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.

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.

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

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.

Course Topics

  • 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.

Optional Textbook for 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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Equipment for hands on use in Class

AUTOMATED LIQUID HANDLING
  • Beckman Biomek FX®
  • TECAN EVO®
  • Perkin Elmer Janus®
  • Hamilton Star or Nimbus®
  • Cybio CyBi-Felix® Multichannel
ABSORBANCE READERS TENTATIVELY
  • BMG Labtech GmbH Spectstar® Absorbance reader
  • Molecular Devices SpectraMax Plus 384®
  • Tecan Infinity M200 Pro® Absorbance Reader
Accessories
  • 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.

Who Should Attend

Anyone with little or some experience with laboratory automation seeking an introduction to standardization, validation and accreditation of automated liquid handlers and processes

  • Lab Managers
  • Scientists
  • Engineers
  • Quality Control Workers
  • Technical Staff
  • Students

How You Will Benefit

  • Get introduced to the requirements of automated liquid handling in accredited or forensic environments
  • Understand the challenges of standardization, validation and accreditation
  • Develop an understanding of the validation process
  • Learn to plan and execute implementation and validation of automated liquid handlers and processes
  • Understand the pitfalls of automated liquid handling in accredited or forensic environments and how to avoid with them.