Call for Sponsors and Exhibitors
Space available for exhibitors is limited and we expect it to be heavily oversubscribed. So please contact us as soon as possible to receive information about exhibition & sponsorship opportunities:
Paul Raggett, Exhibition Manager
Tel: +44 (0)1787 315117
E-mail: paul.raggett@selectbiosciences.com
Corporate Bag Sponsor
Invitrogen 
Invitrogen provides products and services that support academic and government research institutions and pharmaceutical and biotech companies worldwide in their efforts to improve the human condition. The company provides essential life science technologies for disease research, drug discovery, and commercial bio-production. For more information about Invitrogen, visit the company's web site at www.invitrogen.com
Booth # 4
Corporate Sponsor and Badge Sponsor
Sigma Life Science
Sigma Life Science provides both high-quality reagents and cutting-edge technologies from one leading global supplier for every stage of life science research. As the result of years of continued investment and our commitment to the market, Sigma Life Science covers the most comprehensive set of applications, including genomics, functional genomics, cell biology and proteomics. Visit us at Booth #3 to learn more about our new and innovative solutions to meet your research needs.
Booth # 3
Corporate Sponsors
Avecia
Avecia is the world’s leading and most experienced contract manufacturer of DNA and RNA oligonucleotides. Working on a range of programs for many customers across the USA and Europe, Avecia serves the full drug development pipeline with capabilities in process development, analytical method development, scale-up, validation and manufacture at all pre-clinical and clinical phases. www.avecia.com/biotech,
e-mail: biotech@avecia.com
Booth # 2
Bio-Rad 
Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc. is dedicated to supporting RNA interference research by providing laboratory solutions for RNA techniques and the interpretation of gene silencing events. We provide a range of RNAi solutions, from design through detection, for both mRNA and protein analysis. To learn more about Bio-Rad’s technology solutions for RNAi, visit us at www.bio-rad.com/RNAi or contact your local Bio-Rad Office.
Booth # 5
Integrated DNA Technologies
Serving the areas of academic research, biotechnology, clinical diagnostics and pharmaceutical development, Integrated DNA Technologies (IDT) is the largest manufacturer of custom oligo products in the United States. From oligos in plates to Dicer-Substrate RNAi duplexes in TriFECTa™ kits to dual-labeled DNA probes, IDT offers the best quality, customer service and turnaround time.
Booth # 1
Corporate Sponsor - microRNA
Applied Biosystems
Applied Biosystems Group (NYSE:ABI), an Applera Corporation business, develops and markets instrument-based systems, consumables, software, and services to the life science industry and research community. Applied Biosystems offers innovative technologies that enable biological discoveries in basic research, pharmaceutical research and development, and human and microbial identification.
Booth # 9
Drinks Reception Sponsor and Exhibitor
Thermo Scientific
RNA Technologies, now sold as Thermo Scientific is the world's leading provider of reliable, high quality RNA oligonucleotides, small interfering RNA (siRNA) and related RNA-interference (RNAi) products and technologies. Thermo Scientific has pioneered a custom siRNA design service that employs its proprietary technologies for maximizing the efficiency of gene silencing across a broad range of research. Thermo Scientific is a subsidiary of Fisher Scientific International Inc.
Booth # 6
Lunch Sponsor and Exhibitor
Qiagen
Qiagen - leadership in molecular biology QIAGEN is the world’s leading provider of innovative technologies for separating, purifying, and handling nucleic acids. QIAGEN offers a comprehensive range of integrated kits and reagents, as well as complete automation systems, and provides custom synthesis of DNA and siRNA oligonucleotides. QIAGEN provides high-quality, innovative technologies for people working in research, functional genomics, drug development, molecular diagnostics, gene therapy, and other fields of the life sciences. QIAGEN products, services, and innovative technologies are renowned for increasing the reliability, speed, and ease-of-use of molecular biology techniques.
Booth # 32
Exhibitors
Actigenics 
Actigenics develops innovative highthroughput research tools for microRNA research. Our integrative technology combines new generation bioinformatic approaches with molecular biology tools to identify miRNA and analyse miRNA gene regulatory functions. In applied research we especially focus on the application of miRNA as diagnostic/prognostic markers and target identification biomarkers for cancer and viral infections.
