Wyatt Technology is to host its 21st Annual International Light Scattering Colloquium (ILSC), which will discuss light scattering (LS) for static and dynamic LS users.
The ILSC will be held on 18-19 October 2010 at the Four Seasons Biltmore Resort in Santa Barbara, California.
The event will welcome Wyatt Technology light-scattering customers, including Nobel Prize winner Prof Roger Yonchien Tsien.
To complement the 21st annual ILSC, Wyatt will also be hosting an Eclipse Field Flow Fractionation (FFF)-MALS Focus Meeting on October 20 2010.
This year's colloquium will showcase Wyatt's Mobius mobility instrument, following its launch at Pittcon 2010, where the instrument was given an honourable mention in the Pittcon Editor's Choice Award.
The Mobius is a laser-based instrument that achieves reproducible measurements of challenging protein samples, including antibody formulations, bovine serum albumin and lysozyme.
Wyatt's Dynamic Light Scattering (DLS) solutions from the Dynapro product line will also be featured, in addition to its own classical light scattering (Dawn and Minidawn), viscometer (Viscostar) and Eclipse AFFF products.
Delegates at the colloquium will have the opportunity to listen to a panel of expert speakers presenting a range of applications, all utilising Wyatt's instruments.
There are also several Poster Discussion sessions planned to stimulate different application conversations throughout the two days, with attendees presenting their own data and discussing method development.
Speaking at this year's ILSC will be Prof Krzysztof Matyjaszewski from Carnegie Mellon University, Dr Michael McCarthy from MedImmune, Dr Richard Vandlen from Genentech and Dr Robert Rambo of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratories.
Prof Roger Tsien of the University of California, who will also be speaking at the event, was awarded the 2008 Nobel Prize in chemistry for his contribution to the discovery and development of the green fluorescent protein (GFP).
He will deliver a lecture on 'How light scattering helps us characterise molecular spies' at the ILSC.
The MALS Focus Meeting on the third day of the colloquium will be dedicated to the exchange of experience among users of the Eclipse FFF system.
The application focus of the meeting will be proteins, biopolymers and liposome/virus particles, and it will take the format of a round-table discussion, structured along different topics.
For each session there will be a talk given by an expert in the corresponding topic, as an introduction to the general discussion.
As well as listening to industry experts, participants will also be provided with an opportunity to deliver short presentations of their own results and present problems or questions to the experts for general discussion.
