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Spring Exhibition 2015

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Venue Information:

 
Wednesday April 22, 2015  (4:00 PM to 9:00 PM)
Philly LRIG Spring Vendor Exhibition
DoubleTree by Hilton Philadelphia-Valley Forge
301 West Dekalb Pike, King of Prussia, PA 19406

Vendor Exhibition:  4:00 PM to 7:00 PM
Novel Technologies Presentations:  4:15 PM to 6:15 PM
Food: (4:30-6:30) & Desert (6:30 to End)
Scientific Presentations:  6:30 PM to 9:00 PM
 
Vendors/Exhibitor Click HERE to Reserve your Spot   (SOLD OUT!)
Additional information for vendors Click HERE

Speakers: Scientific and Novel Technologies Presentations

"Keynote Speaker"
Director, High-Throughput Screening 
Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania




List of Exhibiting Vendors

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Food and non-alcoholic beverages will be available for free to all attendees during the event in the Grand 
Ball Room.  The Hotel will provide a cash bar for those desiring to purchase alcoholic beverages.

Our menu for your gastronomic pleasure will include: 
  • Domestic and Continental Cheese Display. 
  • Marinated Grilled Vegetables.
  • Bowtie Pasta with Sun-Dried Tomato Pesto Sauce.
  • Shrimp Scampi Risotto.
  • Butler Passed Canapés and Hors d’oeuvres including mini crab cakes, spring rolls, scallops wrapped in bacon, beef satay, franks in puff pastry jackets & assorted flatbreads.
  • Slider Station with sautéed sweet onions, French fries and sweet potato fries.
  • Dessert including coffee, a variety of teas and an assortment of cookies and brownies.

Scientific Program: (6:30 - 9:00 PM) 

Scientist, Janssen R&D LLC, Strategic Operations
"HTS Applications Supporting Large Molecule Drug Development”

Scientific Director,  Janssen R&D LLC, Drug Product Development
“Adapting to Highly Randomized Experimental Designs in Formulation Development”

"Keynote Speaker"
Director, High-Throughput Screening 
Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
“A Discovery Platform for Translation of Innovative Basic Science in Academia”

Novel Technologies Presentations (4:15 - 6:15 PM)

(See Abstracts Below)

4:15 – 4:35 Dana Campbell, Laboratory Applications Specialist, Artel
“Artel presents newest system that measures volume within wells by pressure technology”

4:35 – 4:55 Ali Safavi Founder & CEO. Grenova Solutions
"Reduce Cost and Waste Through Innovation"

4:55 – 5:15 Todd Smith, Mid Atlantic Sales Engineer, BlueCatBio
"Plate Washing and Media Change by Centrifugation: Overcoming limitations of aspiration based washers"

5:15 – 5:35 Malcolm Crook, Director, Laboratory Automation, Peak Analysis and Automation Ltd UK
"Scheduling techniques for laboratory automation"

5:35 – 5:55 Stephen Kosteski, Mid-Atlantic Sales Manager, IntelliCyt
"Complex Assays: Cells, Beads, Microbes and Mixtures Made Simple with the iQue® Screener platform from IntelliCyt"

5:55 – 6:15 Bob Dunst, Field Application Scientist, Gyros, Inc.
"Automated Nanoliter-scale Immunoassays: Expanding Discovery Productivity for Bioanalysis"

Abstracts for Presentations

“Artel presents newest system that measures volume within wells by pressure technology”
Dana Campbell, Laboratory Applications Specialist, Artel
4:15 – 4:35
Artel’s VMS is a unique solution to in-process volume measurements of liquids and/or solids within the wells of a plate. The VMS seals each well and cycles through a series of repeated pressurizations to accurately and precisely determine sample volumes in as little as 35 seconds for 96-well plates, and 110 seconds for 384-well plates. Labs that have a need for in-process assay plate volume measurements, such as compound screening labs, should find that this system provides a seamless answer. Regardless of the shape of the well, type of plastic, or density of the contents, this technology will rapidly measure the volume.

