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The Laboratory Robotics Interest Group
Mid Atlantic Chapter

May 2007 Meeting

The Thirteenth Annual Technology Exhibition & Presentations

Date:  Thursday, May 17, 2007   
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



We are accepting door prizes from exhibitors and attendees! Please contact Ed Kuspiel.

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 Ed Kuspiel.

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!

Appetizers
Baby Maryland Crab Cakes Served with a Cajun R幦oulade Sauce Baked Diver Scallops Wrapped in Apple Smoked Bacon Buffalo Chicken Wings with Blue Cheese Sauce Vegetable Quesadillas with Guacamole and Salsa Steamed Potstickers- Pork Dumplings Served with a Ponzu Dipping Sauce Chilled Gulf Cocktail Shrimp

International Cheese Selection
A Selection of Domestic and International Cheeses to Include Double Cream Brie, Aged Gouda, New England Farm House Cheddar, Port Salut, Havarti with Dill and Jalapeno Jack, Garnished With Fresh Fruits and Berries Gourmet Crackers and French Brea

Garden Crudit?br>  On a Bed of Garden Greens we will serve Carrot and Celery Sticks, Broccoli Fleurettes, Manzanilla and Calamata Olives, Cucumbers, Pepperoncinis, Baby Pickles, Zucchini and Buttermilk Ranch Dipping Sauce

Japanese Sushi Station
An Assortment of Sushi from Finn & Porters to Include California Rolls and Tuna, Salmon, Eel and Shrimp Nigiri Pickled Ginger, Soy Sauce and Japanese Horseradish With authentic chef

Italian Market Antipasto Display
An Assortment of Olives, Marinated Artichokes, Grilled Eggplant and Zucchini, Roasted Sweet Red and Yellow Peppers, Pesto Fior Di Latte, Romano Pecorino And Cured Meats to Include Sopressata, Genoa Salami and Bresaola Served with Sliced Baguettes and Bread Sticks

Pasta Bar
 Penne Pasta with a Shiitake Cream Sauce and Bow Tie Pasta with Marinara, Served with Grated Parmigiano Reggiano, Crushed Red Peppers and Garlic Bread Sticks

Steamship Round of Beef
Served with Beefeaters Sauce, Whole Grain Mustard And Silver Dollar Size Rolls

Cajun Shrimp and Andouille Sausage
Fresh Shrimp and Sausage Straight from the Bayou Saut嶪d in Smoking Hot Oil with Onions, Celery, Peppers and Select Cajun Seasonings then Served with a Side of Red Beans and Rice

Roasted Whole Turkey
 Served with Corn Muffins and Buttermilk Biscuits-, Cranberry Mayonnaise and Whole Grain Mustard

Viennese Dessert Station
 Assorted cakes, pies, mini cheesecakes, cannollis, 嶰lairs and cookies

Drinks
Assorted Coffee, teas (regular and decaf) water and sodas


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

 

 

Exhibitors

Click here for Exhibitor Information
 

Advent Design  
Amaxa    
Applied Biosystems     
Apricot Designs        
Arctic White   
Art Robbins    
Artel  
ASDI   
Autogen
Automation Partnership         
Beckman Coulter        
Biodirect      
Biosero        
BioTek         
BioVeris       
Black Dog      
Blueshift Technologies 
Caliper 
Cerionx        
Chemglass      
CIS Biointernational   
Computype      
Corning        
Corning Epic   
Covaris        
Cybio  
Dako   
Deerac (Allegro) 
DiscoveRx      
Eppendorf      
ForteBio       
Genetix        
Genevac
Genomic Solutions      
Genvault       
Gilson ( Mansci)       
GNF
Greiner BioOne         
Guava Technologies     
Gyros  
Hamilton       
Hatch Technology       
High Resolution Engineering    
Hudson Robotics        
Kalypsis       
Labcyte        
Liconic        
Lonza  
Manufacturing Applications eXperts     
Matrical       
Matrix ( Thermofisher)
MBSI   
MDS Sciex      
Mecour         
Millipore      
Molecular Devices
MT AutoChem
Nanodrop 
Norgren Systems      
Nanostream     
nAScent Biosciences    
Perkin Elmer
Phenix Research        
Popper & Sons  
Primera        
ProGroup Instrument    
Promega        
Protedyne      
Qiagen         
Remp   
Retisoft       
RTS    
Specs  
SpinX  
Symyx  
Tecan  
Thales Nano    
Thermo Fisher Scientific-Lab Automation and Integration         
ThermoFisher MBP       
ThermoFisher Microplate Instrumentation        
Tomtec         
TTP  Ltd       
USA Scientific         
Velocity 11    
WorldWide Medical Products     
Xyntek 
Zinsser

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 3:00to 4:00pm.

