Exhibiting Companies

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American Autoimmune Related Disease Association (AARDA)
22100 Gratiot Avenue
E. Detroit, MI 48021
Booth Number: 204
The American Autoimmune Related Diseases Association is dedicated to the eradication of autoimmune diseases and the alleviation of suffering and the socioeconomic impact of autoimmunity through fostering and facilitating collaboration in the areas of education, public awareness, research, and patient services. AARDA pursues these efforts in an effective, ethical and efficient manner.

Agilent Technologies
2850 Centerville Road
Wilmington, DE 19808
Booth Number: 408
Agilent Technologies is a leading provider of measurement solutions for microarray based genomics and LC/MS based proteomics. Key products include: microarrays (expression, CGH, ChIP on chip); HPLC and HPLC Chip; the new Agilent 6000 Series Mass Spectrometers (ion trap, TOF, QTOF, single quad, triple quad); lab on a chip products; and a full range of software products (now including GeneSpring and SSI).

AutoImmun Diagnostika GMBH/Cell Technology, Inc.
8980 Old Annapolis Road
Suite L
Columbia, MD 21045
Booth Number: 402
Cell Technology, Inc. is the North American distributor of advanced automated imaging equipment and immunology assays marketed by AutoImmun Diagnostika of Strassberg, Germany. Additionally, CTI provides secure biorepository services and retrieval and distribution support to the biomedical R&D sector in North America.

BD Biosciences
10975 Terreyana Road
San Diego, CA 92121
Booth Number: 201
BD, a leading global medical technology company that makes and sells medical devices, instrumented systems and reagents, is dedicated to improving people's health throughout the world. BD is focused on improving drug therapy, enhancing the quality and speed of diagnosing infectious diseases, and advancing research and discovery of new drugs and vaccines.

Beckman Coulter
200 S. Kraemer Boulevard W-541
Brea, CA 92821
Booth Number: 301
Beckman Coulter, Inc. is a leading manufacturer of biomedical testing instrument systems, tests and supplies that simplify and automate laboratory processes.

BioLegend, Inc.
8395 Camino Santa Fe
San Diego, CA 92121
Booth Number: 101
BioLegend manufactures reagents for immunology, cell biology, and cancer research. BioLegend's broad offering of antibody conjugates, including tandem dyes, Alexa FluorR, and Pacific BlueT, provides unsurpassed flexibility for multi color flow analysis. Novel antibodies: FOXP3, CCR7, IL 23(p19), PARC, TREM 1, NOD2. BioLegend offers antibodies for ELISA, ELISPOT, immunohistochemistry, and western blotting applications.

Blackwell Publishing
350 Main Street
Malden, MA 02148
Booth Number: 400
Blackwell Publishing has a prestigious Immunology journal collection including Immunological Reviews, (ISI ranked 9th) and the two official journals of the BSI. We also publish in more niche areas with, Parasite Immunology and the American Journal of Reproductive Immunology. Visit the Blackwell Publishing stand to browse our book titles, including new Roitt's Essential Immunology, and take away free sample journal copies! www.blackwellimmunology.com

Cellular Technology, Ltd. (CTL)
10515 Carnegie Avenue
Cleveland, OH 44106
Booth Number: 309
CTL provides innovative products and services including the ImmunoSpot® Analyzer line for ELISPOT, viral plaque, and colony counting, new ImmunoSpot® Software, scanning and analysis services, and immune monitoring contracted research in addition to new products such as serum-free media, characterized PBMCs, and peptides valuable for standardization. www.immunospot.com

Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research (CIBMTR)
Health Policy Institute
Medical College of Wisconsin
8701 Watertown Plank Road
PO Box 26509
Milwaukee, WI 53226
Booth Number: 711

The Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research (CIBMTR) is a voluntary, non-profit organization involving more than 500 transplant centers in 50 countries that have collaborated to share patient data and conduct scientific studies since 1972. CIBMTR brings together the expertise and unique resources of two leaders in the field of blood and marrow transplant research: the National Marrow Donor Program® and the Medical College of Wisconsin's International Bone Marrow Transplant Registry and Autologous Blood and Marrow Transplant Registry. CIBMTR is actively involved in 183 ongoing research studies.

