LIMSource Calendar of LIMS, Informatics and Lab Data Automation Conferences and Trade Shows

JANUARY

ARABLAB 2010 will be held at the Dubai International Convention and Exhibition Centre (DICEC) in Dubai, UAE from January 9-12, 2010. ARABLAB is the only trade show for the Analytical Industry that reaches buyers from the growth markets including the Middle East & Africa, the Indian Sub-Continent and China & Asia. The conference will cover: Biotechnology; Laboratory Technology; Environmental Sciences; Analytical Instrumentation; Robotics and Automation; and, Measurement and Testing. For details, visit http://www.arablab.com.

High Content Analysis will be held in San Francisco, CA from January 11-15, 2010. The Seventh Annual High-Content Analysis meeting will focus on the next steps of technology development, including new assays and probes, more advanced image analysis and data management, and novel biological models for screening. It will also cover case studies and applications in compound screening, cytotoxicity evaluation, functional analysis, live-cell imaging and more. For details, visit http://highcontentanalysis.com.

PAA will host a seminar entitled Lifting the Lid on Academic Laboratory Automation at Hinxton Hall in Cambridge, UK on January 12. Successful lab automation is key to the success of drug discovery, DNA screening programmes, product development and quality control. This conference aims to introduce the many new and exciting developments in European academia and to address the constantly changing needs of industry. For details, visit http://paa.easywebstore.co.uk/conferences_B22STV.aspx.

IQPC will host the Biobanking Conference 2010 in Philadelphia, PA from January 20-22, 2010. The Biobanking conference will address four main areas including: Opportunities in Global Biobanking; Regulatory & Ethical Issues; Perspectives from the Pharmaceutical Industry & Research Community; and, Building a World Class Biobank. For details, visit http://www.biobankingconference.com

The Association for Laboratory Automation (ALA) will host LabAutomation2010 will be held in Palm Springs, CA from January 23-27. LabAutomation2010, the world's largest conference and exhibition focused exclusively on the rapidly growing field of laboratory automation, brings together a diverse group of academicians, scientists, engineers, business leaders, post-docs and graduate students from around the globe. For details, visit http://labautomation.org.

Arab Health 2010 will be held in Dubai, U.A.E. from January 25-28. The Arab Health Exhibition & Congress is the largest healthcare exhibition in the Middle East, and the second largest in the world. Established 35 years ago, it provides a platform for the world’s leading manufacturers, wholesalers and distributors to meet the medical and scientific community in the Middle East and beyond. For details, visit http://www.arabhealthonline.com/congress.

Electronic Laboratory Notebooks will be held at the Crowne Plaza Hotel - St James in London, UK from January 27-28. SMi's 3rd Annual Electronic Laboratory Notebooks conference provides delegates with essential information relating to previous experiences of the implementation and use of ELN software. Avoid common pitfalls and stumbling blocks by learning from the mistakes of your peers through detailed case studies. Data management will also be addressed, along with the legal framework for such systems. For details, visit http://www.smi-online.co.uk/events/overview.asp?is=4&ref=3179.

The 24th International Forum & Exhibition on Process Analytical Technology (IFPAC) will be held at the Baltimore Marriott Waterfront in Baltimore, MD from January 31-February 4, 2010. For details, visit http://www.ifpacpatorg.

FEBRUARY

Cambridge Healthtech Institute's 17th International Molecular Medicine Tri-Conference 2010 will be held at the Moscone North Convention Center in San Francisco, CA from February 3-5. The conference includes 11 parallel tracks that provide compelling and in-depth insight into the future of molecular medicine.For details, visit http://www.tri-conference.com.

Adopting R&D Informatics Systems Data Management, Integration, & Knowledge Management will be held at the Moscone North Convention Center in San Francisco, CA from February 3-5. This conference is part of the Informatics Channel that will take place at CHI's 17th International Molecular Medicine Tri-Conference and will bring together a unique mix of delegates from both Pharmaceutical and Biotech IT, research informatics groups and those involved with knowledge management, translational informatics and computational approaches to drug discovery. Everyone together in one location with one purpose: to further the adoption of integrated R&D informatics systems and accelerate drug discovery. A recent trend toward the use of open source and public platforms to drive drug discovery will be featured extensively throughout the program and include talks from Pfizer, Eli Lilly, and Gilead. Several presentations will touch upon recent strategies with cloud, wikis, ontologies, open data standards and the semantic web. For details, visit http://www.tri-conference.com.

