Meet Our Volunteer Expert Scientists
Volunteer participants in this expert forum must be members of the ALA.
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Dr. Tony Beugelsdijk: I am a co-founder of the ALA and currently a manager at Los Alamos National Laboratory. I'm currently working on automation systems for the characterization of infectious agents.
Dr. Tom Brumback, Ph.D.: 20 year veteran in lab and field automation in plant biotechnology arena. ALA member since the beginning with interest in automation beyond typical pharma.
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Andrea Chow, Ph.D.: I am a chemical engineer by training, and have been developing microfluidics lab automation tools for commercial applications in the last decade.
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Dr. Raymond Dessy: 50 years of research in organometallic chemistry, reaction kinetics, lab automation, e-lab-notebooks, programming, biosensors, surface plasmon resonance, HTS, ccd spectroscopy, surface-acoustic-waves,& plasmonics.
Train dressage horses, photograph wild-flowers, out-back Australia.
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Dr. Marcia Eisenberg: I am currently a Vice President and Senior Director of research/development and automation of new tests and technologies for LabCorp, the second largest Clinical Diagnostics Laboratory in the U.S. I studied at the State University of New York at Albany and the University of Kentucky.
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Mr. Marc Feiglin, M.B.A.,B.S.: I have 20 years of experience in the application of laboratory automation in a variety of fields including HTS, protein crystallography, NA sample preparation, and information management.
I am a founding member of ALA and am currently CTO for Life Science Research at Tecan Group.
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Dr. Jay Gill, Ph.D.: I have more years of laboratory automation experience than I will admit to. I have developed informatics systems for image and data analysis as well as large and small automated screening systems.
Peter Grandsard: Trained in Chemical Engineering and Analytical Chemistry. At Amgen responsible for Research & Automation Technologies (R&AT) and Process Analyticals & Separations (PAS). R&AT groups automation and instrumentation specialists, who deploy automation technologies across R&D. PAS provides separation, purification and characterization support for small molecule process research and development.
Mr. Douglas Gurevitch, P.E.: Mechanical Engineering registered Professional Engineer with M.S. in robotics. Experience ranges from FDA regulated medical device design and manufacture to system integration of laboratory automation and custom equipment design.
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Dr. David Herold, Ph.D.,M.D.: I am a Co-founder of ALA and am currently Professor of Pathology Chief, Clinical Chemistry and Immunology.
Dr. Jeffrey Hurst, Ph.D.: Experience in bioanalytical chemistry with food related compounds and biological specimens. Continual early implementer of numerous analytical techniques most recently biosenors as applied to food analysis
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Paul Kayne, Ph.D.: Paul Kayne runs the Expression Technology Group at Bristol-Myers Squibb Co.
Dr. ANNE KOPF-SILL, Ph.D.: I have nearly 20 years working in biotech industry developing products to simplifyy diagnostic testing and laboratory processes.
Dr. Jorg Kutter, Ph.D.: I am trained in analytical chemistry; Currently I am involved in teaching and research within micro-total analysis systems or lab-on-a-chip systems.
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Dr. Bob McDowall, Ph.D.: I am an analytical chemist and professional tart with over 30 years experience in lab automation and informatics.
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Mr. Jon Reissner: I run a manufacturing company that designs and produces conveyors and accessories that are used for factory and lab automation, machines, layouts, and systems. My education is in economics.
Dr. Mark Russo, Ph.D.: I have a Ph.D. in engineering and more than 16 years in the field of laboratory automation. My areas of expertice include system control and laboratory informatics. I am also the Executive Editor of JALA.
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Mrs. Nutan Sampat, Other: Experienced Physicist: medically oriented nano-optics, membranes, optical sprectroscopy, numerical biofluid-dynamics, fluorescence, photometry, calorimetry, cryophysics, heat propagation in solids, smattering of polymer chemistry, SAP finance software. Highly interdisciplinary work.
Dr. Giles Sanders, Ph.D.: I have a background in Physical Chemistry from Oxford University and followed a career in applications of micro and nanotechnoloogy in chemical and biochemical systems and for the last 5 years have been a consultant at the Technology Partnership.
Dr. Reinhold Schaefer, Other: I am a faculty member at the University of Applied Sciences Wiesbaden Germany. My actual work is concentrated on automation, data warehousing, workflow optimization, and scheduling. I have about 30 years of experience in laboratory automation, especially in the pharmaceutical industry.
Dr. William Sonnefeld, Ph.D.: I worked for more than 20 years in Laboratory Automation and Process Analytical Chemistry areas at Kodak. More recently , I am an independent consultant on Lean Six Sigma and Design for Six Sigma affiliated with PDSS, Inc.
Dr. Torsten Staab: Mr. Staab is currently a team leader for Homeland Security Technologies at Los Alamos National Laboratory in Los Alamos, NM, USA.
Dr. Jim Sterling, Ph.D.: I'm a faculty member at KGI with interest in microfluidics. Our group works on chip-based CE of DNA, electrowetting, bacterial spore lysis methods and development of integrated amplification-based biochips
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Dr. KERSTIN THUROW, Ph.D.: I have a PhD in Chemistry, habilitation in measurement and control, and am currently Prof. for Life Science Automation at the Center for Life Science Automation, University Rostock.
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Dr. Steven Vidakovic, Ph.D.: Ph.D. in Aerodynamics/Fluidmechanics
Master of Science in Technology Management
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Mr. Shane Weber: I have working expertise in intellectual property assessment, diagnostic biomarkers, functional genomics, molecular biology, protein biochemistry and biophysics, CCD camera and laser imaging, SBIR NIH grant review, and currently I am Director of Technology at Ortho-Clinical Diagnostics, a Johnson & Johnson company.
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Mr. Andy Zaayenga: I am a consultant in laboratory automation including process analysis and recommendation, due diligence, system integration and implementation, and project management.
Dr. JUERGEN ZIMMERMANN, Ph.D.: I am a researcher at European Biology Laboratory in Heidelberg, Germany. I also serve on the JALA Editorial Board.
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