Technical Skills Seminars
SUMMER/FALL 2009
Wednesday, October 28, 2009

| Guest Speaker |
Sybille Rex, PhD, Abcam Scientific Support Specialist |
| Title |
Immunoprecipitation – Procedures, Pitfalls, and Protocol Tips |
| Company |
Abcam |
| Location |
JAH 207 |
| Time |
1:00-2:00 PM |
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Lunch will be provided |
Monday, September 14 , 2009
| Guest Speaker |
David J. Sieg, PhD, Drug Discovery Specialist, PerkinElmer |
| Title |
ALPHA-SureFire® Technology – Detection of Phosphorylated Samples |
| Company |
PerkinElmer |
| Location |
JAH 407 |
| Time |
1:00-2:00 PM |
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Lunch will be provided |
Wednesday, August 12, 2009
| Guest Speaker |
John Shyu, PhD |
| Title |
Solving Cell Culture Problems |
| Company |
Corning Life Sciences |
| Location |
Hamilton Bldg 505 |
| Time |
1:00-2:00 PM |
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Lunch will be provided |
WINTER/SPRING 2009
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
| Guest Speaker |
Dr. Sunil Mukhopadhyay |
| Title |
Roche xCelligence System – A new frontier in real-time, label-free cellular assays for cell proliferation, cytotoxicity, receptor-ligand interactions, cell invasion, and migration |
| Company |
Roche Diagnostics Corporation |
| Location |
JAH 207 |
| Time |
1:00-2:00 PM |
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Lunch will be provided |
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
| Guest Speaker |
Sun Luo |
| Title |
New Tools for the Study of Protein Dynamics in Live Cells |
| Company |
New England BioLabs, Inc |
| Location |
Hamilton 505 |
| Time |
1:00-2:00 PM |
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Lunch will be provided |
Wednesday, March 25 , 2009
| Guest Speaker |
Dr. Carlisle Landel
Director, Transgenic and Gene Targeting Facility |
| Title |
Development of Transgenic Animals |
| Company |
Jefferson Kimmel Cancer Center |
| Location |
Hamilton Bldg 505 |
| Time |
1:00-2:00 PM |
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Lunch will be provided |
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
| Guest Speaker |
Corey Williams |
| Title |
454 Sequencing Technologies |
| Company |
Eurofins MWG Operon |
| Location |
Brent Auditorium (Enter from Mezzanine or 2nd Floor, east end, JAH) |
| Time |
1:00-2:00 PM |
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Lunch will be provided |
Wednesday, January 21, 2009
| Guest Speaker |
Dolores Ciufo |
| Title |
Next Generation Flow Cytometry Reagents |
| Company |
Invitrogen Corporation |
| Location |
BLSB 105 |
| Time |
1:00-2:00 PM |
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Lunch will be provided |
FALL 2008
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
| Title |
Quantitative Analysis of Multiple Target Molecules from a Single Sample Using Bio-Plex Technology: What is Possible and What is New |
| Speaker |
Rick Ando, PhD, Field Application Scientist |
| Company |
Bio-Rad Laboratories |
| Location |
JAH 407 |
| Time |
1:00-2:00 PM |
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Lunch will be served |
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
| Title |
“Tyramide Signal Amplification: Ultra Sensitivity for IHC, in situ Hybridization, ELISA, and Arrays” |
| Speaker |
Carl Apgar, PerkinElmer Drug Discovery Specialist |
| Company |
PerkinElmer |
| Location |
BLSB 107 |
| Time |
1:00-2:00 PM |
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Lunch will be provided |
WINTER/SPRING 2008
Thursday, August 21, 2008
“Immunohistochemistry: Methodologies and Novel Approaches for Antigen detection”
Speaker: Jeremy Minarcik, Research Biotech Specialist
Company: Sigma-Aldrich
BLSB 107 1:00-2:00 PM
Lunch will be provided. Wednesday, April 23, 2008

"Infrared Fluorescent Imaging for Western Blot"
Speaker: Wilson Tawe, PhD, MBA, Senior Field Applications Scientist
Company: LI-COR, Inc
BLSB 105 1:00-2:00 PM
Lunch will be provided.
Wednesday, March 26, 2008

