Corporate Workshops



Monday, May 19 12:30 - 2:00pm
GenVault Corporation – Establishment of a Sustainable Biobank
RTS Life Science – Improving the Quality yet Reducing the Cost of Biobanking: RTS Automated Blood Fractionation Systems

Tuesday, May 20, 12:30pm- 2:00pm
Air Liquide Healthcare America – How Your Biobank Can Utilize Vendor Tools to Support Best Practices: The Air Liquide CryoMORETM System
Whatman, Inc., Now Part of GE Healthcare – Sample Collection, Processing and SNP Analysis on FTA® Dry Solid Storage Matrices for Biorepositories
 

Monday, May 19 12:30 - 2:00pm
GenVault Corporation – Establishment of a Sustainable Biobank
Dr. Daniel Gaudet of CARTaGENE will discuss the establishment of their world-class biobank which utilizes the latest in cryo and dry-state technology resulting in a secure, cost-effective and space efficient facility which is highly sustainable for long term operations.

Monday, May 19 12:30 - 2:00pm
RTS Life Science – Improving the Quality yet Reducing the Cost of Biobanking: RTS Automated Blood Fractionation Systems
The UK Biobank is collecting and storing blood samples from 500,000 participants. It's protocol demands that blood is stored in 3 fractions: plasma/serum, white blood cells and red blood cells. Manually processing so many samples was impractical, yet no automation existed to accomplish this task. One alternative to this process is extracting and storing DNA from all collected blood samples. However, DNA extraction from whole blood is expensive and, as researchers will only ever be interested in a limited subset of the stored samples, storing white blood cells, as a future source of DNA, is likely to substantially reduce costs. RTS produced its first generation of blood fractionation system that went live in 2007 at the UK Biobank. We are now launching our 2nd generation system: the ABF500 and ABF200. These are small, faster, more efficient and more flexible systems.

In this workshop you will learn more about the benefits of fractioning blood samples prior to storage in a biorepository and learn about the latest generation of automated blood fractionation technology from RTS.

Tuesday, May 20, 12:30pm- 2:00pm
Air Liquide Healthcare America – How Your Biobank Can Utilize Vendor Tools to Support Best Practices: The Air Liquide CryoMORETM System
The workshop will focus on an in-depth discussion of how Air Liquide’s CryoMORE™ system may be used to support implementation & adherence to ISBER & NCI best practices

Workshop Audience: Biobankers, Biobank Managers/Directors, Vendors & Biobank staff, Researchers

Workshop Focus: The workshop will focus on an in-depth discussion of how Air Liquide’s CryoMORE™ system may be used to support implementation & adherence to ISBER & NCI best practices.

Workshop benefits:

Whatman, Inc., Now Part of GE Healthcare – Sample Collection, Processing and SNP Analysis on FTA® Dry Solid Storage Matrices for Biorepositories Dry solid storage matrices are becoming increasingly accepted as sample storage platforms for biobanking and biodiversity samples. FTA® Technology offers a method of room temperature storage and DNA manipulation of nucleic acids for a variety of down-stream processes. FTA Technology offers two matrices, FTA and FTA Elute both based on dry-chemistry preservatives for the ambient stabilization of DNA for extended periods. DNA on FTA is bound to the matrix for in situ analysis while DNA on FTA Elute is reversibly bound for a simple water elution to recover DNA. Both platforms yield pure high quality DNA for genetic analysis. This workshop will focus on how samples on FTA Technology are collected and handled within the biorepository setting.