Presentations

 

Edison Room

Piscataway Room

Woodbridge room

 

3:00-4:00 p.m.

 

 

LabVIEW show and tell

Kapeeleshwar Krishana, Malvern Instruments and LRIG

 

4:30- 5:00 p.m.

 

Corning

Corning(r) Epic(r) System:  High-Throughput Label-Free Detection

 

Perkin Elmer

GPCR Screening

 

Millipore Corporation

Cell Migration Assays

 

5:00-5:30 p.m.

Thermo Scientific Cell Growth and Discovery WorkCell?  Automating the Management and Screening Analysis of Multiple Cell Lines at a Research Scale

Pharmacopeia:

How to Screen 6 Million compounds in a Cell-Based Assay in 7 Days

Lonza:

Extending the scope for luciferase: coupled assays for non-ATP consuming enzymes.

 

5:30-6:00 p.m.

 

BioTek Instruments

BioTek Synergy?2, A Multi-Detection Microplate Reader capable of quantitating cAMP and TNF-a using various homogeneous       assay HTS technologies.

Hatch Technology

Automating Instruments for Pharmaceutical QbD and PAT

Gyros US

Protein quantification using Gyrolab CD technology: Miniaturization and integration of sandwich immunoassay

 

6:00-6:30 p.m.

 

Caliper Life Sciences

A comparison of Zephyr and Sciclone Liquid Handlers for Automated Cell-Based Assays on Permeable Support Systems

MPR Associates Inc.

Case Study for development of an instrument for electrophoresis in a 96 well microplate format

CyBio US 

Low Volume GPCR and Ion Channel Screening, the easy way

 

6:30-7:00 p.m.

 

ThalesNano

The automation of novel continuous-flow microfluidic reactors as tools to facilitate high-throughput compound synthesis.

Caliper Life Science

A comparison of Zephyr and Sciclone Liquid Handlers for Automated Cell-Based Assays on Permeable Support Systems.

Merck

The HYPERFlask : A New High Yield, High Performance Tissue Culture Flask

 

7:00-7:30 p.m.

 

Roche

Compound Management Workflow and available technical infrastructure

 

Nanostream Inc.

A Generic Platform for Enzyme Assay Development and Optimization

 

 

HTG, Inc

Fully Automated, High Sample Throughput, Multiplexed Measurement of Gene Expression

 

7:30-8:00
p.m

PharmaSeq, Inc.,

Light-powered Microtransponders for Miniaturized RFID Applications

 

 

BioTrove, Inc.

High Throughput Screening via RapidFireTM Mass Spectrometry


Molecular Devices Corporation

Solving image interactivity in cellular informatics through AcuityXpress

 

 

8:00-8:30 p.m.

Applied Biosystems/Ambion

Improve Productivity and Save Time - tools available from Applied Biosystems and

Genetix  Rapid screening and selection of stable high producing clones

Fortebio Applications using BioLayer Interferometry (BLI) for Label-free Real-Time Kinetics Analysis in Post-primary Screening and Bioprocessing Development

 

 

Click Here for a PDF of Presentations with Abstracts

 

Posters

The Third Annual LRIG Student Poster Contest will be held in conjunction with the technology exposition at the Hilton East Brunswick, Thursday,
May 17, 2007.

Students should plan to be at their posters to meet the judges between 5:00 and 6:00 pm.
Student Posters may be on any topic in engineering or the biological and physical sciences.  Content related to automation or robotics 
is NOT required. 

Many students at the university level do not have the opportunity to work with robotics which is why the contest is open to research posters 
on any topic.
Click here for a PDF of the Posters
There is no charge to attend the meeting and there will be free food.  We expect that there will be about 700 people attending the exposition.  
This is an excellent opportunity to promote your university or research program.
Please pre register for the meeting at:
https://www.lab-robotics.org/Mid_Atlantic/meetings/0705.htm
or go to:
https://www.lab-robotics.org/ (Click on the Mid Atlantic Chapter's link listed under "Upcoming LRIG Meetings."
To enter a poster, simply send the student's name and the title of the poster to me anytime before May 7.
There will be cash prizes distributed as follows; 400$ first place, 300$ second place, 200$ third place, and four runners up each receiving 50$.
(Students who win money may treat their mentors at the cash bar.)
I hope you will encourage any students to participate,
Kevin Olsen
LRIG Mid Atlantic, Academic Liaison
Montclair State University
Chemistry and Biochemistry Support Staff
Richardson 359.
Montclair, NJ, 07043
973-655-4076
[email protected]

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/0705_hiltoneb_directions.htm>

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