Seminar - Analytical strategies to improve data quality in biomarker discovery

Seminar - Analytical strategies to improve data quality in biomarker discovery

17 April 2023

 

Tuesday 13 June 2023 at Imperial College London, UK

 

In this one-day seminar, you will:

  • Hear from leaders in their field about how they use analytical techniques – such as thermal desorption and GC×GC – for biomarker discovery across diverse sample types, including breath, bacterial cultures, and urine.
  • Network with experts in the field and discuss hot topics in biomarker discovery.
  • See the instrumentation used for biomarker discovery during a lab tour.

Speakers include:

  • Prof. George. Hanna (Imperial College London)
    Developing breath testing for the clinical environment

  • Dr Waqar Ahmed (University of Manchester)
    Characterisation of pathogen-specific biomarkers in bacterial pneumonia using high-capacity sorptive extraction (HiSorb™) and automated chemometrics

  • Dr Antonis Myridakis (Imperial College London)
    Global Urinary Volatolomics with (GC×)GC–TOF MS

 

Agenda

10:00 Welcome & Introduction
10:15 Developing breath testing for the clinical environment
Prof. George. Hanna (Imperial College London)
11:00 Tea & coffee break
11:15 Characterisation of pathogen-specific biomarkers in bacterial pneumonia using high-capacity sorptive extraction (HiSorb™) and automated chemometrics
Dr Waqar Ahmed (University of Manchester)
11:45 Panel discussion – Standardisation in breath analysis: Where do we start? 
Chaired by Dr Dave Worton (NPL) 
12:45 Lunch (& drop in session) 
13:45 From research to routine screening: Meeting the evolving demands of clinical breath analysis with thermal desorption and GC–TOF MS
Dr Helen Martin (Markes International) and Dr Laura McGregor (SepSolve Analytical) 
14:25 Global Urinary Volatolomics with (GC×)GC–TOF MS
Dr Antonis Myridakis (Imperial College London)
14:55 Lab tour & software demo
16:00 Close