DNA Vaccine Conference 2012 Post Trip Summary

2015-01-13

azim58 - DNA Vaccine Conference 2012 Post Trip Summary

Financial Summary
Metro: 1.75
SuperShuttle (from airport to hotel): 16
Taxi (from hotel to airport paid with cash and no receipt: 42+3 for tip):
45
Taxi (from airport to apartment: about 15): 15
Hotel: 392.02
Airline voucher: -50
Food (total is 32.72): 6.10+3.50+9.69+4.42+1.49+7.52
Flight: 181.60
Registration: 600

Total:1284.09
Total amount of personal money spent: 502.49

Note about >$40 taxi fee
It looks like my taxi driver was honest. I went to a website that
estimates taxi fares from starting and ending locations. The estimated
cost was the exact price of my trip to the dollar so it looks like that
taxi driver was honest. The trip is just actually that expensive ($42).

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Miscellaneous notes from trip
good restaurants recommended by taxi driver
Mcgale Mexican food as well as the Brigantine (owned by the same company)
(next to each other) (located near the fancy old wooden "The Del" hotel")
my room number was 4215

TALENs (similar to zinc fingers)
TALEN (Transcription Activator-Like Effector Nuclease)
Transcription Activator-Like Effector Nucleases (TALENs) are artificial
restriction enzymes generated by fusing the TAL effector DNA binding
domain to a DNA cleavage domain.
TALENs were mentioned to me by a guy that worked for a company in
Wisconsin that was trying to make products to induce cells to become
iPSCs.

Some people possibly associated with inventing DNA vaccines and/or gene
gun
Stephen Johnston
Jeff Ulmer
David Weinberg
Deborah Fuller

I think some company named PowderJect (part of Novartis) makes something
related to DNA vaccines. I think Deborah mentioned their name.

Methods for carrying out research started 120912

Darby Miller gave me a free Gigaprep from her company plasmid.com
e-mail here:
https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?ui=2&amp;shva=1#label/Career/13b85f22eab3
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some documents
conference registration
hotel receipt
lost luggage voucher
lost luggage reciept
can be found here:
C:\kurt\storage\CIM Research Folder\DR\2012\12-9-12\dna vaccine conference

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