LIMSource Calendar of LIMS, Informatics and Lab Data Automation Conferences and Trade Shows

JUNE 2009

BIOTECH CHINA will be held in Shanghai, China from June 1-3. An International Trade Fair & Congress for Biotechnology, BIOTECH CHINA is a member of the global BIOTECHNICA Family. The Asian offshoot of BIOTECHNICA is a cooperative venture of the established trade fairs BIOTECHNICA ASIA, the Chinese exhibitions BIOTECH & PHARM, ISCL as well as the BIOFORUM. The combination of a three-day trade show, an innovation forum, a two-day scientific congress represents the business platform and bridge to the Asian market. For details, visit http://www.biotechnica.de.

The 2009 IFT Annual Meeting and Exposition will be held in Anaheim, CA from June 6-10. The IFT Annual Meeting & Food Expo brings together decision-makers from all of the many disciplines involved in food science and technology for scientific education and career development. For details, visit http://www.ift.org.

Euromedlab 2009 will be held at the Innsbruck Congress Centre in Innsbruck, Austria from June 7-11. It is the 18th IFCC - EFCC European Congress of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine National Congress of the Austrian Society of Laboratory Medicine and Clinical Chemistry. For details, visit http://www.innsbruck2009.org.

Cambridge Healthtech Institute's Eighth Annual World Pharmaceutical Congress will be held at the Loews Philadelphia Hotel in Philadelphia, PA from June 9-11. The focus of the conference is "Assays for Efficient and Safe Drug Development". For details, visit http://WorldPharmaCongress.com.

The 10th Annual Drug Discovery Leaders Summit will be held at the Fairmont Le Montreux Palace in Montreux, Switzerland from June 15-16. Topics covered at the event include R&D Strategies, Drug Design & Targets, Screening Techniques & Assay Development, Pharma/Biotech Alliances, Collaborations & Outsourcing, Biomarkers & Translational Medicine, Bioinformatic Approaches to solve Drug Discovery. For details, visit http://www.drugdiscovery-summit.com/index.asp.

CBI’s 5th Annual Medical Device and Diagnostics Marketing Compliance Congress will be held in Washington, DC from June 16-17. For details, visit http://www.cbinet.com.

The Drug Information Association (DIA) will hold their 45th Annual DIA Meeting in San Diego, CA from June 21-25. For details, visit http://www.diahome.org.

CPhI China, the country's premier international pharmaceutical event, along with ICSE (International Contract Services Expo) and P-MEC (Pharmaceutical Machinery and Equipment Convention), will be held at the Shanghai New International Expo Centre in Shanghai, China from June 23-25. For details, visit http://www.cphi-china.com/system/visitorform.aspx.

International Supercomputing Conference (ISC) wll be held in Hamburg, Germany from June 23-26. This conference is Europe’s leading Conference and Exhibition on High Performance Computing, Networking and Storage. For details, visit http://www.supercomp.de/isc09/content.

The 12th Medexpo Kenya, International Trade Exhibition will be held at the Sarit Centre, Nairobi in Nairobi, Kenya from June 27-29. This is the main annual international trade event attracting visitors from Kenya and its neighboring countries while exhibitors participate from over 20 countries. For details, email "Intl Trade Exhibition" at medexpo09@yahoo.com.

HPLC 2009 will be held at the International Congress Centre Dresden in Dresden, Germany from June 28-July 2. The HPLC Symposium Series represents the premier conference for liquid phase separations and related techniques. Traditionally, the HPLC Symposia provide new developments in the field, a meeting point and discussion forum for scientists and users of high-performance liquid chromatography, supercritical fluid chromatography, and electroseparation techniques. For details, visit http://www.hplc2009.com.

The 3rd Annual Clinical Trials conference will be held in London, UK frm June 29-30. The theme of the conference is "Improving clinical trials efficacy while ensuring regulatory compliance". For detials, visit http://www.visiongainglobal.com.

JULY 2009

The 34th International Symposium on High-Performance Liquid Phase Separations and Related Techniques, HPLC2009, will be held in Dresden, Germany from June 28 to July 2. The multifaceted program will reflect the vitality of HPLC and related techniques. For details, visit http://www.hplc2009.com.

AgriGenomics World Congress will be held in London, England from July 2-3. AgriGenomics is the detailed study of the genetic makeup of plants and how all the genes work together to produce the crop. Recently there has been great interest in genetically engineering plants to optimize yields and their use in bio-fuels. There is also focus on the alteration of certain genes to increase plant resistance towards disease and infection. So, now is a good time for scientists, business people, bio-ethicists and patent experts from around the globe to come together and catch up with the latest developments in this fast expanding field. For details, visit http://www.selectbiosciences.com/conferences/AGWC2009/Agenda.aspx.

The 3rd International Conference on Knowledge Generation, Communication and Management, KGCM 2009, will be held in Orlando, FL from July 10-13. For details, visit http://www.2009iiisconferences.org/kgcm.

The 7th International Conference on Computing, Communications and Control Technologies: CCCT 2009 will be held in Orlando, FL from July 10-13. For details, visit http://www.iiis2009.org/ccct.

