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We send our team of scientific experts to scientific meetings all over the world to ensure we keep up-to-date with the latest research. Here's what our staff have been up to recently:

• Lorna went to the sixth bi-annual Cell Cycle Meeting at the Salk Institute in La Jolla, CA, US. Approximately 120 researchers attended the meeting, including a large representation from the San Diego institutes. Topics included DNA damage, cancer and mitosis. Our posters and pathway cards were very popular with the attendees, especially the cyclins and cell cycle regulation, p53 and DNA repair posters.
• Cathrin and Daniele joined an international audience of 800 scientists at the eighth European symposium of the Protein Society in Zurich, Switzerland.
• Abcam organized the CGMH International Symposium on Disease Proteomics in association with the Taiwanese Society of Molecular Medicine, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital and our Taiwanese distributor, Interlab. There were 13 talks by speakers from Hong Kong, Taiwan and Korea, and 41 posters were displayed at the meeting.
• Sambhav attended the Gordon Research Conference on G Protein Mediated Signaling Networks at the University of New England, ME, US. The meeting was held over five days and 150 delegates attended.
• Katja, Catarina, and Candy were at the third FEMS Congress of European Microbiologists in Gothenburg, Sweden this week.
• Daniele and Tanya are heading to Prague, Czech Republic for the 34th FEBS conference starting this weekend.

If you'd like to meet us and give feedback on our products, find out about licensing your antibodies, or just talk about the latest developments in your area of research, check out the other scientific tradeshows we will be attending, and the calendar of our own scientific conferences.

Here's the latest in a series of regular posts to let you know what our scientific experts have been up. In the last couple of weeks:

• Daniele went to Riva del Garda, IT, for the 15th annual Telethon Scientific Convention, March 9-11. 800 scientists attended this event, which showcased state of the art research on rare genetic diseases from in vitro studies to clinical trials
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• Lorna attended the Hypoxia and Consequences conference held at New York, NY, March 12 - 14. The meeting covered three main topics: transcriptional responses to hypoxia, oxygen sensing and pathophysiological responses to hypoxia.
• Catherine and Kate went to Oxford, UK for the BSI Oxford Immunology group meeting: 'Lymphocytes, Memory and Disease'. This prestigious event brought together 150 delegates to discuss T cell differentiatation and to celebrate the career of Professor Peter Beverly.
• Chris was in New Haven, CO for the annual conference StemConn, organized by the Harvard and Yale Stem Cell Institutes. Our posters and pathways were particularly popular, with over 500 copies flying off the Abcam stand!

Check out other scientific tradeshows we will be attending, and the calendar of our own scientific events.

Here's an quick update on what our scientific experts have been up to recently:

• Rachel attended a course on ChIP-on-ChIP held in Hinxton, UK by the Wellcome Trust. Abcam provided free antibodies for all the scientists to use during the course, with the organizers mentioning how pleased they were with the quality of the antibodies. c-Myc antibody [9E11] - ChIP Grade (ab56), Histone H2A.Z antibody - ChIP Grade (ab4174) , RNA polymerase II CTD repeat YSPTSPS antibody [4H8] - ChIP Grade (ab5408) , HA tag antibody - ChIP Grade (ab9110) all worked extremely well.
• Abarna and Candy joined over 70 delegates from the UK and Europe at 'p53 MicroRNA and Cancer' in Leicester, UK. Our new Production and actions of small RNAs poster (in association with Nature) was particularly popular.

• Abarna and Candy also attended 'DNA damage: from causes to cures' run by the Biochemical Society. They made the most of our UK offices' prime location in Cambridge, UK, as the meeting was held just down the road at Robinson College, Cambridge University: no global jet-setting required!

Or at least that's what it looked like to me...

Terence and Jeong Suk visited China recently to host five seminars on ChIP and Western Blot applications in Beijing, Shanghai, and Hong Kong. In total, over 450 delegates attended the seminars, and it seems that Molly the sheep wanted to come along too.

Having read all the feedback comments about our website, I know that there are some pretty big fans of Molly out there. If you can't tell, we're all pretty keen on her too!

