Environment: The natural environment encompasses all living and non-living things occurring naturally, meaning in this case not artificial. The term is most often applied to the Earth or some parts of Earth.
DATE: April 27, 2018TIME: 10:00am PST, 1:00pm ESTGlioblastoma (GBM) and Medulloblastoma (MB) are the most common adult and paediatric brain tumours, both of which can have devastating c...
DATE: April 17, 2018TIME: 8:00AM PST, 11:00AM ESTRecently, much research has focused on obtaining 3D brain organoids in an attempt to better recapitulate brain development and function...
One would think that getting the diagnosis after fifteen years would end the journey. How does your work at the bench affect patients and how can you change lives through cell therapy? ...
ASTM has been around for 120 years providing solutions using the expertise of industry stakeholders. 148 Technical committees are comprised of 30,000 industry stakeholders, representing...
In today’s modern laboratory, resources are often stretched as laboratories struggle to manage multiple priorities, meet regulatory requirements, and contain costs. This is especially t...
During this session, I will discuss a simple yet often underappreciated method for improving operational efficiency when growing cannabis in controlled environments. In particular,...
Cortical plasticity is the neural mechanism by which the cerebrum adapts itself to its environment, while at the same time making it vulnerable to impoverished sensory or developmental experi...
DATE: March 6, 2018TIME: 08:00am PST, 11:00am EST, 5:00pm CETRNA sequencing and expression arrays are transcriptomics techniques used to quantify transcribed genes and their isoforms. T...
Structure based drug design is now well established as a highly efficient approach in pharmaceutical research. The approach uses atomic level detail structures of target proteins, most...
One-third of FDA-approved drugs target G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs), transmembrane cell surface proteins that recognize small molecules and polypeptides with diverse chemical scaffolds...
This lecture introduces the evolving paradigm of Molecular Pathological Epidemiology (MPE) as simply as possible. Any given human disease represents fundamentally heterogeneous process,...
The translation gap in biomedical research can be attributed in part to differences in how outcomes are assessed in preclinical research and in the clinic. Reasons for these mismatches includ...
Assessment of how changes in husbandry affect an animal can be challenging as most common methods of assessment, such as corticosterone levels, are more reliable for assessment of acute stres...
Digital technology is improving the speed and accuracy of all the world’s work processes and activities, the including the research vivarium. This presentation will address some...
Introduction:The cannulation of the cisterna magna in the rat is a valuable model for in-vivo sampling of cerebrospinal fluid for studying delivery of new drugs into the central nervous sys...
Conspecific aggression is a common problem amongst laboratory housed male mice. While C57BL/6 are not the most aggressive strain we house, they are exceedingly common, and dealing with...
DATE: December 12, 2017TIME: 10:00AM PTSince their discovery, dendritic cells (DCs) have demonstrated a central role in the development of effective immune responses. Their unique abili...
DATE: December 5th, 2017TIME: 6:00AM PTAndrogen receptor (AR) signaling remains a driver in the lethal phenotype of prostate cancer, castrate resistant prostate cancer (CRPC). Nov...
DATE: November 2, 2017TIME: 7:00am PDT, 10:00am EDT, 3:00pm CETPipetting is an every-day task in a cell culture lab. We pipette so often that we don´t actually think about it...
The “R2G2” (B6;129-Rag2tm1FwaIL2rgtm1Rsky/DwlHsd) knockout mouse is the latest advancement to provide an alternative option in the highly immunodeficient mouse model category for...
More and more decisions will center on the ability to molecularly characterize a disease. So the molecular diagnostic laboratory will have a pivotal role. What does that look like? Will we be...
There has been a great deal of renewed attention in immuno-oncology over the last decade. Therapies for cancer are being developed, approved, and administered that can either initiate,...
DATE: October 10, 2017TIME: 7:00 AM PT, 10:00 AM ETQuality assessment of monoclonal antibodies can be a bottleneck in biopharmaceutical workflows because of the complexity and length of...
DATE: September 28th, 2017TIME: 12:00PM PDT, 2:00PM CT Nanoparticle research provides an exciting path forward for numerous industries, but not without risk to health and safety. I...
