American Electrophoresis Society's 2006 Symposium

The American Electrophoresis Society's 2006 symposia, held in conjunction with the American Institute of Chemical Engineers Annual meeting Nov. 12 - 17th at the San Francisco Hilton, will focus on theoretical and experimental advances in bio-MEMS and microfluidic technology. This year's program is particularly strong and diverse, including sessions in the areas of cellular, genomic, and proteomic analysis. The AES meeting is unique in the community because it compliments AIChE's predominantly chemical engineering population by bringing together researchers from a variety of academic backgrounds who work in relevant fields as well as industrial contributors.

For the 2006 symposia, AES is particularly excited about our plenary speakers who represent a cross-section of the current state-of-the-art in the field. Contributions in the bio-MEMS area include talks from Dr. H. Kumar Wickramasinghe from the IBM Almaden Research Center ("UltraFast Electrophoresis at the Nanoscale using Atomic Force Microscopy"), Dr. Robin H. Liu from CombiMatrix Corp ("Integrated Microfluidic and Electrasense Microarray Biochips for DNA Analysis"), Dr. Paul Bohn from the University of Notre Dame ("Nanofluidics and Mass-Limited Chemical Analysis: Nanocapillary Array Membranes as Switchable Fluidic Elements for Multidimensional Analyses"), and Dr. Larry Grossman ("Automated Computational Analysis of Molecular Evolution: Mitochondrial ATP Synthase in Primates and Other Mammals"). Additional keynote speakers will be featured at the beginning of most of the other sessions.

A brief summary of the technical program is provided in PDF form. More information can be found on the AES website (www.aesociety.org), and the complete meeting technical program is available on the AIChE website (www.aiche.org).