Thermo Fisher Scientific is very pleased to announce the Annual Cellomics Products West Coast User Group meeting, which will be held at the Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco, California, January 14, 2008 from 8:00am -2:00pm.

This gathering will be a forum for you to learn what your colleagues are doing to further their discovery efforts with HCS and to learn how Thermo Fisher is advancing Cellomics products and HCS technology for your discovery efforts.

There is no charge to attend the Thermo Fisher Scientific Cellomics Products User Group meeting, but advanced registration is required. Attendees are encouraged to bring ideas and topics for discussion related to Cellomics Products.

Continental breakfast during registration

Register On-line here for the Cellomics Products West Coast User Group Meeting!

Click here to download the Thermo Scientific agenda

GE Healthcare HCA User Group Meeting Agenda
Monday, January 14, 2008
Fairmount Hotel, San Francisco, California

Session 1: 2:30-4:45pm

2.30: Paritosh Dhawale
Marketing Director,
GE Healthcare Life Sciences,
Welcome and Introduction

2.40: Lana Dubinski
Business Development Manager
EMC
Documentum for life sciences

2.55: Nick Thomas
Staff Scientist
GE Healthcare Life Sciences
Introducing IN Cell Miner

3.15: Judi Wardwell Swanson
Principal Investigator
BMS
Oncology Target Identification and Validation using RNAi and High Content Screening.

COFFEE BREAK (3:35pm)

3.50: Douglas Crawford
Director of Industry Alliances and Associate Director
QB3
QB3s Discovery to Health.

4.10: Natalie Aulner
Associate Research Center
Columbia MLSCN, Columbia Genome Center
An Integrative Perspective of High-Throughput and High-Content Screening

4.30: Robert Graves, PhD
Senior Scientist
GE Healthcare
Putting IN cell into context

4:50: Paritosh Dhawale
GE Healthcare
Session 1 Closing Remarks

Session 2: 5-6:30pm
IN Cell Users Workshops
2 interactive user sessions reviewing the latest features and instrument innovations:

1. Preliminary investigation using brightfield images for cell detection
Robert Graves, GE Healthcare

2. Utility of IN Cell Developer context modules for analysis of novel assay applications
Haiguang Zhang, GE Healthcare

7.30-10:30pm
GE Healthcare Evening Reception co-sponsored by EMC
Penthouse Suite – The Fairmount Hotel

Introducing new IN Cell Miner software
(Bar and Food Served)

Click here to download the GE Healthcare agenda

Special User Forum: "Total Solution for Cellular Imaging" 

Molecular Devices will host a half-day HCS imaging forum during High-Content Analysis 2008 on Monday, January 14 from 2 to 7 p.m. 

This forum will give attendees a first-hand look at Molecular Devices' Total Imaging Solution and will feature end-user presentations on compound screening, neuronal screening, pathway analysis, data analysis, efficacy assessment, and target validation. You will hear from researchers detailing their experiences implementing our imaging technologies, and our unique cellular informatics solutions. We have set aside time for discussion groups too! 

Please contact candace.anderson@moldev.com to register.

Click here to download the Molecular Devices agenda

PerkinElmer Inc. cordially invites you to the Opera User Group Meeting
Wednesday, January 16 | 2-7pm

Scientists from industry and academia will talk about how the Opera is used to understand molecular mechanisms in cellular research and how to find more specific drugs in cancer research and infectious diseases. Come and learn about how they apply confocal imaging to compound and RNAi screening. The high speed of the Opera and the unrivalled flexibility of the Acapella image analysis software for multiparametric approaches to high content screening will be elucidated.

To register please visit: www.improvision.com/hca

Opera User's Group Invitation