The Biobanking Conference 2010 will be held at the BSG Conference Centre in London, UK from February 4-5. The theme of the conference is Analysing the Trends and Understanding the Complexities of Biobanking. For details, visit http://www.vgpharma.com.

The 5th Annual Drug Delivery Systems Conference will be held at the BSG Conference Centre, London, UK from February 9-11. The theme of the conference is Assessing Innovations in Drug Delivery Technologies and Evaluating Business Models. For details, visit http://www.vgpharma.com.

Informex 2010 will be held at the Moscone Convention Center in San Francisco,CA from February 16-19. The conference has been redesigned into separate Pharmaceutical and Specialty Chemical segments in 2010. For details, visit http://www.informex.com.

The International Pharmaceutical Academy (IPA) will host the fourth GMP-Update 2010 conference and exhibition at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE) from February 21-23. For details, visit http://www.ipacanada.com/viewcourse.php?id=gmp0210dubai.

The American Academy of Forensic Sciences AAFS 2010 Annual Meeting will be held at the Washington State Convention & Trade Center in Seattle, Washington from February 22-27. The AAFS meeting consists of eleven sections representing a wide range of forensic specialties, and the annual scientific meeting gathers these professionals who present the most current information, research, and updates in this expanding field. For details, visit http://www.aafs.org.

Pittcon 2010, the Pittsburgh Conference on Analytical Chemistry and Applied Spectroscopy will be held at the Orand County Convention Center in Orlando, FL from February 28 - March 5, 2010. Pittcon 2010, the world's largest annual conference and exposition for laboratory science. Pittcon offers the latest innovations from nearly 1,000 exhibitors, unique networking opportunities with world renowned scientists and exceptional educational opportunities. For details, visit http://www.pittcon.org.

MARCH

INTERPHEX Puerto Rico 2010 will be held at the Puerto Rico Convention Center in Puerto Rico from March 4-5. The conference is the Caribbean’s premier event for Pharmaceutical, Biopharmaceutical and Medical Device manufacturing, covering the full spectrum of life sciences manufacturing. For details, visit http://www.interphexpuertorico.com.

The Summit for Clinical Trials Operations Executives (SCOPE) will be held at the Crown Plaza Philadelphia City Center in Philadelphia, PA from March 8-11, 2010. The program will offer four conferences and workshops. Each conference will feature best practice case studies relevant to clinical operations experts as well as those new to the field. For details, visit http://www.Clinicalops.com.

Drug Development Latin America will be held at the Crowne Plaza, Philadelphia City Center in Philadelphia, PA from March 10-11. This conference is intended to cover the key issues, opportunities and challenges of clinical research, development, and clinical trials in Latin America. For details, visit http://www.clinicalops.com/lam.

SmartLabs 2010 will be held in Brussels, Belgium from March 17-18. SmartLabs brings together senior level professionals from across the pharmaceutical, petrochemical, cosmetic and FMCG industries, as well as selected market-leading solution providers. Representatives from these industries are responsible for informatics and data management initiatives ranging across organisational boundaries and laboratory functions. The SmartLabs exchange format offers invitees the opportunity to attend sessions focussing on research and development, quality, and processing laboratories, and back-end information systems and infrastructure. For details, visit http://www.smartlab.co.uk.

The ACS 239th National Meeting 2010 will be held at the Moscone Convention Center in San Francisco, CA from March 21-25. For details, visit http://www.acs.org.

Analytica 2010 will be held at the New Munich Trade Fair Centre in Munich, Germany from March 23-26, 2010. The conference focuses on innovative and applied product and system solutions for the entire laboratory in science, research and industry. Exhibits cover the entire value-added chain for laboratory technology, analysis and quality control, biotechnology, the life sciences and diagnostics. For details, visit http://www.analytica.de.

