| Monday, January 5, 2009 | ||
| 08:30:00 | Registration for the Advanced Workshop and Morning Coffee | |
| 09:00:00 | Advanced Workshop Part I: Instrumentation and Automation | Anthony Davies |
| 10:30:00 | Networking Coffee Break | |
| 11:00:00 | Advanced Workshop Part II: Assay Development | Ann F Hoffman |
| 12:30:00 | Lunch | |
| 13:30:00 | Advanced Workshop Part III: Data Analysis and Management | Karol Kozak |
| 15:00:00 | Networking Refreshment Break | |
| 15:30:00 | Advanced Workshop Part IV: Discussion with all Participants | |
| 17:00:00 | Close of Day | |
| Tuesday, January 6, 2009 | ||
| 07:45:00 | Thermo Scientific User Group Meeting | |
| 14:00:00 | Molecular Devices/MDS User Group Meeting | |
| 14:30:00 | GE Healthcare User Group Meeting | |
| 17:00:00 | Conference Pre-Registration | |
| 19:30:00 | Evening Reception in the Penthouse Suite | |
| Wednesday, January 7, 2009 | ||
| 07:00:00 | Conference Registration and Morning Coffee | |
| 08:00:00 | Welcoming Remarks from Conference Director | Julia Boguslavsky |
| 08:15:00 | Introduction from Executive | Monette Greenway |
| 08:20:00 | Panel Discussion with End-Users and Vendors | |
| 09:20:00 | Coffee Break with Exhibit and Poster Viewing | |
| 10:20:00 | High-Content/High-Throughput Screening of Multiplexed Targets by Flow Cytometry | Larry A Sklar |
| 10:20:00 | Data Management in the HCAWorld | Keith Grochow |
| 10:20:00 | in vitro and Clinical Pathology Application of HCA Assays for Prediction, Mechanistic Understanding, and Biomarkers of Toxicity | Peter J O’Brien |
| 10:45:00 | Developing Enterprise-Level IT Solution to Support High-Content Screening Experiments | Michael Lenard |
| 10:45:00 | Sponsored Presentation : A Portfolio of CSB™ Toxicity Panels for Discovery Tox Applications | Deb Hope |
| 10:45:00 | Phospho Flow Cytometry: Multiparameter Kinase Assays at the Single Cell Level | Peter O Krutzik |
| 11:00:00 | To be Announced | |
| 11:10:00 | Sponsored Presentation(Opportunity Available.) | |
| 11:10:00 | The Open Microscopy Environment: Open Image | |
| 11:25:00 | Multiparametric Flow Cytometry Analysis of Immune Responses for Vaccine Development | Mario Roederer |
| 11:35:00 | Insight into HCS Data Stream: Analytical Strategy and Applications | Ansuman Bagchi |
| 11:50:00 | Use of the ImageStream Imaging Flow Cytometer Platform to Investigate the Role of PI3K in Whole Blood Phagocytosis of GFP-labeled E.coli | Gary Elliott |
| 12:15:00 | Extracting ‘Omic Knowledge from HCS Data | |
| 12:15:00 | Speed: Recent Developments for the MDS Complete Imaging Solution | Michael Sjaastad |
| 12:30:00 | Streamlining Toxicology Workflow from Assay Development to Decision | |
| 12:45:00 | Open Systems and Software Interoperability in HCA: A Working Example | J Scott McDonald |
| 12:45:00 | Advances in HCA Image Analysis Using IN Cell Investigator Software | |
| 13:00:00 | Sponsored Presentations (Opportunities Available.) | |
| 13:15:00 | Systematic Processing, Analysis and Management of High-Content Screening Data | |
| 13:30:00 | Pipeline Pilot and Scitegic Enterprise Server: a New Flexible, Modular Approach to HCS Workflow Development and Automation | |
| 13:45:00 | Dessert with Exhibit and Poster Viewing | |
| 14:15:00 | A Novel p53-HDM2 Protein-Protein Interaction Biosensor HCS: Assay Development, Screening and Hit Characterization | Paul A Johnston |
