SPR User Meeting

April 24 - 26, 2023
Ettlingen, Germany

SPR User Meeting

We look forward to meeting you in person from April 24th to 26th, 2023, in our Bruker campus in Ettlingen for our next SPR user meeting.

We have booked facilities in our campus and look forward to stimulating discussions and lectures. The detailed agenda will follow soon, but we are delighted to already give you heads up on our confirmed speakers. Amongst others we welcome:

  • Marten Beeg, Ph.D., Laboratory of Pharmacodynamics and Pharmacokinetics, Mario Negri Institute for Pharmacological Research, Milan, Italy
  • Martin Kleinschmidt, Ph.D., Head of Lab Clinical and Biophysical Analytics, Fraunhofer Institute for Cell Therapy and Immunology IZI, Department of Molecular Drug Biochemistry and Therapy Development, Halle (Saale), Germany
  • Daniel Schwarz, Ph.D., Head of Laboratory, Merck Healthcare KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany
  • Robert Schneider, Ph.D., Application Scientist NMR, Bruker Switzerland AG, Fällanden, Switzerland

Besides an exciting SPR agenda, you will get the exclusive opportunity to tour our new Bruker campus in Ettlingen – Bruker's Centre of Excellence for magnetic resonance, as well as our optical spectroscopy headquarter and meet with many of our 1000 colleagues calling this campus their home.

The meeting will be in English. For your convenience we have reserved a limited number of rooms in the lovely hotel Watthalden in Ettlingen (details below). Prices are ranging from Euro 105 to Euro 125 including Breakfast. The restaurant features a Biergarten, restaurants and a bar so we hope we can continue to talk SPR ‘after work’! Please register as soon as possible since the hotel has limited capacity.

We are more than excited and hope that you will take part in large numbers.

Agenda

Agenda

Day 1, April 24, 2023
Bruker Campus Ettlingen

1:00 - 1:30 pm Registration and Welcome

1:30 - 3:00 pm Parallel hands-on sessions (instruments are available)

  1. Service Tips and Tricks – Hands-on Training
    Benjamin Küntzel, Paul Ritter, Bruker Daltonics SPR
  2. Control Software Session – Current changes and improvements 
    Sven Malik, Soumav Nath, Ph.D., Bruker Daltonics SPR
  3. How do I generate a good kinetic assay
    Cyrill Brunner, Ph.D., Bruker Switzerland AG

3:15 - 4:45 pm Parallel hands-on sessions

  1. What I always wanted to ask my engineer
    Benjamin Küntzel, Paul Ritter, Bruker Daltonics SPR
  2. Analyzer Software Session
    Sven Malik, Soumav Nath, Ph.D., Bruker Daltonics SPR
  3. Methods for special assays: Thermodynamics, Epitope Binning and Quantification
    Cyrill Brunner, Ph.D., Bruker Switzerland AG

5:00 - 6:00 pm Meet the specialists
Use the chance to meet our application and service specialists in one-on-one sessions. Please let us know in advance if you would like to book a break-out session.

 

Day 2, April 25th, 2023
Bruker Campus Ettlingen 

9:00 - 9:15 am Registration and Welcome

9:15 - 9:30 am Opening
Meike Hamester, Ph.D., Bruker Daltonics GmbH & Co. KG

9:30 - 10:00 am SPR @ Merck 
Daniel Schwarz, Ph.D., Merck Healthcare KGaA

10:00 - 10:45 am Analyzer Software R4
Sven Malik, Soumav Nath, Ph.D., Bruker Daltonics SPR

10:45 - 11:15 am Coffee break

11:15 - 11:45 am SPR @ Mario Negri Institute for Pharmacological Research
Marten Beeg, Ph.D., Mario Negri Institute for Pharmacological Research

11:45 - 12:15 pm NMR – SPR’s Complementary Partner for Fragment-based Drug Discovery
Robert Schneider, Ph.D., Bruker Switzerland AG

12:15 - 12:45 pm News from the R&D of Bruker Daltonics SPR
Christopher Pelczar, Ph.D., Bruker Daltonics SPR

12:45 - 1:45 pm Lunch break

1:45 - 2:15 pm Generation of monoclonal antibodies: Accompanying analytics by SPR and ELISA
Martin Kleinschmidt, Ph.D., Fraunhofer Institute for Cell Therapy and Immunology IZI, Department of Molecular Drug Biochemistry and Therapy Development

2:15 - 2:45 pm QC Samples and verification of your SPR system
Cyrill Brunner, Ph.D., Bruker Switzerland AG,
Daniela Gesewsky, Ph.D., Bruker Daltonics SPR

2:45 - 3:30 pm Applications of SPR for Drug Discovery at LDC
Malgorzata Hiltmann, Ph.D., Lead Discovery Center GmbH

3.30 - 3:45 pm Coffee break

3:45 - 4:15 pm SPR Consumables – Portfolio, Changes, Development
Daniela Gesewsky, Ph.D., Bruker Daltonics SPR

4:15 - 4:45 pm XanTec bioanalytics – SPR Sensor Chips Portfolio & New developments
Erk Gedig, XanTec bioanalytics GmbH

4:45 pm Wrap-up and Q&A

6:30 pm Departure from hotel by bus 

7:00 pm Dinner

 

Day 3, April 26th, 2023
Bruker Campus Ettlingen 

9:00 - 9:30 am Infrared Solutions in Life Science
Andreas Kamlowski, Ph.D., Bruker Optics,
Matthias Boese, Ph.D., Bruker Optics

9:30 - 11:00 am Tour on the Bruker Campus Bruker BioSpin und Bruker Optics

11:00 - 11:15 am Coffee break

11:15 - 11:45 am From screening to multi-channel parallel kinetics using SPR-32 Pro: learning from our recent example at NovAliX
Anna Bonhoure, Ph.D., Henry Kim, Ph.D., NovAliX SAS

11:45 - 12:15 pm Bruker SPR @ Novo Nordisk
Helle Demuth, Rikke Davidsen, Novo Nordisk A/S

12:15 - 12:45 pm SPR @Numab Therapeutics AG
Alessandra Alberti, Numab Therapeutics AG

12:45 - 1:15 pm SPR @ Exscientia AI Ltd.
Iva Navratilova, Ph.D., Exscientia AI Ltd.

1:15 - 1:45 pm Tips and Tricks from Service
Benjamin Küntzel, Paul Ritter, Bruker Daltonics SPR

1:45 - 3:00 pm Wrap-up and Q&A

 

Download the detailed agenda here

Hotel

Hotel offer for attendees

For your convenience we have reserved rooms in the lovely hotel Watthalden in Ettlingen.

Please register as soon as possible since the hotel has limited capacity.

Hotel Watthalden
Pforzheimer Str. 67a
76275 Ettlingen
https://hotel-watthalden.de/ 

Watthalden Room € 105,00
Double room/single use Alb/Vogelsang/Comfort between € 110,00 and €125,00 (depends on availability) 

Booking reference: Bruker SPR User Meeting 2023
Tel.: +49 7243 714 -0
E-Mail reservation@watthalden.de

More information

Location

Bruker Campus 
Rudolf-Plank-Straße 23
76275 Ettlingen

Contact

For more information please contact:
Bruker Daltonics GmbH & Co. KG
Mirjam Ernst
sales.spr@bruker.com  

 

For Research Use Only. Not for use in clinical diagnostic procedures.