qPCR Talks

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The qPCR 2010 package contains 50 talks from our qPCR Symposium 2010 in Vienna
Topics:  MIQE guidelines,  High throughput qPCR,  RNAi-miRNA,  qPCR Data analysis,  HRM,  Circulating Nucleic Acids,  Single Cell qPCR, and more ... ...

The qPCR 2011 package contains 65 talks from our qPCR Symposium 2011 in Freising-Weihenstephan
Topics:  Single Cell qPCR,  Next Generation Sequencing,  High throughput qPCR,  MIQE guidelines,  RNAi-miRNA,  qPCR Data analysis,  HRM,  Circulating Nucleic Acids,  Pre-analytical Steps, New qPCR Applications in Molecular Diagnostics, and more ... ...

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Access the complete eConference qPCR 2010 packages
contains 50 talks in high resolution from the qPCR Symposium 2010 in Vienna with all sessions

Access the complete eConference qPCR 2011 packages
contains 65 talks in high resolution from the qPCR Symposium 2011 in Freising-Weihenstephan with all sessions

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qPCR 2009 - Proceedings, Talks and Posters are free for download !

qPCR 2007  - Symposium Presentations

All scientific contributions are published in the qPCR 2007 Symposium Proceedings

Download the talks and poster presentations from previous qPCR Symposia


RefGenes - a unique tool to find suitable reference genes

Interpretation requires context - making sense out of gene lists and networks
RefGenes was presented at the 2011 qPCR Conference, Weihenstephan, Germany

RefGenes: identification of reliable and condition specific reference genes for RT-qPCR data normalization.
Hruz T, Wyss M, Docquier M, Pfaffl MW, Masanetz S, Borghi L, Verbrugge P, Kalaydjieva L, Bleuler S, Laule O, Descombes P, Gruissem W and P Zimmermann
BMC Genomics 2011, 12: 156

General problem
The choice of suitable reference genes is absolutely crucial in RT-qPCR gene expression analysis. Often, genes from commercial panels don't work well for one's own biological context. Ideally, the expression of reference genes should remain unchanged across samples within the context under study.

Solution
RefGenes is an online app from Genevestigator that allows users to search for genes that are most stable across a chosen set of samples based on microarray data. This set of samples can be chosen according to experimental conditions or tissue types. For example, if you are performing a RT-qPCR experiment on mouse liver samples, you can use RefGenes to identify the set of genes that are most stable across all microarrays done on mouse liver in Genevestigator. This method offers two major improvements over existing methods because a) it does not narrow down from a small set of genes (e.g. commercial housekeeping gene panels), but looks for novel candidates from a genome-wide set of genes b) it is based on condition-specific stability. The below schema shows how RefGenes can be used in combination with existing approaches to yield valuable reference genes for specific experimental conditions.


  • Some Talks from the qPCR Meeting in London 2003, organized by Stephen Bustin:
  • Talks by  J.M. Gallup, Department of Veterinary Pathology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011-1250, USA.:
  • qPCR Talk  by Renee Horner - Queen of qPCR   download PDF
  • Determination of real-time PCR efficiency  - An overview
    held at the qPCR 2004 Event     download PDF