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4-5 October 2021

Early bird registration ends August 30!

Berlin, Germany

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Sample management has become increasingly important in every phase of chemical and biological discovery. Control over factors like sample quality, process efficiency, metadata and miniaturization must be achieved to accelerate both academic and industrial programmes. Further complexity arises in maintaining these factors when collaborating with an external research partner. The SLAS 2021 European Sample Management Symposium welcomes all compound and sample management professionals – from bench scientists to senior leaders – to obtain fresh perspectives and share innovative solutions to challenges in these domains.

Topics will include:

supply chain management,
biomolecule and alternative therapeutic sample collection processes,
blockchain and
the use of robots in sample management.

Attend to experience:

Networking opportunities with members of the global sample management community
Discussions about innovative technologies that will transform sample management practices and how to improve your quality control processes
Examples of successful collaboration with external and internal partners

Schedule at a Glance

Please note this schedule is PRELIMINARY and will be updated as the program is finalized.

Details including individual presentation titles, times and abstracts; exhibitor events; special events and all other conference activities will be confirmed in early 2021.

ALL TIMES ARE IN THE CENTRAL EUROPEAN TIME ZONE.

Monday, 4 October 2021
9:00am – 9:10am	Opening Remarks & Welcome
9:10am – 9:20am	Vendor Snapshot
9:20am – 10:00am	Keynote Address: Dr Agnes Bombrun Sauer, Head of Ingredients Research, Fragrance S&T, Givaudan
10:00am – 10:15am	Coffee Break in Exhibition
10:15am – 10:35am	Supply Chain Management - How to Make a Cheap Sample Storage Consumable!
10:35am – 10:55am	Supply Chain Management - Leachables Analytics and QA
10:55am – 11:15am	Supply Chain Management - Sustainability in the Lab
11:15am – 11:35am	Supply Chain Management - Group Leader Biology Technologies and Lead Discovery
11:35am – 11:55am	Session 1: Supply Chain Management
11:55am – 12:15pm	Vendor Snapshots
12:15pm – 2:00pm	Lunch
12:15pm – 2:00pm	Exhibition & Posters
2:00pm – 3:00pm	Interactive Session
3:00pm – 3:30pm	Coffee Break in Exhibition
3:30pm – 3:40pm	Vendor Snapshot
3:40pm – 4:00pm	Collections - State-of-the-Art Sample Management in Biopharma Research to Support Automated Analytical Systems
4:00pm – 4:20pm	Collections
4:20pm – 4:40pm	Collections - Design and Production of the Novartis’ Next Generation Screening Deck
4:40pm – 5:00pm	Collections - Building on the Past and Preparing the Future: Compound Logistics Supporting Screening at Roche pRED
5:00pm – 6:00pm	Networking Exhibition & Reception

Tuesday, 5 October 2021
9:00am – 1:00pm	Registration Open
9:30am – 10:30am	Welcome Coffee in Exhibition
10:30am – 10:50am	Data - Blockchain: Introduction and Sample Management
10:50am – 11:10am	Data
11:10am – 11:30am	Data - LabVoice: Voice Enablement in Laboratories
11:30am – 11:50am	Data - Advanced Integrated Approach for Data and Sample Management in Academia
11:50am – 12:10pm	Vendor Snapshots
12:10pm – 1:30pm	Lunch
1:30pm – 1:50pm	Vendor Snapshots
1:50pm – 2:10pm	Robots - Trends in Screening Tactics Deployed for Hit Identification and Implications for Sample Management
2:10pm – 2:30pm	Robots - Innovative Tube and Dispensing Technologies Enable Fully Acoustic Workflows for Drug Discovery Assays
2:30pm – 2:50pm	Robots - Robotic Assistance Tools of the Future
2:50pm – 3:10pm	Robots - The CompuGene Robotic Platform for Synthetic Biology
3:10pm – 3:15pm	Closing Remarks

Program

Session 1 – Supply Chain Management

Chair:
Oliver Peter, Ph.D., Director, Group Leader Biology Technologies and Lead Discovery, Drug Discovery Biology, Idorsia Pharmaceuticals

Speakers:
Andreas Nixdorf, Ph.D., Business Development Manager, SGS Institut Fresenius GmbH
Leachables Analytics and QA

Kerstin Hermuth-Kleinschmidt, Ph.D.
Sustainability in the Lab

Robin Grimwood, VP & General Manager, Brooks Life Sciences
Overview of Design, Production, QA of Injection Molded Labware and its Impact of a High Throughput Bioprocessing and Storage Laboratory

Oliver Peter, Ph.D., Director, Group Leader Biology Technologies and Lead Discovery, Drug Discovery Biology, Idorsia Pharmaceuticals
Feeding the Beast: Considerations on Sample Supply for Future Closed-Loop Make-Test-Design Platforms

Session 2 - Collections

Chair:
Jan Eickoff, Ph.D., Head of Screening and Assay Development, Lead Discovery

Speakers:
Alexander Knaupp, Dipl. Ing., Project Leader Automation, Roche Diagnostics GmbH Deutschland
Biological Sample Management at Roche

Nicolas Zorn, Ph.D., Head, Compound Library Enhancement and Logistics, Fraunhofer IPA
Building on the Past and Preparing the Future: Compound Logistics Supporting Screening at Roche pRED

Jeanette Andersen, Ph.D., Professor, UiT – The Arctic University of Norway
Marine Bioactive Compounds from the Arctic

Kristen Nailor, Scientific Manager, BioMolecular Resources Sample Management, Genetech, Inc.
Genetech

Session 3 – Data

Chair:
Toby Winchester, Ph.D., Automation Product Manager, Business Application Consultant Team Leader, Titian Software Ltd.

