Automated Liquid Handling in Accredited or Forensic Environments

Knowing which automated liquid handler meets your needs requires becoming familiar with the terminology, capabilities and common uses.  This workshop course will introduce you to the technology, terminology and capabilities while allowing you hands on experience on actual automated robotic pipetting liquid handlers.

SPECIAL THANKS TO OUR SUPPORTERS: STANFORD UNIVERSITY, BECKMAN, CYBIO, EDC BIOSYSTEMS, MOLECULAR DEVICES, CORNING AXYGEN, USER COMMUNITY AND OTHER AFFILIATES.

 Course

Stanford University, Palo Alto at the Functional Genomic Center Building

When you arrive on-site, please go to the Short Courses office, (Room TBA), prior to your course, to pick up your instructor’s ribbon, attendance sheet and course survey forms. The Short Course Office will be open 1 day prior to course date from 9:00 AM until 5:00 PM.

Vendor Setup Time is day before the event. Vendors shall please contact for arrangements, access, and coordination.

Laboratories are increasingly challenged to be standardized, certified or even accredited. This course presents an introduction to the process of standardizing, validating and accrediting automated liquid handling instruments and processes in both conventional and forensic environments.

  • Introduction to automated liquid handling
  • Introduction to accreditation
  • Automation options
  • Validation of automated liquid handlers and processes
  • Volume verification of liquid handlers
  • Maintaining a validated process — validated
  • Traceability and chain of custody
  • Practical examples demonstrated on a real instrument.

 Equipment for hands on use in Class

  • Beckman Biomek FX®
  • TECAN EVO®
  • Perkin Elmer Janus®
  • Hamilton Star or Nimbus®
  • Cybio CyBi-Felix® Multichannel
  • BMG Labtech GmbH Spectstar® Absorbance reader
  • Molecular Devices SpectraMax Plus 384®
  • Tecan Infinity M200 Pro® Absorbance Reader
  • Micro-well plates, pipette tips
  • Automation Trainers Lab CalKit® with aqueous dye and diluent
  • Robot software methods and hand outs

NOTE: Various vendors are invited based on user interest and equipment varies by course.

 LABORATORY AUTOMATION AND LIMS IN FORENSICS

Editor: Dr. John Butler, formerly head of the FBI’s DNA lab currently at NIST.

Authors: Thought leaders in forensics and lab automation – M. Stangegaard, A.J. Hansen, N. Morling

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