| 14:15:00 | High-Content Screen to Look for Inhibitors of Virus Entry | Marjo Simonen |
| 14:15:00 | Practical Handling and Analysis of High-Content Screening Data | Karol Kozak |
| 14:40:00 | Application of Novel Multiparametric High-Content Toxicity and Phenotypic Assays: Integration with Advances in Automation, Image Analysis, Multivariate Statistics and in silico Modeling | Neil Carragher |
| 14:40:00 | Our Experience with High-Content Screening Using Wound Healing Assay | Miroslav Cik |
| 14:40:00 | Applications of Small Molecule Activity-Based Probes for Non-Invasive Optical Imaging | Matthew Bogyo |
| 15:05:00 | Chemical Reporters for Probing and Visualizing Lipoproteins and Lipids in Cells | Rami Hannoush |
| 15:05:00 | Evaluation of High-Content Analysis Platforms to Support GPCR Screening | Andrea Weston |
| 15:05:00 | Evaluation of Data Analysis Tools for the Multivariate Classification of Compound Responses Detected by High-Content Screening | Anne Kuemmel |
| 15:30:00 | Refreshment Break with Exhibit and Poster Viewing | |
| 16:45:00 | Phenotypic Screening: A Complementary Drug Discovery Paradigm | Jonathan A Lee |
| 16:45:00 | Statistical Analysis of High-Content Data: Harnessing the Full Data Matrix | Amir A Handzel |
| 17:10:00 | Glucocorticoid Nuclear Hormone Receptor Translocation HCS Assay: Screening the NIH Compound Library to Identify Inhibitors of Dynein-Mediated Cargo Transport on Microtubules | Paul A Johnston |
| 17:10:00 | Obtaining Better Mechanistic Understanding of Patterns in High-Content Analysis | Robert F Murphy |
| 17:35:00 | Weak Signals and Strong Artifacts: HCS in Antiviral Drug Discovery | Emmanuel Gustin |
| 17:35:00 | Application of Quantitative High-Throughput Screening to High-Content Analysis of Cell-Based Assays | Sunita J Shukla |
| 18:00:00 | Reception with Exhibit and Poster Viewing | |
| Thursday, January 8, 2009 | ||
| 07:30:00 | Breakfast Presentation : In High-Content Screening, Is too Much Information Almost Enough? | David W Andrews |
| 08:30:00 | ThinkTank Roundtable Discussions | |
| 09:30:00 | Reports from ThinkTank Roundtable Discussions | |
| 10:00:00 | Awards | |
| 10:30:00 | Coffee Break with Exhibit and Poster Viewing | |
| 11:30:00 | High-Content Fluorescent Microscopy Imaging Approaches to Measure Rescue of Neurodegenerative Primary Neurons in a Drug Discovery Platform | Oscar Joseph Trask |
| 11:30:00 | Dynamic Imaging of Protein-Protein Interactions in Living Cells: FLIM-FRET Microscopy | Ammasi Periasamy |
| 11:30:00 | Use of Label-Free Cell Based Assays in Drug Discovery | Frank Stuhmeier |
| 11:55:00 | Multidimensional Fluorescence Imaging | Paul French |
| 11:55:00 | HCA of Primary Neurons to Identify Kinases and Phosphatases Regulating Neurite Outgrowth | John Bixby |
| 11:55:00 | Evaluation of Cellular Impedance Assays for Assessing Ligand-Specific GPCR Signaling in Drug Discovery | Matt Peters |
| 12:20:00 | Sponsored Presentation : Analysis of Neurite Outgrowth and Neuronal Injury Using High-Content Screening | Stella Redpath |
| 12:20:00 | Sponsored Presentation : (Opportunity Available.) | |
| 12:20:00 | Quantitative Molecular Sensing in Live Cells via FLIM | Mary Ann Mycek |
| 12:35:00 | Utility of Time-Resolved Binding Date for Fragment-Based Screening and HTS Hit Validation Using SPR Biosensors | Anthony M Giannetti |