The 6th Forum on Laboratory Informatics will be held in Philadelphia, PA from March 29-31. The conference addresses best practices in overcoming emerging challenges of both chemistry and biologics data management with effective systems and processes for storage, consolidation and integrations. For details, visit http://www.labinformaticsforum.com.

APRIL 2010

The International Conference on Education, Training and Informatics, ICETI 2010, jointly with The International Conference on Society and Information Technologies: ICSIT 2010, and The 8th International Conference on Computing, Communications and Control Technologies, CCCT 2010, and The 16th International Conference on Information Systems Analysis and Synthesis,: ISAS 2010, and The 8th International Conference on Computing, Communications and Control Technologies, CCCT 2010, will be held in Orlando, FL from April 6 -9, 2010. For details, visit http://www.2010iiisconferences.org/CCCT.

The International Conference on Engineering and Meta-Engineering: ICEME 2010, will be held in Orlando, FL from April 6-9. For details, visit http://www.2010iiisconferences.org/ICEME .

Advances in Synthetic Chemistry will be held in Munich, Germany from April 8-9. The conference will be co-located with ADMET Europe, MedChem Europe and Pharma Outsourcing Congress. Registered delegates will also have access to these meetings ensuring a very cost-effective trip. For details, visit http://www.selectbiosciences.com/conferences/ASC2010.

The SBS 16th Annual Conference & Exhibition 2010 will be held at the Phoenix Convention Center in Phoenix, AZ from April 11-15. During this five-day event, scientists, innovators, researchers and industry analysts from around the world will learn about the latest trends and basic and applied research that are transforming the way new pharmaceuticals are developed. Advancing the Science of Drug Discovery will include feature presentations, short courses and workshops emphasizing the growing integration of the biomolecular sciences and their influence on drug research and development. For details, visit http://www.sbsonline.org.

The 2010 Laboratory Design Conference will be held at the Sheraton Raleigh in Raleigh, North Carolina from April 19-21. The conference offers up-to-the-minute information on sustainability, science/laboratory trends, lab costs, and other hot topics. For details, visit http://www.advantagebusinessmedia.com.

The Bio-IT World Conference & Exposition will be held at the World Trade Center in Boston, MA from April 20-22. The 7 concurrent tracks will address Track 1: IT Infrastructure – Hardware; Track 2: IT Infrastructure – Software; Track 3: Bioinformatics and Next-Gen Data; Track 4: Systems and Predictive Biology; Track 5: Cheminformatics and Computer-Aided Modeling; Track 6: eClinical Trials Technology; and, Track 7: eHealth Solutions. For details, visit http://www.bio-itworldexpo.com.

MAY

Genomics Automation Congress will be held in Boston, MA from May 6-7. The conference will be co-located with the RNAi & miRNA World Congress and Epigenetics World Congress. Registered delegates will have access to all three meetings ensuring a very cost-effective trip. For details, visit http://www.selectbiosciences.com/conferences/GAC2010.

All About the Cloud: SaaS Summit 2010 will be held at The Westin St. Francis, San Francisco from May 10-12. Presented by OpSource, in partnership with Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA), 'All About the Cloud: SaaS Summit 2010' combines OpSource’s SaaS Summit, the largest Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) event in the world, with SIIA OnDemand, the leading industry networking conference, to create the most comprehensive cloud computing event on one stage. For details, visit http://www.opsource.net/saas/summit2010.

The Second Global Helsinki Chemicals Forum (HCF) will be held at the Helsinki Exhibition and Convention Centre in Helsinki, Finnland from May 20-21. The Forum will host national and international authorities, companies and industry associations, international organizations, non-governmental bodies, human interest groups, and academia for an open dialogue to find and contribute to sustainable solutions for environmental problems and consumer concerns.2010 is a very important year as companies prepare for two big deadlines – the registration of chemicals before December 1, 2010, and the C&L notifications one month later. For details, visit http://www.helsinkichemforum.eu.

