May 2006

The Laboratory Robotics Interest Group
Mid Atlantic Chapter

May 2006 Meeting

The Twelfth Annual Technology Exhibition & Presentations

Date: Wednesday, May 24, 2006
Place: Hilton East Brunswick, Three Tower Center Boulevard, East Brunswick, New Jersey 08816, Tel: 732-828-2000 or 1-800-HILTONS,
<http://www.hilton.com/en/hi/hotels/index.jhtml?ctyhocn=EWRBHHF>
Itinerary: Exhibits and Presentations - 3:00 to 9:00 pm

Door Prizes:
Protedyne --- (2) Coffee Mugs
LRIG --- (2) Laser Pointers
LRIG --- (4) Photon Micro-Light II Keyring Lights
IDBS --- (1) Executive Parker Pen
Beckman --- (4) stainless steel coffee mugs
Beckman --- (4) Beckman Coulter visors
Beckman --- (2) sport/duffle bags
Beckman --- (2) cooler/tote bags
Gail Crawford --- (1) tabletop BBQ Grill
Upstate|Chemicon --- (2) Sport Duffle Bags
QIAGEN --- (1) iPod Shuffle
Drug Discovery News --- (6) pair of cocktail glassware

We are accepting door prizes from exhibitors and attendees! Please contact Andy Zaayenga.

Registration: We have an on-line registration service at <https://www.lab-robotics.org/member/meetings.asp?rid=1>.
There will be drawings from the members who register on-line for prizes donated by LRIG and exhibitors.
You must register on-line to win the door prizes!

Agenda: An exciting day is planned with technology exhibits in the main hall. Oral Presentations will be featured in the seminar areas throughout the day. Over one hundred exhibitor booths of laboratory automation hardware and software will exhibit, demonstrating their latest products and services. Extensive hors d'oeuvre, courtesy of the exhibitors, will be available as well as cash bars. The proceeds from this exhibitor funded meeting are used to pay for various costs of running the group throughout the year. In this way the LRIG can operate without collecting dues. Please support the group by attending this informative and entertaining meeting. Last year Exhibition was extremely successful with over 700 attendees and we hope to surpass that turnout. For more information contact Andy Zaayenga, .

There are rooms at the Hilton and nearby hotels for attendees who wish to stay overnight. Parking is paid for by the LRIG - just tell the attendant that you were attending the LRIG meeting.

Donations for the door prize drawings are gratefully accepted. Open career positions at your company may be posted on the job board.

There is no fee to attend the meeting.

The Menu!

A highlight of the annual exhibition is the food and refreshments. From 4:00 to 6:00 PM there are buffets of vegetable crudite and cheese, as well as butler served cold and hot hors d'oeuvre. At 6:00 PM dinner is presented featuring sushi, roast beef carving board, pasta, and Middle Eastern style grilled vegetables. A cash bar is available throughout. Coffee and tea is served at 7:30 PM.

The food is free to attendees and sponsored by all of the exhibitors - thank you!

Exhibitors

	4titude
	Advent Design
	Agilent
	ArcticWhite
	Art Robbins Instruments
	Artel
	ASDI
	Aurora Biomed
	Axygen Scientific
	BD Biosciences
	Beckman Coulter
	Biacore
	Biotek
	BioVeris
	Black Dog Technical Services
	BMG Labtech
	Brandel
	Caliper Life Sciences
	Cell Signaling Technology
	CerionX
	Chemspeed
	Cisbio
	Computype / Wheaton Science Products
	Corning Life Sciences
	Covaris
	CyBio
	Deerac
	DiscoveRx

	Focus Biology
	Genetix USA
	GeneVac
	Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation (GNF Systems)
	GenVault
	Global Array
	Greiner Bio One
	Guava Technologies
	Hamilton
	High Resolution Engineering
	Hudson Control Group
	IDBS
	InnovaSystems
	ISC BioExpress
	Kalypsys
	Kardex Engineering
	Labcyte
	LiCONiC US
	ManSci / Gilson
	Manufacturing Applications eXperts
	Matrical
	Matrix Technologies
	MDS Sciex
	MeCour Temperature Control
	Mettler Toledo
	Molecular Devices
	Nanostream

	nAscent BioSciences
	National Labtools
	Nexus Biosystems
	Norgren Systems / AEI
	PerkinElmer LAS
	PlanetConnect
	Popper & Sons
	Promega
	Protedyne
	Qiagen
	Reaction Biology
	REMP
	ReTiSoft
	RTS Life Science
	Sirius Analytical Instruments
	ST Robotics
	Tecan
	TekCel
	The Automation Partnership
	Thermo Electron LAI
	Titertek Instruments
	Tomtec
	Upstate\|Chemicon
	USA Scientific
	Velocity11
	Xiril
	Xyntek
	Zinsser North America

Exhibitors - Click here for Exhibitor Information
https://www.lab-robotics.org/Mid_Atlantic/meetings/0605_exhibit_information.htm

Workshop

We have a returning feature at this meeting! One of our LRIG Mid Atlantic Board members, Kapeel Krishana, has experience with National Instruments' LabView control software. Kapeel has volunteered to conduct a hands-on workshop at this meeting to familiarize LRIG members with this versatile interfacing package. Theory of operation will be presented as well as real interfacing examples. The workshop is free to LRIG members and will take place from 3:30 to 4:30pm.

