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Cell Based Assays
5 November - 6 November 2012
Cell Based Assays

Following on from our hugely successful Cell-Based Assays conference in 2011 SAE Media Group will provide a global forum for senior level decision makers and those working within Cell-Based Assays to meet.
 

Cell-Based Assays 2012 will show recent developments in ion channels, stem-cell platforms, label free assays and 3D cell culture.
Recalls with drugs due to toxicity can cause R&D costs to spiral and can lead to huge wastes in research time. Highly accurate in-vitro practices are becoming absolutely vital as is looking at cost-effective assay development. Cell based assays now play an important role into the research pipeline, making a large percentage of total research time and is set to show considerable growth over the coming years. Recent increases in therapeutic use of stem cells has allowed increases in toxicity accuracy, also preventing the use of animal testing and cancerous cells

Our 3-day event, formed of two half day post-conference workshops and a two-day conference will provide useful insights into the latest developments within Cell Based Assays. With an international array of speakers, enhance product launches or your own new developments with key decision makers from big pharma, biotech and academia.

FEATURED SPEAKERS

Albin Rudisch

Albin Rudisch

Scientist, Boehringer Ingelheim Pharma Informacios Es Szerviz Iroda
Nathan  Bays

Nathan Bays

Principal Scientist, Pharmacology, Merck & Company Incorporated Usa
Rosalia Arrebola

Rosalia Arrebola

Scientist, Lead Identification Technologies & Kinases, Sanofi Aventis
Xavier Leroy

Xavier Leroy

Associate Director, Project Leader , Actelion Ltd.

Albin Rudisch

Scientist, Boehringer Ingelheim Pharma Informacios Es Szerviz Iroda
Albin Rudisch

Anker Jon Hansen

Scientific Director, ImmunoBiology, Novo Nordisk
Anker Jon Hansen

Anthony Davies

Director of the High Content Facility, Institute of Molecular Medicine, Trinity College Dublin
Anthony Davies

Asif Iqbal

Post-Doc Research Scientist, Oxford University
Asif Iqbal

Carsten Wenzel

Scientist, Bayer
Carsten Wenzel

Christian Oberdanner

Marketing Application Specialist, Tecan Austria GmbH
Christian Oberdanner

David Standing

Senior Scientist, GlaxoSmithKline
David Standing

Dusko Ilic

Senior Lecturer in Stem Cell Science, Kings College London
Dusko Ilic

Gareth Griffiths

Director, Imagen Biotech
Gareth  Griffiths

Gareth Wayne

Investigator, GlaxoSmithKline
Gareth Wayne

Grant Cameron

Development Director, TAP Biosystems
Grant Cameron

Magnus Jansson

Chief Scientific Officer, SymCel Sverige AB
Magnus Jansson

Mona Shehata

Research Associate, Cancer Research UK - Sponsored by BD BioScience
Mona Shehata

Nathan Bays

Principal Scientist, Pharmacology, Merck & Company Incorporated Usa
Nathan  Bays

Paul Groot-Kormelink

Investigator III, Novartis Pharmaceuticals
Paul Groot-Kormelink

Robin Ketteler

Group Leader, University College London
Robin Ketteler

Rosalia Arrebola

Scientist, Lead Identification Technologies & Kinases, Sanofi Aventis
Rosalia Arrebola

Stefan Przyborski

Founder and CSO, Reinnervate
Stefan Przyborski

Xavier Leroy

Associate Director, Project Leader , Actelion Ltd.
Xavier Leroy

Conference agenda

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8:30

Registration & Coffee

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9:00

Opening Remarks

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9:10

Overview of the main areas of 3D assay and cell culture technologies

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9:45

Appraisals of all the current technologies and their key advantages

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10:45

Morning Coffee

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11:00

Presentation of research data from a few selected studies using 3D assay technologies

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12:00

Q & A and group discussion

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12:30

Networking Lunch

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13:30

Registration & Coffee

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14:00

Welcome & Introduction

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14:15

Overview of the technology

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15:00

Case Study

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15:45

Afternoon Tea

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16:15

New applications within label free technology

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17:00

Discussion session

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17:30

Workshop Host's Closing Remarks

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8:30

Registration & Coffee

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9:00

Chairman's Opening Remarks

Nathan  Bays

Nathan Bays, Principal Scientist, Pharmacology, Merck & Company Incorporated Usa

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9:10

Taking a 3 Dimensional approach to cell based assays

Anthony Davies

Anthony Davies, Director of the High Content Facility, Institute of Molecular Medicine, Trinity College Dublin

  • Why are 3D cell culture and assay technologies considered better than conventional 2D
  • When and how should these assays be deployed into your research programme
  • What currently is available and how it is being used
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    9:45

