The Royal Society of Chemistry hosting conference at Lab Innovations 2016

The Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) will host a two-day conference at Lab Innovations 2016, an event dedicated to laboratory professionals. Taking place at the NEC Birmingham on 2 and 3 November, the conference will feature leading industry speakers who will discuss a series of key topics such as digital healthcare and elemental discovery.

Speaking at the conference is British scientist, theorist, author and broadcaster Jim Al-Khalili as well as BBC sciences presenter Greg Foot.

Jim Al-Khalili will be exploring the new field of Quantum Biology and what it might mean for the science community in his keynote session titled ‘Is Life Quantum Mechanical? The Emerging Science of Quantum Biology’

‘Labs at the Extremes’ will detail Greg Foot’s trek to the world’s highest pop-up laboratory at the Everest Base Camp and his dive 1,000ft below the ocean to measure the health of the planet’s beating heart.

Other speakers include Michael Brand, founding director of specialist consulting company Captum Captital, who will outline how sensors in healthcare have progressed and impacted the industry. 

Day two will start with professor of geochemistry at the University of Manchester, Roy Wogelius, showing how synchroton methods and other techniques are used on fossils to give unprecedented information about the biochemistry of ancient life.

Other topics from speakers will include the formulation of research into the origins of life, how sensors in healthcare have progressed and impacted the industry and what LIP Article 45 means for the industry.

Running alongside the RSC conference programme will be a full exhibition featuring the latest laboratory technologies, analytical equipment and cleanroom techniques from leading industry companies. Plus, Campden BRI, the UK’s largest independent food and drink research body, will return to carry out its educational workshops and free-to-attend seminars.