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Welcome to the Showcase for Biotechnology
Windber Research Institute, Windber Professional Services and their partners proudly present the 2005 edition of the annual Showcase for Biotechnology.
Thank you to all who helped make the 2005
Showcase for Biotechnology a success!
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When:
Sunday, August 14th (setup and registration for exhibitor booths) through Tuesday, August 16th, 2005
Where:
The 2005 event was held at held at the Frank J. Pasquerilla Conference Center in downtown Johnstown, PA.
What:
The 2005 Showcase for Biotechnology theme continued the theme of Integrated Bio-Medical Informatics and Enabling Technologies (IBET). The program featured:
- Keynote presentations
- A scientific symposium with internationally renowned speakers
- Poster sessions and workshops
- CME credit (see schedule page for CME-eligible sessions)
- A vendor exhibit hall with displays of the latest technology
- VIP Reception and Social gatherings
- Networking opportunities
- Spouse/family activities
- Prizes and giveaways
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Mission of the Showcase for Biotechnology
To bring together experts in the field of bioinformatics, medical informatics, computational biology, biomedical engineering, and high throughput research and development technologies to discuss the state-of-the-science and strategies that will accelerate the assimilation of genomics and proteomics information into the clinic.
The meeting will highlight the newest technologies that enable high and ultra-high throughput screening, nanobiotechnology, and data integration and warehousing.
Integrated Bio-Medical Informatics and Enabling Technologies (IBET)
Introduction
The genomics, proteomics, biomedical informatics and data fusion communities have a wealth of experience in producing, mining and using information generated within their respective domains. Although these domains are largely separate and distinct, medicine will soon be evolving to incorporate the types of data that currently exist only in such domains as well as data in the laboratories of molecular biologists, geneticists, cell biologists, immunologists and computer scientists.
The successful movement of genomics and proteomics information into the clinic, however, will only be significantly accelerated when platforms are standardized and bioinformatics is seamlessly linked to medical informatics. This can be achieved by collaboration among clinicians, scientists, engineers and regulatory agencies, to bridge existing gaps among those disciplines, improving and standardizing the methods used in data collection, and efficiently managing the storage, analysis and retrieval of the massive amount of data generated from new large-scale experimental techniques such as microarray gene expression profiling, 2-dimensional gel electrophoresis, multi-dimensional chromatography and mass spectrometry.
The challenges associated with the generation of massive amounts of molecular information using automated systems and the linking of genotype and phenotype information offers interesting opportunities for collaboration between bioinformatics, medical informatics and biotechnology companies. Making this linkage is a key step in linking biologically and clinically useful information, elucidating biochemical pathways, stratifying disease, understanding the mechanisms of known drugs, discovering new drugs and moving scientific discoveries into the clinic fast.
Highlights
The 4th Annual Integrated Biomedical-informatics and Enabling Technologies (IBET) symposium featured keynote/plenary lectures covering:
- Complex disease research
- Clinical genomics & proteomics
- Pathway mapping
- Disease modeling
- High throughput screening
- Systems biology
- Biomedical informatics
Also Featured:
- Vendor exhibit and Poster session
- Guided tours
- Hands-on workshops on:
• cDNA microarrays
• two-dimensional gel electrophoresis
• microarray data analysis
