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Preview of Pittcon 2009 LIMS & Informatics Events

Oral Sessions, Symposia, Workshops, and Posters to Attend

The Pittsburgh Conference, aka Pittcon, is the premier conference and exposition on laboratory equipment and chemical analyses. This year it will be held at McCormick Place in Chicago, IL from March 8-13.

Once again, there are a number of LIMS and Informatics sessions, short courses, workshops, and tutorials available to bring you up to date on the latest in LIMS, informatics, laboratory automation, and laboratory regulations.

To assist you in making the rounds of LIMS and Informatics events and exhibitors, this article highlights the details at press time.

At a Glance: LIMS and Laboratory Informatics Sessions
• Data Analysis (Mon poster session)
• Managing a Laboratory in Quality, Training and Technology While Leading the People (Tuesday am workshop)
• Laboratory Informatics (Tuesday poster session)
• Laboratory Management (Tuesday poster session)
• Laboratory Management (Tuesday pm oral session)
• Data Management/Lab Management (Wednesday am new product forum)
• Case Studies in Improving Laboratories (Wednesday pm invited Symposia)
• Lab Informatics: From Planning to Operation (Thursday am oral session)
• Chemometrics (Thursday am oral session)
• Data Analysis & Manipulation (Thursday pm oral session)
• Bioinformatics of Proteomics (Thursday pm invited symposia)
• Lab Informatics: Operation and Validation (Thursday pm oral session - half session)

MONDAY, MAR 9

• Data Analysis - Posters
- Analyzer Device Integration - How to Connect the Silos of PAT, Thomas Buijs
- Comparative Analysis of GCxGC Data for Food Flavorants Differentiation, Daniela Cavagnino
- Data Analysis Challenges in Field Asymmetric Ion Mobility Systems Characterization, Lara Jamieson
- Multi-type Templates with Peak Sets, Areas, and Meshes for Comprehensive Two-Dimensional Gas Chromatography (GCxGC), Stephen Reichenbach
- Getting More Done with Less Effort: Usability Advances in a New Chromatography Data System, James Schibler
- SLICE: A Database Approach to Energy Dispersive XRF Spectroscopy, Dennis Ward
- Chemical Group Analysis using Smart Templates with Comprehensive Two-Dimensional Gas Chromatography with Mass Spectrometry (GCxGC-MS), Stephen Reichenbach

TUESDAY, MAR 10

• Managing a Laboratory in Quality, Training and Technology While Leading the People - ALMA Workshop - 8:30-11:45am, Room S501bc
8:30 AM Introductory Remarks
8:35 AM Maintaining Quality and Data Integrity, Kelly Mason
9:05 AM The Science and Art of Recruiting, Mary Schwans
9:35 AM Technology and Productivity, Dennis Swijter
10:05 AM Recess
10:20 AM Performance, Quality, and Training in the Laboratory, Michael Neag
10:50 AM Speed, Automation, and Productivity through Technology in a Modern Industrial Analytical Laboratory, Kevin Hool
11:20 AM Local Stakeholder Agreements - Implications for Lab Management, Kurt Headrick

• Laboratory Informatics - Posters
- Project Management Framework for Successful LIMS Implementation, Kyle McDuffie
- Electronic Laboratory Notebooks or LIMS? Which Should You Do?, Kyle McDuffie
- The Critical Keys to a Successful Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS), Kenneth Ochi
- Key Steps to Follow in Replacing a LIMS (Laboratory Information Management System) in your Laboratory: A Case Study of a Water Quality Laboratory, Christine Paszko
- Intelligently Improving Procedures and Workflows, Chris Stumpf
- Steps to Writing a Successful Request for Proposal (RFP) for a Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS), Kim Waters
- Successful LIMS Implementations, Joseph Miller

• Laboratory Management - Posters
- Streamlining Workflows in Chromatography Laboratories, Barbara van Cann
- Solution for Laboratories with a Wide Range of Analytical Instrumentation, Toshinobu Yanagisawa
- Laboratory Planning, Joan Tamboli
- Marketing Technical Service - Aspects and Considerations Part IV, John Litton

• Laboratory Management - Oral Session – 1:30-4:20pm, Room S505b
1:30 PM Selecting your Laboratory Informatics Solution - What Should You Be Looking For?, Randy Hice
1:50 PM Stability Analytics, David Hurt
2:10 PM LIMS Validation, Is There Another Way?, Aaron Jones
2:30 PM Recess
2:45 PM New Paradigms for Collaborative eR&D Software – ELNs, LaBlogs, and The SqueekyWiki for the Laboratory, Richard Lysakowski
3:05 PM Robust Reporting Tools in a Controlled Environment, Kevin Rawls
3:25 PM Laboratory Informatics and the Business: An Integrated Approach, Simon Wood
3:45 PM LIMS and Environmental Monitoring, Why Has This Been So Difficult To Accomplish?, Aaron Jones
4:05 PM How Do You Measure Your Measurements, David Hurt

WEDNESDAY, MAR 11

• Data Management/Lab Management - New Product Forum - 8:30-11:20am, Room S505b
8:30 AM Automated Analysis of Mixtures with Infrared Spectroscopy, Gregory Banik
8:50 AM New Chromatography Software Gives You the Most Important Result of All: More Time!, James Schibler
9:10 AM Novel Technology for Instrument Interfacing and Data Handling, Albert Barckhoff
9:30 AM Industrial IT for PAT, Thomas Buijs
9:50 AM Recess
10:05 AM Advanced Ceramic Heater Is a Key Product and Technology for the Analytical, Lab Markets, Joyce Fletcher
10:25 AM Customizable Social Networking Platforms for Scientists, Greg Cruikshank
10:45 AM New HiPace Plus Turbopumps, Juergen Keller
11:05 AM Go Paperless in Minutes – Are You ReDI?, Dale Seabrooke

