Save the Date!
Monday 4th and Tuesday 5th May 2020
​Harbourview Ballroom, Taronga Centre
Sydney, Australia


​Confirmed 2020 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 Roche.
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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).



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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"

​|New speakers in 202o include Stephen Bustin, Jo Vandersomple and Jim Huggett.

​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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