Office of Postdoctoral Affairs
Career Resources
Technical Skills Seminars
WINTER/SPRING 2011
Tuesday, March 8, 2011
| TECHNICAL SKILLS SEMINAR SERIES | |
| Guest Speaker | Daniel W. Beacham, PhD |
| Title | Fluorescence Labeling and Detection Strategies in Cellular Biology |
| Company | Molecular Probes/Invitrogen |
| Location | JAH 407 |
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
| TECHNICAL SKILLS SEMINAR SERIES | |
| Guest Speaker | John (Yoshi) Shyu, PhD, Field Application Scientist |
| Title | TBA |
| Company | Corning |
| Location | JAH 407 |
January 18, 2011
| TECHNICAL SKILLS SEMINAR SERIES | |
| Guest Speakers | Jeremy Minarcik, Senior Life Science Specialist, or Joseph Frangipane, PhD, Field Application Specialist |
| Title | Comprehensive Functional Genomics Tool for Gene Target Identification, Validation, and Evaluation in vitro and in vivo |
| Company | Sigma |
| Location | JAH 407 |
FALL 2010
Tuesday, November 16, 2010
| TECHNICAL SKILLS SEMINAR SERIES | |
| Guest Speaker | TBA |
| Title | TBA |
| Company | Perkin-Elmer |
| Location | TBA |
SUMMER 2010
Tuesday, July 27, 2010
| TECHNICAL SKILLS SEMINAR SERIES | |
| Guest Speaker | Thien Dinh, PhD, Field Application Scientist |
| Title | Advancing Biomarker and Research Discovery using Protein Microarrays |
| Company | Invitrogen |
| Location | Hamilton 505 |
WINTER/SPRING 2010
Thursday, November 18
| TECHNICAL SKILLS SEMINAR SERIES | |
| Guest Speaker | Andrew Quong, PhD |
| Title | TBA |
| Company | Jefferson Proteomics Core Facility |
| Location | BLSB 202 |
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
| TECHNICAL SKILLS SEMINAR SERIES | |
| Guest Speaker | Charles Ngowe, PhD |
| Title | Targeted Genome Editing in Mammalian Cells Using Engineered Zinc Finger Nucleases |
| Company | SIGMA-ALDRICH |
| Location | JAH 407 |
SUMMER/FALL 2009
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
| TECHNICAL SKILLS SEMINAR SERIES | |
| Guest Speaker | Vandi Bharucha, PhD; Americas Business Manager, Primary and Stem Cell Systems |
| Title | ES and iPS Cells: A Cultural Revolution |
| Company | Invitrogen |
| Location | JAH 207 |
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
| TECHNICAL SKILLS SEMINAR SERIES | |
| Guest Speaker | Sybille Rex, PhD, Abcam Scientific Support Specialist |
| Title | Immunoprecipitation – Procedures, Pitfalls, and Protocol Tips |
| Company | Abcam |
| Location | JAH 207 |
Monday, September 14 , 2009
| TECHNICAL SKILLS SEMINAR SERIES | |
| Guest Speaker | David J. Sieg, PhD, Drug Discovery Specialist, PerkinElmer |
| Title | ALPHA-SureFire® Technology – Detection of Phosphorylated Samples |
| Company | Perkin-Elmer |
| Location | JAH 407 |
Wednesday, August 12, 2009
| TECHNICAL SKILLS SEMINAR SERIES | |
| Guest Speaker | John Shyu, PhD |
| Title | Solving Cell Culture Problems |
| Company | Corning Life Sciences |
| Location | Hamilton Bldg 505 |
WINTER/SPRING 2009
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
| TECHNICAL SKILLS SEMINAR SERIES | |
| Guest Speaker | Dr. Sunil Mukhopadhyay |
| Title | Roche xCelligence System – A new frontier in real-time, label-free cellular assays for cell proliferation, cytotoxicity, receptor-ligand interactions, cell invasion, and migration |
| Company | Roche Diagnostics Corporation |
| Location | JAH 207 |
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
| TECHNICAL SKILLS SEMINAR SERIES | |
| Guest Speaker | Sun Luo |
| Title | New Tools for the Study of Protein Dynamics in Live Cells |
| Company | New England BioLabs, Inc |
| Location | Hamilton 505 |
Wednesday, March 25 , 2009
| TECHNICAL SKILLS SEMINAR SERIES | |
| Guest Speaker | Dr. Carlisle Landel Director, Transgenic and Gene Targeting Facility |
| Title | Development of Transgenic Animals |
| Company | Jefferson Kimmel Cancer Center |
| Location | Hamilton 505 |
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
| TECHNICAL SKILLS SEMINAR SERIES | |
| Guest Speaker | Corey Williams |
| Title | 454 Sequencing Technologies |
| Company | Eurofins MWG Operon |
| Location | Brent Auditorium (Enter from Mezzanine or 2nd Floor, east end, JAH) |
Wednesday, January 21, 2009
| TECHNICAL SKILLS SEMINAR SERIES | |
| Guest Speaker | Dolores Ciufo |