The American Association for Clinical Chemistry's AACC Annual Meeting will be held in Chicago, IL from July 19-23. For details, visit http://www.aacc.org.

AUGUST 2009

The 12th Annual Drug Discovery Technology & Development World Congress will be held at the World Trade Center in Boston, MA from August 3-6, 2009. The popular conference has been renamed “Drug Discovery & Development of Innovative Therapeutics” (DDT) World Congress to better reflect the needs of a changing industry and address the industry’s ultimate goal of bringing innovative medicines to the marketplace while dealing with the hurdles between the discovery and development phases. The 2007 world congress will highlight numerous case studies of how companies are moving from discovery to the clinic in creative ways and with fewer resources. It will have a special emphasis on how drug discovery and development is being done by smaller and mid-size companies in non-traditional ways and aims to challenge the conventional wisdom of drug discovery and look at new approaches and new ways of thinking. For details, visit http://www.drugdisc.com.

Lab-on-a-Chip World Congress will be held at the South San Francisco Conference Center in South San Francisco, CA from August 6-7. The conference will be co-located with the Microarray World Congress and Molecular Diagnostics World Congress. For details, visit http://www.selectbiosciences.com.

The 238th ACS Fall National Meeting & Exposition will be held in Washington, DC from August 16-20. For details, visit http://www.acs.org.

Thermo Fisher Scientific will host their 2009 Laboratory Informatics Symposium (LIS) at the Caesar Business Belo Horizonte in Belo Horizonte,

Brazil from August 18-19. The symposium will focus on the specific data management requirements of the mining industry and will include presentations from leading mining services organization Sao Paolo-based Interfusao. Registration is free for the first day of the symposium and a second training day is available at a fee for customers who are using Thermo Scientific SampleManager LIMS and other Thermo Scientific laboratory information management systems. For details and to register, visit http://events.signup4.net/lis09belohorizonte.

The 18th International Mass Spectrometry Conference will be held in Bremen, Germany from August 30-September 4. The scientific program will deal with all areas of mass spectrometry from fundamental to applied reseach in chemistry, physics, biology, medicine, geology and related disciplines. For details, visit http://www.imsc-bremen-2009.de.

SEPTEMBER 2009

Drug Delivery Summit will be held in London, England from September 2-4. For details, visit http://www.selectbiosciences.com.

The European Laboratory Robotics Interest Group (ELRIG) will be hosting the ELRIG Drug Discovery 2009 conference at the BT Convention Centre in Liverpool, UK from September 7-8. This event is for academic and industrial scientists involved in early-phase drug discovery offering opportunities for communication, networking and education. The Drug Discovery Symposium will encompass seven scientific sessions and one technical workshop. Scientific sessions will focus on many aspects of early-phase Drug Discovery. Two sessions will focus on novel aspects of Enzyme and G-protein coupled receptor pharmacology and the opportunities these create for the identification of novel drugs. To address the challenges in compound screening, we plan sessions focused on Sample Management, Assay Development and Screening, Automation and Detection Systems, Structural Biology and Rational Drug Design. The meeting will also contain a session on Biopharmaceutical Drug Discovery and a Robotics Workshop. Attendees will hear world class speakers discussing the challenges facing the drug discovery scientist. The scientific sessions will be complemented by plenary keynote presentations, a poster session and a vendor exhibition with over 80 exhibitors. Delegates will be able to register for the event Free of Charge .For details, visit http://www.elrig.org.

The 123rd AOAC International Annual Meeting & Exposition will be held at the Philadelphia Marriott Downtown in Philadelphia, PA from September 13-16. For details, visit http://www.aoac.org.

The Sixth Symposium on the Practical Applications of Mass Spectrometry in the Biotechnology and Pharmaceutical Industries, Mass Spec 2009, will be held at the Ritz Carlton in Philadelphia, PA from September 15-17. For details, visit http://www.casss.org.

World Biobanking Summit will be co-located with Stem Cells Europe in Edinburgh, Scotland from September 24-25. Agenda topics include: Sample Collection & Storage; Automation; Quality Assurance; Bioethics & Regulations; and, Harmonization & Standardization. For details, visit http://www.selectbiosciences.com.

Analytica-Anacon India will be held in HITEX, India from September 29-October 1. Analytica Anacon India is an Indian trade fair with conference with international character designed to take exhibitors to new-developing marketplaces of significant interest. The concept has been transferred from the world-leading trade fair analytica in Munich which guarantees a high participation of international exhibitors and market leaders. For details, visit http://www.analyticaindia.com.

OCTOBER 2009

The inaugural Bio-IT World Europe Conference and Expo 2009 will be held at the Hannover Fairgrounds in Hannover, Germany from October 6-8. Building on the strong success of CHI's U.S. Bio-IT World Conference & Expo, which takes place in Boston each Spring, this inaugural European event will be co-located with BIOTECHNICA - Europe´s No.1 event in
Biotechnology and Life Sciences with a total of 16,000+ participants. For details, visit http://www.bio-itworldexpo.com/Europe.

