Advances in qPCR Keynote Speakers

Stephen Bustin Professor, Anglia Ruskin University Stephen Bustin obtained his PhD from Trinity College, University of Dublin in molecular genetics. Since 1989 he has worked at the Royal London Hospital and was awarded a personal chair by the University of London in 2004. He was appointed as a visiting Professor of Molecular Biology by the University of Middlesex in 2006. He has a special interest in molecular technologies and his laboratory operates at the forefront of technological development in nucleic acid quantification. He has published numerous peer-reviewed papers and reviews and is the editor of the “A-Z of quantitative PCR”, the leading textbook for this technology. He is on the editorial boards of several journals and has given numerous presentations at scientific conferences around the world. He has organised and co-organised many qPCR meetings in the UK, Europe and the US.
Fred Kramer Professor, New Jersey Medical School Fred Russell Kramer is Professor of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics at the New Jersey Medical School and co-directs the Laboratory of Molecular Genetics at the Public Health Research Institute. He graduated from the University of Michigan in 1964 and received his doctorate from the Rockefeller University in 1969. He was on the faculty of the Department of Genetics and Development at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons for 17 years and has been a Research Professor in the Department of Microbiology at New York University School of Medicine for the past 22 years.