In this role, Dr. Clark oversees the management and operations of the various programs within the initiatives and works to integrate the developing proteomic technologies for application in clinical settings. He also narrates the Clinical Proteomic Technologies tutorial on the CPTI website. His work at the NCI is focused on improving clinical research technologies so that molecular-based medicine approaches can be applied in a clinical setting to make personalized medicine and targeted therapeutics common in medical practice.

Dr. Clark has a background in both medical science research and health policy. Dr. Clark has served as both a researcher and a program administrator for the National Cancer Institute.  In addition to his work with the CPTI, Dr. Clark served as the Life Science Policy Analyst at the White House's Office of Science and Technology Policy working on a variety of issues including overweight/obesity health issues and strategies, stem cell research, and cancer imaging technologies. Dr. Clark also served as the science policy advisor for the Deputy Chief of Staff in the Office of the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services working on several key projects in the Department including the 2005 Dietary Guidelines for Americans. Dr. Clark returned to the NCI Office of Technology and Industrial Relations in 2005.

Dr. Clark has a Ph.D. in Environmental Health from the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine with an emphasis on gene-environment interactions in disease onset and targeted treatment. Dr. Clark's research experience focused on alterations of signal transduction pathways in tumorigenesis. He was enrolled in the Graduate Partnership Program at the National Institutes of Health and was a 2002 recipient of the Cancer Research Training Award from the National Cancer Institute where he completed his graduate studies and postdoctoral work.

Lars Hagel

Lars Hagel is Director of External R&D Collaborations at GE Healthcare Bio-Sciences AB, Uppsala, Sweden and associate professor in analytical chemistry at Uppsala University.  He joined Pharmacia in the mid 70'íes and has held scientific and management positions within the R&D departments of Pharmacia Biotech, Amersham Pharmacia Biotech and now GE Healthcare. Lars has authored approximately 30 papers, chapters and textbooks related to chromatography, and in particular to gel filtration. His latest contribution is as co-author to the second edition of Process Chromatography Handbook which will be released in the autumn of 2007. Lars is frequently engaged in the steering of joint efforts and strategic initiatives between academia, industry and society in Sweden. He arranged and was the meeting chairman for Affinity 2005 held in Uppsala, August 2005.

Duncan Low

Duncan Low, Scientific Executive Director, joined the Process Development Department at Amgen in 2003, where he leads cross-functional teams for technology evaluation, technology development and Process Analytical Technology. He is a member of the ISPE Executive Committee for PAT and chairs the ASTM E55.01 subcommittee. Prior to joining Amgen he held senior positions at Millipore and Pharmacia Biotech. He has extensive experience of the tools currently in use in upstream and downstream processing and has worked closely with applications development throughout the industry. He has an M.A. in biochemistry from the University of Cambridge and a Ph.D. in microbiology from the University of Glasgow.

Hendrik Adams

Prior to joining The Bio Affinity Company (BAC) as Ligand Discovery Scientist, Hendrik Adams was a postdoctoral scientist in the Cellular Architecture & Dynamics group of Utrecht University (The Netherlands). In this group, he carried out research for the application of llama antibodies in medical devices. Previously, he was a postdoctoral scientist within a Marie Curie Research Training Network funded by the European Union. In that position, he studied the iron uptake in the opportunistic pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa in the department of Receptors and Membrane Proteins at the University of Strasbourg (France). He received his Ph.D. degree in the field of Molecular Microbiology from the Utrecht University.

Mark S. Baker 

Received his BSc Hons 1 in 1981 & PhD in 1985Macquarie University and undertook postdoctoral studies at Monash University, John Curtin School of Medical Research and Howard Hughes Medical Research Institute University of Michigan.  Mark is currently the Chief Executive Officer of a Major National Research Facility called the “Australian Proteome Analysis Facility” and he is also Professor of Proteomics, Dept. Chemistry & Biomolecular Sciences, Macquarie University.

Mark’s previous industry experience is in the development of new biochip platforms (through LumiCyte California, USA).  He was the founder of the Gynaecological Cancer Research Centre, Royal Women’s Hospital, Melbourne, is a Council Member of HUPO and Asia Oceania HUPO as well as Secretary of the Australasian Proteomics Society. Mark is currently a member of the Science Industry Action Agenda Leader’s Group. He won the 1994 Sports Medicine Australia Order of Fellows, the 1991 Howard Florey Young Investigator Medal and the 1988 & 1990 International Young Investigator Awards from the Society for Free Radical Research. He has over 80 publications, 3 patents, has trained ~20 PhD students and ~30 BSc(Hons)/BBiotech students. 

Mark’s interests are in biomarker discovery, proteomic technologies, research commercialisation, building the Australian biotech sector and Rugby. He holds grants with proteomics industry leaders (eg. GE Healthcare, QIAGEN, Applied Biosystems) and has most recently developed novel immunodepletion strategies using chicken eggs.