SPR User Meeting USA

Dear Bruker Customers, 

We look forward to meeting you in person for our next SPR User Meeting on September 13 to 14, 2023. There will be an optional Welcome Reception on Tuesday evening, September 12, held at our Bruker headquarters' campus in Billerica. We are looking forward to stimulating discussions/lectures from our customers and Bruker SPR team. You find the detailed agenda below. 

The Bruker SPR Team is looking forward to hosting the event and seeing everyone at this year’s SPR User Meeting. 

5:00 pm - 8:00 pm Welcome reception - An Evening full of Beverages, Food and Music
Networking Opportunity and Casual Mingling
Location: Open Area in front of the auditorium (3rd floor)

8:00 am - 9:00 am Registration
Location: Open Area in front of the auditorium (3rd floor)

9:00 am - 9:15 am Opening
Paul Speir, Ph.D., Senior Vice President Commercial, Bruker Scientific LLC
Meike Hamester, Ph.D., Vice President Label Free Technologies, Bruker Daltonics GmbH & Co. KG
Mirjam Ernst, After Sales Specialist SPR, Bruker Daltonics SPR
Location: Auditorium

Unlock the Potential of the SPR Pro Series: Free Technical Training Sessions with hands-on experience!
Rotating practical, parallel sessions for three groups of users 
(you can choose whether you attend all sessions or only single sessions)

Session 1: 
Service Tips and Tricks – Hands-on Training and What I Always Wanted to Ask My Engineer
(Two SPR-32 Pro instruments available to work hands-on)
Benjamin Küntzel, Service Specialist SPR, Bruker Daltonics SPR
Akshay Kale, Service engineer SPR, Bruker Scientific LLC
Location: Hillenkamp Room (3rd floor)

Session 2:
Methods for Special Assays: Thermodynamics, Epitope Binning and Frame-inject Feature
Cyrill Brunner, Ph.D., Application Scientist, Bruker Switzerland AG
Location: Auditorium (3rd floor)

Session 3:
Analyzer & Control Software Session – Current Changes and Improvements
Sven Malik, Senior Application Scientist, Bruker Daltonics SPR,
Matthew Parker, Ph.D., Application Scientist, Bruker Scientific LLC
Location: Thompson Room (2nd floor)

9:15 am - 10:15 am Time slot 1 – all three sessions in parallel
Group 1 in Session 1, Group 2 in Session 2, Group 3 in Session 3

10:15 am - 10:40 am Coffee break
Location: Open Area in front of the auditorium (3rd floor)

10:40 am - 11:40 am Time slot 2
Group 2 in Session 1, Group 3 in Session 2, Group 1 in Session 3

11:45 am - 12:45 pm Time slot 3
Group 3 in Session 1, Group 1 in Session 2, Group 2 in Session 3

12:45 pm - 1:45 pm Lunch break
Location: Open Area in front of the auditorium (3rd floor)

1:45 pm - 2:15 pm High Throughput Active Concentration Determination of IgG-Fc tagged molecules using the Bruker SPR-32 Pro instrument
Jost Vielmetter, Ph.D., Director Protein Expression Center, California Institute of Technology (Caltech) 
Location: Auditorium 

2:15 pm - 2:45 pm Multiparametric Antibody Engineering using Machine Learning and High Performance SPR
Jennifer Codding-Bui, Ph.D., Senior Scientist, ATUM Bio
Location: Auditorium 

2:45 pm - 3:15 pm Exploring the Latest Advancements in Bruker Mass Spectrometry
Christopher Swift, Ph.D., Director of Sales Pharma, Bruker Scientific LLC
Location: Auditorium 

3:15 pm - 3:45 pm Coffee break
Location: Open Area in front of the auditorium (3rd floor)

3:45 pm - 4:15 pm Harnessing the Multiplexing Power of the SPR-32 Pro to Identify Ligandable Drug Targets at GSK 
Sabrina Bédard, Ph.D., Principal Investigator, GlaxoSmithKline
Location: Auditorium 

4:15 pm - 5:00 pm News from R & D of Bruker Daltonics SPR
Sven Malik, Bruker Daltonics SPR
Christopher Pelczar, Ph.D., Bruker Daltonics SPR
Location: Auditorium 

5:00 pm - 5:30 pm Q&A
Location: Auditorium

7:00 pm Dinner at the restaurant of Archer Burlington Hotel

~21:30 pm End of the dinner

9:00 am Opening

9:00 am - 9:45 am Surface Plasmon Resonance Imaging (SPRi)-Based ImmunoAssay for the Comprehensive Characterization of the Anti-SARS CoV-2 Immune Response
Ebrima Gibbs, Ph.D., University of British Columbia
Location: Auditorium

9:45 am - 10:00 am SPR Consumables – Portfolio, Changes, Development
Cyrill Brunner, Ph.D, Bruker Switzerland AG
Location: Auditorium

10:00 am - 10:30 am XanTec bioanalytics – Advanced chip chemistries for SPR biosensors
Erk Gedig, CEO, XanTec bioanalytics GmbH
Location: Auditorium

10:30 am - 11:00 am Coffee break
Location: Open Area in front of the auditorium (3rd floor)

11:00 am - 11:45 am Tour Bruker Campus
Location: Bruker Campus

11:45 am - 12:15 pm Bruker’s Service Organization – Your Partner for Success
Chris Krivis, Director Service North Americas, Bruker Scientific LLC
Location: Auditorium

12:15 pm - 12:45 pm Application of SPR-32 Pro in Anti-Idiotype Antibody Screening
Veronica Liu, Principal Scientist, GlaxoSmithKline
Location: Auditorium

12:45 pm - 1:45 pm Lunch break
Location: Open Area in front of the auditorium (3rd floor)

1:45 pm - 2:00 pm Surface Plasmon Resonance Imaging for Single-step DNA Aptamer Discovery
John V. L. Nguyen, Ph.D. candidate, McGill University
Location: Auditorium

2:00 pm - 2:15 pm Surface Plasmon Resonance Imaging for Type 1 Diabetes Research
James Porter, Ph.D. candidate, McGill University
Location: Auditorium

2:15 pm - 3:00 pm Open data discussion
Feel free to provide data that you would like to discuss with the audience. Please let us know upfront if you are interested in presenting your data during this session.
Location: Auditorium

3:00 pm - 3:30 pm Sample integrity after SEC purification and influence on SPR data quality
Jason Chen, California Institute of Technology
Location: Auditorium

3:30 pm - 4:00 pm Coffee break
Location: Open Area 3rd floor (in front of the auditorium)

4:00 pm - 4:30 pm Analyzer Software R4 – Introduction to Titration Cycle Kinetics
Sven Malik, Bruker Daltonics SPR
Danfeng Yao, Ph.D., Application Scientist SPR, Bruker Scientific LLC
Location: Auditorium

4:30 pm - 5:30 pm Wrap up and meet the specialists
Location: Wrap up all together in the auditorium, afterwards time for break-out sessions in Room Hillenkamp (3rd floor) and Room Thompson (2nd floor)

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.

Or use the time slot to meet with your peers from the SPR community for further discussions and/or exchange of experiences. 

SPR User Meeting Location:
Bruker Scientific LLC
40 Manning Road
08151 Billerica, MA

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