On June 14, 2023, in Baku, more than 100 spe­ci­al­ists from Azerbai­jan, Tur­key, Croa­tia, Be­larus and Rus­sia took part in a con­fer­ence ded­ic­ated to droplet PCR re­search and its ap­plic­a­tion in sci­ence and dia­gnost­ics.

The main goal of the event or­gan­izer Bayramli Group was to em­phas­ize the im­port­ance of de­vel­op­ing mo­lec­u­lar tech­no­lo­gies in Azerbai­jan and Western Asia, as they provide new op­por­tun­it­ies for re­search and dia­gnos­is of in­fec­tions, de­tec­tion of single tu­mor cells, vir­al load assess­ment in food safety and vac­cine pro­duc­tion.

The head­liner of the con­fer­ence was Bio-Rad, a world lead­er in droplet di­git­al PCR sys­tems and in­novat­ive products for bio­med­ic­al re­search. The com­pany’s ex­perts presen­ted re­li­able solu­tions for PCR: the CFX96 and QX600 nuc­leic acid amp­li­fi­ers, as well as the Gel­Doc Go and Bio-Plex Mul­ti­plex sys­tems.

The ag­ri­cul­tur­al sec­tion dis­cussed the stud­ies con­duc­ted in Azerbai­jan us­ing PCR dia­gnost­ics, the role of PCR in the dia­gnos­is of zo­onot­ic diseases, de­tec­tion and dia­gnos­is of plant patho­gens, and the role of in­flu­enza A in the con­text of health.

It was very valu­able for Al­gimed Techno to be in­vited as a part­n­er and to have the op­por­tun­ity not only to share its own ex­per­i­ence, but also to present at an in­ter­n­a­tion­al level its own CleanCheck product line: re­agent kits for hy­gi­en­ic and san­it­ary con­trol in labor­at­or­ies, in par­tic­u­lar for con­tam­in­a­tion de­tec­tion.

As a res­ult, the event covered not only dif­fer­ent gen­era­tions of PCR: from con­ven­tion­al amp­li­fic­a­tion and real-time PCR to droplet di­git­al PCR, but also af­ford­able ap­proaches to solv­ing com­plex ap­plic­a­tion prob­lems in vari­ous fields of re­search.

We hope it will be­come a good tra­di­tion to gath­er like-minded col­leagues in sunny Baku, es­t­ab­l­ish new busi­ness con­tacts, find an­swers to ur­gent ques­tions and get wise ad­vice.

We would like to thank Bayramli Group for or­gan­iz­ing the con­fer­ence and for its trust.