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The Laboratory Robotics
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The Laboratory Robotics Interest GroupJune 1998 MeetingThe Fourth Annual Vendor's NightDate: Thursday, June 11, 1998
Agenda: Sixty-four vendor tables of laboratory automation hardware and software will exhibit, demonstrating their latest products and services. Presentations are featured in a separate hall during the exhibition. To be considered for a presentation slot, please send us an abstract. Extensive hors d’oerves, courtesy of the vendors, will be available as well as a cash bar. The proceeds from this vendor funded exhibition are used to finance mailings and pay for various costs of running the group. In this way the LRIG can operate without collecting dues. Please support the group by attending this informative and entertaining meeting. Last year’s Vendor’s Night was extremely successful and we hope to surpass that turnout. For exhibitor registration or more information contact Andy Zaayenga <[email protected]>, Secretary, or any of the LRIG officers listed below. There are hotels nearby for attendees who wish to stay overnight. Members interested in presenting a poster are encouraged to do so. Open career positions at your company may be announced or posted. There is no fee to attend the meeting.
Exhibiting Vendors
Presentation: Design strategy and
implementation of an automated system for performing Ultra High Throughput Screening using
the current generation of assay technologies Expanding the new drug development pipeline is one of the keys to the race to market for new drugs. Despite a number of promising new developments in combinatorial chemistry and rational drug design most new leads still come from empirical testing. This has placed an urgent emphasis on increasing the throughput of screening to rates as high as 100,000 assays/day. While the step to UHTS will offer several long term benefits, successful implementation will depend on reducing the technical risks, maintaining assay flexibility, and leveraging existing down stream and up stream processes. Some argue that the quantum step to 100,000 points per day will only be realized with new assay technologies and emerging higher density plate formats. This talk will discuss an automated approach which uses robust production validated technology and allows current generation of assays to be run at UHTS rates - today, with the flexibility to be easily reconfigured to different assay formats, as needs change. Zymark has developed such a solution called Allegro?/font> , and is currently under contract with 4 collaborators. Some of the results of the first beta test with RW Johnson Pharmaceutical Research Institute will be discussed. This includes methods validation data on different assay formats, as well as preliminary evaluation of the technology.
Presentation: ORIGEN Technology for performing
High-Throughput compound screening assays
Presentation: Industry Strategic Benefits and Success
Factors in Automation in Pharmaceutical Research
Presentation: Research Automation: An Integrated Approach
to Proprietary and Commercial Substance Supply, Preparation, Tracking, and Request
Fulfillment Using Novel Information Management Technology
Presentation: An Open, Modular Software Architecture for
Laboratory Automation
Poster: Software methodology based on 3D molecular
information
Posters: Automated Labelling and Weighing Systems
For more information contact:
Directions: From the North or South: Take the New Jersey Turnpike to Exit 8A - Exit the left ramp for Jamesburg (Route 32 East) - Continue straight for 1 1/4 miles through traffic light - Forsgate Country Club is on your left - Use the Clubhouse Entrance (second left). From Princeton: Route 1 to Scudders Mill Road East - Continue on Scudders Mill Road and make a left at the 5th traffic light onto Dey Road - Continue on Dey Road to the end - Make a left - At 2nd traffic light (Route 32) make a right - Continue straight for 1 1/4 miles through traffic light - Forsgate Country Club is on your left - Use the Clubhouse entrance (second left). For an interactive map:
Group Update: Paul Skerker of Leukosite and Donna Norton of Pharmalytic won rosewood LRIG pen sets in the business card drawing. A business card drawing will be held at the June meeting.
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