Lab-on-a-Chip European Congress will be held in Dublin, Ireland from May 25-26. For details, visit http://www.selectbiosciences.com.

JUNE

The 34th International Symposium on Capillary Chromatography (ISCC), RIVA2010, will be held at the Congress Centre in Riva del Garda, Italy, from June 1-4. The meeting focuses on pressure and electrodriven microcolumn separations and related techniques. For details, visit http://www.ric.eu/riva/index.php.

The 35th International Symposium on High Performance Liquid Phase Separations and Related Technique, HPLC2010, will be held at the Hynes Convention Center and Sheraton Boston Hotel in Boston, MA from June 19-24. The HPLC conference has grown over the years to become the largest meeting in the world dedicated to liquid phase separation science. This international meeting series is multi-disciplinary in nature and brings together many of the world's leading authorities to address the practical and economical issues and challenges related to all aspects of liquid phase separation science techniques. For details, visit http://www.hplc2010.org.

The 14th World Multi-Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics, WMSCI 2010, will be held in Orlando, FL from June 29 - July 2, 2010. For details, visit http://www.2010iiisconferences.org/WMSCI.

The 3rd International Multi-Conference on Engineering and Technological Innovation: IMETI 2010 will be held in Orlando, FL from June 29 - July 2, 2010. For details, visit http://www.2010iiisconferences.org/IMETI.

JULY

The 2010 AACC Annual Meeting will be held in Anaheim, California from July 25-29. For details, visit http://www.aacc.org.

AUGUST

The ACS Autumn Meeting will be held in Boston, MA from August 22-26. For details, visit http://www.acs.org.

The World Biobanking Summit will be held in Edinburgh, Scotland from August 24-25. The conference will be co-located with Stem Cells Europe and Cellular Therapy Summit. Registered delegates will have access to all three meetings. For details, visit http://www.selectbiosciences.com.

SEPTEMBER

MipTec 2010 will be held at Messe Basel in Basel, Switzerland from September 21-23. Billed as the leading European event in Drug Discovery, the convention has expanded the scientific program to go far beyond the original focus of MIcroPlate TEChnology into all areas of drug discovery and development. For details, visit http://www.miptec.com.

The 124th AOAC Annual Meeting & Exposition will be held at the Loews Royal Pacific at Universal Orlando in Orlando, Florida from September 26-29. For details, visit http://www.aoac.org.

The CMA4CH Mediterraneum Meeting 2010 will be held in Taormina, Italy from September 26-29. The theme of the conference is "Application of Multivariate Analysis and Chemometrics to Environment and Cultural Heritage". For details, visit http://w3.uniroma1.it/cma4ch.

OCTOBER

The 106th Gulf Coast Conference will be held at the Moody Gardens Convention Center in Galveston, TX from October 12-13. For details, visit http://www.gulfcoastconference.com.

FACSS 2010, the 37th FACSS Conference, will be held at the Raleigh Convention Center in Raleigh, NC from October 17-21. FACSS, the Federation of Analytical Chemistry and Spectroscopy Societies, conference is an annual meeting that covers the whole of analytical chemistry with an emphasis on spectroscopy. For details, visit http://www.facss.org.

NOVEMBER

Mass Spec Europe 2010 will be held in Florence Italy from November 9-10. The conference addresses the latest, cutting-edge techniques being used within the mass spectrometry sector, and will be co-located with Advances in Metabolic Profiling, European Biomarkers Summit and Advances in Protein Crystallography. For details, visit http://www.selectbiosciences.com/conferences/MSE2010.

The FIP Pharmaceutical Sciences 2010 World Congress in association with the AAPS Annual Meeting and Exposition will be held at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center in New Orleans, LA from November 14-18. For details, visit http://www.aaps.org.

The Eastern Analytical Symposium will be held at the Garden State Exhibit Center in Somerset, NJ from November 15-18. Eastern Analytical Symposium and Exposition (EAS) is billed as the world's leading community for analytical chemists seeking the highest quality education and career development. For details, visit http://www.eas.org.


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