
Affinity 2007 Conference
NYU Kimmel Center, New York, NY
July 8 - 12, 2007
Program and Speaker Biographies (as of June 30, 2007)
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Sunday, July 8, 2007 |
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Introduction |
George Ehrlich, Hoffmann - La Roche, Nutley, NJ |
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Keynote Lecture |
A Human Protein Atlas Based on Affinity Proteomics |
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Opening Ceremonies |
Richard Willson, |
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Chairman Introduction |
Session 1: Affinity: Past, Present and Future |
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101 |
My Life with Affinity: Essentials of Biorecognition and its Application |
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102 |
Monolith Supports with Affinity and Pseudo Affinity Ligands for Superfast Purification of Biomolecules |
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Coffee/Posters/Exhibits |
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103 |
Immunodepletion - What's Beneath the Tip of the Plasma Proteome Iceberg? |
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The NCI’s Clinical Proteomic Technology Initiative for Cancer - The Reagent Resource Core |
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Lunch/Workshop |
Flexible Formats for Characterizing and Screening Protein-Protein Interactions using Bio Layer Interferometry on the Octet System
Matthew Kirtley ForteBio, Inc. |
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Chairman Introduction |
Session 2: Advances in Affinity Technologies |
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Evolution of Industrial Affinity in Biopharmaceutical Production |
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202 |
Efficiency Improvements in the Discovery and Development of Novel Antibody Format and Protein-Based Biotherapeutics Using CaptureSelect® Affinity Ligands and Yeast Display Discovery Tools |
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Coffee/Posters/Exhibits |
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Generation of Fully Human Antibodies Derived from Fab-on-phage Display Libraries. Rapid Kinetic-based Screening of Fab Fragments for Lead Identification |
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Novel Approaches to Affinity Screening |
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Roche Younger Investigators 4:35 - 4:50 4:50 - 5:05 5:05 - 5:20 5:20 - 5:40 5:40 - 6:00 |
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ISMR Council Meeting/Posters/Exhibits |
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Chairman Introduction |
Session 3: New Developments in Chromatography |
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301 |
Mathematical Modeling of Elution Curves for a Protein Mixture in Chromatography Applied to the Optimal Selection of Operating Conditions |
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302 |
Affinity Interaction under Chaotropic Conditions |
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Coffee/Posters/Exhibits |
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303 |
ImmunoAffinity Capillary Electrophoresis for the Identification and Characterization of Toxic Biomarkers |
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304 |
Biacore Applications for Effective Bio-therapeutic Development |
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Lunch/Workshop |
Success Story of MabSelect |
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Please stand by your poster/exhibit |
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Chairman Introduction |
Session 4: Nano/Bio/Materials |
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Pierce Award Lecture |
Molecular Recognition of Proteins on Surfaces and the Development of Critical Hydrophobicity HIC |
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401 |
Analyte-Responsive Retro-reflectors for Biochemical Assays and Diagnostics |
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Coffee/Posters/Exhibits |
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402 |
Gold Nanorod Substrates for Localized Surface Plasmon Resonance Sensing |
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Discovery and Development of OMNiMIPs: One MoNomer Molecularly Imprinted Polymers |
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Panel Discussion |
Trends in Label-free Interaction Analysis |
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Posters/Exhibits/Dinner on your own |
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Chairman Introduction |
Session 5: Insights into Intra- and Inter- Molecular Recognition |
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Self-Assembly of Soft Molecular Networks: Crystal Design and Curvature |
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Molecular Recognition of Foreign Sequences in Engineered 5S Ribosomal RNA |
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Coffee/Posters/Exhibits |
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503 |
Small-molecule-mediated Rescue of Protein Function by an Inducible Proteolytic Shunt |
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Social Event |
Walking Tour of the Village featuring Arthur Marks |
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Chairman Introduction |
Session 6: Protein Interactions In and On Cells |
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Dynamic Visualization of Signaling Activities in Living Cells |
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602 |
Structure and Function of Eukaryotic RNA Exosomes |
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Coffee/Posters/Exhibits |
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Electrophoretic Fingerprinting of HIV-1 Cell Interaction: a Novel Tool for Development of Charge-Based Strategies |
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Irwin Chaiken,
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Please stand by your poster/exhibit |
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Gala Dinner Cruise on |
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Chairman Introduction |
Session 7: Viruses and Vaccines |
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Ligand Recognition and Plasticity in HIV Envelope Glycoprotein gp120 |
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702 |
The Role of Antibodies in Preventing and Treating HIV Infection |
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Coffee/Posters/Exhibits |
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Biomolecule Recognition in Piezoelectric Immunosensors: Application of Piezoimmunosensors for Detection of HIV1 Virion Infectivity Factor |
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Interaction of gp340, a Glycoprotein in the Innate Immune System, with HIV-1 env |
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ISMR General Meeting |
Presidential Announcements |
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Lunch Break |
Posters/Exhibits/Lunch on your own |
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Chairman Introduction |
Session 8: Drug Discovery and Diagnostics |
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The Economics of Personalized Medicine: Optimizing Incentives for Innovation |
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Biomimetic and Supramolecular Scaffolds for Multivalent Display |
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Designing for Success: The Generation of Useful Leads with Small Molecule Libraries |
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Cancer Chemotherapy with an FDA Approved |
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Affinity 2009: the 18th Biennial Meeting of the International Society for Molecular Recognition |
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 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,
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.