Program-at-a-Glance
The LabAutomation2011 scientific program will feature five educational tracks. Please note: the lists of topics are not all-inclusive, and other topics may be considered in each track. If you cannot find your particular topic of interest listed in this Call for Papers but want to report on research related to one of the track themes, we encourage you to submit your abstract for consideration by the Scientific Program Committee.
Program subject to change.
Detection and Separation
Detection and separation are two important and frequently related operations in the modern laboratory. Recent developments in these areas are covered in these tracks. Separation topics include innovative commercialization, DNA, nanomaterials, molecular recognition, remote assays, and automated analyses.
Topics:
- Affinity methods
- Biomarker detection
- Biosensors and biotechnology
- Chiral selection
- Disease diagnosis and prognosis
- Drug discovery and pharmaceutical analysis
- Forensic analysis
- High performance materials
- Innovative separations
- Limited sample volume
- Nanomaterials
- Portable devices
- Point of care separation and detection
- Recent commercialization
- Remote sensing
Micro- and Nanotechnologies
This track broadly encompasses new and emerging technologies including microfluidics, microarrays, microreactors, nanodevices and new nanotechnologies with emphasis on methods and materials applicable to high-throughput chemistry, biology and clinical analysis.
Topics:
- Assay Development
- Bioimaging
- Biomaterials
- Cell Cultivation and Assays
- Clinical Analysis
- Genomics & Proteomic Techniques
- Micro- and Nanodevices
- Micro- and Nanofabrication
- Micro- and Nanofluidics
- Microarrays
- Nanobiotechnology
- Nanoparticles
- Nanopores
- Nanowires
- Unit Operations Integration
High-Throughput Technologies
This track focuses on the innovative tools, technologies, and techniques that enable high-throughput activities or shorten operational cycle times. Emphasis is placed on new high-throughput technologies and their application to leading-edge automation-assisted research and development.
Topics:
- Applications to Pharmaceutical Preclinical & Process Development
- Applications to Molecular and Clinical Diagnostics
- High Content/Natural Context Screening
- Automation to Support Regenerative Medicine
- High-Throughput Assay Development
- High-Throughput Sample Management
- High-Throughput Screening
- High-Throughput Profiling
- High-Throughput Synthesis
- Innovative Technologies for Biopharmaceutical Drug Discovery
- Pharmacogenomics
Informatics
Automation solutions in today's laboratories often require more informatics than hardware to fully leverage their value. The amount of data being generated, the processing power required to analyze that data, the distances that data must travel and the boundaries that the data must cross have added to the traditional challenges of integration and system design. This track showcases unique, technically innovation solutions to these informatics challenges.
Topics:
- Advances in Bioanalytical Informatics
- Cloud Computing
- Core Informatics Technologies
- Data Integration and Decision Management
- Data Mining and Visualization
- Electronic Laboratory Notebooks
- Emerging Areas of Informatics
- High-Content Data Collection and Analysis
- High-Throughput Data Collection and Analysis
- The Paperless Laboratory
- Systems Integration Strategies and Applications
Evolving Applications of Laboratory Automation: Featuring Agriculture and Food Sciences
This track spotlights the impact of cutting-edge automation technologies and features presentations describing how laboratory automation is used in Agricultural and Food Sciences. To help focus on the growth and importance of automation to the fields of Agriculture and Food each presentation should have content relevant to applications, innovative approaches and/or developments linked to one of the following areas — detection and separation, high throughput technologies, informatics or micro-nano technologies.
Topics:
- Renewable Bioenergy & Bioproducts
- Molecular Breeding Applications
- Functional Foods/Nutraceuticals
- High-Throughput Processing and Analysis of Food and Environmental Samples
- Integrating Lab and Data Informatics with Precision Farming
- Marker Assisted Selection (MAS)
- Micro- and Nanotechnologies in Animal Diagnostics
- Point-of-Service Assays
- Separation and Detection Strategies for Foodborne Toxins and Pathogens
- Automated Imaging
- High-Throughput Phenotyping
- Emerging Technologies
In addition to the educational tracks listed above, the Scientific Committee Chair and Associate Chair will review all submissions and may select some abstracts for presentation that may not necessarily align with the conference tracks noted above.
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