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The proceedings for Affinity 2007 will be published in the Journal of Molecular Recognition. Please contact Gidi Fleminger (gidifl@post.tau.ac.il) and/or George Ehrlich (gke1@nyu.edu) if you are interested in publishing your work.

Sunday July 8, 2007

Affinity 2007 Welcoming Reception
Welcome and Introduction
George Ehrlich
, Hoffmann - La Roche, Nutley, NJ
Keynote Lecture
A Human Protein Atlas Based on Affinity Proteomics
Mathias Uhlén

Department of Biotechnology, AlbaNova University Center, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden

Monday July 9, 2007

Opening Ceremonies
Richard Willson,
University of Houston, Houston, TX

Session 1: Affinity: Past, Present and Future
Mathias Uhlén, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden

Chairman Introduction
101 My Life with Affinity: Essentials of Biorecognition and its Application
Meir Wilchek
Department of Biological Chemistry, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
102 Monolith Supports with Affinity and Pseudo Affinity Ligands for Superfast Purification of Biomolecules
M. A. Vijayalakshmi
1,2, 1Laboratoire d'Interactions Moléculaires et de Technologie de Séparation (LIMTech.S), Centre de Recherche de Royallieu, BP 20.529, 60205 Compiègne Cedex, France
2Center for BioSeparations Technology, VIT University, Vellore, 632014, India
103 Immunodepletion - What's Beneath the Tip of the Plasma Proteome Iceberg?
Mark S. Baker
1,2, Alamgir Khan1, Wai-Kei Shum2, Sock-Hwee Tan2, Veronika Polaskova2 and Amit Kapur2
1Australian Proteome Analysis Facility Ltd (APAF), 2Dept. of Chemistry and Biomolecular Sciences, Macquarie University, 2109. Sydney, Australia
104 The NCI’s Clinical Proteomic Technology Initiative for Cancer - The Reagent Resource Core
Adam Michael Clark

National Cancer Institute, Office of Technology and Industrial Relations, Bethesda MD
Lunch Work-
shop
Flexible Formats for Characterizing and Screening Protein-Protein Interactions using Bio Layer Interferometry on the Octet System
Matthew Kirtley

ForteBio, Inc. Menlo Park, CA USA

Session 2: Advances in Affinity Technologies
Lars Hagel, GE Healthcare, Uppsala, Sweden

Chairman Introduction
201 Evolution of Industrial Affinity in Biopharmaceutical Production
Duncan Low

Process Development, Amgen, Inc., Thousand Oaks, California
202 Efficiency Improvements in the Discovery and Development of Novel Antibody Format and Protein-Based Biotherapeutics Using CaptureSelect® Affinity Ligands and Yeast Display Discovery Tools
Hendrik Adams
and Pim Hermans
BAC bv (The BioAffinity Company), Huizerstraatweg 28, 1411 GP Naarden, Naarden, The Netherlands
203 Generation of Fully Human Antibodies Derived from Fab-on-phage Display Libraries. Rapid Kinetic-based Screening of Fab Fragments for Lead Identification
Marc Vanhove

Dyax s.a., Boulevard du Rectorat 27B, Building 22, B-4000 Liege (Sart-Tilman), Belgium
204 Novel Approaches to Affinity Screening
Enrique Carredano
, Katarina Öberg, Tryggve Bergander, Lena Kärf, Charlotte Brink, Kristina Nilsson-Valimaa, Katarina Stenklo, Jan Bergström, Carina Engstrand, Åsa Dahlstedt-Hagman, Niklas Pettersson, Mats Nilsson, Nils Stafström, Karol Lacki, Bo-Lennart Johansson, Jean-Luc Maloisel,
GE Healthcare Biosciences AB, Uppsala, Sweden

Roche Younger Investigators Award Program
Chair: A. Cecilia A. Roque
, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Caparica, Portugal

