Artel has announced it will conduct a hands-on workshop on best practices in automated liquid handling at the Tecan US headquarters in Durham, North Carolina.
The workshop will be held on 28 October and is tailored for lab technicians working with automated liquid handlers on a regular basis.
A range of liquid handlers and Artel performance measurement technology will feature to help attendees work through and solve common, but critical issues affecting liquid handler performance.
Using the Artel multichannel verification system (MVS), Artel application specialists will lead the workshop, focusing not only on how to identify and resolve problems, but also on how to develop and optimise liquid handler quality programmes.
Attendees will be able to explore and master methods to get the maximum performance out of their liquid handler for assay specific situations.
After collecting objective data and analysing and interpreting the results, workshop participants will be able to apply their knowledge to revise liquid handler parameters for optimal performance.
'Our goal for this workshop is to provide lab operators with the knowledge necessary to get the most out of any liquid handling platform,' said Keith Albert, technical marketing manager for Artel.
'Understanding how liquid handler settings affect both accuracy and precision in assay results can help lay the foundation for QA and QC best practices in the lab.
'The hands-on exercises we've devised for this workshop will help lab operators sharpen their abilities to recognise and adjust their scripts to meet the tolerance limits set for their assays,' he added.
Using the Artel MVS, workshop participants will learn firsthand how to establish best practices guidelines in their labs to: optimise and validate liquid handler methods; facilitate method transfer by controlling liquid handler parameters; and standardise liquid handler quality control.