Speakers:

Martin Popr, RNDr., Ph.D., Head of Compound Management at CZ-OPENSCREEN, Institute of Molecular Genetics of the Czech Academy of Sciences
Advanced Integrated Approach for Data and Sample Management in Academia

Daniel Juchli, Head Lab & Research Informatics, Wega Informatik
Blockchain: Introduction and Sample Management

Jason Meredith, Tecan
The Connected Laboratory

Steve McCoy, LabVoice
Voice Enablement in Laboratories and Impact on Sample Management

Session 4 - Robots

Chair:
Clive Green, Ph.D., Executive Director, Sample Management, AstraZeneca

Speakers:
Andreas Traube, Fraunhofer IPA
Robots as Process Enabling Integrators - Mobile, Flexible and Collaborative use in Laboratories

Silvio Di Castro, M.Sc., Chemical Engineering, Associate Principal Scientist, AstraZeneca
Going “Fully Acoustic”: Reviewing the First Year of Operation with AcoustiX at AstraZeneca

Johannes Kabisch, Ph.D., Professor, Technische Universität Darmstadt
The CompuGene Robotic Platform for Synthetic Biology

Melanie Leveridge, BSc. Hons, Director Screening and Sample Management, GlaxoSmithKline
Trends in Screening Tactics Deployed for Hit Identification and Implications for Sample Management

Interactive Session

Chair: Manuela Beil-Peter, Director Business Sector Liquid Handling and Automation, Analytik Jena AG

Hotel & Travel

Hotel Information

Radisson BLU Hotel, Berlin
Karl-Liebknecht-Strasse, 3
10178 Berlin, Germany

SLAS Group Rate: €149 single including VAT. The surcharge for double occupancy is €18.00 per night. Reserve online or call +49.30.238.280 and ask for the SLAS rate. Rate is available until 5 September 2021, or until the block is full.

Reserve a Room

About the Radisson BLU Hotel, Berlin

With a central location between Alexanderplatz and Museum Island, the Radisson Blu Hotel, Berlin is within easy reach of the city center’s top attractions. In fact, you can enjoy one impressive attraction right in the hotel lobby: the AquaDom, the world’s largest freestanding cylindrical aquarium. This towering glass centerpiece teems with colorful sea life – a magical sight that will get your stay in Berlin off to a memorable start. During this challenging time, Radisson Hotels seeks to make each guest feel safe and secure. So they’ve partnered with SGS to create a 20-step cleaning and safety protocol to address the health issues that are important to you while you travel. Their hotels are employing disinfection and cleaning procedures to keep guest rooms and public spaces to the highest standard of cleanliness.

Main measures: Implement physical distancing measures throughout the hotel. Improve air circulation processes to increase air quality.
Door hangers: Display door hanger with cleaning and disinfecting information.
Increase cleaning and disinfecting: Increase cleaning and disinfection frequency of all hotel areas, paying special attention to high-touch items.
Disinfect box: Place a “disinfect box" in meeting rooms for used stationary items and disinfect them after events.
Sanitizing stations: Install stations with alcohol-based hand sanitizer and gloves in hotel public areas and meeting and event spaces.
Clean and Clean Again: Increase the frequency of cleaning public areas.
Guest-Accessible Disinfecting Wipes: Provide stations at primary entrances and key high traffic areas, for instance, a station to allow guests to wipe the elevator button before pressing.
Check-In & Express Check-out: Install protective screens at the front desk. Provide an express check-out process to minimize contact with team members. Offer cash-free methods of payment.
Food safety: Offer individually packaged and other grab-and-go food options. Space tables apart in restaurants and bars to provide physical distancing. Adhere to the strict safety procedures while serving all food and beverages.

To provide a safe and clean environment for the conference, Radisson also implemented a 10-step process to thoroughly sanitize their hotel meeting spaces and to follow physical distancing protocols.

Your well-being is a joined priority for the hotel and for SLAS so that you can meet with peace of mind.

Beware of Unauthorized Hotel Solicitations

Note that the Radisson BLU Hotel, Berlin is the only official hotel associated with our event. The Radisson BLU Hotel, Berlin will not solicit you to make a reservation. While other hotel resellers may contact you offering housing for your trip, they are not endorsed by or affiliated with the SLAS ESM Symposium. Beware that entering into financial agreements with non-endorsed companies can have costly consequences.

If in doubt, please do not provide any personal details and contact Colleen Campbell, SLAS Meetings Manager, at ccampbell@slas.org.

Airport and Ground Transportation

From the Airport
By public transport: From Terminal 1-2, both the RE 7 and RB 14 regional trains go to Alexanderplatz station; they run twice an hour and take just under 30 minutes. From Alexanderplatz, head down Karl-Liebknecht-Strasse toward the cathedral/Berlin Palace for a 10-minute walk. The hotel is on the right, just before the bridge. Alternatively, take the M4, M5, or M6 tram just one stop from S+U Alexanderplatz Bhf/Gontardstrasse to Spandauer Strasse/Marienkirche; the hotel is just around the corner on Karl-Liebknecht-Strasse.

The S9 suburban train connects all terminals (1-2 and 5) to S Hackescher Markt station; it runs every 20 minutes. From there, walk about 500 meters to the hotel.

By Car
A journey takes around 40 minutes depending on the traffic. The fastest route is usually via A113.