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The Laboratory Robotics Interest Group

Topical Group of the American Chemical Society
December 1997 Meeting

High Throughput Screening

Date:        Wednesday, December 3, 1997
Place:       Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation
                 Building 701, 59 Route 10, East Hanover, NJ  07950
Itinerary:  Social Period with Refreshments and HTS Vendor Show, Building 701 Cafeteria -  5:00 to 7:00 pm
                 Presentations and Panel Discussion, Building 701 Cafeteria -  7:00 to 9:15 pm
Pre-Registration: For security purposes you must pre-register for this meeting by contacting Dennis France, Chairman LRIG.                   Indicate names of attendees and company affiliation.
                 Email:  dennis.france@pharma.novartis.com
                 Fax:     (201)503-6136

An exciting agenda is planned for this meeting centered around High Throughput Screening.  During the Social Period which will feature pizza and refreshments, there will be a HTS Vendor's Show.  Following will be two presentations, then a group of panelists with diverse experience in automated drug discovery will lead discussions on a wide variety of topics.  If you have topics that you would like to discuss in the open forum panel discussion, please send them to zaayenga@lab-robotics.org and the list will be presented to the panel.  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.

Presentation: Development of an Ultra-High Throughput Screening System: Plate Design, Liquid Handling & Image Analysis
Dr. Kevin Oldenburg
Director of Biomedical Screening
Dupont Merck, USA

Recent advances in plate design, liquid handling, and imaging have made it possible, for the first time, to create truly ultra-high throughput screening systems.  The key engineering challenges which needed to be overcome in order to develop these systems as well as system limitations will be discussed.  Data from model systems will be presented comparing the results obtained from the miniaturized format with those obtained from the standard 96-well format.  These results demonstrate that the signal to noise ratio and robustness of an assay can be preserved upon miniaturization.  The flexibility of this system should make it amenable for screening of not only pharmaceuticals but also for agrochemicals and applied materials.

Presentation: Strategic Approaches to Cellular Transcriptional HTS Assays
Dr. Mel Reichman
Vice President
Drug Discovery
OSI Pharmaceuticals
Uniondale, NY

Poster: Automated Weighing, Labeling and Compound Dissolution
Jane Riley
Bohdan Automation Inc.

Poster: Wellplate Replicators in HTS
Poster: Automated Weighing and Labelling Systems
Andrew Whitwell
Labman Automation Ltd

HTS Vendors Exhibiting

For more information contact:

Convenient Hotels:

Courtyard Marriot, Rte 10, Whippany

Hilton, Rte 10, Parsippanny

Marriot, Rte 10, Parsippany

these are all west of Novartis on Route 10

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