  Development of HIC Media Useful for Isolation of Proteins Carrying Single Amino Acid Substitutions
Kristian Becker
*, Elisabeth Hallgren**, Enrique Carredano**, Ronnie Palmgren** and Leif Bülow**
*Department of Pure and Applied Biochemistry, Centre for Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Lund University Lund, Sweden **GE Healthcare Bio-Sciences AB, Uppsala, Sweden
  Development of New OMNiMIPs (One Monomer Molecularly Imprinted Polymers)
Jason LeJeune
and David Spivak
Department of Chemistry, Lousiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, USA
  Novel Affinity Ligands for the Purification of Antibody Fragments
Jonathan M. Haigh
, Christopher R. Lowe
Institute of Biotechnology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
  Conformational Flexibility and Kinetic Complexity in Antigen-antibody Interactions
Katerina Kourentzi
, Mohan Srinivasan, Sandra J. Smith-Gill and Richard C Willson
Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Houston, Houston, TX, USA
  Molecular Imprinted Polymers for Selective Protein Adsorption by Miniemulsion Polymerization
Marc Herold
, Klaus Niedergall, Melanie Dettling, Yunxiao Wang, Guenter Tovar Fraunhofer-Institute for Interfacial Engineering and Biotechnology & Institute for Interfacial Engineering, University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany

Tuesday July 10, 2007

Session 3: New Developments in Chromatography
Juan A. Asenjo
, University of Chile, Santiago, Chile

Chairman Introduction
301 Mathematical Modeling of Elution Curves for a Protein Mixture in Chromatography Applied to the Optimal Selection of Operating Conditions
J.A. Asenjo
and B.A. Andrews
Centre for Biochemical Engineering and Biotechnology, Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, University of Chile, Beauchef 861, Santiago, Chile
302 Affinity Interaction under Chaotropic Conditions
Rainer Hahn
1,2, Waltraud Kaar2, Barbara Kanatschnig1, Sabine Geinstetter1, Karin Ahrer1,2 and Alois Jungbauer1,2
1Austrian Center of Biopharmaceutical Technology, Muthgasse 18, 1190 Vienna, Austria
2Department of Biotechnology, University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences, Vienna, Muthgasse 18, 1190 Vienna, Austria
303 Immunoaffinity Capillary Electrophoresis for the Identification and Characterization of Toxic Biomarkers
Norberto A. Guzman

Johnson and Johnson Pharmaceutical Research and Development – Global Preclinical Division, Raritan, New Jersey
304 Biacore Applications for Effective Bio-therapeutic Development
Brian Lang
1 and Fredrik Sundberg2
1Biacore, Inc. part of GE Healthcare, 800 Centennial Ave., Piscataway, NJ 08854
2GE Healthcare Life Sciences, Rapsgatan 7, 75450 Uppsala, Sweden
Lunch Work-
shop
Success Story of MabSelect
Victor Bornsztejn

GE Healthcare Bioprocess, 800 Centennial Ave., Piscataway, NJ 08854 USA

 

Session 4: Nano/Bio/Materials
Richard Willson
, University of Houston, Houston Texas

Chairman Introduction
Pierce
Award
Lecture
Molecular Recognition of Proteins on Surfaces and the Development of Critical Hydrophobicity HIC
Herbert P. Jennissen

Institut für physiologsiche Chemie, Universität-Duisburg-Essen, Hufelandstr. 55, D-45122 Essen, Germany
401 Analyte-Responsive Retro-reflectors for Biochemical Assays and Diagnostics
Steven M. Kemper
1, Tim Sherlock2, Kaajal D. Shah1, Paul Ruchhoeft2, Robert L. Atmar3, and Richard C. Willson1
1Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering,
2Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77204, 3Department of Molecular Virology and Microbiology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030
402 Gold Nanorod Substrates for Localized Surface Plasmon Resonance Sensing
Jason H. Hafner
, Kathryn M. Mayer, Seunghyun Lee, Hongwei Liao, Betty C. Rostro, Peter T. Scully
Department of Physics & Astronomy, Department of Chemistry, Rice University, Houston, TX, USA 77005
403 Discovery and Development of OMNiMIPs: One MoNomer Molecularly Imprinted Polymers
David Spivak

Department of Chemistry, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA
Panel
Dis-
cussion
Trends in Label-free Interaction Analysis - Ashique Rafique (Regeneron), Mathew Kirtley (ForteBio), Brian Lang (GE Healthcare), Voula Kodoyianni (GWC Technologies)

 

Wednesday July 11, 2007

Session 5: Insights into Intra- and Inter- Molecular Recognition
M.A. Vijayalakshmi
, CBST, VIT University, TamilNadu, India

Chairman Introduction
501 Self-Assembly of Soft Molecular Networks: Crystal Design and Curvature
Michael Ward

