qPCR 2011 Event 5th international qPCR Symposium & Industrial Exhibition & Application Workshops 28th March - 1st April 2011,   in Freising-Weihenstephan, Technical University of Munich,  Physiology-Weihenstephan,  Germany
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Freising, 25th May 2011

Dear colleagues,
dear researchers,
dear company representatives,

On behalf of the Organisation Committee and the Scientific Board it is a great pleasure to invite you to the 5th International qPCR Symposium & Industrial Exhibition & Application Workshop  to be held at the Center of Life Science in Freising Weihenstephan, Technische Universität München (Germany). The great international interest in the previous meetings [ qPCR 2004 qPCR 2005 qPCR 2005 in Leipzig qPCR 2007 qPCR 2009 and qPCR 2010 in Vienna] with up to 600 participants coming from 56 countries, and over 40 international companies in the qPCR Industrial Exhibition led us to the decision to repeat the Symposium in spring 2011.

We have set the date for the qPCR 2011 Event  to 28th March - 1st April 2011. The event location is the central lecture hall complex and the foyer at TUM (Technical University of Munich) in Freising Weihenstephan, Germany. The TUM and the Biotech region around Munich is part of the largest Biotech cluster in Europe, located close to the Munich airport in the heart of Bavaria.

The focus of the qPCR 2011 Event will be on:

Molecular Diagnostics:   from single-cells  to  Next Generation Sequencing

Leading academic researchers and industrial contributors in the field will participate in the symposium, which will be an arena for fruitful discussions between researchers of different backgrounds. The Symposium Talks, Poster Sessions, Industrial Exhibition and associated qPCR Application Workshops offer an overview of the present knowledge and future developments in qPCR and gene expression measurement technology and its wide applications.

The symposium will focus on 71 lectures and 91 posters will be presented by internationally recognised experts in their field. The emphasis will be on unbiased, didactic information exchange. Internationally reknown speakers will be participating in a lively and exciting programme enabling the valuable exchange of information in the qPCR field. One third of the talks will be presented by selected invited speakers, one third will be selected from the submitted abstracts and one third will be presented by qPCR  related company R&D representatives. All scientific contributions will be published in the qPCR 2011 Symposium Proceedings (ISBN 978-3000338403).

The qPCR 2011 Event contains several parts:
1.     qPCR Symposium  taking place March 28th - 30th =>   Talk and Poster sessions              71 taks and 90 poster are accepted =>   confirmed academic and industrial invited Speakers
2.     A parallel  qPCR Industrial Exhibition  taking place March 28th - 30th      ( fully booked )
3.     Followed by three  qPCR application Workshops  taking place March 31st - April 1st         powered by the TATAA Biocenter Sweden
Basic real-time qPCR Application Workshop   (2-days) qPCR data analysis:  Biostatistics & Expression Profiling   (2-days) MIQE guidelines (1 day)  &  Practical primer design (1-day)
Please register here =>  http://registration.qPCR2011.net

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Symposium Talk and Poster session:

Main topic:   Molecular diagnostics in single-cells
Single-cell sampling, circulating tumor cells (CTS), pre-amplification techniques, laser micro dissection, sub-cellular PCR, micro-manipulation of cell clusters, cellular micro injection, FACS spotting, single-cell handling, …
Markers in diagnostic, prognostic, and therapeutic, markers on DNA, RNA, microRNA level, disease markers, tissue specific markers, cancer markers, stem-cells markers, differentiation markers, methylation markers diagnostic quantification methods, epigenetics, SNP analysis, high resolution melt (HRM) applications, ...

Main topic:   High throughput analysis in qPCR  &  NGS  (Next Generation Sequencing)
Next generation Sequencing (NGS); high throughput and gene expression profiling platforms, 384 – 1536 well applications and more, NGS application on DNA, mRNA and microRNA level, comparison of NGS with conventional high throughput qPCR, qPCR robotics; high throughput SNP application, real-time RT-PCR arrays (mRNA and microRNA), quantitative multiplexing …

MIQE and QM strategies in qPCR
The MIQE guidelines: minimum information for publication of quantitative real-time PCR experiments. Following these guidelines will encourage better experimental practice, allowing more reliable and unequivocal interpretation of qPCR results. QM strategies in real-time PCR to guarantee better and more valid results...

• MIQE - state of the art & open discussion
• RDML - state of the art & open discussion

small RNAs qPCR - microRNA and siRNA Applications
RNAi mechanism, microRNA extraction, qRT-PCR technologies to detect microRNA, siRNA applications in combination with qRT-PCR, microRNA targets and microRNA precursors, new siRNA manipulation and microRNA technologies, .....

Digital PCR  &  Nano-fluidics
Digital PCR (dPCR) can be used to directly quantify and clonally amplify nucleic acids including DNA, cDNA, mRNA or microRNA. It allows a more reliable collection and sensitive measurement of nucleic acid amounts, applications in copy number variants, point mutations, and molecular diagnostics; …

Pre-analytical Steps
Pre-amplification, sampling technologies, DNA / RNA purification, extraction efficiency, DNA / mRNA / microRNA quality control, Reverse Transcription, RT quality control, external references, ...

qPCR BioStatistics & BioInformatics
Software applications, data mining, calculation of relative expression, primer and probe design on mRNA and microRNA level, real-time PCR efficiency determination, mathematical modelling, multivariate expression profiling raw data analysis, statistics in real-time PCR, data management, multi-way expression profiling, multiple regression analysis, 3D data visualization.......

• qBASE - data analysis lunch seminar
• GENEX - data analysis lunch seminar

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The scientific organization is managed by international well-known scientists in the field of real-time PCR:
Scientific board:
Stephen Bustin	Prof. of Molecular Science, Queen Mary School of Medicine, London, UK
Mikael Kubista	Prof. of Biotechnology, TATAA Biocenter, Sweden
Jo Vandesompele	Prof. at the Center of Medical Genetics, University of Ghent, Belgium
Heinrich H.D. Meyer	Prof. of Physiology, Weihenstephan, Germany
Michael W. Pfaffl	Prof. of Molecular Physiology, Weihenstephan, Germany scientific coordinator of the Symposium and the Application Workshops  qPCR2011@wzw.tum.de
Event organization:	Dr. Martina Reiter  BioEPS GmbH Freising    Martina.Reiter@BioEPS.com

 
We are looking forward to meeting you in March 2011 at the Symposium in Freising-Weihenstephan