Just a reminder about our next meeting. An
Dear UK Colleagues,
Just a reminder about our next meeting. Any laboratory staff interested in finding find out more about the current and future role of molecular genetic techniques in clinical biochemistry would be most welcome to attend. Exeter have a special interest in Diabetes research lead by Professor Hattersley and supported by the Molecular Genetics dept. You can check up on the latest news at http://www.projects.ex.ac.uk/diabetesgenes/
Roy Fisher
ACB SW & Wessex Region Meetings Secretary
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ACB South West and Wessex Region Scientific Meeting
Discovery day in Old Dumnonia - Pharmacogenetics Update for the Clinical Biochemist
Postgraduate Centre, Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital, Exeter
Tuesday 7th March 2006
10.00 - 17.15 followed by the AGM
10.00 Registration and Coffee
10.30 Welcome: Dr John O'Connor, RDEH
10.35 Pharmacogenomics, setting the scene
Mr Mike Hallworth, Shrewsbury
11.15 Establishing and maintaining a national TPMT screening service
Dr Jonathan Berg, Birmingham
11.55 TPMT genotyping and its role as part of a routine service
Dr Loretta Ford, Birmingham
12.40 Lunch/Trade Exhibition
13.40 The sugar pills work now doctor
Dr Sian Ellard, Exeter
14.20 Polygenic diabetes, new perspectives
Dr Tim Frayling, Exeter
15.00 Tea/Trade Exhibition
15.30 UGT-1A1: more than just Gilbert's?
Ms Roberta Goodall, Bristol
16.05 New chips on the block
Mr Ewan Wilkinson, Roche Diagnostics
16.40 A Curious Case of Hypokalaemia
Dr Marion Croft, Exeter
17.15 AGM
Meeting is sponsored by Affymetrix UK Ltd.and Roche Diagnostics
Registration cost is just £20 for ACB and IBMS members, free for Grade A trainees, £25 to others. Closing date, 28th February 2006.
For further details and to register please visit www.acbsww.org.uk or contact Dr Roy Fisher, Department of Clinical Chemistry, Royal Cornwall Hospital, Truro, TR1 3LJ. Tel: 01872 - 252546.
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