• Case Studies in Improving Laboratories - Invited Symposia - 1:30-4:10pm, Room S404a
1:30 PM Introductory Remarks
1:35 PM A Six Sigma Approach to Immunoassay Development and Control, Raymond Kaiser
2:10 PM Variability Investigation and Improvement for the Content and Purity Assays of a Vaccine, Brian Nunnally
2:45 PM Reducing Rerun in HPLC Analysis of Proteins, Rasmus Nielsen
3:20 PM Analytical Technology Transfer for Biopharmaceuticals, Vladimir Golynskiy
3:55 PM Productivity and Compliance - Go Hand-in-Hand, Antony Gomes

THURSDAY, MAR 12

• Lab Informatics: From Planning to Operation - Oral Session – 8:30-11:20am, Room S504d
8:30 AM Meeting the Challenges of Mapping Your Vision and Strategy onto Informatics Realities, Richard Lysakowski
8:50 AM Utilizing a Needs Assessment for a Successful Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) Implementation, Tiffany Bown
9:10 AM It’s Time to Buy a LIMS: Words of Advice for a First Time Buyer, Charles Hindbaugh
9:30 AM Expand the Walls of Your Laboratory with Portable Web Technology, Donna Lococo
9:50 AM Recess
10:05 AM Three Reasons that LIMS/LI Projects Fail, Gloria Metrick
10:25 AM How COTS is your LIMS?, Robert Neihardt
10:45 AM The Path to the Paperless in the Lab: Fundamental Design Requirements for Electronic Notebooks in Pharmaceutical R&D and cGMP Environments, John Helfrich
11:05 AM Web Based Regulatory and Compliance Management Systems Integrated with LIMS at the Florida Department of Agriculture, Michael Lehtola

• Chemometrics - Oral Session - 8:30-11:20am, Room S505b
8:30 AM Optimizing Spectral Angle Methods for Generating Chemical Image Contrast from Hyperspectral Data, John Turner
8:50 AM Objective Data Reduction and Feature Selection Method for Chemometric Processing of GC-MS data, Nikolai Sinkov
9:10 AM Automating Chromatographic Interpretation for Quality Control and Process Applications, Brian Rohrback
9:30 AM A Novel Preprocessing Method for Near-Infrared Spectra in a Scattering Medium by Accounting for the Distribution of Pathlengths, Marc Leger
9:50 AM Recess
10:05 AM NIR-Spectroscopic Field Measurements on Cotton Quality Supported by Chemometrics, Frank Vogt
10:25 AM Using Microalgae Biodiversity along with FTIR and Chemometric Methods to Detect Environmental Changes in Marine Ecosystems, Rebecca Burke
10:45 AM Recent Advances in Deconvolving GC-MS Data, H Dennis Tolley
11:05 AM Optimization of a LC-MS/MS Method for Quantification of a Clinical Candidate and its Metabolites in Plasma Utilizing Chemometric Approach, Margrét Thorsteinsdóttir

• Data Analysis & Manipulation - Oral Session – 1:30-4:20pm, Room S504d
1:30 PM Comprehensive Analysis of Indoor Air – Untargeted GC/MS Analysis of SPE Trapped Organic Compounds for Classification of “Sick” Buildings using Uni- and Multivariate Data Analysis, Caroline Bergh
1:50 PM Taking the Pain Out of Chromatographic Peak Integration, Andreas Brunner
2:10 PM Investigations of Quantitative Calibration Stability and Method Transfer for Raman Instrumentation, Richard Larsen
2:30 PM Bootstrap Enhanced N-dimensional Deformation of Space (BENDS) Correction for Non-linear Correlations in Acoustic Resonance Spectroscopy (ARS), David Link
2:50 PM Recess
3:05 PM Spectral Data Analysis - Preparing for Chemometrics, Michael Boruta
3:25 PM Development and Use of a Data Base for Line Selection in Inductively Coupled Plasma Atomic Emission Spectrometry, William Zuccarello
3:45 PM Technology Enhancements with High Resolution ICP for Absolute Wavelength Accuracy and Peak Positioning, Karen Harper
4:05 PM Spectral Mixture Analysis, Gregory Banik

• Bioinformatics of Proteomics - Invited Symposia - 1:30-4:10pm, Room S402b
1:30 PM Introductory Remarks
1:35 PM Beyond Protein Identification, Making Sense of Proteomic Data, Ron Orlando
2:10 PM Wild-Card Search for Shotgun Proteomics, Marshall Bern
2:45 PM The Normalized Spectral Abundance Factor Approach for Quantitative Proteomic Analysis, Michael Washburn
3:20 PM Comparison and Optimization of Mass Spectrometric and Bioinformatics Strategies for Phosphopeptide Identification, Alexey Nesvizhskii
3:55 PM Resolution and Quantification of Protein Isoforms in Complex Genomes, D Brent Weatherly

• Lab Informatics: Operation and Validation (Half Session) - Oral Session – 3:00-4:20pm, Room S501d
3:05 PM Integrating your Drug Metabolism and Pharmacokinetic Data into your Enterprise, Joel Usansky
3:25 PM Exception Management as an Aspect of ISO 17025, Robert Neihardt
3:45 PM Instrument Integration to LIMS in a cGMP Quality Control Laboratory Using a Method-Based Electronic Notebook Platform, John Helfrich
4:05 PM Vendor Provided Validation for LIMS – What Does it Mean to the Customer?, Robert Neihardt