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:
Ian Slade
Tel: 203-926-1400
E-mail: ian.slade@selectbiosciences.com
Corporate Sponsors
flyion
flyion GmbH, Tuebingen, Germany, provides products and services for ion channel research to the life science industries. flyion’s patch clamp robots are based on the company’s patented Flip-the-Tip technology featuring unprecedented success rates combined with low cost of consumables. flyion’s service portfolio for compound profiling, safety pharmacology assessment, assay development, and the production of stable and inducible ion channel cell lines complement the product range.
IonGate Biosciences
IonGate Biosciences develops instruments for pharmaceutical drug screening. These instruments enable to investigate specifically electrically active membrane proteins, particularly transporters. Transporters play an important role in various indication areas as heart and circulation diseases as well as CNS- and metabolism-related disorders. Furthermore these proteins are of great relevance for the bioavailability of drugs. Up until now, no appropriate technologies have been at hand for the efficient investigation of transporters. With its specific technology Iongate now provides a solution for this gap. For further information please refer to www.iongate.de
Millipore
Millipore supports the discovery and development of new pharmaceuticals with a portfolio of products and services that expedites the discovery and evaluation of new drug candidates. This includes compound screening/profiling capabilities, multiwell filter plates, reagents, immunoassays for key targets and therapeutics categories, and regulatory compliant bioanalytical services for preclinical and clinical trials.
Molecular Devices
MDS Analytical Technologies is a business unit of MDS Inc. and is comprised of two main lines of business. The MDS Sciex product portfolio offers proven market leadership in mass spectrometry through its joint ventures. The Molecular Devices product portfolio is the gold standard in high-performance bioanalytical measurement systems that accelerate and improve drug discovery and other life sciences research. Molecular Devices products include multi-mode and dedicated benchtop readers and liquid handling instruments, systems for conventional and automated electrophysiology, high content screening, live cell imaging, microarray scanning, and a full line of reagent assay kits and software products. Find out more at www.moleculardevices.com.
Sophion
Sophion’s sole focus is to provide advanced products and integrated solutions for automated patch clamping. Sophion’s main products are the QPatch 16 and the QPatch HT (48-channels). Both are automated patch clamp systems that provide high-quality patch clamp data on a truly industrial basis. The QPatch is the first system in its class with integrated cell preparation and QPlate exchange facilities enabling several hours of unattended operation. The unique flow channel system implemented in the consumable QPlates enables fast liquid exchange around the cell and provides the option to test multiple compounds or increasing concentrations on the same cell. For more information, please contact: Chris Mathes, Ph.D., VP, General Manager of Sophion Bioscience, Inc. (USA): cma@sophion.com. See also www.sophion.com.
Exhibitors
Bellbrook Labs
BellBrook Labs’ proprietary technology, Transcreener HTS Assay platform, is redefining the concept of the universal assay through homogenous nucleotide detection. The Transcreener Platform enables the seamless incorporation of entire key target families and emerging drug targets into established HTS formats. The benefits are clear: direct measurement of enzymatic products, no coupling enzymes, expanded assay capabilities, standardized methodology, and accelerated discovery. The Transcreener platform will change the metrics of HTS.
CCS - Cell Culture Service
As an external cell culture unit CCS is supporting companies all over Europe and the USA to make screening faster and more efficient.
CCS offers the custom generation of recombinant cell lines and supplies starting material for advanced screening, i.e. frozen cells in vials or plates for instant use in cell based assays, membrane preparations and recombinant proteins.
Cellectricon
Cellectricon is a leader in functional devices for applications in drug discovery and research. The Dynaflow™ system for patch clamping enables screening and lead optimization for drugs acting on ion channel receptors, and safety pharmacology testing. The Cellaxess™ System is a new electroporation system for highly efficient transfection of adherent cells, such as primary neurons.
Nanion Technologies
Nanion Technologies is dedicated to providing flexible solutions for patch clamp based ion channel research and screening. Our automated patch clamp workstations generate high quality data at increased throughput with full experimental freedom addressing industrial and academic needs. Nanion's products are valuable tools for target validation, lead optimization and safety testing.
NascaCell Technologies
NascaCell Technologies AG is a global leader dedicated to the automated production and marketing of custom Aptamers for TARGET VALIDATION and DRUG DISCOVERY, opening new ways beyond those of antibodies, RNAi and other technologies and in the development of Microbodies™ as PROTEIN THERAPEUTICS with small molecule characteristics.
nAscent BioSciences
PocketTips® by nAscent BioSciences offer nanoliter dispensing from your existing liquid handling equipment. Perform assays quicker, prevent compound precipitation, eliminate intermediate dilution steps, and miniaturize.
Present applications include selectivity assays (P450), potency determinations (IC50), cell-based or low-DMSO tolerant assays, kinetic read (FLIPR), and 1536.
Visit us at www.PocketTip.com
Promega
Promega is a world leader in developing bioluminescent technologies that deliver more biologically relevant data in drug screening and basic research applications. Promega offers customizable solutions for cytotoxicity, apoptosis, GPCRs, kinases, P450, P-glycoprotein, and proteases that are easily adapted to small volume screening applications on a variety of instrumentation platforms. See a Promega representative during Screening Targets to learn how these products can benefit your research.
Sigma Aldrich
SIGMA-ALDRICH since 1945, is the leading provider of technology and tools to life science and drug discovery research. Today, we continue that quality tradition by offering new innovative technologies with patent assurance for research work in Genomics, Functional Genomics, Cell Biology & Signaling, Proteomics, Systems Biology, and Drug Discovery.
Visit www.sigma.com today.
Tecella
Tecella specializes in the development of Patch Clamp amplifier systems ranging from 1-channel to tens of channels for stand-alone applications and integration into HTS systems. With ExtenCell™ technology comprising user friendly software GUI, custom digitizer, USB interface, and scalable hardware architecture, Tecella can provide solutions to a large array of Drug Discovery applications in very compact form factors.