Booth # 7
Agilent
Agilent, through its Nucleic Acid Solutions Division based in Boulder, Colo. USA, is a leading manufacturer of next-generation oligo therapeutics. Operating out of a state-of-the-art, multi-product facility, the division offers flexible cGMP oligo production at scales from grams to kilograms. Agilent also offers a full range of turn-key development services, including development of analytical methods and processes, stability studies, quality control, and regulatory support.
Booth # 19
BioVentures
At BioVentures, we develop innovative life science products in the areas of miRNAs, bacterial identification, rapid DNA/RNA releasing agents, precision sizing standards and drug metabolism resequencing. We continually meet our customer requirements with exacting standards, ensuring solutions meet cost objectives, as well as critical performance targets. Everyone at BioVentures is committed to rigid quality control standards that will ensure reaching our most important goal - Customer Satisfaction!
Booth # 10
Cellectricon
Cellectricon provides state-of-the-art solutions for the pharmaceutical industry and academia. Visit booth# 22 to learn more about the Cellaxess CX1 and CX3 systems for transfection of neuronal tissue slices and primary cultures. At the meeting Cellectricon will pre-announce the Cellaxess HT instrument for whole-genome RNAi screening to be launched Q1 2008.
Booth # 22
CyBio
With almost 20 years of experience CyBio is a recognized leader of first class simultaneous pipetting and imaging technologies. In the pharmaceutical and life science industry, CyBio’s products enjoy the highest reputation in terms of precision, reliability and simplicity. Moreover, CyBio’s Customized Solutions Team designs, produces and installs fully automated systems tailored to our client’s application-, throughput- and capacity requirements.
Booth # 24
Dendritic Nanotechnologies
Dendritic Nanotechnologies, Inc. (DNT), a Starpharma Holdings Limited subsidiary, is a leader in the development of dendrimer nanotechnology for life-science reagents, diagnostics, and other applications. PrioFect™, DNT’s siRNA and DNA transfection reagents are precise polymeric nanostructures of varying nanometer sizes with unprecedented functionality for diagnostic and therapeutic products. EMD-Merck acquired the in-vitro reagent markets rights. DNT retained the in-vivo rights.
Booth # 12
Exiqon
Exiqon is a leading supplier of high-value gene expression analysis products for the life sciences, research and drug discovery industries. Exiqon’s rapidly growing product offerings integrate innovative chemistries with web-based software tools to help scientists achieve rapid and reliable results in real-time. Please visit our web-site at www.exiqon.com.
Booth # 8
febit biotech
With Febit’s Geniom technology, you own and control a customizable microarray facility that fits onto a standard laboratory benchtop. This provides you with an immediate way to profile miRNAs and other small RNA and rapidly prototype array designs that will optimally detect and profile your targets of interest. Within 24 hours you can be profiling your defined target small RNA.
Booth # 25
GE Healthcare
GE Healthcare Life Sciences is a business of GE Healthcare that provides diagnostic pharmaceuticals, drug discovery tools, and protein separation systems. Our diagnostic imaging agents are used during medical scanning procedures to highlight organs and tissues inside the human body, for the early detection, diagnosis and management of disease. Protein separation systems purify biopharmaceuticals that are used in the research, development, and manufacturing stages of over 90% of the biopharmaceuticals currently on the market.
Booth # 13
ImaGenes
ImaGenes’ portfolio covers:
• Validated molecular biological material collections (clones, protein arrays, si/shRNAs, synthetic clones etc.).
• Integrated services (expression analysis and genotyping on the Affymetrix system or flexible Agilent and NimbleGen platforms, protein expression, Y2H service, serum screening).
• Next generation sequencing service.
• A complete bioinformatics analysis pipeline of microarray results and sequencing data, custom design of microarrays based on these data.
Booth # 11
InvivoGen
InvivoGen provides innovative products for research in molecular and cell biology.
