4th Danish Conference on Biotechnology and Molecular Biology
Biomarker discovery and drug development in the omics era
Date | Thursday, May 28 - Friday, May 29, 2009 |
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Location | Hotel Munkebjerg, Vejle |
Organizers | Danish Biotechnological Society and Danish Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology |
Program
09.30 – 10.30 |
Arrival and registration. |
10.30 – 11.30 |
Session 1: Chemical genomics and drug development |
Chair: Ole Nørregaard Jensen, SDU |
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Ulrik Gether, Institute of Neuroscience and Pharmacology, University of Copenhagen: Pharmacogenomics of receptors and transporters in the nervous system. |
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Michael Sundström, Novo-Nordisk Proteome Centre, University of Copenhagen: Insights for the development of specific kinase inhibitors by targeted structural genomics. |
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11.30 – 12.30 |
Session 2: Plants, microbes and bioactive compounds |
Chair: Uffe Hasbro Mortensen, DTU |
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Keynote Lecture: Birger Lindberg Møller, Institute for Plant Biology and Biotechnology, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Copenhagen: Screening for bioactive plant compounds in drug development. |
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12.30 – 13.15 |
Lunch |
13.15 – 14.00 |
Exhibition |
14.00 – 15.30 |
Session 3: Biomarkers for human diseases: From discovery to applications |
Chair: Lars Haastrup Pedersen, Aalborg University |
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Anne-Christine Bay Jensen, Nordic Bioscience A/S, Herlev Hovedgade 207, Herlev: Neoepitopes: from discovery to application in bone and cartilage disorders. |
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Martin R. Larsen, Protein Research, Institute for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Southern Denmark: Proteomics approaches for identification of biomarkers in disease. |
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Børge Nordestgaard, Herlev Hospital and Copenhagen University: Biomarkers, genetics and risk factors in cardiovascular disesase. |
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15.30 – 16.00 |
Coffee break and exhibition |
16.00 – 17.00 |
Session 4: Nanobioscience and drug delivery |
Chair: Anders Vagnø Pedersen, DBS. |
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Yechezkel Barenholtz, Laboratory of Liposome and Membrane Research, Department of Biochemistry, Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem, Israel: Using PEGylated nano-liposomes to target tissue invaded by a foreign body. |
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Ole G. Mouritsen, MEMPHYS-Center for Biomembrane Physics, Department of Physics and Chemistry, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark: The impact of peptides on lipid membranes. |
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17.00 - 18.30 |
Session 5: Posters and exhibition |
19.00 – 22.00 |
Banquet |
09.00 – 10.30 |
Session 6: Structural biology and drug design |
Chair: Thomas Schou, BioSys, DTU. |
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Poul Nissen, Department of Molecular Biology, University of Aarhus, Gustav Wieds Vej 10C, DK-8000 Aarhus, Denmark: The structural basis of ion transport by membrane pumps. |
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Jesper Wengel, Nucleic Acid Center, University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, 5230 Odense M, Denmark: New conformationally restricted DNA mimics. |
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Irina Kouskoumvekaki, Center for Biological Sequence Analysis, Technical University of Denmark: Chemoinformatics in drug discovery. |
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10.30 – 11.00 |
Coffee and exhibition |
11.00 – 12.00 |
Session 7: Structural biology and drug discovery |
Chair: Steen Gammeltoft, Glostrup Hospital, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. |
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Keynote Lecture: Tom Blundell, Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom: Genomes, structural biology and drug discovery: exploring biological and chemical space. |
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12.00 – 13.00 |
Lunch |
13.00 – 14.00 |
Exhibition |
14.00 – 15.30 |
Session 8: Antibody-based therapeutics. |
Chair: Catharina Stenholm, Novozymes. |
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Jørgen Petersen, Genmab, Toldbodgade 33, 1253 Copenhagen K, Denmark: anti-CD20 antibodies in cancer treatment. |
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Anne Bondgaard Tolstrup, Antibody Expression, Symphogen, Elektrovej, Building 375, DK-2800 Lyngby, Denmark: Polyclonal antibodies in the treatment of cancer. |
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Jan Trøst Jørgensen, CMC Contrast, Abscion DTU, Diplomvej 376, Lyngby, Denmark: A model for drug-diagnostic co-development – Trastuzumab (Herceptin) and HercepTest. |
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15.30 – 16.00 |
Closure of the conference |
Departure |
Registration fee
Regular fee: Members of DBS or DSBMB 3500 Kr. Non-members 4000 Kr. Reduced fee for Ph.D. and Master Students: Members of DBS or DSBMB 2000 Kr. Non-members 2500 Kr. One-day participants 1600 Kr. Number of participants limited to 150.
Deadline for registration and abstracts: May 1, 2009. Extended deadline for registration: May 15, 2009
Fellowships
Master and Ph.D. Students can apply for Fellowship, which covers the registration fee. You can apply for a fellowship usin the link below or send an application including cover letter, curriculum vitae and poster abstract by e-mail to Lektor Lars Haastrup Pedersen, Institute of Biotechnology, Aalborg University: lhp@bio.aau.dk.
Vendor exhibition contact
Vivian Juhl, Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Glostrup Hospital, 2600 Glostrup, Tlf.: 4323 2458, Fax: 4323 3929, e-mail: vijb@glo.regionh.dk
Organizing committee
- Steen Gammeltoft, gast@glostruphosp.kbhamt.dk
- Ole Nørregaard Jensen jenseno@bmb.sdu.dk
- Jonas M. la Cour, jonas@my.molbio.ku.dk
- Anne Meyer, am@kt.dtu.dk
- Uffe H. Mortensen, um@biocentrum.dtu.dk
- Catharina Stenholm, ctst@novozymes.com
- Lars Haastrup Pedersen, lhp@bio.aau.dk
- Anders Vagnø Pedersen, anva@mail.dk
- Thomas Schou, schou@biosys.dk
- Peter Szabo, ps@kt.dtu.dk