Schedule
Day 1
Tuesday the 9th of September 2025
- 13:00 - 15:00
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Registration
Tea, coffee and poster set up.
- 15:00 - 15:15
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Welcome and opening remarks
To be given by Andrew Chalmers & Carly Dix.
Session 1
Chair: Andrew Chalmers, CiteAb, UK
- 15:15 - 15:35
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Ulf Landegren, Uppsala University, SE
Minimizing antibody cross-reactivity and revealing dynamic protein activity states via dual recognition in solution and in situ.
- 15:35 - 15:55
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Amy Turner, Proteintech, UK
Epitope-Mapped Recombinant Antibodies: A New Standard in Antibody Validation.
- 15:55 - 16:10
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Stefan Schuechner, Medical University of Vienna, AT
Protein Phosphatase 2A carboxy terminus: how insufficient validation of post-translational modification specific antibodies misled the field for over 20 years.
- 16:10 - 16:30
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Carly Dix, AstraZeneca, UK
Overcoming Antibody Selection, Validation, and Generation Challenges to Accelerate the Discovery of New Medicines.
- 16:30 - 18:00
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Drinks reception
Day 2
Wednesday the 10th of September 2025
- 09:00 - 09:30
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Open
Tea, coffee and pastries
Session 2
Chair: Alejandra Solache, Abcam, UK
- 09:30 - 09:50
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Andrew Bradbury, Specifica, an IQVIA business, US
The AIntibody challenge: an update on the use of AI/ML in antibody discovery.
- 09:50 - 10:10
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Will Howat, Abcam, UK
Antibody Quality is not just about specificity.
- 10:10 - 10:30
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Libby Wiseman, AstraZeneca, UK
The impact of pre-analytical factors on immunohistochemistry assays that detect labile Phospho-epitopes.
- 10:30 - 11:00
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Break
Tea, coffee, posters and sponsors' exhibition
Session 3
Chair: Asel Sartbaeva, University of Bath, UK
- 11:00 - 11:20
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Johan Duchêne, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, DE
The DARC Side of Antibodies.
- 11:20 - 11:40
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Nidhi Nath, Bio-Techne, US
Antibody Development and Validation in the Era of Spatial Proteomics.
- 11:40 - 12:00
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Myriam Duckely, Novartis, CH
Tool antibodies in early drug discovery.
- 12:00 - 13:15
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Lunch
Lunch, posters and sponsors' exhibition
Session 4 (short talks)
- 13:15 - 13:30
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Elisia Clark, The Michael J. Fox Foundation, US
Research Resources for Tool Validation through the Michael J. Fox Foundation.
- 13:30 - 13:45
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Ruth McAdam, GlaxoSmithKline, UK
A view from Pharma: Custom antibody sourcing at GSK.
- 13:45 - 14:00
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Jim Trimmer, University of California, Davis, US
Open-Source Antibodies as a Path to Enhanced Research Reproducibility and Transparency.
- 14:00 - 14:15
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Jonathan Schmid-Burgk, University of Bonn, DE
Pooled validation screening and affinity maturation of AI-designed protein binders.
- 14:15 - 14:30
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Björn Forsström, Olink Proteomics, SE
Expanding validation of Proximity Extension Assays.
- 14:30 - 16:00
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Poster session
Tea, coffee, posters and sponsors' exhibition
- 16:00 - 16:20
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Deborah Moshinsky, Institute for Protein Innovation (IPI), US
Systematic Antibody Validation for Community Distribution Using High-Throughput Biophysical and Functional Testing.
- 16:20 - 16:40
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Roberto Polakiewicz, Cell Signaling Technology, US
Antibody validation in the age of spatial and single cell biology.
- 16:40 - 17:00
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Andrew Buchanan, Stealth Mode Biotech, UK
A perspective on antibody generation in the age of genAI.
- 19:30 - late
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Conference dinner
Conference social event (Hilton, Bath)
Session 5
Chair: Katarzyna Kmiecik, Alchemab Therapeutics, UK
Day 3
Thursday the 11th of September 2025
- 09:00 - 09:30
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Open
Tea, coffee and pastries
Session 6
Chair: Elena Ivanova, Regeneron, US
- 09:30 - 09:50
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Michael Weiner, Precision BioTools, US
MILKSHAKE and Sundae: Sweet Solutions to the Bitter Problem of anti-PTM Specific Antibody Validation.
- 09:50 - 10:10
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Leticia Montoya, Thermo Fisher Scientific, US
Accelerating spatial proteomics research with Thermo Fisher Scientific's specificity verified antibodies.
- 10:10 - 10:30
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Carl Laflamme, Neuro-SGC, YCharOS initiative, CA
Antibody Validation as a Scientific Discipline: Lessons and Challenges from YCharOS.
- 10:30 - 10:45
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Zoé Butti, New York Genome Center, US
Mapping the Cellular Landscape of Protein Aggregation Across ALS, FTD, and Alzheimer's Disease.
- 10:45 - 11:15
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Break
Tea, coffee, posters and sponsors' exhibition
Session 7
Chair: Carly Dix, AstraZeneca, UK
- 11:15 - 11:35
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Elena Ivanova, Regeneron, US
What does a scientist need to select an IHC antibody?
- 11:35 - 11:55
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Thierry Le Bihan, Rapid Novor, CA
One Clone to Rule Them All: Turning pAbs into rAbs.
- 11:55 - 12:15
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Andrea Radtke, Leica Microsystems, US
It takes a community: Impact of HuBMAP and grassroots efforts to characterize antibodies for spatial biology applications.
Closing remarks
To be given by Andrew Chalmers & Carly Dix
