2021 European Sample Management Hybrid Symposium

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.

Andreas Nixdorf, Ph.D.

SGS Institut Fresenius GmbH

Kerstin Hermuth-Kleinschmidt, Ph.D.

Owner

NIUB Nachhaltigkeitsberatung

Kerstin Hermuth-Kleinschmidt holds a PhD in chemistry. After several years in the life sciences industry as account manager and in technical customer support, she turned her attention to the topic of sustainability and obtained an additional qualification in the field of "Environmental Management and Environmental Economics" at the University of Koblenz-Landau. The focus of her work is the implementation and monitoring of sustainability processes in the life sciences – in the lab as well as in life sciences companies. As a speaker and author of publications, she focuses on various aspects of sustainability, especially on the topic "Sustainability in research and laboratory". She also participated in the development of EGNATON-CERT, the first certification system for sustainable laboratory technologies, and is now part of the auditing team.

Oliver Peter, Ph.D.

Director, Group Leader Biology Technologies and Lead Discovery, Drug Discovery Biology

Idorsia Pharmaceuticals Ltd.

Alexander Knaupp, Dipl. Ing.

Roche Diagnostics GmbH Deutschland

Nicolas Zorn, Ph.D.

Head Compound Library Enhancement and Logistics

Hoffmann La Roche

Nicolas Zorn is currently the head of the Compound Library Enhancement and Logistics team at Roche pRED in Basel within The Small Molecule Research, Lead Discovery organization. Nicolas is an Organic Chemist by training (Ph.D. at the University of Paris 6, PostDoc at Indiana University, US) and has worked for 10 years supporting and driving projects in several disease areas as medicinal chemist and computational chemist at Merck MDS in the USA, then Roche in Switzerland. In the last four years, he has led the Compound Library Enhancement and Logistics team in Basel where all samples are processed and distributed for Small Molecule Research in pRED.

Jeanette Andersen, Ph.D.

UiT – The Arctic University of Norway

Kristen Nailor

Principal Scientific Manager, Biologics Sample Management

Genentech, Inc

Kristen Nailor is a Principal Scientific Manager and leader of the Biologics Sample Management Group at Genentech, Inc.  Kristen holds a degree in Biochemistry from Indiana University. She began her career at GlaxoSmithKline where she spent 7 years as a medicinal chemist. She then transitioned into the Sample Management world in 2010 when she accepted a position as the head of Compound Management at Vanderbilt University.  At Vanderbilt, she built a robust compound management facility and workflows that supported a wide variety of academic drug discovery programs and industry collaborations. After almost 5 years at Vanderbilt, she became the leader of the La Jolla based Compound Logistics team at Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson and Johnson in 2014.  In addition to leading her team, she was also a key member of a global core team tasked with implementing a Mosaic Sample Management Software rollout and laboratory infrastructure upgrade across multiple sites. Since 2017, she has been the group leader of the Biologics Sample Management Group at Genentech in South San Francisco, CA.  As interest in biologics and new modalities have grown across the industry, her current passion is to see biological sample management further expanded and elevated to a higher level of throughput, efficiency and impact as small molecule sample management in the drug discovery process. Kristen is also a dedicated advocate and active volunteer in the broader Sample Management Community, and currently serves as one of the Chairs of the SLAS Sample Management Special Interest Group, as well as the program committee for the 2021, 2022 and 2023 SLAS Americas Sample Management Symposia.  She is also the co-chair for the SLAS 2023 International Conference and Exhibition.

Manuela Beil-Peter

Director Business Sector Liquid Handling and Automation

Analytik Jena AG

Agnes Bombrun Sauer

Head of Ingredients Research - Fragrance S&T

Givaudan

Since 2014, I am in charge of the Ingredients Research in the Fragrance & Beauty division of Givaudan, based in Zurich, Switzerland. My main responsibilities are to drive dynamically a rich and competitive pipeline of sustainable innovation for the perfumers, which consists of delivering the best Fragrance molecules and processes by green chemistry and biotechnology.

I started out my career in the pharmaceutical industry. By training I am a chemical engineer (Lyon, France) and an organic chemist with a PhD (Emory University, Atlanta). I was Director of Medicinal Chemistry for Merck Serono, Geneva and I also worked for GSK, France and Affymax, California.

Daniel Juchli

Wega Informatik

Jason Meredith, B.Sc.

Head Of Software Product Management

Tecan Schweiz AG

Jason Meredith works for Tecan Switzerland as Head of Software Product Management. He graduated in 1989 with a 2.1 (Honours) degree in Computer Systems Engineering, from University College of North Wales in the United Kingdom. Initially he worked for a start up company in North Wales later purchased by Diagnostics Products Corporation (now part of Siemens), developing software for early robotic sample processors and automation. Jason joined Tecan in 1999, and took on Software Product Management for Freedom EVOware and associated add-ons and interfaces. As Head of Software Product Management he is responsible for managing Tecan’s automation software products for the Life Science Business.

Fred Bost

LabVoice

Joe Bradley

Scitegrity

Andreas Traube

Fraunhofer IPA

Silvio Di Castro, M.Sc.

AstraZeneca

A chemical engineer by training, Silvio joined Compound Management at AstraZeneca in 2002. During the time at AZ, Silvio has developed a deep expertise in laboratory automation, from programming simple benchtop units to developing large automated platforms for high-throughput screening. Working across functions and countries, Silvio has developed a large network of strong connections, and implemented solutions for automated sample handling in several areas of the business.

In his current role  as associate principal scientist, Silvio is leading the deployment of the first fully acoustic Sample Management system in the world, developed by AZ in a collaborative
partnership with Labcyte and Brooks. He is also aligned with global initiatives to improve sample storage, handling and usage of new therapeutic modalities (peptides, RNAs, DNAs and more).

Prior to joining AstraZeneca, Silvio gained an MSc in Chemical Engineering at the "Federico II" University, Naples (Italy), under the supervision of Prof. Guido Greco.

Chris Brankin

AstraZeneca

Melanie Leveridge, BSc. Hons.

Melanie Leveridge, BSc. Hons.

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Supply Chain Management
Leachables Analytics and QA
Open to view video.
Open to view video.
Sustainability in the Lab
Open to view video.
Open to view video.
Feeding the Beast: Considerations on Sample Supply for Future Closed-Loop Make-Test-Design Platforms
Open to view video.
Open to view video.
Collections
Biological Sample Management at Roche
Open to view video.
Open to view video.
Building on the Past and Preparing the Future: Compound Logistics Supporting Screening at Roche pRED
Open to view video.
Open to view video.
Marine Bioactive Compounds from the Arctic
Open to view video.
Open to view video.
Data
Blockchain: Introduction and Sample Management
Open to view video.
Open to view video.
The Connected Laboratory
Open to view video.
Open to view video.
Voice Enablement in Laboratories and Impact on Sample Management
Open to view video.
Open to view video.
Tariff Code and Duty Optimisation When Shipping Chemicals
Open to view video.
Open to view video.
Robots
Robots as Process Enabling Integrators - Mobile, Flexible and Collaborative Use in Laboratories
Open to view video.
Open to view video.
Supporting Next-Generation Therapeutics with Aqueous Workflows
Open to view video.
Open to view video.
Trends in Screening Approaches and Implications for Sample Management Modernization
Open to view video.
Open to view video.
Application of AMRs in an Enterprise Environment
Open to view video.
Open to view video.
Interactive Session
Interactive Session
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Open to view video.