Events

Date: 9 March
Location: Leigh Court, Bristol UK
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Our Roadshows will provide a unique opportunity for UK companies to learn about the latest and future Life Sciences developments in the UK. The OLS is stimulating integration and collaborations across industry, academia and the NHS to sustain and enhance the flourishing Life Sciences industry in the the UK, to maintain the UK's leading position in Life Sciences in an increasingly competitive global environment.

Come along to your regional event to hear about the latest update on progress with the OLS commitments, how this can make a difference to your business or organisation and the tools available to assist your marketing.

Find out how you can input into and learn about the Office for Life Sciences' plans for the future of your sector.
Alongside this, UKTI will be running an interactive programme which includes:

• Marketing workshop with free follow on one-to-one support
• Selling into the NHS workshop
• Market intelligence & the challenge of China workshop
• A free exclusive 90 page Ernst and Young detailed report on the challenge of China
• Accessing finance in the downturn workshop
• Life Sciences 'Question Time'
• Networking reception
  

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Date: 18-19 March 2010
Location: Bristol UK
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Meeting of the European Association for Animal Production Working Group on the Production and Utilization of Meat from Entire Male Pigs. The meeting will address issues related to production of entire male pigs and  pigmeat quality.  The meeting will involve representatives from scientific organisation, industry and other stakeholders. One of the objectives of the meeting is to discuss the latest scientific development in the above areas and future research strategies.

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Date: 24-25 March
Location: Sofitel Munich Bayerpost, Munich, Germany

This meeting has a simple objective – to accelerate the adaptation of energy harvesting by connecting product developers, energy harvesting device and component manufacturers and end users. This agenda is designed to identify best practices to overcome limitations and fully exploit the advances of these new technologies.

Join Pioneers in the use of self-powered wireless sensor technologies to lern:

• What performance levels are currently achieved with energy autarkic sensors
• Which are the optimal environments to utilise wireless sensors powered by energy harvesting technology?
• How to match circuits to your power budget
• How to integrate energy harvesting into existing systems architecture
• How your design may impact the selection of your power sources
• What are the current drivers for energy harvesting in a cross section of industries including; aerospace, automotive, buildings and industrial
• How advanced energy storage and ultra low power technologies affect the energy output
• Future trends in energy harvesting and how to stay ahead of the curve
  

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Date: 24 March 2010
Location: IET, Savoy Place, London

The Sensors & Instrumentation KTN is pleased to announce its 30th Intelligent Sensing Programme. Once again this proves to be an exciting event with a varied programme.

Plenty of time has been built in to the programme for networking. The Sensors & Instrumentation KTN Technology Translators will be on hand to assist with your enquires.

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Date: 13 April
Location: Monmouth University, Wilson Hall, New Jersey, USA

The symposium will feature examination of the current trends, promising innovations, best practices and practical tools used by partners and other leading organizations involved in defense and security, including the most recent available research on outcomes. These innovations, practices, tools, and applied research will be examined in terms of affordability, sustainability, application potential, and the opportunity for further single or collective action.

Participants will discuss challenges for successful implementation of the initiatives. These will be the object of discussions during the symposium and beyond, in the context of the novel frameworks, perspectives, and business, policy and government models offered in presentations.

CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS AND POSTERS: Due March 31

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Date: 14 April
Location: University of the West of England, Bristol. UK
Programme

This joint IBST/SIKTN workshop will explore requirements of sensors andinstrumentation to support and monitor cell culture systems which can be used to accelerate drug discovery by identifying toxic effects of potential drug compounds. 

The event will be beneficial to companies developing cell models for research, companies working with cell support technologies, companies applying sensor technology to biological systems. Also researchers developing alternative testing technologies, technology translators, investment companies and VC's.

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Date: 14- 17 April
Location: University of Exeter

The meeting will be held on the University of Exeter Campus. Its natural setting in parkland, woodland, lakes and gardens gives it the justifiable reputation as 'probably the most attractive campus in Britain'. It has first-class accommodation and conference facilities.

Scientific Sessions:

1.Genomic and viral diversity to include metagenomic approaches.
2. Developments in screening for novel enzyme activities. To include   screening with industrially relevant substrates for new undiscovered activities.
3. In silico screening for known enzymes and prediction of properties of novel enzymes.
4. Protein engineering and designer enzymes. Rational design and directed evolution
5. Extremophilic enzymes, structure and stability. Enzyme immobilisation. Stability to organic solvent or to any other environmental factors.
6. Industrial applications of novel enzymes

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Date: 15 April 2010
Location: UCA Farnham, Surrey

There are growing market opportunities for companies that are developing and/or have developed innovative environmental products and technologies.  Specific emerging opportunities include the development of ‘zero’ carbon and ‘net zero carbon’ buildings in line with the Code for Sustainable Buildings, ‘windows’ for low carbon technologies related to advent of UK feed-in tariffs, smart metering and the greening of government procurement.

