The Pittsburgh Conference announces the topics of the invited symposia to be presented at Pittcon 2007, February 25 to March 2, 2007, McCormick Place, Chicago, USA
World-renown experts will present cutting-edge development of instrumentation for chemical analysis and applications to solve key scientific, industrial, and societal problems.
Highlights include:.
Molecular beacons: ten years later; February 26, 2007.
This symposium will discuss the current frontier and the future of molecular beacons.
Tropical disease detection: analytical chemistry for the developing world; February 27, 2007.
Addresses the application of current analytical technologies to the early detection of tropical diseases and the development of new technologies specific to the needs of developing countries.
Novel biospectroscopy for amyloid diseases; February 27, 2007.
Leading experts in the fields of biological NMR, high resolution AFM, fibre diffraction, VCD and Raman spectroscopies will talk about the latest development and application of these novel methodologies for fibrillation problems.
Nanobiotechnology: from the single cell to the single molecule; February 27, 2007.
Focuses on the development and application of micro- and nano-technologies for probing and understanding the behavior of single biological molecules and single cells.
The science of global climate change; February 28, 2007.
Presents analysis techniques for the indicators of global climate change and highlights interpretation in the understanding of climate shifts over millions of years of Earth's history.
Detection of terrorist weapons: chemical weapons; February 28 2007.
Highlights the recent progress that will result in near term detection solutions as well as pave the way for complete surveillance systems.
The symposia are open to all registered Pittcon conferees.