"Scheduling techniques for laboratory automation"
Malcolm Crook, Director, Laboratory Automation, Peak Analysis and Automation Ltd UK
5:15 – 5:35
There are many advantages in automating laboratory processes. One of the most important is the increase in sample throughput that can be achieved.  To realise this, it is critical that the workflow (sample handling) must be scheduled, to ensure that samples are processed efficiently whilst obeying constraints such as controlled incubation times. There are various methods to determine a schedule, not just within the realms of laboratory automation but within other industries too.  The terms ‘dynamic’, ’event-driven’ and ‘round-robin’ are often used, but the expected behaviour of such systems is often interpreted differently by the users of the automated platform.  This talk will examine the scheduling techniques that are particularly effective for managing laboratory automation work flows, how they work along with the benefits and limitations. We will also present examples of scheduling problems from other industries and how their solutions could be applied to laboratory automation.

"Automated Nanoliter-scale Immunoassays: Expanding Discovery Productivity for Bioanalysis"
Bob Dunst, Field Application Scientist, Gyros, Inc.
5:55 – 6:15
New launched Gyrolab xPlore™ is a compact system that automates immunoassays at nanoliter-scale. It accelerates assay development and bioanalysis for time critical workflows in preclinical R&D, bioprocess development and regulated clinical trials. Using an affinity flow-through format, incubations are eliminated with shorter run times. Gyros’ technology ensures high reproducibility and productivity with Gyrolab platforms that process up to 112 data points per CD in under an hour. The presentations will present Gyrolab platforms and their use in the bioanalytical support of biologics.

"Complex Assays: Cells, Beads, Microbes and Mixtures Made Simple with the iQue® Screener platform from IntelliCyt"
Stephen Kosteski, Mid-Atlantic Sales Manager, IntelliCyt
5:35 – 5:55
The iQue Screener from IntelliCyt is an integrated suspension screening platform that gives you the right content, at the right time, for the right cost. Our proprietary sampling technique reduces sample volumes to as low as 1uL and eliminates dead volume, while our easy-to-use hardware, software, and reagent systems are optimized to work together and designed to conserve precious samples, use less reagent, and to minimize time-to-answer.  By combining a powerful flow cytometry detection engine with a novel and patented sampling mechanism, the iQue Screener meets throughput and content objectives in a way that no other suspension screening platform can achieve. It works by transferring samples from microplate wells to the detection engine in a continuous, air gap delimited stream, and collecting multiple readouts from every cell or bead. The resulting assays take minutes, not hours, and results can be presented on per-cell, per-well, per-compound, or per-plate bases.

"Reduce Cost and Waste Through Innovation"
Ali Safavi Founder & CEO. Grenova Solutions
4:35 – 4:55
For many decades, the standard practice for laboratories has been to purchase pipette tips as well as pay to have the tips discarded as biohazardous waste. Grenova sees this model as an area where labs have room to improve operating efficiency and minimize environmental impact. Hence, TipNovus was created, which serves as an automated pipette tip cleaning system that allows labs to safely reuse completely sanitized tips and reduce costly waste. TipNovus also allows for the reduction of recurring overhead cost of pipette tips. TipNovus is the first automated high throughput tip washer that enables labs to wash, sanitize, and dry large quantities of pipette tips for the purpose of reusing them. Grenova sees TipNovus as a path to revolutionizing the approach and perspective on laboratory consumables. In addition to washing tips, Grenova is causing a paradigm shift by working to develop instruments that make it possible to safely reuse many other types of consumables.  The effectiveness of TipNovus’ ability to sanitize tips has been accomplished by various comparisons and validations on new tips vs. washed tips. Additionally, repeated gravimetric volume verifications have proven that the integrity of the tips is not compromised during the washing process.  The results of these studies can be found on Grenova’s website, www.grenovasolutions.com.