| 12:35:00 | Measuring Abeta-Induced Changes of Neuronal Morphology and Biochemistry in Primary Neuronal Cultures | Michael P Bova |
| 12:45:00 | Discrimination of Fluorescent Protein FRET Using Polarized Light | Mark A Rizzo |
| 13:00:00 | Lunch on Your Own | |
| 14:00:00 | BD Biosciences User Group Meeting | |
| 14:00:00 | PerkinElmer Inc. User Group Meeting | |
| Friday, January 9, 2009 | ||
| 07:30:00 | Sponsored Presentation (Opportunity Available.) | |
| 08:30:00 | Application of High-Content Fingerprinting to Oncology Drug Discovery: Focus on in vitro and in vivo Phenocopying and Cancer Stem Cell Analysis | Louis Stancato |
| 08:30:00 | High-Content Cell-Based Assays Used for Study of the Toxic Effects of Antiviral Drugs in Cardiac Cells | Anthony Davies |
| 08:55:00 | Primary HCS for Immunomodulation | Carmel B Nanthakumar |
| 08:55:00 | Effective Support of Oncology Driven Drug Research by Functional High-Content Analysis | Stefan Prechtl |
| 09:20:00 | Sponsored Presentation (Opportunity Available.) | |
| 09:20:00 | Sponsored Presentation : GE HealthCare | |
| 09:35:00 | High-Throughput High-Content Screening in Primary and Stem Cells | Francesca Santini |
| 09:35:00 | Profiling p53 Networks by Cell-Based Multiplex Imaging | Rami Hannoush |
| 10:00:00 | Networking Coffee Break | |
| 10:30:00 | Multiresolution Texture Analysis of Human Embryonic Stem Cells for Monitoring Pluripotency | Paul Sammak |
| 10:30:00 | From Assay to Molecular Target and from Diabetes to Hepatitis | Fred Levine |
| 10:55:00 | Sponsored Presentation : GE HealthCare | |
| 10:55:00 | Multi-Color Live Cell Immunofluorescence Timecourse Analysis of Human-Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell Formation | Thorsten M Schlaeger |
| 11:10:00 | Studying GPCR Trafficking Using Automated HCS Tools | Ying Jie Zhu |
| 11:20:00 | Implementation of HCA for Chemical Screening: Applications to Anti-Viral and Stem Cell Modulators Discovery | Hakim Djaballah |
| 11:35:00 | Lunch on Your Own | |
| 12:45:00 | Automated Phenotyping of Zebrafish Embryos by High-Content Analysis | Andreas Vogt |
| 12:45:00 | Combining HT-RNAi with Multi--Parametric Microscopy-Based Readouts for Discovery of Novel Oncology Targets | Christophr Echeverri |
| 13:10:00 | Identification and Characterization of Host Cell Factors Involved in Infection Processes | André Paul Mäurer |
| 13:10:00 | Sponsored Presentation : Fish Are Friends Not Food: High-Content Screening | |
| 13:25:00 | Whole Organism-Based Assays for the Identification of Chemical and Genetic Modifiers of Human Misfolded Protein Disorders Using C. elegans | Stephen C Pak |
| 13:35:00 | Networking Refreshment Break | |
| 14:15:00 | Ultra High-Throughput Production of Consistent Three-Dimensional Cellular Aggregates | Mark Ungrin |
| 14:15:00 | A Live Cell High-Content Assay for Endocytic Events | Marc Bickle |
| 14:40:00 | Live-Cell Imaging and Analysis of Cell Cycle Timing, Mitosis and Cell Death | Samantha G Zeitlin |
| 14:40:00 | High-Content Screening of Multicellular Systems | Bahram Parvin |
| 15:05:00 | To be Announced | |
| 15:05:00 | Designer Self-Assembling Peptide Nanofiber Scaffold for 3D Cell Cultures: Implications for High-Content Drug Discovery | Shuguang Zhang |
| 15:30:00 | Close of Conference | |
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