All assays, be they high throughput screens, secondary screening or low throughput bespoke assays need to get the correct volumes of their various components to the right place at the right time in order that accurate data can be delivered in a meaningful time slot to help decrease the drug discovery cycle.

Label Free detection is currently a very hot topic, and is enabling novel exploration of many biological systems in their native environment.

This event will be a not-to-be-missed chance to hear about and to see some of the very latest developments at the leading edge of these technologies.

Liquid Handling in Challenging Conditions

High quality Liquid Handling is an essential component in almost all laboratories and the use of automated systems and robotics has enabled better, faster and more reliable processes to be developed. The capacity for accuracy and precision in liquid handling dispenses acheived these days is incredible, down to pico litres volumes. However the technologies and applications of liquid handling systems used is often overlooked.

This meeting aims to cover some of the latest developments for this core technique and will focus on applications in some of the most challenging conditions and samples.

The meeting will also address novel methods of Quality Control and delivering an ever wider range of volumes from pico-litres to litres.

Label Free Detection Technologies

The ability to study biochemical and cellular systems in their native state is highly desirable in life science laboratories. In addition to the well established platforms newer technologies are now coming to the fore enabling researchers to probe systems in a manner hitherto impossible. This meeting highlights some of the more significant developments enabled by a range of label free platforms. Both the areas of biochemical and cellular label-free detection systems will be covered in detail, also comparisons will be made to more traditional detection techniques in the drug discovery environment.

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ELRIG  AWARDS

As a not-for-profit organisation, it is part of the ELRIG’s mission to ‘give something back’ to the industry to help promote its development. Ultimately, we aim to promote the health, growth and sustainability of our industry.

The European LRIG has always been about communication and interaction for users and vendors within the scientific research, development or production community (industry and academia) in order to promote technologies and the advance of lab automation.

With the continued growth of ELRIG, we feel that the time is right for us to re-invest time and money to further the advance of lab automation in Europe.

To this end, we have set up a technology award fund *, allowing us to offer some financial support to researchers and developers for innovative ideas that would advance the use of automation within the life science laboratories.

* ELRIG is floating this fund with £25,000 in 2010 : contributions from other organisations are also invited.

We believe this award will help maximise the benefit to the life science robotics community and further enhance the interaction between ELRIG/LRIG and its users and supporting vendors.

We hope that applicants would come forward with innovative ideas that would be of special scientific interest, have lab automation as a focus, be educative or applied to the lab community [but the idea should not be vendor specific].

The project should cover new technology or devise an innovative use of current technology/ lab automation.

We welcome applicants developing and / or wishing to commercialise this innovative and unique new technologies for use within the Life Sciences research.

We aim to give the award as, either, ‘cash award’ or sponsorship to a given person or group.

Individual awards will be between £500 and £5,000 and open to any relevant projects in the UK or Europe.

Each application will be considered on individual merit by the review team from the ELRIG committee.

Announcement of Awards will take place at the ELRIG conferences in March and September 2010, and subsequently on our Website and Newsletter.

Cosing date for receipt of applications for the first round of awards is 15th Feb 2010.

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Event Schedule

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Liquid Handling Programme

8.30	Registration
8.50 – 9.00	Session Chairs	Introductions	Kevin Moore Wendy Lauber
9.00 – 9.30	Speaker Talk 1	Production of Accurate Serialisation Plates from Small Volume Inputs and the Issues Faced.	Toby Winchester, Pfizer
9.30 – 10.00	Speaker Talk 2	Development of a Frozen Sample Aliquotter to avoid freeze-thaw cycling of Serum and Plasma Samples	Dale Larson, Draper Laboratory
10.00 – 10.45		COFFEE BREAK – EXHIBITION
10.45 – 11.15	Speaker Talk 3	Automated Liquid and Nanoparticle Slurry Handling in a Combinatorial Nanoceramics Synthesis Robot	Josie Goodall, London University
11.15 – 11.45	Speaker Talk 4	High Frequency Focused Acoustic Technology:  Implementation in Compound Management	Darren Rimmer, GSK
11.45 – 12.30	Snapshot Presentations	Bellbrook, Caliper, Cybio, Hamilton, Labcyte, TTP, Tecan, Thermo
12.30 – 2.00		LUNCH  + EXHIBITION VIEWING + POSTER VIEWING
2.00 – 2.30	Speaker Talk 5	Non-Contact Picoliter Dispense Technology to Eliminate Serial Dilution	Daniel Thomas, GSK
2.30 – 3.00	Speaker Talk 6	Is your Automated Liquid Handler Working For your Assays - Understanding Device Behaviour	John Bradshaw, Artel
3.00 – 3.30		COFFEE BREAK - EXHIBITION
3.30 – 4.00	Speaker Talk 7	High Throughput Process Development and the Implication for Liquid Handling	Jorg Kittelmann, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
4.00 – 4.30	Speaker Talk 8	Liquid Handling and Automated Liquid Class Optimisation of Complex Fluids	Neil Campbell, Liverpool University
4.30 – 4.45		CLOSE -  PRIZE DRAW

