SCHEDULE FOR LUNCH-TIME WORKSHOPS Venues: LT 7 and LT7A, NUS, Singapore Time: 12:45PM - 2:15PM   (Due to seats limitation, pre-registration is advised. Lunch will be provided by participating company) Monday 4 th December, 2006 Venue: LT7A Sponsor: GE Healthcare Proteomic analyses of signal transduction pathways using 2D DIGE Seisuke Hattori, PhD.   Division of Cellular Proteomics (BML), Institute of Medical Science, University of Tokyo  High quality screening and characterization applications using label-free protein interaction analysis Anna Sylvan, Marketing Manager, Biacore Inc. abstracts Venue: LT7 Sponsor: Sigma-Aldrich Immunoaffinity Depletion of Twenty Highly Abundant Proteins in Human Plasma For Biomarker Discovery Dian Er Chen, Sigma-Aldrich Corporation, Research & Development Principal Investigator—Proteomics A Novel Silica-Based Immobilized Metal Affinity Chromatography (IMAC) Technology for the Enrichment of Phosphopeptides Following Sample Preparation using an  Immobilized Trypsin Spin Column Dian Er Chen, Sigma-Aldrich Corporation, Research & Development Principal Investigator—Proteomics abstracts Tuesday 5 th December, 2006 Venue: LT7A Sponsor: AB/ MDS Sciex From Proteomics to Protein-Based Biomarkers: A Toolbox of Opportunity Dale H. Patterson, Director, World Wide Application Support, Proteomics and Small Molecule Division, Applied Biosystems Framingham, MA, USA abstracts Venue: LT7 Sponsor: BioRad Architecture and design of protein-protein binding sites using the proteon™ XPR36 protein interaction array system Gideon Schreiber , Department of Biological Chemistry, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel Actin Deficiency Induces Cofilin Phosphorylation: Proteome Analysis of HeLa Cells After beta-Actin Gene Silencing Aran Paulus, Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc., Hercules, CA abstracts Wednesday, 6 th December, 2006 Venue: LT7A Sponsor: Thermo/ Alpha Analytical Extending the Reach of Proteomics with ETD: Improved Protein Coverage, Phosphopeptide Detection and Intact Protein Analysis Ken Miller, Thermo Electron, Product Marketing Manager, Proteomic, Finnigan Mass Spectrometry abstracts Venue: LT7 Sponsor: Invitrogen Advancing Discovery with high density protein microarrays - finding the markers that matter. Michael Synder, PhD Department of Molecular, Cellular, & Developmental Biology, Yale University, New Haven, CT USA Proteomic technologies for drug discovery Yoshiya Oda (Eisai Co., Ltd. JAPAN) abstracts Thursday, 7 th December, 2006 Venue: LT7A Sponsor: Agilent Agilent’s advanced solutions for front end proteomic sample preparation and proteomics research Rudolf Grimm, Worldwide Proteomics and Metabolomics Market Development Manager, Life Sciences and Chemical Analysis, Agilent Technologies Inc., Santa Clara, USA OFFGEL Electrophoresis and LC-MS : A New Multidimensional Approach to Mining of Low Abundant Proteins in Complex Samples Dr. Chen Wei abstracts Venue: LT7 Sponsor: Pall Life Sciences Depletion of albumin and IgG from serum and plasma follwed by ion exchange fractionation - rapid strategies for sample complexity reduction for proteomics Chitra Thangavel, PhD, Pall India Pvt Ltd, No1, Sarrakki Industrial Layout, Ring road, 6th Phase, JP Nagar, Bangalore - 560 078 abstracts