Combining plenary sessions with talks by leading specialists, alongside poster sessions and practical workshops, the symposia are a major resource for scientists using SPR technology
Biacore says that its Biacore Symposium Japan 2003, held over two days at the Tokyo Conference Centre, successfully brought together over 200 leading scientists to share and expand their knowledge of Biacore's surface plasmon resonance (SPR) technology for analysis of biomolecular interactions.
First introduced in 1991 with the 1st Biasymposium, held in Paris, France, Biacore symposia have since become regular and growing events around the world.
Combining plenary sessions, with talks by some of the worlds leading specialists in the field, alongside poster sessions and practical workshops, the symposia are established as a major resource for scientists using or thinking of using Biacore's SPR technology.
Ulf Jonsson, Biacore president and CEO, opened the symposium with a key note address reviewing the contributions Biacore's SPR technology has made since 1990 in pioneering molecular binding analysis.
His talk covered application areas as diverse as basic biological research - structural/functional genomics/proteomics, drug discovery and development as well as food analysis.
Dr Jonsson went on to discuss future directions for the technology, including SPR Array and data management systems, interfacing with other technologies (MS, NMR) and future online assay development support.
All these highlight the increasing utility of the technology in an ever-widening field of applications.
Within the main Biacore symposium program, leading Japanese scientists from a variety of backgrounds in academic, government and industry presented their research in a series of oral and poster presentations.
Topics included structural genomics, molecular evolution technology, Alzheimer's research, protein interaction analysis and interfacing SPR with other techniques such as mass spectrometry.
Eiji Takagi, President of Biacore KK, commented, "We are delighted with the excellent attendance for this our 7th Biacore Symposium in Japan.
"These talks demonstrate the growing strength of Biacore, as evidenced by its use across so many fields of Japanese research today."