Chemicon/Upstate
28820 Single Oak Drive
Temecula, CA 92590
Booth Number: 103
Upstate is a leading developer of cell signaling products and services for research and drug discovery. Products include antibodies, enzymes, substrates, siRNA and assay kits for the study of phosphorylation and other posttranslational modifications. In addition, the Beadlyte® line of multiplexing kits and reagents offers researchers flexibility and efficiency in studying secreted and intracellular proteins.

Clinical Immunology Society (CIS)
555 East Wells Street
Suite 1100
Milwaukee, WI 53202
Booth Number: 206
The Clinical Immunology Society (CIS) celebrates its 20th anniversary this year. CIS is an international professional organization which includes more than 700 clinicians, investigators and trainees. The mission of the CIS is to facilitate education, translational research and novel approaches to therapy in clinical immunology to promote excellence in the care of patients with immunologic/inflammatory disorders.

CIS will host three Schools this year geared toward fellows in training with a primary goal of education on the diagnosis, pathogenesis and treatment of Immunological diseases. Stop by our booth for more information on these Schools and membership opportunities.

CryoTrack, Inc.
210 Silvia Court
Los Altos, CA 94024
Booth Number: 102
CryoTrack offers complete, centralized, secured, affordable, user-friendly, easily customizable, efficient solutions for individual labs and groups for managing valuable samples in all storage formats that save time and money without frustrations. Tracks information, history, assays, protocols, results, literature, links, applications, graphics sequences, and performs routine calculations. Maximize storage space. 21CFRPart11 Ready!

EFORE (USA), Inc.
6029 Campus Circle Drive
Irving, TX 75063
Booth Number: 707
EFORE is the North American distributor and service provider for BIO SYS Bioreader and Biocount. Bioreaders are used for Elispots, Colony Forming Units, Soft Agar Assays, etc. and are available in 5 different models. Biocounts are versatile automatic colony counters and inhibition zone readers. Typical users are Microbiological Laboratories in the Biomedical, Pharma and Food industries. EFORE is also a recognized refurbisher for Medical and Diagnostic Imaging equipment and delivers OEM components to leading manufacturers in the medical industry. EFORE is also member of IAMERS.

EpiVax, Inc.
146 Clifford Street
Providence, RI 02903
Booth Number: 708
EpiVax addresses anti-therapeutic immunogenicity using advanced computer algorithms, in vitro assays, and transgenic animal models. Please call for more information 401-272-2123 or visit us on the web at: www.EpiVax.com

GCAT, Inc.
1629 Blue Spruce Drive
Suite 106
Fort Collins, CO 80524
Booth Number: 308
GCAT is the exclusive distributor of Partec flow cytometers/cell counters, reagents and consumables for North America, providing sales, service and technical support. Partec's low cost, high quality flow cytometers range from single laser, single parameter instruments up to 4 lasers with 16 parameters and every Partec cytometer performs absolute volumetric cell counting.

Genisphere, Inc.
1300 MacArthur Boulevard
Mahwah, NJ 07430
Booth Number: 105
Genisphere offers high-sensitivity nucleic acid and protein labeling kits based on our patented 3DNA dendrimer technology. Our Array 900 kits provide microarray users with an unmatched combination of sensitivity and ease of use.

GenWay Biotech
6777 Nancy Ridge Drive
San Diego, CA 92121
Booth Number: 702
GenWay Biotech is a leading proteomic provider, supplying catalog proteins/antibodies, and custom services. GenWay specializes in protein expression; producing over 2000 rProteins from E. coli, yeast, baculovirus, or mammalian cell lines. We are the world's leader in avian IgY antibodies, stocking a catalog of over 900 polyclonal antibodies against human targets.

Grifols, Inc.
2410 Lillyvale Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90032
Booth Number: 601
Grifols is a group of Companies specialized in the health pharmaceutical sector since 1940. Grifols researches, develops, manufacturer and distributes products such as plasma derivates, I.V. solutions, enteral nutrition, reagents and instruments for clinical analysis and medical devices. Grifols is present in more than 70 countries worldwide.

