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Visiting the HUPO 8th Annual World Congress in Toronto

Posted by ludesi in News, Random Ramblings

Last week we greatly enjoyed taking part at the HUPO meeting in Toronto.  For those of you unfamiliar with the Human Proteome Organisation (HUPO), it can be described in a nutshell as aiming to foster international proteomic initiatives to better understand human disease.

Since it’s launch February 2001, HUPO has been organizing world congresses every year and lucky for us at Ludesi, this means we get to jet-set to exciting cities such as Seoul and Amsterdam, and meet some of the leading researchers in the field. As always, we greatly enjoyed meeting old as well as new faces and hearing about whats new and what’s hot in the world of proteomics.

Probably as a result of the financial crisis, this years meeting in Toronto was slightly smaller than usual, but still well enough attended to ensure you will never be able to meet and see everyone/everything you would like to.

The talks and posters provided us with a great overview of the cutting-edge science currently being carried out in proteomics and taken together with the stimulating discussions we had, we have returned to Sweden with lots of great ideas for REDFIN and Ludesi in general.

Unfortunately, the organizers failed to schedule specific poster sessions this year, which meant it was difficult for the presenters of posters to interact with those interested to discuss their research further. Lets hope this gets rectified in next years HUPO taking place in wonderful Sidney!

G’day mate! Looking forward to being there!

Otherwise we’d like to thank everyone involved for making it such an enjoyable event!