"Plate Washing and Media Change by Centrifugation: Overcoming limitations of aspiration based washers"
Todd Smith, Mid Atlantic Sales Engineer, BlueCatBio
4:55 – 5:15
Review problems of aspiration based washer caused by aspiration needle. Present BlueWasher’s “Washing by Centrifugation” solution achieving contact-free, near zero-residual volume plate washing & media changes.  Show engineering solution to avoid contamination. Present data in support of BlueWasher’s key benefits for adherent cellular assays. Introduce BlueWasher’s application specific plate evacuation settings for ELISA, magnetic bead based DNA extraction, cellular assays and microarray slide drying. Show BlueWasher’s intuitive graphical user interface and accessories.

Vendor Exhibition: (4:00 - 7:00 PM)


Detailed Information on Vendors

Agilent Technologies
Agilent Technologies leads the industry with robust, reliable instruments that provide the ability to analyze, confirm and quantify substances of interest. Our workflow solutions enable you to maintain stringent practices from sample preparation, through analysis, to final report. When combined with our informatics architecture, large quantities of data can be managed while preserving the integrity and security of the results. Agilent offers a complete line of GC, LC, MS and Spectroscopy instruments and technologies, as well as the related consumables, support and services. For more information visit our website – www.agilent.com.

Analytik Jena AG
The CyBio Product Line of Analytik Jena AG offers high quality liquid handling and automation technologies with the highest reputation for precision, reliability and simplicity. CyBio products set standards in fast and accurate pipetting in 96, 384 and 1536 well formats. The portfolio of the CyBio Product Line ranges from dispenser, automated simultaneous pipettors to robot-based systems. Moreover, our Automation Team designs, produces and installs fully automated systems tailored to our clients' application.

Andrew Alliance
Andrew Alliance (based on Geneva Switzerland and Boston MA) manufactures a novel robot designed to use standard, commercially available pipettes to enhance the performance and efficiency of the pipetting process. The Andrew product family is unique in the liquid handling arena; it consists of portable, ready to use companion robots using conventional pipettes that can be used anywhere with little to no training. Our product line focuses on providing users more accurate results, time & money savings, as well as improving worker health by minimizing manual pipetting time and decreasing exposure to hazardous substances.

Art Robbins
ARI designs and manufactures laboratory equipment and consumable products for liquid handling and protein crystallography. ARI will be displaying the Cobra, a nanoliter capable non-contact, high speed reagent dispenser, ideal for PCR Master Mix additions. The Scorpion Screen Builder is a high speed single channel pipettor. This extremely versatile work station can be used to perform anything that you can do with a hand-held pipettor, with the speed, reliability and precision of an automated dispenser.

Artel
Artel products and services enable laboratories to ensure sample volume data integrity, compliance, and efficiency. The MVS (Multichannel Verification System) allows you to verify accuracy and precision, troubleshoot, and optimize the performance of automated liquid handlers and multichannel pipettes. Artel Liquid Handling Service combines the superior volume measurement capabilities of the MVS with the expertise of an Artel Field Service Technician in your lab, removing liquid handling as a source of error in your processes. The newly released Artel VMS (Volume Measurement System) measures the sample volume present in each microplate well – in-process – for virtually any plate or sample type.

Biosero
Biosero addresses the automation requirements of daily tasks in laboratories by providing scientists with products and services for completely automated solutions.  Products include liquid handling, capping/decapping, microplate sealing, barcode scanning, robotic automation, integration and scheduling software – all uniquely designed with the highest level of engineering and performance in mind.

BioTek
BioTek is recognized worldwide for manufacturing high-value, customer driven microplate based solutions used to aid in the advancement of life science research, facilitate the drug discovery process and to enable cost-effective quantification of disease relevant molecules in the clinic. BioTek's comprehensive product line includes automated widefield digital microscopy, multi-mode microplate detection systems, microplate washers, dispensers and pipetting systems and microplate stackers.

BlueCatBio GmbH
Our BlueWasher, winner of an SLAS2015 New Product Award, is a contactless, near zero residual volume, automation friendly plate washer/ media changer that uses centrifugation instead of aspiration to remove liquids from all plate formats, including 1536 well. Our solutions for adherent cellular assay include plates optimized for centrifugation-based media changes and a line of custom cleaning reagents. Magnetic carrier option for media changes in magnetic bead assays such as high throughput DNA extraction.