DATE: April 27, 2018TIME: 10:00am PST, 1:00pm ESTGlioblastoma (GBM) and Medulloblastoma (MB) are the most common adult and paediatric brain tumours, both of which can have devastating c...
DATE: April 17, 2018TIME: 8:00AM PST, 11:00AM ESTRecently, much research has focused on obtaining 3D brain organoids in an attempt to better recapitulate brain development and function...
One would think that getting the diagnosis after fifteen years would end the journey. How does your work at the bench affect patients and how can you change lives through cell therapy? ...
ASTM has been around for 120 years providing solutions using the expertise of industry stakeholders. 148 Technical committees are comprised of 30,000 industry stakeholders, representing...
In today’s modern laboratory, resources are often stretched as laboratories struggle to manage multiple priorities, meet regulatory requirements, and contain costs. This is especially t...
During this session, I will discuss a simple yet often underappreciated method for improving operational efficiency when growing cannabis in controlled environments. In particular,...
Cortical plasticity is the neural mechanism by which the cerebrum adapts itself to its environment, while at the same time making it vulnerable to impoverished sensory or developmental experi...
DATE: March 6, 2018TIME: 08:00am PST, 11:00am EST, 5:00pm CETRNA sequencing and expression arrays are transcriptomics techniques used to quantify transcribed genes and their isoforms. T...
Structure based drug design is now well established as a highly efficient approach in pharmaceutical research. The approach uses atomic level detail structures of target proteins, most...
One-third of FDA-approved drugs target G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs), transmembrane cell surface proteins that recognize small molecules and polypeptides with diverse chemical scaffolds...
This lecture introduces the evolving paradigm of Molecular Pathological Epidemiology (MPE) as simply as possible. Any given human disease represents fundamentally heterogeneous process,...
The translation gap in biomedical research can be attributed in part to differences in how outcomes are assessed in preclinical research and in the clinic. Reasons for these mismatches includ...
Assessment of how changes in husbandry affect an animal can be challenging as most common methods of assessment, such as corticosterone levels, are more reliable for assessment of acute stres...
Digital technology is improving the speed and accuracy of all the world’s work processes and activities, the including the research vivarium. This presentation will address some...
Introduction:The cannulation of the cisterna magna in the rat is a valuable model for in-vivo sampling of cerebrospinal fluid for studying delivery of new drugs into the central nervous sys...
Conspecific aggression is a common problem amongst laboratory housed male mice. While C57BL/6 are not the most aggressive strain we house, they are exceedingly common, and dealing with...
DATE: December 12, 2017TIME: 10:00AM PTSince their discovery, dendritic cells (DCs) have demonstrated a central role in the development of effective immune responses. Their unique abili...
DATE: December 5th, 2017TIME: 6:00AM PTAndrogen receptor (AR) signaling remains a driver in the lethal phenotype of prostate cancer, castrate resistant prostate cancer (CRPC). Nov...
DATE: November 2, 2017TIME: 7:00am PDT, 10:00am EDT, 3:00pm CETPipetting is an every-day task in a cell culture lab. We pipette so often that we don´t actually think about it...
The “R2G2” (B6;129-Rag2tm1FwaIL2rgtm1Rsky/DwlHsd) knockout mouse is the latest advancement to provide an alternative option in the highly immunodeficient mouse model category for...
More and more decisions will center on the ability to molecularly characterize a disease. So the molecular diagnostic laboratory will have a pivotal role. What does that look like? Will we be...
There has been a great deal of renewed attention in immuno-oncology over the last decade. Therapies for cancer are being developed, approved, and administered that can either initiate,...
DATE: October 10, 2017TIME: 7:00 AM PT, 10:00 AM ETQuality assessment of monoclonal antibodies can be a bottleneck in biopharmaceutical workflows because of the complexity and length of...
DATE: September 28th, 2017TIME: 12:00PM PDT, 2:00PM CT Nanoparticle research provides an exciting path forward for numerous industries, but not without risk to health and safety. I...