Wednesday,
08:00 – 12:00 March 14, 2007 - Where: Delta Barrington-Sackville, Halifax, Nova Scotia
Dr.
James Mahony
Development and Clinical Evaluation of a New Fluidic Micro-Array Assay,
the ID-Tag™ RVP assay, for the Detection of Respiratory Viruses
James Mahony, PhD, FCCM, FAAM, Professor, Pathology and Molecular
Medicine, McMaster University.
Director, Regional Virology and Chlamydiology Laboratory, St. Joseph's Healthcare,
Hamilton, Ontario.
Sponsor: TM BioScience
Dr. Yi-Wei Tang
Development and Validation of a StaphPlex System for Rapid and
On-demand Identification and Characterization of Staphylococci from Positive
Blood Cultures
Yi-Wei Tang, MD, PhD, DABMM, FAAM, Associate Professor,
Director of the Molecular Infectious Diseases Laboratory, Department of
Infectious Disease - Medicine (Adult) at Vanderbilt University, Nashville,
Tennessee
Sponsor: Genaco Biomedical Products Inc
Dr.
Joseph Yao
Good QA and QC Practices for Molecular Diagnostic Microbiology
Tests
Joseph D. Yao, MD, FRCPC, DABMM, is the Director of the
Hepatitis/HIV Testing Laboratory, Division of Clinical Microbiology, Department
of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology at the Mayo Clinic; Associate Professor,
Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, Minnesota, USA.
Sponsor: Roche Diagnostics
Purchase
of the projector: Bayer Diagnostics
Other: Bio-Rad
Laboratories, Inc
The Canadian
College of Microbiologists gratefully acknowledges the valuable contribution
of its sponsors towards the recognition and the continuing education of
the microbiologists in Canada.