More specifically, you will find all the tools from the design to the testing of shRNAs: free siRNA software, expression vectors for transient or stable expression of one or two shRNAs, and psiTEST vectors to assess the functionality of shRNAs. We also provide custom cloning services and more.
Booth # 34
Millipore
Millipore is a leading provider of products and services that improve productivity in laboratory research and bioprocessing manufacturing sites. The Company drives growth through innovation and delivers higher value-added applications to the marketplace. Millipore experts have a comprehensive understanding of customers’ research, which results in superior tools, technologies and services.
Millipore’s Bioscience Division provides innovative tools, services and biological reagents that drive advancements in biomedical and academic research as well as support the discovery and development of new pharmaceuticals. Our customers work in leading research laboratories across a variety of industries throughout the world. Millipore improves their laboratory productivity and efficiency through optimized workflows.
Booth # 31
Open Biosystems 
Open Biosystems is the world’s leader in supplying genomic content including full length, fully sequenced cDNA clones, shRNAmir clones and custom antibody services. The combination of our unique Trans-lentiviral delivery system and whole genome RNAi & cDNA content facilitates characterization of gene function in cancer, neuroscience and development.
Booth # 17
OZ Biosciences
OZ Biosciences is a product development company that creates, develops and commercializes delivery systems of bioactive materials. These laboratory reagents, intended for the worldwide scientific community, allow researchers to study more effectively the functions of genes, proteins or other molecules delivered.
Our vocation is to design innovative, efficient and adapted tools specialized in the transport of biomolecules.
Booth # 21
Panomics
Panomics is a provider of innovative tools and solutions for Parallel Quantitative Biology or "PQB". PQB is defined as the contextual, systems-level measurements of genes, proteins and their cellular functions. PQB will facilitate understanding of biological pathways and networks in the context of normal physiology and development, disease pathology and drug treatment.
Booth # 38
Polyplus-transfection 
Polyplus-transfection is a Life Science company dedicated to the development and marketing of transfection reagents. Its expertise includes in vitro and in vivo gene, oligonucleotide, siRNA delivery as well as in vitro protein and antibody delivery. Polyplus-transfection has numerous academic and industrial partnerships carrying out research on therapeutic aspects of gene and siRNA delivery.
Booth # 18
Roche Applied Science
Roche Applied Science is one of the world's leading providers of reagents and systems for life science research. In the field of RNAi, RAS offers high-quality products for effective and specific gene knockdown, e.g., X-tremeGENE siRNA Dicer Kit and X-tremeGENE siRNA Transfection Reagent. For more information, visit www.roche-applied-science.com/geneknockdown.
Booth # 23
Select Biosciences
Select Biosciences provides conferences, training courses, focused market reports, custom consultancy, and recruitment to the biomedical marketplace. Our staff have many years of experience in analyzing cutting edge technologies and assessing their role in biotech and pharmaceutical markets.
Booth # 16
Tecan
Tecan is a leading player in the Life Sciences supply industry that specializes in the development, production, and distribution of solutions enabling drug discovery genomics, proteomics, and diagnostics. Through its subsidiary REMP, Tecan is a leading supplier of compound and sample storage, managerial and logistic solutions. The company maintains a sales and service network in 52 countries.
Booth # 20
Technology Networks Ltd.
Technology Networks Ltd. are publishers of Free Portal Websites for specific internet communities. We specialize in the scientific marketplace and have a particular focus on the Drug Discovery and Bionanotechnology sectors.
Our sites typically include the following sections:
- Industry news
- New products
- Scientific posters
- Specialist suppliers directory
- Upcoming events
- Jobs
- Application notes
- Resources
- Forums
- Conference presentations
Booth # 33
TRANSAT Biotechnology
TRANSAT Biotechnology is a research partner from gene to therapy. TRANSAT propose customized services: cellular engineering (design cellular models by RNAi & gene over expression, transfection optimization, viral vectors, immortalization…), RNAi libraries, functional assays and interferent screening a new inescapable link in your process. Thanks to innovative tools, TRANSAT allows you to manage risk in early drug development.
Booth # 30