RCE Network Diagnostics Workshop
“Biology and Medicine Meet Engineering and Physics”
March 3-4, 2008
Los Angeles (near LAX)
Second Program Announcement
General themes:
(1) Finding common ground and language between microbiologists &
laboratorians and engineers & physical scientists for new platform and assay
development.
(2) Implementation of novel assays in the real world.
Speakers include:
David AuCoin, University of Nevada Reno
Alan Barbour, University of California Irvine
R. Bruce Cary, Los Alamos National Laboratory
David Cliffel, Vanderbilt University
Octavian Florescu, University of California Berkeley
Vincent Gau, GeneFluidics, Inc.
Michel Gerd, Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics, Geneva
Timothy Harrah, Tufts University
James Herron, University of Utah
Paul Hoeprich, Jr., Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Steve Hofstadler, Ibis Biosciences
Michael Lewinski, University of California Los Angeles
Sharon Peacock, The Wellcome Trust, Thailand
David Persing, Cepheid
Yu-Chong Tai, California Institute of Technology
Patrick Tang, British Columbia Centre for Disease Control
Jeffrey Tok, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Richard Willson, University of Houston
Attendance limited by room capacity, so register early!
Crowne Plaza Los Angeles International Airport
Westside Los Angeles with easy access from and to LAX airport
All attendees are required to complete the registration form and submit a 100
word summary about their research and development interests in the area of
diagnostics.
The registration form is available on our website: http://www.pswrce.uci.edu
Further information: Shelley Scallan (949.824.0251, sscallan@uci.edu)