Short Course Description

Applied Information Technology for the Laboratory

This course provides decision makers and practitioners from bio-pharma, healthcare, and academia with a comprehensive overview of IT topics and trends in laboratory automation, data management, and systems integration.

Who Should Attend

Individuals looking for a overview of information technology topics relevant to a laboratory environment. The target audience for this class is laboratory IT decision makers and professionals from pharmaceutical, biotech, clinical companies, and research institutions. There are no prerequisites for this class.

How You'll Benefit From This Course

• Learn about current and upcoming information technology and how to leverage them in a laboratory
• Improve your IT fundamentals so you can discern hype and reality
• Become aware of applicable standards and component software architectures
• Understand how to store, manage, and analyze your data

Course Topics

• Data Representation and Transformation
• XML and Related Technologies
• Distributed Computing Strategies
• Scientific Data Management
• Data Mining/Knowledge Discovery
• Laboratory Data Standards
• Data Storage and Retrieval
• Long-term Archival
• Communication Technologies
• Current Trends in Information Technology

Course Fee: US $500/$600*

Course Format: Lecture

Class Limit: 40

Instructors:

Burkhard Schaefer Burkhard Schaefer Software & Networks Mainz, Germany

Burkhard Schaefer is an independent consultant specializing in large scale distributed IT systems and e-commerce applications. He is a regular contributor to the LabAutomation short course program and has been involved with the LECIS standardization effort at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) and the AnIML project with the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM).

He is currently working on standardized data formats for the documentation of laboratory workflows. Clients include various commercial entities and government institutions. He holds a Diploma of Computer Science from the Technical University of Kaiserslautern and has been teaching short courses for the ALA since 1999.

Torsten A. Staab, Ph.D. Los Alamos National Laboratory Los Alamos, New Mexico USA

Torsten Staab currently a Technical Staff Member at the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) in Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA. Torsten holds a Ph.D. and an M.S. degree in Computer Science from the University of New Mexico. He also holds a Diplom Informatiker (FH) degree from the University of Applied Sciences Wiesbaden, Germany.

Since 1995, Torsten has been actively involved in the development and implementation of laboratory automation standards for the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), the American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM), the Object Management Group's (OMG) Life Sciences Research Domain Task Force, and the National Institute of Health (NIH). His current research primarily focuses on the development of biodefense and clinical diagnostics technologies.

Torsten is a member of the JALA editorial board. He has numerous peer-reviewed publications in laboratory automation informatics and a U.S. patent. Dr. Staab has been teaching IT and software engineering-related short courses at LabAutomation since 1998.

* higher fee applies to those who are not ALA members