'97 Meetings & Events

31 March–3 April 1996: Third European Conference on Optical Chemical Sensors and Biosensors. Contact: Management and Technology Institute, Technopark, Pjingstweidstrasse 30, CH-8005, Zurich, Switzerland, tel. [phone], fax [phone].

9–12 April 1996: 26th International Symposium on Environmental Analytical Chemistry — ISEAC 26, Vienna, Austria. Contact: Erwin Rosenberg, Institut für Analytische Chemie, Technische Universität Wien, Getreidemarkt 9/151, A-1060 Vienna, Austria, tel, [phone], fax [phone], e-mail <[e-mail]>.

11–12 April 1996: AACC's 28th Annual Oak Ridge Conference (emerging technologies for the clinical laboratory), Fairmont Hotel, San Jose, California. Contact: AACC Customer Service, 2101 L Street, NE, Suite 202, Washington, DC 20037-1526, tel. [phone] or [phone], fax [phone].

20–25 April 1996: ASCP/College of American Pathologists Spring Meeting, Boston, Massachusetts. Contact: CAP registration coordinator, tel. [phone], ext. 525.

21–27 April 19%: 7th Cyprus Conference on New Methods in Drug Research, Limassol, Cyprus. Contact: ARRT International, Inc., P.O. Box 1838, New Milford, CT 06776, tel. [phone], fax [phone], e-mail <[e-mail]>.

22–28 April 1996: IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Contact: Norman Caplan, National Sciences Foundation, BES, Room 565, 4201 Wilson Blvd., Arlington, VA 22230, tel. [phone], fax [phone], e-mail <[e-mail]>, Internet <http://sgi01.acim.usl.edu/ICRA96>.

25–26 April 1996: IBC's Fifth Annual International Conference on High-Throughput Screening, Coronado, California. Contact: IBC USA Conferences, Inc., 225 Turnpike Road, Southborough, MA 01772-1749, tel. [phone], fax [phone].

25–28 April 1996: Ninth Symposium on Technical Innovations in Laboratory Hematology, Loma Linda, California. Contact: Berend Houwen, Loma Linda University School of Medicine, Loma Linda, CA 92354, tel. [phone], ext. 44199, fax [phone], e-mail <[e-mail]>.

29–30 May 1996: MARC Workshop: How to Automate Your Clinical Laboratory, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia. Contact: Robin Felder, Medical Automation Research Center, University of Virginia, Box 168, Charlottesville, VA 22908, tel. [phone], fax [phone], e-mail <[e-mail]>.

5–8 June 1996: Fifth International Workshop on Bioanalysis, Lawrence, Kansas. Contact: Susan Lunte, Center for Bioanalytical Research, University of Kansas, 2095 Constant Avenue, Lawrence, KS, tel. [phone], fax [phone], e-mail <[e-mail]>.

24–27 June 1996: First International Conference on Microplate Technology, Basel, Switzerland. Contact: ARRT International, Inc., MipTec'96, P.O. Box 1838, New Milford, CT 06776, tel. [phone], fax [phone] or BURECO AG, MipTec'96, Postfach, CH-4310 Rheinfelden, Switzerland, tel. [phone], fax [phone], e-mail <[e-mail]>.

14–17 October 1996: International Conference on Biomolecular Screening, Basel, Switzerland. Contact: Society for Biomolecular Screening, 36 Tamarack Avenue, Suite 348, Danbury, CT 06811, tel., [phone], fax [phone], e-mail <[e-mail]>.

20–23 October 1996: International Symposium on Laboratory Automation and Robotics—ISLAR, Boston, Massachusetts. Contact: Zymark, Zymark Center, Hopkinton, MA 01748, tel. [phone], fax [phone], e-mail <[e-mail]>.

18–22 January 1997: Lab Automation 97—International conference focused on issues related to laboratory automation, Sheraton Hotel and Marina, San Diego, California. Contact: Association for Laboratory Automation, Box 572, Charlottesville, VA 22908, tel. [phone], fax [phone], e-mail <[e-mail]>.

15–18 May 1997: International Conference on Automation, Robotics and Artificial Intelligence applied to Analytical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine — ICAR 97. Contact: Scitec, Av. de Provence 20, CH-1000 Lausanne 20, Switzerland, tel. [phone], fax [phone].

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