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Label-Free Detection Technologies Programme

8.30	Registration
8.50 – 9.00	Session Chairs	Introductions	Adrian Kinkaid Jo Woodward
9.00 – 9.30	Speaker Talk 1	Label free and fluorescence detection in molecular recognition science - why we need both	Manfred Auer, Edinburgh University
9.30 – 10.00	Speaker Talk 2	An Overview of Label-Free Technologies: Stairway to Heaven or The Song Remains the Same?	Phil Rawlins, AstraZeneca
10.00 – 10.45		COFFEE BREAK – EXHIBITION
10.45 – 11.15	Speaker Talk 3	Probing for 7TMR Native Signalling	Jeff Jerman, GSK
11.15 – 11.45	Speaker Talk 4	The use of Label-Free Methodology to measure Collagen Receptor Activity in live cells	Richard Farndale, Cambridge University
11.45 – 12.00	Speaker Talk 5	Label Free  -  Real Time Assessment of cell adhesion and proliferation using impedance based technology	Keith Abayasiriwardana, Pfizer
12.00 – 12.30	Snapshot Presentations	Bionas, Corning, Fortebio, PharmaDiagnostics
12.30 – 2.00		LUNCH  + EXHIBITION VIEWING
2.00 – 2.30	Speaker Talk 6	Dynamic mass redistribution: Fascinating insight into Cellular Signalling or Black Box?	Evi Kostenis,  Bonn University
2.30 – 3.00	Speaker Talk 7	Industrial Biophysics in the Search for New Leads	Stephan Geschwinder, AstraZeneca
3.00 – 3.30		COFFEE BREAK - EXHIBITION
3.30 – 4.00	Speaker Talk 8	Bio-inspired Sensors based on the Assembly of Receptors and Ion Channels for Label-Free Receptor Characterization and Drug Screening	Michel Vivaudou, Grenoble
4.00 – 4.30	Speaker Talk 9	Impedance Spectroscopy	Prof. Hywel Morgan, Southampton University
4.30 – 4.45		CLOSE -  PRIZE DRAW

 Please note these are provisional timetables and are subject to change.

 

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HOTEL INFORMATION:

 

Whittlebury Hall Hotel and Spa

Whittlebury, Towcester, Northamptonshire, NN12 8QH

01327 857857

*** When Booking mention ELRIG to receive your discounted Rate *****

 

The King's Head Inn

2 Abbey Road, Syresham, Nr Brackley, Northamptonshire, NN13 5HW

01280 850280

 

Saracens Head Hotel

219 Watling Street West, Silverstone, Towcester, Northamptonshire, NN12 6BX

01327 350414

 

Villiers Classic Hotel

3 Castle Street, Buckingham, Buckinghamshire, MK18 1BS

01280 822444

 

Cheaney Drive

Grange Park, Northampton, NN4 5FB

01604 432800

 

Eastlake Park

Tongwell Street, Milton Keynes, MK 15 0YA

01908 681000

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DIRECTIONS TO WHITTLEBURY HALL

Whittlebury Hall is located in the heart of rural Northamptonshire, yet is just 10 minutes from Junction 15A of the M1 motorway.

By Road
Exit the M1 (11 miles) at J15A. Take the A43 dual-carriageway towards Oxford/ Silverstone. After 9 miles turn left onto the A413 signposted Buckingham/Whittlebury. Drive through Whittlebury village to the far side and turn right into Whittlebury Hall.

From the M40 (18 miles) exit at J10 and take the A43 to Northampton. In Silverstone village, turn right following the signs for Whittlebury. In Whittlebury turn right onto the A413 signposted Buckingham. Drive through Whittlebury village to the far side and turn right into Whittlebury Hall.

Alternative routes are available from the M40 via Junction 11 and Junction 9.

From Central Milton Keynes (11 miles). Follow the A5 north and drive through the villages of Potterspury and Paulerspury. Take a left turn to Pury End/ Whittlebury. Turn left at the T junction, drive through Whittlebury village to the far side and turn right into Whittlebury Hall.

By Rail
Rail users travel to nearby Northampton or Milton Keynes railway stations. Both stations are main line stations with regular service connections to all parts of the United Kingdom.

By Air
London Heathrow (70 minutes), Birmingham International (50 minutes), Luton (40 minutes) and East Midlands (40 minutes) airports are all within easy reach of Whittlebury Hall.

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