Oxford Events, the new replacement for OxTalks, will launch on 16th March. The two-week OxTalks freeze period starts on Monday 2nd March. During this time, there will be no facility to publish or edit events. The existing OxTalks site will remain available to view during this period. Once Oxford Events launches, you will need a Halo login to submit events. Full details are available on the Staff Gateway.
Dave Ruff is Principal Scientist at Fluidigm Corporation (San Francisco) and a visiting Senior Research Fellow at the WTCHG here at the University of Oxford. Dave collaborates with the global scientific community to innovate and advance biomolecular detection and quantification tools for single-cell and systems biology research. Before joining Fluidigm in early 2013, Dave spent 17 years innovating qPCR and next-generation sequencing (NGS) technologies at Applied Biosystems/Life Technologies. He has been a lead investigator in the development of single-cell analysis, qPCR assays and chemistry, multiplex preamplification, protein quantification, NGS library preparation and sample-to-answer workflows, and nucleic acid sample-prep processes. Dave holds a degree in biochemistry from the University of California, Riverside, and a PhD in molecular biology from the California Institute of Technology.
