SLAS 2025

Liquid Handling Essentials
Interactive Course

When: Saturday, January 25th

→ First Session: 8:30AM – 12:00PM

→ Second Session: 1:00PM – 4:30PM

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.

Register

Join the Artel Pipetting Challenge!

Put your pipetting precision and accuracy to the test with our Pipetting Challenge. Compete against industry colleagues to achieve the lowest CVs and a chance to earn the gold medal. This year, the best pipettor at SLAS will win a Pipetting Challenge Champion Lab Coat.

Get an edge on your competition by learning the pipetting fundamentals. Considerations such as plunger pressure and speed, selection of proper pipetting mode and pipette tips are essential to proper technique.

Study Materials

• 10 Tips To Improve Your Pipetting Technique (Poster)
• Best Practices in Manual Pipetting (Video Series)
• Artel Lab Report eBook

Artel Poster Presentation

Presentation Title: Optimizing an Automated Liquid Handler with Custom Glycerol Solutions Using Multichannel Verification System (MVS®) and ArtelWare® Version 2.3

Summary: The Artel® Multichannel Verification System (MVS) in conjunction with ArtelWare® version 2.3 (New) was employed to prepare MVS Custom Solutions, which are specialized test solutions chemically distinct from the commercially available MVS QualAssure Solutions.

Track Name: Automation Technologies

Presentation Date: Tuesday January 28, 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM

Session Title: Poster Presentations: Session D

Poster Number: 1195-D

Room: Exhibit Hall

Solentim Poster Presentation

Presentation Title: Cell line development inefficiencies and streamlining the clone selection for protein biologic production with the Solentim Ecosystem

Summary: As the demand for novel protein biotherapeutics continues to increase, Contract Development and Manufacturing Organizations (CDMOs) and pharmaceutical companies must enhance efficiency and productivity within their cell line development (CLD) workflows.

Presentation Date: Tuesday January 28, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM

Track Name: Automation Technologies

Session Title: Poster Presentations: Session C

Poster Number: 1138-C

Room: Exhibit Hall