BMG Labtech
BMG Labtech provides microplate readers for the HTS and Assay Development marketplace.  The PHERAstar FS is the Flagship multimode reader with dedicated optics and laser for HTRF.  The CLARIOstar is the newest Assay Development reader featuring proprietary LVF monochromators with adjustable bandpasses up to 100 nm.

Brooks
The global leader in automated sample management for drug discovery and biostorage applications. Part of Brooks Automation (Nasdaq:BRKS) the Company provides unparalleled experience in automated compound and biological sample storage removing risk and uncertainty from your process. Backed by the scale, stability, and customer support of a worldwide automation company, we “future proof” your sample workflow investment and maximize sample availability. From consumables to devices to capital equipment, Brooks’ flexible, scalable solutions provide the “perfect fit” for your sample storage and management needs.

Computype
Computype is an industry leader in identification solutions and turnkey label automation for the life science and diagnostics industry.  Our belief is that every sample, specimen, and slide should have a unique name so as to be efficiently tracked throughout its life.  With cryogenic storage labels, integratable label automation, and proven industry expertise, Computype solutions can improve process workflows, increase throughput, and reduce costs.  Visit us at LRIG to learn more about how Computype can help to accomplish your goals. 

Eppendorf North America
Eppendorf is a leading life science company that develops and sells instruments, consumables, and services for liquid-, sample-, and cell handling in laboratories worldwide. Its product range includes pipettes and automated pipetting systems, dispensers, centrifuges, mixers, spectrometers, and DNA amplification equipment as well as ultra-low temperature freezers, fermentors, bioreactors, CO2 incubators, shakers, and cell manipulation systems. Consumables such as pipette tips, tubes, microtiter plates, and disposable bioreactors complement the range of highest-quality premium products.

Essen BioScience
IncuCyte™ live-cell imaging systems, designed by Essen BioScience is the first instrument to provide automated real-time image capture and data analysis from hours to weeks, directly inside your incubator. The IncuCyte™ systems also offer a variety of software modules as well as in-vitro assays, reagents, cell lines, consumables and customized services that target functional measurement of living cells over time.

Evotec
Evotec is a drug discovery solutions company providing drug discovery expertise and capabilities to pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies as well as to academic institutions. Drug discovery solutions are provided in form of fee-for-service work, integrated drug discovery alliances, development partnerships, licensing of innovative drug candidates and consulting arrangements. The Company operates worldwide and has leading scientific experts, state-of-the-art technologies as well as key therapeutic expertise in the areas of neuroscience, pain, metabolic diseases, oncology, inflammation and infectious diseases. By leveraging this expertise, Evotec intends to develop best-in-class and first-in-class differentiated therapeutics on its systematic, unbiased and comprehensive infrastructure.

Frontier Scientific
Frontier Scientific's focus on Outsourced Materials Management and Sample Prep Services supports Compound Management, R&D Screening and Chemistry.  FSSI performs sample reformatting and full repository services with on-demand distribution featuring 24-48 hour delivery.  FSSI offers diversity screening libraries, pre-weighed building blocks, stock solution creation and plating and high throughput analysis.  Frontier Scientific is known for quality building blocks and custom synthesis, and other divisions include biological screening services, custom peptides and agricultural research services. 

Grenova™
Grenova™ is an innovative company that is revolutionizing lab consumables through high-quality waste reduction solutions. Our mission is to lower costs in the laboratory industry and reduce biohazard waste output by delivering groundbreaking approaches in dealing with plastic consumables. TipNovus™ is a benchtop, high-throughput device that will enable labs to wash and sanitize contaminated pipette tips in large quantities for reuse. TipNovus will afford labs the opportunity to reuse plastic pipette tips several times; cutting associated consumable costs by up to 90%. TipNovus’ unique method of washing and sanitation is safe and sustainable for both the lab and environment.