Illumina
9885 Towne Centre Drive
San Diego, CA 92121
Booth Number: 107
Illumina enables discovery by providing gene expression and genotyping solutions, using whole genome or focused approaches, at multiplex levels that deliver more data at lower costs. Our solutions integrate BeadArray(tm) technology, Sentrix(r) microarrays, powerful assay protocols and high performance BeadStation systems to make possible a new scale of biological research.

ImageInterpret GmbH
Koernerstr 10
Leipzig 04107
Germany
Booth Number: 709
ImageInterpret Ltd. develops software that can automatically interpret images like a trained human expert. The HCA capability of our tools guarantees the customer curbing of cost, saving time and increase the quality at daily work. Our products are: Hep-2 PAD® an automatic image analysis and interpretation system for Hep-2 cell image inspection and Cell-Interpret a flexible automatic image analysis and interpretation system for microscopic cell images.

Immune Tolerance Network (ITN) - University of California, San Francisco
4800 Montgomery Lane
Suite 300
Bethesda, MD 20814
Booth Number: 208
The Immune Tolerance Network is an international research collaboration that aims to accelerate the clinical development of tolerance therapies through novel clinical trials and parallel mechanistic studies. The ITN is currently planning, developing and monitoring over 20 clinical trials in autoimmune diseases, islet, kidney and liver transplantation and allergy and asthma, and operates a dozen core facilities that support these studies with state-of-the-art bioassay services. Headquartered at the University of California, San Francisco and with offices in Bethesda, Maryland and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the ITN is supported by the National Institute for Allergy and Infections Diseases, the National Institute for Diabetes and Digestive Kidney Diseases and the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation. More information on the ITN and its research can be found at www.immunetolerance.org.

Inotech Biosystems International, Inc.
15713 Crabbs Branch Way, Suite 110
Rockville, MD 20855
Booth Number: 404
Inotech Biosystems International represents these fine Swiss Products in North America: Encapsulator for Cells, Liquids and Particles; Cell Harvester for 96, 48 or 24 well plates; Steriguard "Hot Glass Bead" Instrument Sterilizer; Vacuset Aspirate/Dispense System; Western Membrane Strip Cutter; Programmable "Hesitating" Rocker; Heparin Adsorbant; Quantifold Aspiration Manifold.

INOVA Diagnostics, Inc.
9900 Old Grove Road
San Diego, CA 92131
Booth Number: 607
INOVA Diagnostics, Inc. develops, manufacturers and sells a complete menu of autoimmune disease diagnostic kits & components for screening and specific autoantibody determinations. Product lines include QUANTA Lite ELISA, NOVA Lite IFA, NOVA Gel Ouchterlony, QUANTA Chek Validated Reference Panels, QUANTA Plex multiplexing reagents as well as related microwell.

Invitrogen Corporation / Dynal Biotech
9099 N. Deerbrook Trail
Brown Deer, WI 53223
Booth Number: 701
Dynal, Invitrogen Corporation announces the launch of Dynabeads® ClinExVivo™ CD3/CD28, cutting-edge technology for T cell expansion for use in clinical trials. Dynabeads® are used for cell separation and expansion from basic research through to pre-clinical work and clinical trials phase I/II. Visit our booth to learn about antibodies, reagents and kits offered by Invitrogen Corporation.

Jackson ImmunoResearch Laboratories, Inc.
872 West Baltimore Pike
West Grove, PA 19390
Booth Number: 403
Affinity-purified secondary antibodies (many adsorbed against other species for multiple labeling), new anti-mouse IgG subclass specific, new anti-rabbit IgG light chain specific for Western blotting, anti-digoxin, anti-biotin, anti-FITC, streptavidin, and purified immunoglobulins are conjugated with fluorophores (including Cy2, Cy3, and Cy5), enzymes, Biotin-SP (long spacer), colloidal gold, phycoerythrin, and allophycocyanin.

LINCO Research
6 Research Park Drive
St. Charles, MO 63304
Booth Number: 609
LINCO Research is a recognized leader in multiplexed immunoassays using Luminex xMAP technology. LINCOplex(r) panels are available for cytokines/chemokines, as well as protein biomarkers for the study of metabolic disease (diabetes, obesity, cardiac disease). LINCO also has an extensive line of "gold standard" RIA's and ELISA's for "diabesity research."

