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.

You may choose to register for either the morning session or the afternoon session.

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
• Laboratory personnel who care about volume transfer accuracy and precision

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

Candie Gilman is the Education & Training Manager for the ARTEL Portfolio at Nova Biomedical and has more than 25 years of experience in technical product training and documentation.  She leads the training team’s efforts for their pipette-related certificate programs, including training class delivery, as well as content development, 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. 

Andrew Hurder

Field Application Scientist (Artel Portfolio) – Nova Biomedical

Andrew Hurder is the West Coast Field Application Scientist for Nova Biomedical. Andrew has an extensive background in laboratory automation engineering in a variety of industries from compound screening, biologics, genomics, and cell and gene therapy. He’s excited to share his expertise to help scientists solve novel and complex issues with automated liquid handling and associated processes.