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The 4th annual Atlantic Omics Symposium was a great success

The ACRI and its Atlantic Microarray Facility, in collaboration with the National Research Council Canada, held the 4th annual AOS symposium on August 19 & 20th with great success as more than 140 participants from throughout Canada, several U.S. states and Europe attended. This symposium was an excellent forum that saw stimulating exchanges on the current state of emerging technologies in the broad area of “omics”.

From Left to Right :

Dr. Andrew Reddick,
Director,
Institute for Information Technology, National Research Council of Canada

Dr. István Pelczer, Keynote Speaker
Lecturer, Senior NMR Spectroscopist
Department of Chemistry,
Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey

Dr. W. Ford Doolittle, Keynote Speaker
Professor Emiritus,
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia

Dr. Rodney Ouellette
Scientific Director and CEO,
Atlantic Cancer Research Institute, Atlantic Microarray Facility

Dr. Liang Li, Keynote Speaker
Professor and Canada Research Chair in Analytical Chemistry
University of Alberta, Calgary, Alberta

Also a Keynote Speaker, Dr. Stephen F. Kingsmore, President of the National Center for Genome Resources, Santa Fe, in New Mexico was unavailable for this photo.

Symposium Web Site : www.atlanticcancer.ca/aos

Media Coverage

Here are some links to articles that were published following this event :

* http://www.capacadie.com/AcadieNouvelle/2008/8/21/Les_Acadiens_085.cfm
* http://timestranscript.canadaeast.com/search/article/392159
* http://telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com/search/article/390698
* http://timestranscript.canadaeast.com/search/article/390856
* http://telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com/search/article/395728
* Bangor Daily News, Thursday, August 21, 2008 : Northern Maine cancer rate studied