Presentations

Time	Edison Room	Boardroom 2	Woodbridge/Piscataway Room
4:00-4:30 pm			LabView Workshop by Kapeeleshwar Krishana (Princeton University and LRIG) *No Charge to LRIG Members*
4:30-5:00 pm
5:00-5:30 pm	IDBS: Improving the Quality of Valuable screening data	Thermo: High Throughput Dispensing Using Thermo Electron Multidrop Combi Bulk Reagent Dispenser and RapidStak Microplate Stacker	Chemspeed: Accelerating Chemistry Workflows by automated High Output Technologies
5:30-6:00 pm	MDS Sciex: CellKey System- A Powerful New Automated Approach to Cellular Analysis Presented by Kathy Zhao, MDS Sciex	Merck: Evaluation of a Novel Cleaning Technology for Simplifying and Increasing the Efficiency of siRNA Screening	Agilent: Automated Protein and DNA Analysis: The Agilent 5100 Automated Lab-on-a-Chip Platform
6:00-6:30 pm	Global Array: Continuous Tape Based Automation as a Replacement for Microplates *Note: There will be a door prize drawing from Global Array for this presentation*	Artel and Caliper Life Sciences workshop: "Method Validation for Caliper Liquid Handlers using the Artel MVS"	Kardex Engineering: Materials Management Principles and ASRS for Benchmark HTS
6:30-7:00 pm	Biacore: Combining in-silico techniques and selectivity based label free screening as a powerful tool for drug discovery		Sirius Analytical: pKa measurement in four minutes ?the key to measuring drug solubilities at 37蚓
7:00-7:30 pm	Beckman Coulter: Introducing New Biomek Liquid Handlers with software and hardware advancements that help achieve reliable and accurate results for laboratory automation	FOCUS Biology

click here for abstracts

Posters

1) A Novel Screening Platform for Transporter Proteins

IonGate Biosciences

2) Achieving Ultra High Performance Screening

IDBS

3) A fast method for measuring solubility of ionizable molecules

Sirius Analytical Inc

4) Inert Sample Processing - Solutions for Combating Sample

Precipitation in Compound Libraries

Authors: Mel Reichman, PhD (PharmDC), and Sandesh Gowda (KEMS)

5) Expanding the Suite of Assays Technologies That Can Be Reliably Run in 1536 Well Format

Rose Hughes[1]; Robert Bukar[1]; Ben Baumann[1]; Nathan Heinrich[2]; Paul Queeney[1]

¹ Kalypsys, Inc., 10420 Wateridge Circle, San Diego, CA 92123

² Remmele Engineering, 677 Transfer Road, St. Paul, MN 55114

6) Vari Syringe

John Brohan, Traders Micro

7) Micro-High Speed Liquid Chromatography Coupled to an Evaporative Light Scattering Detector for the Rapid Analysis of Compounds of Pharmaceutical Interest

Tovatech LLC

8) A novel generic system for kinase assays and real-time enzyme and inhibitor kinetics

Nanostream

9) High-throughput automation for RNA isolation from blood stabilized in PAXgene^TM Blood RNA Tubes
Qiagen

10) The BioRobot?Universal System ?Multiple Applications on One Instrument
Thomas Weierstall; Anja Schultz; Martin Heller and Carola Schade
QIAGEN GmbH, 40724 Hilden, Germany

11) Securely Publishing Screening Data to Multiple User Groups with a Lightweight Apache Web-server Application
Ken S. Stoney and Frank D. Mentch, Ph.D.
Edge4 Technologies

12) Centralized vs. Multi-Site Compound Management
REMP, Donat Elsener (REMP AG) and Michael Girardi (REMP USA)

13) Identifying hits and elucidating targets from a Neutrophil Oxidative Burst uHTS in 1536-well microplates

Kalypsys

14) Non-Contact Dispensing of Yttrium Oxide Beads in 1536
Justin Murray
Merck Research Labs, North Wales, PA

click here for abstracts

Exhibitor Technology Workshops

Deerac Fluidics, Labcyte, Promega and Corning Life Sciences are joint sponsors of a special luncheon workshop prior to the start of the LRIG meeting. The workshop, held at the Hilton East Brunswick, begins at 11:30 AM and concludes at 3:00 PM. The title is Miniaturization in compound profiling: Obtain practical results using acoustic droplet ejection, low-volume dispensing and superior reagents. Space is limited, so please register to attend this informative workshop at http://www.labcyte.com/registration_test/reg_lrig.aspx.

Directions

The first class Hilton Hotel is located at the crossroads of New Jersey's major arteries at Exit 9 of the NJ Turnpike, just outside New Brunswick. It's central location is just 25 minutes from Newark Int'l Airport, 45 minutes from New York City and less than an hour from Philadelphia. Easy access to all surrounding business areas and attractions makes the Hilton East Brunswick the perfect location for business, pleasure or meetings.

On-line directions may be found at:
http://www.hilton.com/en/hi/hotels/index.jhtml?ctyhocn=EWRBHHF
or look at the Direction Sheet <https://www.lab-robotics.org/Mid_Atlantic/0605_hiltoneb_directions.htm>

Reservations

The Laboratory Robotics Interest Group has hotel rooms blocked for 5/23 and 5/24 at the Hilton. Please call the hotel and ask for the "Lab Robotics" rate. If you have any difficulties confirming the rate, ask to speak with Maria Bambino at the hotel.

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