    Alvetex 3D cell culture technology and applications for high throughput screening of liver toxicity and cancer assays

    Stefan Przyborski

    Stefan Przyborski, Founder and CSO, Reinnervate

  • Conventional 2D cell culture models provide poor proxy for real tissues, where does 3D take us
  • Alvetex technology has been developed as a solution for simple and routine 3D cell culture that adds significant value to the culture model
  • Alvetexand applications including liver toxicity, cancer cell biology, and physiologically relevant cell based assays
  • Demonstrations in application for use in validation and high throughput studies
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    10:25

    Morning Coffee

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    10:55

    Tecan’s Infinite® 200 PRO – the reader with integrated cell incubator

    Christian Oberdanner

    Christian Oberdanner, Marketing Application Specialist, Tecan Austria GmbH

  • How often do you transfer your microplate between the incubator and plate reader
  • Simultaneous, independent adjustment of CO2 and O2
  • Consistent physiological conditions for predictable culture growth
  • True walkway operation reducing labor time & improving productivity
  • No gaps in data during overnight or long running experiments
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    11:35

    Comparison of different 3D cell culture models for their application in high throughput screening

    Rosalia Arrebola

    Rosalia Arrebola, Scientist, Lead Identification Technologies & Kinases, Sanofi Aventis

  • Pragmatic approaches for high throughput screening
  • 2D verses 3D
  • 3D kinase cell based assays
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    12:10

    Networking Lunch

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    13:10

    3D tumour spheroids for drug discovery in oncology

    Carsten Wenzel

    Carsten Wenzel, Scientist, Bayer

  • Advances in high content screening on 3D tumour spheroids
  • 3D assay development
  • Tumour micro environment
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    13:45

    A Novel, Rapid and Reproducible Method for Creating 3D Cell Cultures to Study Complex Cell Behavior

    Grant Cameron

    Grant Cameron, Development Director, TAP Biosystems

  • Ceating complex 3D cell cultures in a simple, consistent & reproducible format
  • Using physiologically relevant collagen concentrations to create the most natural environment for cells
  • Enabling scientists to take complete control of their experiments by using their own cell type(s) and selecting seeding density
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    14:25

    Molecular Characterisation of the tumor stroma crosstalk using a novel 3D co-culture iv vitro model

    Albin Rudisch

    Albin Rudisch, Scientist, Boehringer Ingelheim Pharma Informacios Es Szerviz Iroda

  • Identifying molecular mechanisms in the cross talk between small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) and corresponding CAFs
  • Novel and complex 3D organtypic (spheroid) in vitro cell culture model system has been established
  • Advantages in vivo situation reflecting the complexity and dynamics of human tumors more faithfully than 2D monotypic monolayer cultures
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    15:00

    Afternoon Tea

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    15:35

    Roles of ion channels in cell-based drug discovery — New strategies and techniques enabling attrition reduction strategies

    David Standing

    David Standing, Senior Scientist, GlaxoSmithKline

  • Role of ion channels in attrition reduction strategy
  • Screening and triage strategies for characterizing on and off target ion channel activity
  • Enhanced capabilities of new electrophysiology platforms such as Barracuda to deliver reliable, robust, predicative and cost effective decision making data
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    16:10

    Quantitative GPCR and ion channel transcriptomics in primary alveolar macrophages and macrophage surrogates

    Paul Groot-Kormelink

    Paul Groot-Kormelink , Investigator III, Novartis Pharmaceuticals

  • High throughput gene expression enabling re-evaluation of surrogate cell types for cellular models
  • Introductions to dynamically regulated families of integral membrane proteins
  • Similarities and differences in ion channel and g-protein couples receptors between alveolar macrophages and their surrogates
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    16:50

    Using GPCR signalling assays to study chemokine biology and develop novel anti-inflammatory drugs

    Asif Iqbal

    Asif Iqbal, Post-Doc Research Scientist, Oxford University

  • CC chemokine signalling followed by electrical cell-substrate impendence for sensing ECIS and beta arrestin recruitment
  • Label free assays for galphai couples GPCRs and screening for novel cannaboids active at the CB2 receptor
  • Development of real time chemotaxis
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    17:30

    Chairman’s Closing Remarks and Close of Day One

    Nathan  Bays

    Nathan Bays, Principal Scientist, Pharmacology, Merck & Company Incorporated Usa

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    8:30

    Registration & Coffee

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    9:00

    Chairman's Opening Remarks

    Nathan  Bays

    Nathan Bays, Principal Scientist, Pharmacology, Merck & Company Incorporated Usa

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    9:10

    Immortality breeds deceit: How is screening in primary cells has uncovered misleading data from cell lines common to therapeutic discovery

