Hi there,
I’m Adam an Acoustic Scientist applying myself to cell culture lab automation at Impulsonics , A new start up levitating cells with the current focus of creating a benchtop automation system for cell passaging. Working with a number of different LHR robots, hoping to share what I’ve learnt and pick up solutions I hadn’t thought of. Would also like to see if our acoustic technology can help anyone here with their automation issues!
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Hi Everyone,
I’m new to this forum and excited to be part of this community.
I come from a background in molecular biology and microbiology, with over 20 years of experience working across a range of laboratories, primarily in infectious disease. In my current role, I’m driven by a passion for translating complex scientific protocols and SOPs into efficient, reliable automated workflows.
I act as the scientific liaison between customers and engineers—bridging the gap between scientific intent and automation reality. As many of you know, interpreting scientific methods for automation can be a bit of a minefield, where attention to detail and asking the right questions make all the difference.
Having a strong understanding of the automation market and the capabilities of current instruments and platforms, allows me to provide science-driven insight into workcell design and technology selection.
I’m looking forward to contributing to discussions, learning from others, and sharing a mutual passion for scientific breakthroughs enabled by innovative automation design and smart software scheduling.
Great to be here!
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Hi all!
I am a Doctoral Student / Neurosurgeon Trainee, currently working in the Lab in the University Clinic Heidelberg. Our Team focuses on Drug Therapy for Brain Tumors, and we test it on automated Hamilton Robot.
Happy to be part of the community!
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Hi all,
I work at the Genome Foundry at Concordia. We have a Vantage, and I’ve been developing methods on it for the past four years. So far, it has been a lot of fun to work with!
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Hi There,
im a Chemical Technician at the Toxicology department of Labor Berlin Charité Vivantes GmbH in Germany.
We have a few Hamilton Microlab Starlet Robots and mainly do sample prep for our forensic workflows eg. Drugs of Abuse.
I have big fun learning programming in Hamilton Venus, although I do mainly LC-MS/MS stuff.
Ultimately I want to work towards pipetting manually as little as possible 
Happy to be part of the community.
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Hey all!
I’m a Software Engineer turned Automation Specialists. My bachelors degree was in Biology so I have a decent understanding of lab processes. I’ve been automating labs for about 2 years now and it’s been quite a learning experience.
Very excited to be apart of this community and to see what I can contribute to it.
Add me on LinkedIn!
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Hi everyone! My name is Joe and I’ve been developing scripts on two large Tecan Fluent 1080s for many years at Cambridge Consultants. We have a range of clients with different experimental needs and so we require a lot of script development work. More recently, we acquired a Hamilton MicroLab Prep and I’ve been leading a team to develop an AI system to automatically generate and run scripts from a natural language input. I’m looking forward to learning from, and contributing to, this community! Also I’m always keen to meet people in the Cambridge (UK) area who are working on biology automation
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That sounds like a really cool project!
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Hello All,
My name is Amit, and I am new to Lab automation. I am using Venus 4 on a Hamilton StarLet. This is a great forum for lab automation. Glad to meet your all.
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Hello Jonas,
I am happy to help with any questions you have about the Pmax. I would love to see you get it up and running again, it is such a fun machine and can do so much. Feel feel to contact me with any questions or if you would like to talk directly, I am Team Lead for the Technical Support group at Gilson.
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Hello Jonas,
I forgot to mention if you are attending SLAS in Boston please stop by our booth. We will have 268’s and our new 278 on display.
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Hello from Montana. I developed a real-time schedule language and runner http://rhylthyme.com I would like to integrate with lab robotics.
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Hi all,
I’m Pim Dankloff, a 3rd year PhD candidate in Netherlands (Radboud University), currently working on autonomous science with regard to surfactants. In my first project, I build a self-driving pendant drop platform - using a camera with an Opentrons OT2 - to efficiently measure to surface tension of surfactant solutions. If you are interested in the article, it is published in npj computational materials: An autonomous robotic module for efficient surface tension measurements of formulations | npj Computational Materials.
I’m excited to see so many of you gathered on this forum. My sincere thanks for the organisers / maintainers: this is great for the community!
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I was just talking about something similar! I recommend making a separate post research tag so folks can look up or discuss your paper. (Research - Lab Automation Forums) I’ll read it over the weekend.
@Stefan would be cool to encourage separate posts under research since there are a lot of good papers
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Hello my name is Douwe Hoornstra, and for the past 3 years I have been working and learning to be an application specialist for Hamilton robots. Since last year I included field service engineer to my work as a side job, so I know something behind all the movements in the robot.
I have enjoyed reading posts here for some time now and always learn something new.
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Hi everyone! I’m Didenco Vasile, Operations Lead at QPillars. We are working on standardizing how lab hardware connects to AI to make lab operations run smoother. Glad to join the community!
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Hi Everyone!
My name is Wessel and I’m a research associate at Genmab in Utrecht where I focus within my team (Cell Line Development) on automation. I’ve been working with automated processes for well over 5 years now.
Starting in the corona pandemic, where I helping public health services in the Netherlands setup a fully automated lab in one of the biggest testing sites in the country at the time. Helping setup that lab started my interests in automation. After that I was shown how I could use machine learning during my thesis and it only grew from there.
Now I’m working with multiple liquid handlers and automated systems. One of them being a custom Hamilton Vantage for well over 3 years and recently started working with the Tecan 1080 fluent.
I love lab automation and I definitely want to learn more. When I heard about this group I just had to sign up! I’m very excited to be here and learn from you all, and maybe help some of you as well.
Feel free to reach out on linkedIn!
www.linkedin.com/in/wessel-moerkerk
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Hello Everyone!! I’m Michael Langan. I am currently an applications consulting scientist. I am a former scientist and current lab automation expert with years of experience. Excited to join the forum and looking forward to supporting where I can and helping push science and automation into the future. Nice to meet everyone.
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Hi, I’m Karl!
I work as an automation engineer currently based in Switzerland, working for a biotech startup. I’ve had hands-on experience with a few liquid handling platforms, including the Tecan EVO, Tecan Fluent, Hamilton STAR, and Dynamic Devices Lynx.
Beyond the lab hardware, I’ve also worked on custom data analysis software projects. Two that I particularly enjoyed:
Colony count detection. I trained image detection models to identify bacterial and yeast colonies from images. The algorithms were integrated directly into a BacSpot colony counter in collaboration with the vendor, which was super cool!
Automated flow cytometry. Also involving a supervised ML approach to train a model to detect a population of interest, returning a percentage of cells detected per file. I further streamlined the data analysis pipeline to also interpret the results to the point where the user only has to label and upload the files.
Looking forward to connecting with others in the community!
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