.: EPFL SV- Swiss Image-Based Screening Conference

September 28th - 29th, 2010

This first edition of the Swiss Image-Based Screening conference, the SIBS2010, will take place at the EPFL on Sept. 28th-29th, 2010 in Room SV1717A (SV building).

This two-day event is structured around thematic sessions covering essential multidisciplinary elements for performing large screening campaigns from the design of a biological screening assay to image/data analysis’

• Swiss academic screening projects
• Status of other European Centers
• HCS - Pharma research in Switzerland
• Innovative screening formats
• Image, data analysis and statistics
• Database and workflow solutions

	confirmed speakers Christian Conrad EMBL, Heidelberg (G) Eugenio Fava DZNE, Bonn (G) Daniel Wolfram Gerlich ETHZ Marjo Götte Novartis. Basel Michael Held ETHZ Ray Jones Cellprofiler. Paris (F) Matthias Lutolf EPFL Sebastian Maerkl EPFL Roger Meier ETHZ Christian von Mering University of Zurich Anthony Nichols Merck-Serono, Geneva Lukas Pelkmans ETHZ Michael Podvinec University of Basel Michael Prummer Roche, Basel Pauli Rämö ETHZ Bernd Rinn ETHZ Cameron Scott University of Geneva Petr Strnad EPFL Thomas Wild ETHZ Peder Zipperlen 3V Biosciences, Zurich     (alphabetic list, as of August 26, 2010)

Conference format: key notes lectures/case studies / poster session /software demos
Registration (mandatory) deadline is September 22, noon