Gyros, Inc.
Gyros markets instrument platforms for automating nanoliter-scale bioanalytical immunoassays for discovery, toxicology, bioprocess, drug metabolism, and biomarkers. The newly launch Gyrolab xPlore™ is based on proprietary compact disc (CD) technology, enabling nanoliter miniaturization and workflow automation for results in under an hour. Based on an affinity flow-through column format, incubations are eliminated and matrix interference is minimized for more sensitive and robust immunoassays to improve data quality and productivity.
• Spare animals by enabling an entire PK profile from a single mouse
• Monitor multiple biomarkers using nanoliter volumes
• Data driven decisions for impurities and titer in bioprocess development

Hamilton Company
Hamilton Company designs and manufactures liquid handling, process analytics, robotics and automated storage solutions. Products include automated liquid handling workstations, automated sample management systems, and manual and semi-automated precision fluid measuring instruments.  We believe every laboratory automation project is unique.  Our workstations and software serve as a common high precision and flexible base upon which to provide automated solutions.  To this end we employ teams of highly skilled and experienced application and hardware customization specialists around the world to provide our customers with unique solutions to automate their assays successfully and within budget. 

Hudson Robotics
Hudson Robotics will be featuring the PlateCrane SciClops™ which teaches itself, unlike other benchtop robot systems. It completely eliminates the problem of mishandled microplates from inaccurately calibrated machines. By automatically aligning the robot workcell with every instrument in its workcell (which takes less than one minute per instrument),the SciClopSTM allows for a hands-free experience. The SciClops™handles microplates, reservoirs, disposable tip racks and other common labware.

IntelliCyt Corporation
IntelliCyt Corporation develops and markets innovative high-throughput cell and bead-based screening solutions for use in antibody discovery, phenotypic screening and toxicity testing. The Company uses proprietary technologies to create instrumentation, reagent kits, and software products that dramatically increase the speed and decrease the cost of detecting and measuring cells and beads.

Tecan US
Tecan is a leading global provider of laboratory instruments and solutions in biopharmaceuticals, forensics and clinical diagnostics. We have been a pioneer in automated liquid handling and innovative life science solutions for over 30 years, enabling our customers to make the world a healthier and safer place.

Thermo Fisher Scientific, the world leader in serving science, recently launched several new products to increase efficiencies and improve laboratory processes with these new exciting solutions:  
• Spinnaker Smart Robot – smart SCARA arm with built-in vision.  Learn how Spinnaker can detect positional variations and correct automatically, so your samples are protected 
• Cytomat 10C with NEW Display & Cymon Application – Fasted cell culture incubator, offering new GUI with integrated functions and remote monitoring capabilitties from virually any location with Cymon
• Varioskan LUX Multimode Microplate reader – Offers simplified versatility to bioscience researchers performing a variety of microplate assays

Titian Software
Founded in 1999, Titian Software specializes in sample management, offering software products and consultancy services to improve the efficiency, throughput and integrity of sample libraries. Its industry-renowned Mosaic™ software optimizes the storage, processing, tracking, and ordering of diverse sample types, including compounds, biologicals and reagents. The Mosaic product suite can be a solution for single or multi-site organizations and is the preferred sample management system for many of the top bio-pharma companies. With increasing worldwide demand, Titian Software has presence in Europe, the United States and the Far East to provide its customers with local expertise and support.
 
Throughout its 127-year history, WHEATON has been dedicated to supporting scientific advances and discovery by providing innovative solutions for the laboratory research, diagnostic, and specialty pharmaceutical industries. The company’s expertise in designing and manufacturing plastic and glass containers with a wide selection of closure systems and custom solutions ensures the secure storage and delivery of sensitive materials and precious biomedical specimens around the globe. Products and Services: Chromatography, General Lab Equipment, Labware-Glass/Metal/Plastic, Cell Culture, Liquid Handling/ Syringes, Pumps, Sample Preparation Equip.  For more information, visit our website www.wheaton.com




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