However there are many challenges in moving good ideas through prototyping, research & development to demonstration and commercialisation. This leaves many start-ups, inventors and existing companies left scratching their heads for answers.

• Where is information on funding available?
• Where can good market intelligence be found?
• How can my product or technology be protected?
• What are the manufacturing implications of developing my product or technology?
• What marketing aspects should be considered?

The Eco-innovation Workshop will attempt to tackle the above and other questions through a series of practical presentations and discussions.

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Date: 21 April 2010
Location: Edinburgh

Nexxus and the UK Sensors and Instrumentation Knowledge Transfer Network (SIKTN) have organised an event to examine opportunities arising from the hospital-acquired infections challenge.

The legacy of previous infection-control practice and inappropriate antibiotic use has led to the demand to control hospital-acquired infections. Although improving, the situation still presents a pressing need for even better solutions in the clinic. This demand creates opportunities to innovate new solutions. Growth in international commitment will identify and develop new anti-infective medicines in coming years, but we must also meet the immediate need for effective diagnostics and infection control.

This joint meeting explores opportunities arising from hospital-acquired infections, especially for diagnostics and infection control as ways to manage infection risk. Attendees will hear from the clinical front-line, and from researchers and businesses developing new technologies to help. As with all Nexxus events, you will have ample opportunity to network and find ways to apply your knowledge to address the challenge.

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Date: 22-23 April 2010
Location: The Fairmont, San Jose, California, USA

The Impact of Emerging Diagnostic Technologies
The primary objective of the Oak Ridge Conference is to provide a forum for evaluating analytical techniques and instruments that will be commercialized and become routine in clinical labs within 3–5 years.

Conference Program
The conference program features a keynote presentation, invited speakers, brief presentations of selected abstracts, a poster session, and ample opportunities for networking and discussions.

Keynote Presentation
Nanotechnology for Individualized Medicine
Mauro Ferrari, PhD
Division of NanoMedicine, Department of Biomedical Engineering
University of Texas Houston

Four Sessions

• Diagnostic technologies for resource–limited settings
• Novel multiplex platforms for diagnostics
• Emerging detection technologies for diagnostics
• Novel separation and sample prep technologies

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Date: 4 May 2010
Location: Hamilton House, London

DEFRA is funding a number of collaborative projects to address the problems with GHG inventory. The main objective of the event will be to familiarise DEFRA and other key stakeholders with technologies available from research councils and discuss opportunities for collaboration in the field of air monitoring and carbon inventory.

The objectives of the events are:
• To bring together representatives from industry, government and academia for a discussion about challenges related to GHG emission monitoring
• To identify the key enabling technologies required for implementing GHG inventory in different sectors
• To inform UK policymakers and regulators about technologies available for GHG inventory
• Supporting creation of collaborative partnerships between industry and academia in this field

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Date: 20 May 2010
Location: The Teacher Building, Glasgow

For many practitioners in the UK co-digestion is considered to be the digestion of sewage sludge in admixture with another waste type such as food waste or source-separated household waste. However a vast range of organic materials can be co-digested, including animal manures, silage, paper wastes and other industrial organic wastes.
It is the aim of this event to:

• Understand better the factors that will inform the debate and identify the major knowledge gaps.
• Look at the regulatory barriers currently in place, the measures being taken to dismantle them and what the final regulatory framework may look like.
• Consider what the biogas potential for co-digestion is in terms of the organic wastes available, how secure these sources are and how the economics associated with their use may change in the future.
• Look at the outstanding technical issues with regards to pre and post-treatment technologies, ensuring the quality of the feedstocks and examining the robustness of digester design and operation for variable feedstock intakes over the asset life.

Aqua Enviro is currently inviting presentations from those with experience in this area with a particular emphasis on: economic aspects of co-digestion; the regulatory barriers and how a future regulatory framework should look, and the outstanding technical issues associated with this process.

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Date: 26-28 May 2010
Location: Glasgow, UK

Biosensors 2010 will take place at the Scottish Conference + Exhibition Centre, Glasgow, UK. Organised by Elsevier, in association with Biosensors & Bioelectronics and with the support of Cranfield University, 2010 marks the 20th anniversary of this important international Congress.

For more information, please visit : http://www.biosensors-congress.elsevier.com/

Date: 3 July
Location: University of the West of England, Bristol
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The aims of this one day conference are to provide an update on a range of issues that influence the management of women with breast cancer. All those with an interest in this field; patients, relatives, nurses, researchers, health care professionals to include clinical and biomedical scientists, surgeons, oncologists and general practitioners will find this conference useful.

The speakers are international experts in their respective areas and between them touch on topics such as; the influence of diet on metabolic pathways and cancer, epidemiological differences in the incidence of breast cancer, the latest in biomedical research, surgery and therapies, breast cancer recurrence, and inequalities in provision of services  and survival.

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