Dr. Charles Cantor: Lectures and Humor: October 2009

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	4^th 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 2^nd 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	6^th Cancer Profiling and Pathways Conference, Molecular Medicine Tri-conference	Progress in noninvasive detection of nucleic acid biomarkers.
21 Feb 2010	Auckland, New Zealand	4^th Asia Pacific Nutrigenomics Conference. “Genes, Diet and Gut Health.”	Talk Title TBA

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