Welcome to the ISAC 2006 Congress Website. Here will be the resource gathering point for the 2006 congress. Keep visiting this site for updates.

At this years ISAC congress we produced a newsletter every day and distributed it at the morning Frontiers sessions each day. In all we produced 5 newsletters and they appeared to be a really useful addition to the congress. Kathy Beaver from Purdue was responsible for putting them together with a team of students and lots of support from Scott Cram. All of the newletters are linked below for your information.

• Saturday, May 20^th
• Sunday, May 21^st
• Monday, May 22^nd
• Tuesday, May 23^rd
• Wednesday, May 24^th

ISAC Pre-congress imaging course

THE COURSE IS NOW FULL

Short course description

Modern optical microscopy provides powerful tools for studying biological samples varying from sub-cellular structures through cells and tissues to whole species. Effective use of these techniques, especially where quantitative imaging is important , requires in-depth knowledge about optics, spectroscopy, and image processing. The goal of this workshop is to provide that necessary background.

2006 Robert Hooke Lecture will be presented by Stephen Lewis

The 2006 Robert Hooke distinguished lecturer is Stephen Lewis, Canadian of the Year in 2003, and in 2005 one of TIME magazines 100 Most Influential People In The World. Steven Lewis was appointed by UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan as his Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa in 2001. The Stephen Lewis Foundation, of which he is the director, is dedicated to easing the pain of HIV/AIDS in Africa. Mr. Lewis is also currently a Commissioner for the World Health Organization's Commission on the Social Determinants of Health.

Roger Y. Tsien

Roger Y. Tsien was born in New York City in 1952 and received his A.B. in Chemistry and Physics summa cum laude from Harvard College in 1972. A Marshall Scholarship then took him to the Physiological Laboratory at the University of Cambridge, where he received his Ph.D. in 1977 and remained as a Research Fellow until 1981. He then became an Assistant, Associate, then full Professor in the Dept. of Physiology-Anatomy at the University of California, Berkeley. In 1989 he moved to the University of California, San Diego, where he is an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Professor in the Depts. of Pharmacology and of Chemistry & Biochemistry. In 1996 he was a scientific co-founder of Aurora Biosciences Corporation, which went public in 1997 and was acquired by Vertex Pharmaceuticals in 2001. In 1999 he was a scientific co-founder of Senomyx, Inc.