Oracle OpenWorld will be held at the Moscone Convention Center in San Francisco, CA from October 11-15. The conference is a showcase for the latest developments in virtualization, security, governance, business process management, content management, and customer relationship management—all areas where technology delivers fast, significant ROI. For details, visit http://www.oracle.com.

MipTec 2009 will be held at the Congress Center Basel in Basel, Switzerland from October 12-14. MipTec is the leading European event for Drug Discovery and BioValley Life Sciences. For details, visit http://www.miptec.com.

The 2009 Gulf Coast Conference will be held on Galveston Island, TX from October 13-14. The conference addresses chemical analysis in the petrochemical, refining, and environmental worlds. For details, visit http://www.gulfcoastconference.com.

GTCbio is hosting the 5th Modern Drug Discovery & Development Summit (M3D) that will be held in San Diego, CA on October 14-16. The goal of the summit is to provide a forum for critical discussion to advance the understanding of the drug discovery and development field. For details, visit http://www.gtcbio.com/conferenceDetails.aspx?id=110.

BCEIA 2009, the International Beijing Conference and Exhibition on Instrumental Analysis, will be held at the China National Convention Center in Beijing, China from October 14-17, 2009. This biennial international event promotes academic exchanges among scientists of various countries and regions as well as trade cooperation between Chinese and foreign partners. There is a significat life sciences compoent of the program that covers bioinformatics applications. For details, visit http://www.bceia.org or http://www.becia.cn.

The 36th FACSS will be held at the Marriott Hotel in Louisville, KY from October 18 - 22. FACSS, the Federation of Analytical Chemistry and Spectroscopy Societies, conference is an annual meeting that covers the whole of analytical chemistry with an emphasis on spectroscopy. For details, visit http://www.facss.org.

L.A.B. will be held in Birmingham, UK from October 27-29. L.A.B. is a European trade fair and conference for analysis, bio and laboratory equipment. L.A.B. is aimed at manufacturers and users of analysis, biotechnology and laboratory equipment in the pharmaceutical, chemical, food and tobacco industries, as well as public and private sector organisations in medical and environmental engineering. L.A.B. is the only platform of its kind in the UK presenting the world's leading manufacturers and a wide range of scientific solutions. For details, visit http://www.lab-uk.co.uk, or to register, visit https://www.lab-uk.co.uk/visitor/registration.

NOVEMBER 2009

An ACS Prospectives conference, Process Chemistry in the Pharmaceutical Industry will be held at the Sheraton Imperial in Durham, NC from November 2-4. The conferene will have a special emphasis on Continuous Manufacturing. Conference co-chairs are Vittorio Farina of Johnson & Johnson and Mo Movassaghi of MIT. For details, visit http://www.acs.org.

The 7th International System-on-Chip (SoC) Conference will be held at the Radisson Hotel in Newport Beach, CA from November 4- 5. For details, visit http://www.savantcompany.com/SoC7-Nov2009/main.htm.

The Kuwait Lab Technology Conference & Exhibition will be held at the Radisson SAS Hotel in Kuwait from November 4-5. This comprehensive multi-tracked conference and exhibition for the laboratory industry will cover a diverse range of subjects relating to the science and technology used in medical and non-medical laboratories, as well as their management. It will provide scientists, technicians, laboratory managers and others involved in analytical laboratory operations with the latest information about instrumentation, applications and techniques. The conference provides a unique platform for regional and international organizations to showcase their latest in technology, products and services related to the laboratory industry to the largest gathering of lab professionals in Kuwait. For details, visit http://www.kuwaitlabex.com.

Mass Spec Europe will be co-locatd with Proteomics Europe in Barcelona, Spain from November 5-6. For details, visit http://www.selectbiosciences.com.

The American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists' AAPS Annual Meeting will be held at the Los Angeles ConventionCenter in Los Angeles, CA from November 8-12. For details, visit http://www.aaps.org.

The 2009 Eastern Analytical Symposium (EAS) will be held at the Garden State Convention Center in Somerset, NJ from November 16-18. The program includes invited sessions, short courses, workshops, and seminars. Invited technical sessions are designed to be of particular interest to those in the pharmaceutical, art and heritage conservation, biotechnology, forensic science, and educational fields, as well as sessions emphasizing particular techniques. These include various applications of separation techniques, spectroscopy, microscopy, and nanotechnology. For details, visit http://www.eas.org.

KMWorld 2009 will be held at the McEnery Convention Center in San Jose, CA from November 17-19. KMWorld 2009 provides attendees with all the essential pieces of the information engine that powers today’s effective enterprise—including knowledge creation, publishing, sharing, finding, mining, reuse and more. Well implemented and managed, these work together to enable business problem-solving, innovation, and achievement. For details, visit http://www.kmworld.com.

RICHMAC 2009 will be held at the Milan Fair Centre in Milan, Italy from November 24-27. The conference is the only international historical event held in Italy on instrumental and process and technology for the laboratoryFor details, visit http://www.fieramilanotech.it.


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