October 27

When:	Wednesday October 27, 1999
Where:	Sheraton Imperial 4700 Emperor Blvd. Durham, North Carolina 27703 Phone: (919) 941-5050 Fax: (919) 941-2958 Website: www.sheratonrtp.com
Itinerary:	1:30 to 2:00 PM - Poster setup, Registration, and light Refreshments 2:00 to 4:30 PM – Speaker Presentations and Discussion 4:30 to 6:00 PM - Poster Viewing and Social Period with Food
Registration:	As always the meeting is free, as are the food and non-alcoholic beverages. Registration is requested but not required. Please register by sending an email to Jeff G Wegrzyn (wegrzyn_jeff_g@lilly.com with "October 27, 1999 Meeting" in the subject line. Your early registration will allow us to properly judge the amount of food needed for the meeting.
Food Sponsors:	Please support our refreshment sponsors. BeckmanCoulter Tecan IGEN International QIAGEN Inc. Alcott Chromatography Inc
Speaker Presentations:	Dr. Dale Christensen Novalon Pharmaceutical Corp. Molecular Braille: A Novel Technology for Identification and Characterization of Compounds that Modulate Receptor Function. Dr. Jorge Daniel Cortese UNC School of Medicine Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy: Inspecting molecules and their interactions at HTS speed. Dr. Yan Zhang-Klompus LJL BioSystems Homogeneous, High Throughput Detection of SNPs Using Fluorescent Technologies. Dr. Jeffrey A. Heroux IGEN International Inc The Use of ORIGEN Technology as a Detection Platform in the Drug Discovery Process
Poster Presentations	The following vendors will be presenting posters. BeckmanCoulter Tecan Bohdan Kendro Laboratory Products Labsystems Oxford Molecular Luminex Corporation Gilson, Inc. Tomtec IDBS PE Biosystems Tropix Division Argonaut Technologies Alcott Chromatography Inc. QIAGEN LJL BioSystems Robbins Scientific Cellomics, Inc. The following non-vendors will be presenting posters. Ormand, James Glaxo Wellcome GDO/IS Automation and Chromatography Robotics Team Bruner, Jimmy Glaxo Wellcome Expanding the Capabilities of the Zymark BenchMate Birkemo, Larry Glaxo Wellcome Automated in vitro Assessment of Human CYP 3A and 2D6 Inhibition Using a Microsoft Excel® -Based User Interface and a Gilson 215 Sample Processor David Igo Glaxo Wellcome Automating Solubility Determinations Within Pharmaceutical Development Using a Gilson Liquid Handler
Directions:	Sheraton Imperial 4700 Emperor Blvd. Durham, North Carolina 27703 Phone: (919) 941-5050 Fax: (919) 941-2958 Website: www.sheratonrtp.com From Raleigh and Raleigh-Durham International Airport (10-minute drive) Take Aviation Parkway to I-40. Take I-40 West toward Durham and Chapel Hill. Take exit #282, Page Road. At the yield sign at the bottom of the exit ramp, take a right. Get into the far-left lane and take a left at the first light. The hotel is up one block on the left. From Downtown Durham (10-minute drive) Take hwy 147 south. Take I-40 East toward Raleigh. Take exit #282, Page Road. At the bottom of the exit ramp, proceed straight across Page Road into the imperial Center. The hotel is up one block on the left. From Chapel Hill (20-minute drive) Take I-40 East toward Raleigh. Take exit #282, Page Road. At the bottom of the exit ramp, proceed straight across Page Road into the imperial Center. The hotel is up one block on the left.