(Subject to change)
All talks will be held in the The Edward Boyle auditorium, The Jacqueline du Pré Music Building, St Hilda’s College (Oxford).
08.00-08.50: Registration, Networking, Exhibition and welcome coffee
08.50: Welcome and housekeeping
08.55: Opening by Professor Dr Beatrix Suess
09.00: INSOAP updates by Dr Sarah Shigdar
09.10: Professor Thomas Brown, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
Synthesis of chemically modified oligonucleotides for the production of high-affinity aptamers
09.40: Dr Gregory Penner, President & CEO, NeoVentures Biotechnology Inc, Canada
FRELEX. free-free selection of aptamers
10.10: Dr Nathalie Vollmer, Horiba Scientific, France
Multiplex quantification of small molecule targets with SPRi analysis
10.30: Refreshment break, exhibition, posters and networking
11.10: Professor Chin-Yih Hong, Graduate Institute of Biomedical Engineering, National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan
Multiplex Immunoassays Using ssDNA Aptamers Generated by Magnetic-Assisted Rapid Aptamer Selection (MARAS)
11.30: Dr Bill Jackson, Base Pair Biotechnologies, USA
Applications of newly discovered aptamers in a variety of biosensors and assay formats
11.50: Professor Darryl J Bornhop, Professor of Chemistry, Vanderbilt University, TN, USA
Backscattering interferometry marries aptamer-based assays to enable quantitation of nerve agent metabolites and human cytomegalovirus in urine at clinical relevant levels
12.10: Dr Michael Blank, AptaIT GmbH, Germany
Improved Aptamer Identification and Optimization by Usage of Next Generation Sequencing
12.30: Lunch, exhibition, posters and networking
13.40: Dr Philip Johnson, York University, Canada
Understanding Ligand Binding by the Cocaine-Binding Aptamer
14.00: Professor Dr Jörg S Hartig, Department of Chemistry, University of Konstanz, Germany
Engineering of synthetic riboswitches based on ribozyme expression platforms
14.30: Professor Dr Beatrix Suess, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany
Application of aptamers in the control of alternative splicing by engineered riboswitches
15.00: Professor Dr Uli Hahn, Hamburg University, Germany
Aptamers to inhibit cancer cell adhesion
15.30: Refreshment break, exhibition, posters and networking
16.00: Dr David Bunka, The Aptamer Group, United Kingdom
Novel Based Aptamer Biomarker Discovery
16.30: Processor Tony Cass, Imperial College London, United Kingdom
Engineering Aptamers for Use in Biosensors and Point of Decision Testing
17.00: Dr Julian Tanner, University of Hong Kong, China
Progress in aptamer-mediated malaria diagnosis
17.20: Dr Ana María de Lucas Cerrillo, Centro de Astrobiología (INTA/CSIC), Spain
RNA and DNA aptamers targeting HCV CORE protein and its applicability to HCV diagnosis
17.40: Dr Marimuthu Citartan, Advanced Medical & Dental Institute (AMDI), Universiti Sains Malaysia, Malaysia
REPORA-6 RNA aptamer, an agent in the aptamer-based capture assay (AptaCapture) of Erythropoietin (EPO) in doping detection
18.00: INSOAP AGM
19.15 Dinner (entry by ticket only)
08.50: Welcome and housekeeping
9.00: Professor Yoshikazu Nakamura, RIBOMIC Inc, Japan
Dual therapeutic action of a neutralizing anti-FGF2 aptamer in bone diseases and bone cancer pain
09.30: Professor Nicola Stonehouse, University of Leeds, United Kingdom
Manipulating viral protein-protein interactions with RNA aptamers
10.00: Professor Said Ismail, University of Jordan, Jordan
Targeted gene silencing in cancer cells using Anti-CD44 aptamer-functionalized liposomes
10.30: Refreshment break, exhibition, posters and networking
11.00: Dr Sarah Shigdar, Deakin University, Australia
Aptamers as theranostic agents: the companion diagnostic test
11.30: Dr Sorah Yoon, Beckman Research Institute of City of Hope, USA
ApDCs (Aptamer Drug Conjugates) for targeted therapies in pancreatic cancer; from nucleic acid to chemotherapeutics
12.00: Mr Chao Liang, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong, China
Oligopeptide aptamer-modified chalcone derivative specifically targets Smurf1 in osteoblasts and promotes bone formation
12.20: Lunch, exhibition, posters and networking
13.10: Miguel AD Neves, Department of Chemistry, York University, Toronto, ON, M3J 1P3, Canada
The Cocaine-Binding Aptamer: Structural and Thermodynamic Analysis of Two-Site Binding and Stem Length Variation
13.30: Rajesh Ahirwar, Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research, Delhi, India
Aptamer-mediated detection and targeting of estrogen receptor positive cells in human breast cancer
13.50: Dr Zhaofeng Luo, Core Facility Center for Life Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), Hefei, PR China
Monitoring the aptamer selection progress by Q-PCR amplification curve
14.10: Closing remarks by the Symposium Chair and discussion
14.30: Close and departure