Integrating SAMPLE PREPARATION conference, a part of the Knowledge Foundation’s Detection Technologies Conference Series - an internationally recognized meeting for experts in sample preparation technologies for detection, identification and analysis of biological and chemical agents and threats, will explore the latest R&D developments as well as ready-to-market technologies by exploring the following topical areas:
- Increasing recognition of sample preparation as the biggest challenge for biodefense
and biomed detection applications
- Sample preparation as a separate system vs. an integrated module approach
- End-user prospective for biodetection and sampling technologies and devices
- Is remote detection without sample preparation a viable option?
- Major challenges of sample preparation system integration approach
- Recent advances standalone sample preparation systems technology development
- Point-of-care/clinical applications for pathogen/virus/threat sampling, detection
and analysis
- Food, water, air, and environmental sampling
- Alternative and disruptive approaches to sample preparation technologies
- Robust methodologies for sample collection, (pre-)concentration, lysis,
and target extraction
- Sample preparation with micro- and nanofluidics
- Novel methods of extraction from tough (non-filterable) matrices
- Nucleic acid or protein based sample prep for next generation sequencing
- Nanotechnology and miniaturization challenges for sample preparation
- New assay and sequencing technologies for sample preparation, detection
and analysis
- Field-ready devices: compatibility/reliability/scalability
- Reducing false positives by adequate sample preparation and processing
December 8-9, 2011
Marriott Wardman Park • Washington, DC USA
