WORKSHOP IN TISSUE IMAGING

3rd and 4th November 2011

INIBIC - Hospital Universitario A Coruña

The registration period will close on on 28th October

Proteomics, the systematic analysis of the protein complement of cells, tissues and organisms, is now applied in biomedical, clinical sciences and in molecular cell biology for fundamental studies. Mass spectrometry is at center stage in proteomics research projects, providing high-sensitivity identification, detailed characterization and quantitation of individual proteins in complex mixtures.

Imaging mass spectrometry (IMS) facilitate precise location of bio-molecules, drugs, their metabolites and the bio-molecular aberrations they target. This information can be used to determine tumor margins, drug distribution throughout a tissue or organism, and proteomic profiles under different experimental or therapeutic conditions.

Nevertheless, despite the wide range of in vivo and ex vivo imaging techniques available nowadays, the perfect solution in terms of resolution and sensitivity does not exist and the full picture of a biological, physiological and/or medical problem can often be outlined only by combination of anatomical, functional and molecular information.

The aim of this Workshop is to show to the Proteomic and Clinical Investigators New Technologies and Tools using the image as a support and the potential applications of these techniques.

Organizers:

Dr. Juan Pablo Albar, ProteoRed General Coordinator
Centro Nacional de Biotecnología, CSIC

Dr. Francisco J. Blanco, INIBIC Scientific Director
Complejo Hospitalario Universitario Juan Canalejo