BIO 2008 is history

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on June 21, 2008M at 12:28 am

They struck the set at the BIO 2008 International Convention in San Diego on Friday afternoon when the four-day conference concluded. There were still about a dozen Oklahomans working the booth when the convention ended at 2:30 Oklahoma time.

No one will know what dividends the $250,000 or so investment the Oklahoma BioScience Association made in the show will yield for months or even years down the road. I do know that state had a high-profile pavilion and that folks like Emergent Technologies and OU researcher Paul DeAngelis were meeting potential business partners right to the last hour of the conference.

I took several photos on the last day of the show, and will post a few here. At the top is the BIO sign that stretched across the front of the San Diego Convention Center. At left is Mike Moradi of Charlesson LLC, who was staffing the booth at the close.

Other photos below include Dan Luton of OCAST and Joe Parli of Tulsa Community College, as well as H.K. Lin from the University of Oklahoma. There is also a photo of DeAngelis and John Hoopingarner with Emergent holding a last-hour meeting in the Oklahoma booth’s meeting space, as well as a photo of Brien Thorstenberg of the Ardmore Economic Development Authority talking with Tom Walker of i2E.

We’ll see all these folks back in Oklahoma soon

Jim Stafford

Business Reporter