Liquid Handling Essentials (Interactive Course)

February 7-11, 2026

Thomas Michael Menino Convention & Exhibition Center (MCEC)

Boston, MA, USA

Liquid Handling Essentials (Interactive Course)

This half-day course is designed to highlight and demonstrate important concepts that affect liquid handling performance. We will focus on bridging the gap between fundamentals of manual pipetting and automated liquid handlers. The course offers a balanced mix of engaging discussions and opportunities to apply the practical concepts learned to live systems.

Who Should Attend?

This course is designed with a new or beginning user of liquid handling devices in mind. However, anyone interested in basic principles of liquid handling and troubleshooting pipetting performance issues are encouraged to join.

Scientists, engineers and analysts who work with automated liquid handlers
Laboratory managers and supervisors
Quality-focused and regulatory compliance professionals

Course Benefits

Understand key liquid handling behavior characteristics and how they translate to assay-specific tasks
Learn how to identify common factors that affect method transfer
Recognize quality aspects of liquid handling and the importance of accuracy and precision on liquid volume delivery
Learn how liquid handling parameters affect pipetting performance
Gain confidence in robotic performance and in assay results
Become more proficient in liquid handler use and problem solving

Course Topics

Liquid Handling Overview: Review liquid handling fundamental concepts and factors that affect liquid delivery.
Examining Liquid Classes: Understand the dynamics of liquid class differences and how those properties can affect pipetting performance.
Aspirating, Dispensing and Mixing Strategies: Explore the critical components of liquid transfer steps and examine how various parameters influence performance.
Low-Volume Liquid Handling: The importance of accuracy and precision.

Instructors

Dana Campbell
Artel Portfolio – Advanced Instruments

Dana Campbell is a dedicated field applications scientist providing support to scientists and his sales and marketing teams. His vast experience working with automated liquid handlers helps guide laboratories solve complex liquid handling and process issues that are often critical to productivity, compliance, and data quality.

Candie Gilman
Artel Portfolio – Advanced Instruments

With over 25 years of experience in technical product training and documentation, Candie Gilman is the Education & Training manager at Advanced Instruments. She leads the training teams’ effort for Advanced Instrument’s certificate programs, which includes delivery of our training classes, training content and media management.

Keith Albert
Artel Portfolio – Advanced Instruments

Keith J. Albert, PhD, is a Senior Applications Scientist and Field Supervisor at Advanced Instruments. He is responsible for coordinating field services for the Artel portfolio as well as assisting laboratories with their volume transfer performance goals. He also applies his expertise and scientific knowledge – in pre- and post-sales support – to help laboratories optimize their liquid delivery processes to maintain compliance.

Curtis Walton
Institute for Protein Innovation (IPI)

Curtis Walton, PhD is the Director of Automation and Process Optimization at the Institute for Protein Innovation (IPI). He brings deep expertise in laboratory automation, bioinformatics, and protein engineering, with a strong track record of building scalable workflows that accelerate scientific discovery. Walton holds a PhD in Chemistry from the University of Ottawa, where he developed novel biocatalysts for pharmaceutical applications. At IPI and in previous roles, he has led multidisciplinary teams and spearheaded the integration of cutting-edge automation platforms, transforming research pipelines through innovative, and data-driven approaches.