Thursday 24th & Friday 25th May 2018
​Harbourview Ballroom, Taronga Centre
Sydney, Australia

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                Full Registration $150/day
                Student Rate $99/day
                Conference Dinner $100/head

               


​Confirmed Speakers Include:

Prof Carl Wittwer - 
  • Professor of Pathology at the University of Utah Medical School and adjunct professor of BioMedical Engineering at the University of Utah. 
  • Introduced SYBR Green I,  fluorescent hybridization probes, melting analysis, and high-resolution melting (HRM) to real-time PCR, techniques that are widely used today. 
  • Primary inventor of the LightCycler® system, with over 10,000 units placed worldwide by Roc

Prof Wittwer will be presenting on:
1)  New Technologies and the Future of Molecular Diagnostics.
2)  Extreme PCR and High Speed Melting.



Dr Jan Ruijter - 
  • Developer of LinRegPCR, a program for the analysis of quantitative PCR data based on PCR efficiency values derived from amplification curves, and Factor-qPCR, a program to remove between-plate variation in a multi-plate qPCR experiment (http://LinRegPCR.nl).

Dr Ruijter will be presenting on:
1)  Analysis of qPCR data: a history of biased simplification.
2) Current issues in qPCR Data Analysis.


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​Prof Michael Pfaffl
  • Life Science Center Weihenstephan, Technical University, Munich, Germany.
  • A leading scientist in the field of Gene Quantification, RT-qPCR technology, RNA sequencing, and complex data analysis in mRNA & small-RNA expression profiling.
  • Developer of REST -  "A mathematical model for relative quantification in real-time RT-PCR"
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Prof Pfaffl will be presenting on:
1) MIQE challenges and solutions - The use of efficiency corrected relative quantification models (REST) for transcriptional biomarker discovery.
2) Exosomal biomarkers in clinical diagnostics – How to optimize micro-vesicle purification and microRNA sequencing in sepsis patients.

​Enjoy the Taronga Centre's boutique dining and million dollar views, while listening to the latest developments in:
  • qPCR 
  • NGS
  • Digital PCR
  • nCounter technology 
  • MicroRNA sequencing
  • qPCR data analysis
  • Extreme qPCR
  • HSM (High Speed Melting Analysis)
  • HRM (High Resolution Melt Analysis)
  • Efficiency determination (standard curve vs linear regression analysis)
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Presenting speakers include Prof Carl Wittwer, Dr Jan Ruijter, Prof Michael Pfaffl, Ben Lundie, ​ Assoc Prof Bing Yu, Assoc Prof Shauna Murray, Dr Brant Bassam, Assoc Prof Alex Dobrovic, Dr Ian Marsh, Katie Eager,, Dr Katie Meehan, Prof Rebecca Traub, Dr Jenny Lee, Dr Pei Ding, John Mackay, Prof Ruiting Lan, Prof Dar-Bin Shieh, Dale Levitzke, Dr Yizhou Chen, Dr Karren Plain, Dr Brenda Alqarni and Dr John Melki.