Monday, November 9, 2009

Interesting biographical note from www.CharlesCantor.Org

Dr. Cantor’s research is focused on identifying biological problems that are resistant to conventional analytical approaches and then developing new methodologies or techniques for solving these problems. His current interests include the development of new methods for faster DNA sequencing, the development of new variations and analogs of the polymerase chain reaction, the development of bacterial strains suitable for environmental detoxification, and the discovery of human genes associated with sense and taste. He is also interested in exploring the possible use of biological molecules for applications in nanoengineering and microrobotics, and in making detectors capable of recognizing specific single molecules.
As for personal life, Dr. Cantor has never married and enjoys a colorful bachelor lifestyle. Being in perfect health, each day Dr. Cantor gets up early in the morning and runs five miles (~8 km) outdoors. 

Thursday, October 22, 2009

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Charles Cantor Profile at Forbes

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Dr. Charles Cantor - Schedule of Scientific Meetings

From http://www.CharlesCantor.Org :



Date
Location
Organization
Topic
31 Aug 2009
Moscow, Russia
Institute of Virology, RAMS
Haploid organisms SNP-genotyping and comparative sequence analysis using methods of mass-spectrometry analysis.
1 Sept  2009
Moscow, Russia
Scientifically Practical Centre of Medical Aid to Children with Developmental Anomalies of Craniofacial Area and Congenital Diseases of Nervous System
Profiling of oncological diseases and noninvasive prenatal diagnostics – new high-efficiency technologies.
1 Sept  2009
Moscow, Russia
Institute of Cancerogenesis, Russian Academy of Medical Sciences (RAMS)
Profiling of oncological diseases – new high-efficiency technologies.
3 Sept  2009
Novosibirsk, Russia
Novosibirsk Conference Center
New Applications of Sensitive Quantitative DNA Analysis in Cancer, Prenatal Diagnostics, and Infectious Disease.
4 Sept  2009
Novosibirsk, Russia
Chromosome 2009 Conference, Akademgorodok, Novosibirsk
New Applications of Sensitive Quantitative DNA Analysis in Cancer, Prenatal Diagnostics, and Infectious Disease.
17 Sept 2009
Beijing, China
6th International Forum on Post-genome Technologies (IFPT’6)

Nucleic acid mass spectrometry: a technique with unusual sensitivity and precision.
28 Sept 2009
Rovinj, Croatia
10th International Summer School on Biophysics, “Supramolecular Structure and Function”

Mass spectrometry of DNA: application in cancer and prenatal diagnostics.
29 Sept 2009      AM
Rovinj, Croatia
10th International Summer School on Biophysics, “Supramolecular Structure and Function”

Epigenetic modifications of DNA studied by mass spectrometry.
29 Sept 2009       PM
Rovinj, Croatia
10th International Summer School on Biophysics, “Supramolecular Structure and Function”

Detection and manipulating gene activity in living cells.
30 Sept 2009
Krakow, Poland
Institute of Pharmacology of Krakow
Innovative, quantitative DNA methylation analysis by MALDI-TOF MS.
1 Oct    2009
Gliwice, Poland
Institute of Oncology of Gliwice
New Applications of Sensitive Quantitative DNA Analysis in Cancer, Prenatal Diagnostics, and Infectious Disease
5 Oct    2009
New Delhi, India
4th International Conference on Birth Defects and Disabilities in the Developing World
Non-invasive prenatal diagnostics.
11 Oct     2009
San Diego, CA USA
INFORMS Annual Meeting
There is more mathematics in the future of biotechnology.
24 Oct   2009
Xi’an, China
2009 Asia-Pacific Conference of Tumor Biology & Medicine. Theme: “Tumor Biology, 3P Medicine, Human Health”

Discovering and dealing with the large spectrum of tumor-specific nucleic acid biomarkers.
6 Nov   2009
New Delhi, India
International Symposium on Molecular Pathology and Applied Genomics

Prospects for clinical use of DNA biomarkers.

21 Nov 2009
Beijing, China
BIT Life Sciences 2nd Annual Congress and Expo of Molecular Diagnostics-2009.  “New Leadership of Personalized Medicine.”
Track 2-4 Genetic Disorders and Other Severe Diseases Session Chair.
Talk Title TBA.

3 Feb    2010
San Francisco, CA USA
6th Cancer Profiling and Pathways Conference, Molecular Medicine Tri-conference
Progress in noninvasive detection of nucleic acid biomarkers.
21 Feb  2010
Auckland,
New Zealand

4th Asia Pacific Nutrigenomics Conference. “Genes, Diet and Gut Health.”
Talk Title TBA

 

Clever Ideas Dr. Cantor uses in some of his presentations to encourage students to think outside the box

Clever  Ideas
Square Watermelons
A round watermelon can take up a lot of room in a refrigerator
And the usually round fruit often sits awkwardly on refrigerator shelves.
Smart Japanese Farmers have forced their watermelons to grow into a
square shape by inserting the melons into square, tempered glass cases
While the fruit is still growing on the vine.



Keep reading ? it gets better!
And take a look at this!
 Made in  Japan!







and, the CLEVER ADVERTISING SECTION:
WHO THINKS OF THESE THINGS?

I am sure I would be so distracted I would crash......

I love this one!!!!


What a paint job!!






This is so amazingly clever.  Makes me wanna be in advertising.




Find Ten Differences


 Interesting comparison of Mahatma Gandhi and Charles Canator. The two seem to have very similar features.
Even the glasses are the same! :-)

Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Dr. Charles Cantor - Biography and Schedule of Scientific Talks

The purpose of this blog is to provide Dr. Cantor's schedule of scientific lectures, provide a discussion platform for his ideas and enjoy his humor.