For its second annual meeting, Select Biosciences has assembled a world class mixture of the best minds in this dynamic field and has released a provisional agenda
Over 200 attendees are expected and more than 10 exhibition booths will be presenting the latest technologies available.
To be held 12-13 Sept 2006 in downtown Boston, this conference will provide a major networking opportunity and an un-missable event for those wishing to keep abreast of new developments in ion channel research, says Select Biosciences.
Keynote presentations will include:.
New ion channel drug targets - Prof David Clapham, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Harvard Medical School.
TRPM channels are pharmacological targets - Prof Reinhold Penner, Center for Biomedical Research, The Queen's Medical Center, University of Hawaii.
Agenda sessions:.
Automated patch clamp assays.
Studying ion channels: it's academic.
Ion channel drug discovery in big pharma.
TRP channels.
Voltage-gated ion channels: easy opening therapeutic targets.
Ligand-gated ion channels: challenges and victories.