At the end of each seminar there was a Q&A session, which proved to be very popular. Questions included:

Abcam is heading to San Francisco! Our scientific experts are in town attending two meetings: we do this to ensure that we keep abreast of the latest cutting-edge research, and stay in touch with our customers.

Last week, Ariel, Lee, Seema, Dan and Kimberly joined over 20,000 attendees at the American Society of Hematology meeting. This was the first time we've attended this meeting, and our CD antigen chart and Chemokines and their receptors poster were particularly popular with the clinicians and researchers that we met.

This week Jaime, Kristine, Chris, Karen, Michael and Philippe are at the 48th annual meeting of the American Society for Cell Biology. I'll be sure to let you know how they get on!

A bumper update on what our scientific experts have been up to recently:

• Jaime and Kristine went to the American Heart Association's scientific conference in New Orleans, LA, US. If you weren't one of the 30,000 doctors, nurses, pharmaceutical representatives, and other health care professionals who attended, you can get hold of our Cardiovascular resources and pathway posters online.
• The 38th annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience was held in Washington, DC, US. Kristine, Seema, Abarna, Bill and Dan joined over 33,000 attendees at the largest Neuroscience conference worldwide.
• Candy and Danielle attended 'Epigenetic mechanisms in health and disease - from biology to medicine' at the Said Business School, Oxford, UK. The meeting was heavily over-subscribed and should take place bi-annually, so we look forward to taking part again in two years' time.
• Roisin and Andy went to the Protein Science Forum in Bracknell, UK.
• Jeong Suk and Terrence are in China this week to host five seminars on ChIP technique.

As well as sending our scientific experts all over the world to keep up-to-date with the latest research, we organize our own conferences to provide opportunities for scientists to get together and showcase their work .

Here's the latest in a series of regular posts to let you know what our scientific experts have been up to recently:

• Sambhav was at the 12th annual meeting of the Signal Transduction Society, held in Weimar, Germany. This was the first meeting we've attended since launching our Signal Transduction section of products.
• Candy attended the 3rd International conference on MicroRNAs at University of Cambridge, UK. This meeting brought together 180 participants to discuss the topic 'biology to development and disease'.
• Terence went to the 67th Japanese Cancer Conference in Nagoya City, Japan. This three-day event is the biggest annual Cancer research gathering in Japan.
• We held our first Multidrug Resistance and ABC Transporters conference in Baltimore, MD, US. Organized by Dr Suresh V Ambudkar (National Cancer Institute, NIH) and Abcam, the meeting covered multidrug resistance in Cancer and ABC transporters: basic, clinical, regulation and drug-drug interaction aspects.

This week Jaime, Sybille and Kristine will be at the American Heart Association, New Orleans, LA, US. Stop by booth 3106 to view our Cardiovascular resources, pathway posters, and discuss our Cardiovascular antibodies.

Check out other scientific tradeshows we will be attending, and the calendar of our own scientific events.

Here's the latest in a series of regular posts to let you know what our scientific experts have been up to recently:

• Jeong Suk attended the fourth Congress of Federation of Immunologoical Societies of Asia-Oceania, which was held in Tapei, Taiwan. She also attended the ninth International Congress on Cell Biology in Seoul, Korea.
• Candy and Rachel attended the third ESF conference on 'Functional genomics and disease' in Innsbruck, Austria. This meeting brought together world leaders in functional genomics to discuss the current understanding of disease mechanisms, the challenges ahead and the technologies that will lead to novel solutions.
• The Gene Regulatory Mechanisms and Development Symposium organized by Laurie Boyer and Abcam was held at Harvard Medical School, Boston, US. Topics included chromatin structure and function, non coding RNA in dosage compensation and chromatin organization, RNA splicing and regulation, and genomic analysis of gene regulation.

We send our scientific experts all over the world, to ensure we keep abreast of the latest cutting-edge research, source and develop antibodies to exciting new targets, and provide the best possible scientific support to our customers. Check out the scientific tradeshows we will be attending, and the calendar of our own scientific events.