| Title | Next Generation Flow Cytometry Reagents |
| Company | Invitrogen Corporation |
| Location | BLSB 105 |
FALL 2008
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
| TECHNICAL SKILLS SEMINAR SERIES | |
| Speaker | Rick Ando, PhD, Field Application Scientist |
| Title | Quantitative Analysis of Multiple Target Molecules from a Single Sample Using Bio-Plex Technology: What is Possible and What is New |
| Company | Bio-Rad Laboratories |
| Location | JAH 407 |
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
| TECHNICAL SKILLS SEMINAR SERIES | |
| Speaker | Carl Apgar, PerkinElmer Drug Discovery Specialist |
| Title | Tyramide Signal Amplification: Ultra Sensitivity for IHC, in situ Hybridization, ELISA, and Arrays |
| Company | PerkinElmer |
| Location | BLSB 107 |
WINTER/SPRING 2008
Thursday, August 21, 2008
“Immunohistochemistry: Methodologies and Novel Approaches for Antigen detection”
Speaker: Jeremy Minarcik, Research Biotech Specialist
Company: Sigma-Aldrich
BLSB 107
Wednesday, April 23, 2008
"Infrared Fluorescent Imaging for Western Blot"
Speaker: Wilson Tawe, PhD, MBA, Senior Field Applications Scientist
Company: LI-COR, Inc
BLSB 105
Wednesday, March 26, 2008
“Detecting Protein-Protein Interactions In Vivo”
Speaker: Ken Hamill
Company: Abcam
BLSB 105
Thursday, February 28, 2008
"Relative and Absolute Quantitative Proteomics Using Mass Spectrometry"
Speaker: Charles Ngowe
Company: Sigma
BLSB 105
Wednesday, January 16, 2008
“Solutions for Insoluble Problems: Exploring the Synergy of Hydrostatic
Pressure and Chemistry for Biological Sample Preparation”
Speaker: Alexander Lazarev PhD
Company: Pressure Biosciences, Inc
BLSB 105
FALL 2007
Tuesday, December 11, 2007
“Epidemiology and Biostatistics Using SAS Enterprise Guide”
Susan Walsh, Program Developer
BLSB 101
10:00-11:30 AM — Epidemiology
1:00-2:30 PM — Biostatistics
Thursday, November 29, 2007
“The Utilization Of Phosphospecific Antibodies and Kinases In Basic Research”
Presented by Cell Signaling, Vicki McCulloch, PhD, Drug Discovery Specialist
BLSB 105
Thursday, October 25, 2007
"Real-Time PCR and miRNA," presented by Applied Biosystems
BLSB 105
SPRING 2007
Tuesday, April 10, 2007
FlowJo Workshop
Following the extremely popular flow cytometry technical skills seminars last year, the JPA is hosting a workshop on the flow cytometry analysis software package – FlowJo. This is a 3 hour session but please feel free to come to individual talks if you cannot make the whole workshop.
JAH 407
Tuesday, March 27, 2007
Bioinformatics and RNAi, presented by Mitchell Gore, PhD from Integrated DNA Technologies (IDT)
207 JAH
March 1, 2007
Thermo Scientific SearchLight® Quantitative Protein Arrays:
Chemiluminescent and Infrared Options for Cytokine and Biomarker Profiling,
presented by Thermo Fisher Scientific
Scott Van Arsdell, PhD
JAH 207
February 27, 2007
DNA Tranfections: Optimization Tips, presented by Roche Applied Science
Linda B. Jacobsen, PhD
JAH 139
January 25, 2007
NCBI Bioinformatics Mini-course, presented by NCBI
Morning Session: Identification of Disease Genes (NCBI Course No. 3),
presented by Steve Pechous
9:00-10:30 AM lecture, 10:45-11:45 AM hands-on | LRC (307 Scott Library)
Afternoon Session: Correlating Disease Genes and Phenotypes (NCBI Course No. 4),
presented by Matten Wayne
1:00-2:30 PM lecture, 2:45-3:45 PM hands-on | 1310 Edison
January 24th, 2007
NCBI Bioinformatics Mini-course, presented by NCBI
Morning Session: Making Sense of DNA and Protein Sequences (NCBI Course No. 1),
presented by Matten Wayne
9:00-10:30 AM lecture, 10:45-11:45 AM hands-on | LRC (307 Scott Library)
Afternoon Session: Structural Analysis Quick Start (NCBI Course No. 7),
presented by Steve Pechous
1:00-2:30 PM lecture; 2:45-3:45 PM hands-on | 1310 Edison
FALL 2006
November 14, 2006
Quantitative Proteomics and RNAi, presented by Sigma-Aldrich
Trey Henry, PhD
207 JAH
October 3, 2006
Real-time Quantitative PCR and RT-PCR, presented by Invitrogen
Cheryl M. Denault, PhD
139 JAH
September 16, 2006
RNAi Knockdown and miRNA Quantification, presented by Applied Biosystems
Rob Genuario, PhD
207 JAH
September 11, 2006
Advanced TET System and SMART RACE, presented by Clontech
Diazong Li, PhD
207 JAH

