Meeting Announcement
Automated Biorepositories: Successful Models

Dear colleagues,

LRIG will host a second annual meeting on biorepositories with an emphasis
on how automation has been successfully applied to solve problems with
managing collections. The meeting consists of a technology exhibition, tours
of RUCDR and social period followed by presentations and discussion. It will
take place at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey in Piscataway, NJ
from 3:00-9:00 PM on February 28, 2008. The web page with full details may
be found at <http://lab-robotics.org/Mid_Atlantic/meetings/0802.htm>.

An abbreviated agenda:

Tours: Rutgers University Cell and DNA Repository (RUCDR)
Dr. David Toke, Associate Managing Director, Rutgers University Cell & DNA
Repository (RUCDR)

University Cell and DNA Repository.

Presentation: Development and validation of the UK Biobank sample handling,
processing and archiving protocol
Tim Peakman, Executive Director, UK Biobank