I’m very pleased to invite You to our
events in Oulu Aapistie on 17th and 18th
of March (please see attachments).
On 17th, we will have a seminar
on AlphaScreen technology and applications at 12.00 in
Aapistie 7 H108. In short, AlphaScreen is an excellent
technology to run ELISA assays in a homogenous format, where
small sample volume is of interest. The technology is
sensitive and allows also detection of big weak binding
partners (unlike FRET, which has the limitation of size to
allow efficient energy transfer). There are a lot of
ready-made kits available, but a lot of researchers also set
up their assays with their own antibodies. ELISA,
protein-protein interaction studies, Kinase research, Protease
activity..Lunch is provided. Please sign in for the seminar by
11th of March so that I know how many we will be.
Please also inform of the food restrictions.
On 18th we will have a City-Lab
exhibition, and I will show the Labchip DS instrument there. I
will have the unit with me in Oulu the whole week and I’ll be
happy to show it at your laboratory also. In short, Labchip DS
instrument is like a HTS NanoDrop. You will pipette 2 uL
samples into capillary including microtiterplates. In my eyes,
there are 5 main benefits of this instrument compared to the
traditional NanoDrop
-all samples can be pipetted simultaneously
in the plate without risk of evaporation since the sample will
get into the capillary
-blank wells are individual wells, no risk
of having some extra on those samples due to miss handling
during the sample analyses.
-since the measurement is done in a very
tiny capillary, the linear range of the instrument is app.
0-200 OD. Very seldom additional dilutions of your samples is
needed.
-one plate is measured at around 6 minutes.
-if the instrument has also
cDROP-algorithm, there is a possibility to convert the
“NanoDrop” data into “Picogreen” data. No reagents needed, but
the spectral shape and the algorithm will do this data
analyses. Also, if cDROP algorithm is there, the software will
give you indication of eg. phenol amount on the extracted DNA
samples. Also other “contaminants” can be evaluated.
Like mentioned, I will be the week in Oulu
and I’m happy to show the Labchip DS instrument also at your
lab. Please let me know if you would like to test your
samples, and I’ll stop by at your lab as well.
I hope to see many of you.
Best Regards, Jaana
Jaana Hyvärinen
Account
Manager – LST
Mustionkatu 6
20750 Turku
Finland
Tel. +358-40-5590 662
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