“Detecting Protein-Protein Interactions In Vivo”
Speaker: Ken Hamill
Company: Abcam
BLSB 105 1:00-2:00 PM
Lunch will be provided
Thursday, February 28, 2008

"Relative and Absolute Quantitative Proteomics Using Mass Spectrometry"
Speaker: Charles Ngowe
Company: Sigma
BLSB 105 1:00-2:00PM
Lunch will be provided
Wednesday, January 16, 2008

“Solutions for Insoluble Problems: Exploring the Synergy of Hydrostatic
Pressure and Chemistry for Biological Sample Preparation”
Speaker: Alexander Lazarev PhD
Company: Pressure Biosciences, Inc
BLSB 105 1:00-2:00 PM
Lunch will be provided
FALL 2007
Tuesday, December 11, 2007
“Epidemiology and Biostatistics Using SAS Enterprise Guide”
Susan Walsh, Program Developer
BLSB 101
10:00-11:30 AM — Epidemiology
1:00-2:30 PM — Biostatistics
Thursday, November 29, 2007
“The Utilization Of Phosphospecific Antibodies and Kinases In Basic Research”
Presented by Cell Signaling, Vicki McCulloch, PhD, Drug Discovery Specialist
BLSB 105 1:00-2:00 PM
Thursday, October 25, 2007

"Real-Time PCR and miRNA," presented by Applied Biosystems
BLSB 105 1:00-2:00 PM
SPRING 2007
Tuesday, April 10, 2007
FlowJo Workshop
Following the extremely popular flow cytometry technical skills seminars last year, the JPA is hosting a workshop on the flow cytometry analysis software package – FlowJo. This is a 3 hour session but please feel free to come to individual talks if you cannot make the whole workshop.
| JAH 407 |
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| 10:00-11:00 |
Introduction to FlowJo |
| 11:00-Noon |
Compensation, a practical approach |
| Noon-1:00 |
Troubleshooting and consultation for current users (lunch will be served at this session) |
Tuesday, March 27, 2007
Bioinformatics and RNAi
Presented by Mitchell Gore, PhD from Integrated DNA Technologies (IDT)
1:00-2:00 PM, 207 JAH
March 1, 2007
Thermo Scientific SearchLight® Quantitative Protein Arrays:
Chemiluminescent and Infrared Options for Cytokine and Biomarker Profiling,
presented by Thermo Fisher Scientific
Scott Van Arsdell, PhD
JAH 207, 4:00-5:00 PM
February 27, 2007
DNA Tranfections: Optimization Tips, presented by Roche Applied Science
Linda B. Jacobsen, PhD
JAH 139, 3:00-4:00 PM
January 25, 2007
NCBI Bioinformatics Mini-course, presented by NCBI
Morning Session: Identification of Disease Genes (NCBI Course No. 3),
presented by Steve Pechous
9:00-10:30 AM lecture, 10:45-11:45 AM hands-on
LRC (307 Scott Library)
Afternoon Session: Correlating Disease Genes and Phenotypes (NCBI Course No. 4),
presented by Matten Wayne
1:00-2:30 PM lecture, 2:45-3:45 PM hands-on
1310 Edison
January 24th, 2007
NCBI Bioinformatics Mini-course, presented by NCBI
Morning Session: Making Sense of DNA and Protein Sequences (NCBI Course No. 1),
presented by Matten Wayne
9:00-10:30 AM lecture, 10:45-11:45 AM hands-on
LRC (307 Scott Library)
Afternoon Session: Structural Analysis Quick Start (NCBI Course No. 7),
presented by Steve Pechous
1:00-2:30 PM lecture; 2:45-3:45 PM hands-on
1310 Edison
FALL 2006
November 14, 2006
Quantitative Proteomics and RNAi, presented by Sigma-Aldrich
Trey Henry, PhD
1:00-2:00 PM
207 JAH
October 3, 2006
Real-time Quantitative PCR and RT-PCR, presented by Invitrogen
Cheryl M. Denault, PhD
1:00-2:00 PM
139 JAH
September 16, 2006
RNAi Knockdown and miRNA Quantification, presented by Applied Biosystems
Rob Genuario, PhD
1:00-2:00 PM
207 JAH
September 11, 2006
Advanced TET System and SMART RACE, presented by Clontech
Diazong Li, PhD
1:00-2:30 PM
207 JAH
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