XVI. Semmelweis Symposium & VI. Conference on Cell Analysis November 14, 2007

Invitation

Within the frameworks of Semmelweis Symposium we kindly invite you to the Molecular Gastroenterology, Array Technology Conference. Besides presenting research and diagnostic methods in molecular biology, it is to thematically summarize the latest diagnostic and therapeutic results of gastroenterology related diseases providing and exploring a cause and effect explanation.

The venue of the Symposium provides an opportunity to reveal the revolutionary activity of our ancestors working at Semmelweis University. This way we can be part of a unique journey in history by presenting hidden treasures, introducing workplaces of the past, and meeting modern methods and results.

It is our honour to invite you to join us taking an active part of the past, the present and the future of medicine and gastroenterology and in the life of Semmelweis University.

Purpose of the conference

The purpose of the Molecular Gastroenterology, Array Technology Conference is to summarize and present the practical application possibilities of the revolutionary new methods and results of the past few years in cell analysis and molecular biology.

Therefore, the Conference Program will be compiled by state of the art presentations, hands-on demonstrations, posters presenting latest research results, commercial exhibition and journeys in the history in this field. Our lecturers will present the widest repertoire of molecular information, molecular biological and array methods. We will particularly emphasize how these methods contributed to the latest breakthrough results and findings in gastroenterology.

According to molecular biological results we have achieved a significant progress in the detection of gastroenterological diseases’ background and in understanding its pathomechanism. At the same time, new therapies emerged (anti TNFalfa, VEGF, EGFR), whose targets were identified with the help of cell analysis, molecular biology and array technology. The Conference intends to summarize the new knowledge on main diseases of the gastroenterological tract and to introduce new aimed therapies in molecular biological context.

The venue and the date of the Conference also provide an opportunity to have a look from the future through the present to the past. We are going to organize a historical journey to introduce the famous characters, workplaces and instruments of our University’s Inner Clinical Block.

We wish to keep this exemplary ambience showing strength and persistence organizing a banquet dinner in the Museum of Applied Arts. Among other achievements of Hungarian artists and notabilities, the musical and artistic performance of doctors of the present can make the Conference complete.

We encourage participation of every researcher, laboratory coworker and PhD student working in the field of gastroenterology, human or animal medicine.

We await students and colleagues of the University to get acquainted with this important part of our University, and to find strength and guidance in the historical and artistic background for the tough workdays.

At the end of the Conference, PhD students can take a closing exam. Those who participate in the practical demonstrations will receive further credit points.

Historical tours

The building projects of the 1870s brought significant changes to the forerunner of the now 238-year-old Semmelweis University. This was the time when Üllői street – which used to be a periphery of the city – became the centre for medical training. New, modern and wellequipped departments were established off the reel. Parallel to the building operations the so called “medical school of Budapest” also evolved.

Participants of the Semmelweis Symposium 2007 are invited to look into the history of the university. During the one hour historical group walks (either in English or Hungarian) participants are introduced to the relics (statues, relieves, memorial rooms etc.), curiosities and stories of the university.

Practical Demonstrations

• M01 Cell culture and siRNA gene silencing


• M02 Automated RNA and DNA isolation from tissue-, cell- and blood samples, quantitative PCR techniques, quantitative array PCR, mutation discovery using High Resolution Melting Analysis – Roche Hungary Ltd (Hungary)


• M03 Laser microdissection, DNA and RNA isolation from laser microdissected samples, Affymetrix chip analysis


• M04 TMA: design, creation, analysis of its results using digital microscopy – 3DHISTECH Ltd (Hungary)


• M05 Flow cytometry and cell separation


• M06 FISH on cells and tissue samples


• M07 mRNA exon and tiling array, CHIP-ON-CHIP techniques on Affymetrix system – Affymetrix UK Ltd (United Kingdom)


• M08 DNA sequencing, polymorphism analysis


• M09 Electrophoresis and 7 minutes blotting of Dynal magnetic beads isolated proteins – Csertex Ltd (Hungary)


• M10 3D analysis of tissue sections with confocal and virtual microscope using fluorescent and conventional illumination


• M11 Fluorescence microscopy: static scanning-qualitative and quantitative


• M12 miRNA isolation, quality control and expression analysis in paraffin embedded samples – Kromat Ltd. (Hungary)


• M13 miRNA expression quantitative analysis in freshly frozen samples on the basis of in silico prediction


• M14 DNA methylation analysis in laser microdissected samples: bisulfite conversion and quantitative PCR


• M15 DNA mutation analysis by using PCR based techniques (SSCP, RFLP, allele specific PCR)


• M16 New options of cell separation with Miltényi MACS technique – Frank Diagnostics Ltd (Hungary)


• M17 Gene expression analysis using QIAGEN technology – Biomarker Ltd (Hungary)


• M18 Nucleic acid purification using QIAGEN BioRobot EZ1 instrument and whole genom amplification using QIAGEN REPLI-g kit – Biomarker Ltd (Hungary)


• M19 X MAP Microbead multiplex array technology (Bioplex) is a perfect tool in genomics and in cytokine detection – Bio-Rad Ltd (Hungary)

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