Key strategies to improve the efficiency of your biobank
Tuesday, April 22, 2025 at 16:00 BST / 17:00 CEST / 11:00 EDT / 08:00 PDT
Facilities and laboratories of all sizes around the world are continually striving to enhance biobanking standards and best practices to ensure the quality of their samples.
In this webinar, Ila Bharati Summitt, Sustainability Program Manager at My Green Labs, along with Amy Armstrong, Senior Product Manager, and Michael Taylor, Commercial Manager from Thermo Fisher Scientific, will discuss innovative product technologies and storage methods that enhance sample security and traceability.
Key learning objectives
- Gain insight into the actions that labs/biobanks/biorepositories can take to maximize the energy efficiency of their cold storage fleet while helping reduce cost and improving their research
- Discover how the annual Freezer Challenge is supporting more labs with cold storage sustainability
- Explore the technological and organizational innovations that can help support efficiency in the lab
Who should attend?
- Lab managers/directors
- Project managers
- Principal investigators
- Lab operations management
- Technical specialists
- Anyone involved or interested in biobanking workflow
Certificate of attendance
If you attend the live webinar, you will automatically receive a certificate of attendance, including a learning outcomes summary, for continuing education purposes.
If you view the on-demand webinar, you can request a certificate of attendance by emailing editor@selectscience.net.
Speakers
Ila Bharati Summitt is a sustainability program manager at My Green Lab. She primarily supports labs around the world through the My Green Lab Certification process and shares sustainability best practices based on her 15+ years of experience in government, academic, and biotech laboratories. Prior to joining My Green Lab, she worked with Novartis’ global Environmental Sustainability network to execute sustainable practices at her worksite. As chair of the Green Team, she partnered with local organizations to collect thousands of pounds of waste in beach cleanups and hazardous/e-waste collection events, implementing polystyrene recycling, donation of unused office products to local charities, and more.
Amy Armstrong manages the Thermo Scientific Matrix 2D automation-friendly sample storage tubes product portfolio. With 16 years of experience in product management, she focuses on identifying customers’ needs and finding solutions. Since joining Thermo Fisher, she has turned her attention to understanding the biobanking market, customers’ workflows, and their sample storage protocols.
Michael Taylor is the commercial manager of the Americas for ultra-low temperature (ULT) freezers at Thermo Fisher Scientific. He started his career in the lab working on cancer research and has spent the last 16 years providing laboratory equipment solutions to the life science industry. His decade-long tenure at Thermo Fisher is marked by a deep understanding of customer workflows and their needs, the implementation of innovative cold storage and asset management solutions in the lab, and a love for science.
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