TAC2007 – Glasgow – 3-4 April 2007

 

Schedule

 

Tuesday 3 April 2007

 

 

08:30 – 09:15            Registration & Coffee

 

09:15            Introduction: Chairman’s remarks & housekeeping matters

 

09:30            Session I: Pharmaceutical applications of thermal analysis

 

Pharmaceutical applications - general topics and new developments

 

10:20            Refreshment break – posters & exhibits

           

11:00   Robert Forbes (Bradford). Applications of thermal methods in biopharmaceutical formulation

 

11:30   Patricia Pereira (Strathclyde). Applications of DSC to protein formulation

 

 

12:00   Ronan O’Brien (MicroCal) Enantiomeric discrimination by calorimetric methods

 

12:30   Buffet lunch

13:30   TMG Annual General Meeting

 

14:00            Session II: Thermal methods in catalysis and materials chemistry

 

Adsorption calorimetry: a versatile tool for the study of catalytic surfaces and their active sites.

 

14:50   Rob Brown (Huddersfield) Ammonia adsorption calorimetric studies of supported sulfonic acid catalysts

 

15:15            Refreshment break – posters & exhibits

 

 

15:45   Justin Hargreaves (Glasgow) A TGA and TEM investigation of the nature of carbon deposition during methane dehydroaromatisation over MoO3/H-ZSM-5 based catalysts

 

16:10   John Liggatt (Strathclyde) Sub-Ambient Thermal Volatilisation Analysis – A Valuable Technique Brought in from the Cold

 

16:35   Ted Charsley (Huddersfield) Thermal Studies on the Energetic Inorganic Oxidant Potassium Dinitramide

 

 

17:00 - 17:45            Poster session

 

19:00            Conference Dinner

 

 

Wednesday 4 April 2007

 

 

09:00            Session III: Post-genomic thermochemistry and biomolecular calorimetry

 

Pressure Perturbation Calorimetric Studies of the Solvation, Unfolding, Aggregation

and Amyloidogenesis of Proteins

 

09:50   Alan Cooper (Glasgow) Thermal analysis of solvation changes in non-covalent complexes

 

10:15            Refreshment break – posters & exhibits

 

11:00            Anthony Keeble  (Cambridge) Microcalorimetry of protein-ligand interactions

 

 

11:30            Guilherme Brand (Glasgow/EMBRAPA) ITC and DSC of interactions of antimicrobial peptides with membranes

 

12:00   Paul Nesvadba (Rubislaw) Water binding in egg proteins

 

 

12:30   Buffet lunch

 

 

14:00            Session IV: Submicro-microcalorimetry: prospects for chip-based/high-throughput thermal analysis

 

Integrating Lab-on-a-Chip Technologies with Nanocalorimetry

 

14:50   Mike Reading (UEA) Progress in Nano Scale Thermal Analysis

 

15:20            Refreshment break – posters & exhibits

 

15:45            Christoph Schick (Rostock) Non Adiabatic Thin-Film (Chip) Nanocalorimetry for Fast (100000 K/s) Heating and AC-calorimetry

 

16:30   Rod Bottom (Mettler) Sample Controlled Hot Stage Microscopy - save time and increase resolution in thermal microscopy measurements

 

 

p.m. Close

 

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