Luminex Corporation
12212 Technology Boulevard
Austin, TX 78727
Booth Number: 501
Luminex Corporation develops, manufactures and markets proprietary biological testing technologies with applications throughout the life sciences industry. The company's xMAP® system is an open architecture, multi analyte technology platform that delivers fast, accurate and cost effective bioassay results to markets as diverse as pharmaceutical drug discovery, clinical diagnostics and biomedical research.

Miltenyi Biotec
12740 Earhart Avenue
Auburn, CA 95602
Booth Number: 509
Miltenyi Biotec, manufacturer of MACS(r) Separation Technology, supplies equipment and reagents for the immunomagnetic isolation of specific cell types, organelles, and molecules from heterogeneous samples. The extremely small MicroBeads (50nm) are especially well suited for the isolation of mRNA, proteins, or rare or transfected cells.

Multiplex Biosciences
7 Wesvalley Road, Suite 2
Lake Placid, NY 12946
Booth Number: 502
Multiplex Biosciences is a contract organization offering development, validation and scale up of multiplex immunoassays. Our staff has extensive experience in the development and manufacturing of multiplex assays for the Luminex suspension array platform. www.multiplexbiosciences.com

NuFACTOR
41093 County Center Drive
Temecula, CA 92591
Booth Number: 507
NuFACTOR, FFF Enterprises' Specialty Pharmacy Services division, provides reliable immune globulin availability, clinical support for home infusion, and coordination with healthcare providers and payers. Our web-based IG Treatment Tracker, IG Living patient and provider magazine, and Lot-Track recall notification system help you care for your patients with innovation. Call NuFACTOR at 800-323-6832.

StemCell Technologies, Inc.
200-570 W. 7th Avenue
Vancouver, BC V52 1B3
Booth Number: 104
StemCell Technologies - "The Cell Experts" - offers a range of reagents for immunology research. Isolate virtually any cell type from any species using immunodensity or immunomagnetic cell separation systems, including RoboSep® - the only fully automated cell separator. Specialized media, sera antibodies and primary cells are also available.

TcLand
CHU Hôtel-Dieu,
30 bd Jean Monnet,
44093 Nantes cedex 01
France
Booth Number: 700
TcLand proposes a unique technology offering a qualitative and quantitative overview of the T cell repertoire, the TcLandscape. By providing a tool for Immunomonitoring, treatment impact measurement and detection of an immune signature of diseases, TcLand is at the forefront of research in Vaccines, Cancer, transplantation, autoimmune and infectious diseases. contact@tcland-biotech.com

US Immunodeficiency Network (USIDNET)
40 W. Chesapeake Ave
Suite 308
Towson, MD 21204
Booth Number: 209
The U.S. Immunodeficiency Network (USIDNET), a research consortium, was established to advance scientific research in the primary immune deficiency diseases (PIDD) and specifically to fund research, provide a multifaceted mentoring program, Disease Registry and a DNA and Cell Repository.

Wyeth
2635 Tochevah Drive
Santa Rosa, CA 95405
Booth Number: 109
Wyeth Pharmaceuticals has a long history of pioneering developments in pharmaceuticals and biotechnology with its efforts focusing on discovering and developing new therapies that will enhance the quality of healthcare worldwide. Wyeth has built a leadership position in Transplantation and Immunology, Rheumatology, Oncology, Gastrointestinal Disease, Infectious Disease, Hemophilia, Vaccines, Neuroscience, Cardiovascular Disease, Nutritionals, Women's Healthcare and Musculoskeletal Therapy.

Xenogen Corporation
860 Atlantic Avenue
Alameda, CA 94501
Booth Number: 405
Xenogen is a leading biotechnology company and developer of in vivo biophotonic technology, which allows real time, non invasive exploration of genes, proteins, pathogens, and tumor cells in living animals. VivoVision Systems, VivoVision Solutions, and VivoVision Biosciences offer a complement of patented fluorescent and biophotonic imaging technologies, and genetically modified animal programs.

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