Molecular Design Institute, Dept. of Chemistry, New York University, New York, NY
502 Molecular Recognition of Foreign Sequences in Engineered 5S
Ribosomal RNA

Xing Zhang1, Ajish S. R. Potty2, George W. Jackson2, George E. Fox1, and
Richard C. Willson1, 2
Department of Biology and Biochemistry1 and Department of Chemical Engineering2, University of Houston, Houston, TX
503 Small-molecule-mediated Rescue of Protein Function by an Inducible Proteolytic Shunt
Matthew Pratt
and Tom Muir
Laboratory of Synthetic Protein Chemistry, The Rockefeller University, 1230 York Avenue, New York, NY 10021

Session 6: Protein Interactions In and On Cells
Irwin Chaiken
, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA

Chairman Introduction
601 Dynamic Visualization of Signaling Activities in Living Cells
Jin Zhang

Depts. Pharmacology/Molecular Sciences and Neuroscience, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
602 Structure and Function of Eukaryotic RNA Exosomes
C.D. Lima
, Q. Liu, J.C. Greimann
Program in Structural Biology, Sloan-Kettering Institute, New York, NY 10021 USA
603 Electrophoretic Fingerprinting of HIV-1 Cell Interaction: a Novel Tool for Development of Charge-Based Strategies
Fairhurst, D
.1, Rowell, R.2, Monahan, I.3, Stieh, D.3, McNeil-Watson, F.4, Morfesis, A.4, Romano, J.1, Shattock, RJ.3 and M. Mitchnick5
1International Partnership for Microbicides, Silver Spring, USA,
2University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA,
3St. Georges Hospital Medical School, London, UK,
4Malvern Instruments Ltd., Malvern, UK,
5Particle Sciences Inc., Bethlehem, USA
  Over-view
Irwin Chaiken
, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA

Thursday July 12, 2007

Session 7: Viruses and Vaccines
Daniel Malamud
, New York University Dental Center, New York, NY

Chairman Introduction
701 Ligand Recognition and Plasticity in HIV Envelope Glycoprotein gp120
Wayne A. Hendrickson
1,2, Hui Xie2,3, Anil Korkut2, Danny Ng4 and Amos B. Smith, III4
1Howard Hughes Medical Institute, 2Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, and 3Department of Pharmacology, Columbia University, New York, NY 10032 USA
4Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104 USA
702 The Role of Antibodies in Preventing and Treating HIV Infection
Susan Zolla-Pazner

New York VA and NYU Medical Centers, New York, NY USA
703 Biomolecule Recognition in Piezoelectric Immunosensors: Application of Piezoimmunosensors for Detection of HIV1 Virion Infectivity Factor
Guilherme N.M. Ferreira
1*, João M. Encarnação1, Luis Rosa1, Rogério Rodrigues1, Luisa Pedro1, Frederico Aires da Silva2, João Gonçalves2
1IBB-Institute for Biotechnology and Bioengineering, Centro de Biomedicina Molecular e Estrutural, Universidade do Algarve, 8000 Faro, Portugal.
2URIA-Centro de Patógenese Molecular, Faculdade de Farmácia, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal
704 Interaction of gp340, a Glycoprotein in the Innate Immune System, with HIV-1 env
Daniel Malamud

New York University Dental Center, New York, NY USA
  ISMR Presidential Announcements

Session 8: Drug Discovery and Diagnostics
Waseem Malick
, Hoffmann - La Roche, Nutley, NJ

Chairman Introduction
801 The Economics of Personalized Medicine: Optimizing Incentives for Innovation
M. J. Finley Austin

Hoffmann - La Roche, Nutley, NJ USA
802 Biomimetic and Supramolecular Scaffolds for Multivalent Display
Kent Kirshenbaum

Department of Chemistry, New York University New York, NY 10003 USA
803 Designing for Success: The Generation of Useful Leads with Small Molecule Libraries
Robert A. Goodnow Jr
.
Discovery Chemistry, Hoffmann-La Roche, Inc., Nutley, NJ USA
804 Cancer Chemotherapy with an FDA Approved Transition State Analog Enzyme Binder
Ronald Breslow

Department of Chemistry, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027 USA
  Closing remarks
Announcement of Affinity 2009 (Iceland),

Hordur Filippusson

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