    Nathan  Bays

    Nathan Bays, Principal Scientist, Pharmacology, Merck & Company Incorporated Usa

    • Cell lines is a 'workhorse' in therapeutic discovery
    • Innovations in primary and stem cell technologies
    • Case studies of misleading cell line data and rescue of programmes by switching to primary cells
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    9:50

    Bringing phenotypic primary cell assays to the forefront of drug discovery

    Gareth Wayne

    Gareth Wayne, Investigator, GlaxoSmithKline

  • Increasing evidence that phenotypic assay approaches are more successful in developing first class drugs
  • Significant progress in both primary cell isolation and culture, together with assay technology improvements are enabling such assays to be deployed earlier in drug discovery processes
  • Examples of how such approaches are applied within GlaxoSmithKline
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    10:30

    Morning Coffee

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    11:00

    Label free detection of cell activation and cell adhesion

    Anker Jon Hansen

    Anker Jon Hansen, Scientific Director, ImmunoBiology, Novo Nordisk

    • Cell adhesion
    • Cell migration
    • Cell activation
    • Endothelial / Epithelial barrier function
    • Cell death
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    11:40

    Label free real time cellular assays using calorimetry

    Magnus Jansson

    Magnus Jansson, Chief Scientific Officer, SymCel Sverige AB

  • Introduction to calorimetry based assays
  • What information can be derived from heat flow - advantages and limitations
  • Calorimetry based cellular assays - application areas
  • The calScreener system intoduction
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    12:20

    Networking Lunch

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    13:20

    Design of end-point high throughput screening assays to monitor dynamic processes

    Robin Ketteler

    Robin Ketteler, Group Leader, University College London

    • Introductions through high-throughput, high content screening
    • Signal transduction
    • Luciferase assays
    • Protein secretion
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    14:00

    Comprehensive tools for GPCR pharmacology

    Xavier Leroy

    Xavier Leroy, Associate Director, Project Leader , Actelion Ltd.

    • G12/G13
    • Beta-arrestin 2
    • label-free
    • Deorphanisation
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    14:40

    Afternoon Tea

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    15:10

    Human Pluripotent stem cells in drug screening

    Dusko Ilic

    Dusko Ilic, Senior Lecturer in Stem Cell Science, Kings College London

    • Overview of current status of stem cells
    • Future perspectives of human embryonic stem cells
    • Induced pluripotent stem cell-based platforms in drug discovery
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    15:50

    Flow Cytometric screening of novel human breast stem/progenitor cells

    Mona Shehata

    Mona Shehata, Research Associate, Cancer Research UK - Sponsored by BD BioScience

  • Development of flow cytometric-based strategies for the identification and purification of human mamary stem, luminal progenitor and differentiated cells.
  • BD LyoplateTM Human Cell Surface Marker Screening Panel in conjunction with known markers to rapidy screendifferent breat cell subpopulations using hundreds of antibodies.
  • Identification of a number of potentially new novel cell markers and in-depth analysis
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    16:30

    Automated analysis of 3D cultures using high content screening

    Gareth  Griffiths

    Gareth Griffiths , Director, Imagen Biotech

    • Using the hanging drop method to grow and analyse 3D cell cultures for drug response
    • Measuring cancer stem cells through 3D colony formation
    • Current obstacles in 3D cell culture and how to overcome them
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    17:10

    Chairman’s Closing Remarks and Close of Day Two

    Nathan  Bays

    Nathan Bays, Principal Scientist, Pharmacology, Merck & Company Incorporated Usa


    Development Director
    TAP Biosystems
    Principal Scientist, Pharmacology
    Merck & Company Incorporated Usa
    Director of the High Content Facility, Institute of Molecular Medicine
    Trinity College Dublin
    Scientist
    Bayer
    Associate Director, Project Leader
    Actelion Ltd.
    Founder and CSO
    Reinnervate
    Senior Lecturer in Stem Cell Science
    Kings College London
    Senior Scientist
    GlaxoSmithKline
    Marketing Application Specialist
    Tecan Austria GmbH
    Scientist
    Boehringer Ingelheim Pharma Informacios Es Szerviz Iroda
    Chief Scientific Officer
    SymCel Sverige AB
    Investigator
    GlaxoSmithKline
    Post-Doc Research Scientist
    Oxford University
    Research Associate
    Cancer Research UK - Sponsored by BD BioScience
    Scientist, Lead Identification Technologies & Kinases
    Sanofi Aventis
    Group Leader
    University College London
    Scientific Director, ImmunoBiology
    Novo Nordisk
    Investigator III
    Novartis Pharmaceuticals
    Director
    Imagen Biotech

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