European Instrument User Meeting 2023

10:00 - 10:30am

Main Lobby

Registration & Refreshments

10:30 - 11:00am

Plenary Room

Steve Crouse, Senior Vice President & General Manager (SVP & GM) at Bio-Techne,
Opening Address

11:00 - 12:00pm

Plenary Room

Alexandre Lucas, PhD, Founder and Manager of We-Met at I2MC & Corrine Bernis, PhD, Technician at We-Met at I2MC
ProteinSimple Innovations: Benefits for a Core Facility

12:00 - 12:30pm

Plenary Room

Katarzyna Marciniak-Darmochwal, PhD, Head of Analytical Strategies and Scientific Support, Charles River, Integrating ProteinSimple Into Workflows at Charles River Laboratories

12:30 - 1:30pm

Lunch - Open Lobby

Instrument Drop-In Clinic - Plenary Room

Lunch & Instrument Drop-In Clinics

1:30 - 2:30pm

Plenary Room

Chris Heger, PhD, Director, Applications Science at Bio-Techne, Accelerate Your Cell and Gene Therapy Workflows With Next-Generation Analytical Tools

2:30 - 2:50pm

Plenary Room

Nathalie Howe, Development Scientist at Evox Therapeutics & Jonathan Goodwin, Analytical Development Scientist at CPI, The Development of the Simple Plex Open Cartridge in
Collaboration With CPI for Detection of Exosomes in Process Samples

2:50 - 3:10pm

Plenary Room

Denise Hartung, Evotec International, Implementation of a Cost- And Time-Efficient Approach for Quality Control of Extracellular Vesicles Using Jess From ProteinSimple

3:10 - 3:30pm

Main Lobby

Refreshments Break

3:30 - 3:50pm

Plenary Room

Marissa Beck, Senior Product Manager Simple Plex, Bio-Techne

AAV Titre Assay Evolution on the Ella Platform

3:50 - 4:10pm

Helen Ludlow, PhD, Senior Scientist Principal Investigator at eXmoor Pharma Concepts

Evaluation of Ella for Use With AAV2 Bioprocess Sample

4:10 - 4:30pm

Plenary Room

Ana Carreras, PhD, Viralgen VC

Assessing Purity of rAAV by CE-SDS

4:30 - 4:50pm

Plenary Room

Kiren Baines, PhD, Team lead at eXmoor Pharma Concepts

Removing the Barriers to Effective AAV Process Development with Next-Generation
Analytical Platforms

4:50 - 5:20pm

Plenary Room

Panel Discussion

The Role of Analytics in Reproducibility and Regulatory Approval of Cell and Gene Therapies

5:20 - 5:30pm

Plenary Room

Closing Remarks

7:00pm

Open Lobby

Evening Dinner

9:00 - 9:45am

Plenary Room & Main Lobby

Refreshments & Poster Presentations

9:45 - 10:00am

Plenary Room

Welcome

10:00 - 10:20am

Biologics - Breakout Room 1

Géry Van Vyncht, PhD, Scientific Director, Quality Assistance Bridging Maurice with iCE3 (icIEF) and PA800+ (CGE) Systems

Simple Western
& Simle Plex -
Plenary Room

Cordula Gruender, Head of Translational, AvenCell
Europe GmbH
Cytokine Analysis of clinical serum samples with the Ella System

10:20 - 10:40am

Biologics - Breakout Room 1

Jean-Francois Bellec, Biologics Product Manager EMEA, Bio-Techne Finding Synergies in CE: Transferring Assays from Simple Western to Maurice

Simple Western
& Simle Plex -
Plenary Room

Jennifer Fletcher, University Manchester
Identifying Brain Markers Relevant to Cognition in Central Nervous System Disorders with Wes

10:40 - 11:00am

Biologics - Breakout Room 1

Ed Chase, Senior Director Strategic Solutions, Bio-Techne The iCE Technology: A History of Innovation

Simple Western
& Simle Plex -
Plenary Room

Rajiv Pande, PhD, Director Commercial Immunoassay Business, Bio-Techne
Ella for Neuroscience Biomarker Research

11:00 - 11:20am

Biologics - Breakout Room 1

Olivia Gierok, A&M STABTEST
Importance of Robust iEF QC methods for Therapeutic Proteins - Release and Stability Testing

Simple Western
& Simle Plex -
Plenary Room

Yanaika Hok-A-Hin, Clinical Chemistry Department, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam

Novel CSF Biomarkers for Alzheimer’s Disease

11:20 -12:00pm

Biologics - Breakout Room 1

Baburaj Kunnummal, Senior Manager Biologics Product Marketing Management, Bio-Techne
Reimagining Sample Analysis

Simple Western
& Simle Plex -
Plenary Room

Johannes Wachter and Teresa Puchner, Boehringer Ingelheim RCV GmbH & Co KG
Applications of Wes/Jess-based Protein Analysis in
Drug Development

12:00 - 1:00pm

Lunch -
Open Lobby
Instrument

Drop- In Clinic - Plenary Room

Lunch & Instrument Drop-In Clinics

1:00 - 1:25pm

Simple Western - Plenary Room

Elaine Scrivener, Senior Field Applications Scientist, Bio-Techne

Best Practice for Assay Development

Simple Plex - Breakout Room 2

Julia Hatler, Senior Director, Immunoassay Business Unit Leader, Bio-Techne Marissa Beck, Senior Product Manager Simple Plex, Bio-Techne Warren Higgs,PhD, Immunoassay Product Manager, EMEA

Roundtable: Current and Future Directions of Ella

1:00 - 1:55pm

Biologics - Breakout Room 1

Laurence Talbot, Field Applications Scientist, Bio-Techne
Optimize Your cIEF Method in a Breeze…

1:30 - 1:55pm

Simple Western - Plenary Room

Adrian Papas, Technical Product Manager, Bio-Techne
Maximizing Data From Your Simple Western System (Multiplexing Strategies and More…)

Simple Plex - Breakout Room 2

Jim David,Manager Simple Plex Commercial Services, Bio-Techne
Benjamin Dijan, Field Application Scientists, Bio-Techne
Factory Calibrations: What Are They and How Are They Made?
Open Cart Assay Development Optimisation
The Ella to Ella Story -

Reproducibility and

Commutability

2:00 - 2:25pm

2:30 - 2:55pm

Biologics - Breakout Room 1

Udo Burger, Field Applications Scientist, Bio-Techne
…And Break New CE-SDS Grounds with Maurice and Compass 3.0

2:00 - 2:25pm

2:30 - 2:55pm

Simple Western - Plenary Room

Sibylle Molt, ASD Field Applications Scientist Team Leader, Bio-Techne
How to Normalize –

Understanding Your Data

2:55 - 3:15pm

Main Lobby

Refreshments Break

3:15 - 3:30pm

Plenary Room

Closing Remarks