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Online-Only, Virtual BioConference Created for the Life Sciences Community

By LabMedica International staff writers
Posted on 18 Oct 2011
A free virtual event features live and interactive presentations from industry experts, a networking lounge for peer-to-peer discussions, and an expo hall filled with sponsors.

BioConference Live, a series of online-only conferences bringing together life scientists and specialists from around the world, announced the initial lineup of speakers and sponsors. More...
Leading sponsors for the event, scheduled to take place October 26-27, 2011, include Roche Diagnostics, Qiagen, Olympus, Caliper Life Sciences, Molecular Devices, Enzo Life Sciences, Bio-Rad Laboratories, Lab Armor, Thermo Scientific, AB Sciex, BioTek Instruments, and EMD Millipore.

BioConference Live will feature live presentations from such speakers as George Church, PhD, professor of genetics, Harvard Medical School, director of the Center for Computational Genetics, Harvard Medical School (Boston, MA, USA); and Carolyn Compton, MD, PhD, director, Office of Biorepositories and Biospecimen Research, US National Cancer Institute (Bethesda, MD, USA); and Kevin E. Hrusovsky, MBA, president and chief executive officer, Caliper Life Sciences (Hopkinton, MA, USA); and Darrell L. Dinwiddie, PhD, director of lab operations, Center for Caliper Life Sciences and Pediatric Genomic Medicine, Children’s Mercy Hospital (Kansas City, MO, USA).

A complete list of speakers, session topics, and sponsors is available online (please see Related Links below). Attendees may text in questions to be addressed in real-time to both speakers and exhibitors. “BioConference Live is an ideal opportunity for us to connect with an international community of researchers and life-science experts,” said Amy Schulties, marketing director, Lab Armor, LLC (Cornelius, OR, USA). “Lab Armor is proud to sponsor BioConference Live Fall. We expect the event will raise the bar for life sciences tradeshows everywhere because it provides a globally accessible virtual environment.”

BioConference Live will also feature case studies in relevant areas such as next-generation sequencing, drug discovery, cancer research, human disease research, childhood diseases, computational genetics, and genomics. To register to attend this online conference for free, visit the website. To learn more about presenting, contact Abstracts at the website. To sponsor BioConference Live, contact sponsors online (please see Related Links below).

LabRoots, Inc. (Yorba Linda, CA, USA) is a social networking service designed to network the scientific community based on individual scientific experience, discipline, and aptitude. LabRoots is relevant for all scientists including those within the fields of life sciences, clinical diagnostics, healthcare, environmental science, space science, chemistry, physics, mathematics, engineering, and computer science.

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