Previous Training - ATA Scientific

Mastersizer 3000 and Zetasizer training courses 2024

August – September 2024

SYDNEY MELBOURNE BRISBANE

We recently hosted a series of training courses focused on the Malvern Mastersizer and Malvern Zetasizer instruments. Courses were run in 3 major cities around Australia and provided users with the opportunity to develop their skills and knowledge in achieving reliable particle sizing.

Both training courses are one day events that help users understand how the instruments work, how to make reliable measurements and how to interpret data. Important maintenance and sampling procedures are also covered in practicals.
The training courses will be run again in the future. Venues will depend on the level interest received. Contact us now to reserve your seat.

WORKSHOP/USER TRAINING: Nanosight Pro

6 – 14 May 2024 (Melbourne/ Brisbane/ Sydney)

Characterising Nanoparticles, EVs and exosomes is now quicker, easier and more accurate.

ATA Scientific hosted a special NTA workshop. Both new and existing users of NanoSight instruments were invited to expand their skills and knowledge on sample preparation and data analysis particularly when working with challenging samples.

Topics discussed:

An introduction to the principles of NTA technology
Tips and tricks on how to generate quality data
A range of applications will be discussed (EVs, LNPs, fluorescence)
New NanoSight Pro and Xplorer software demo
Local researchers who currently use this technique are invited to present their work to enable further collaborative learning and sharing of ideas
Afternoon training session: opportunity to discuss specific experimental set-up and data analysis in a group session with our application specialist Dr Yu-Su Chen, MalvernPanalytical (UK).

The new NanoSight Pro is powered by machine learning and a blend of smart features, meaning it is now faster, easier to use and with higher sensitivity to accurately distinguish between subtypes of EVs and analyse their functional relevance – all in matter of minutes with minimal sample preparation. Watch remote demo here.

If you missed us please contact us – book an appointment and use the NanoSight Pro system yourself!

WEBINAR: Recent developments in RNA R&D and manufacturing in NSW

A presentation by Dai Hayward as part of the NSW Pharmaceutical Science Group’s Vaccine technologies update webinar webcast on 14th June 2023

Prof Pall Thordarson, Director, RNA Institute UNSW together with Dai Hayward CEO, Micropore Technologies, provide a Vaccine Technologies Update for the RACI (Royal Australian Chemical Institute) NSW Pharmaceutical Science.

ABSTRACT: Dr Dai Hayward, CEO Micropore Technologies
As nanomedicines move from the urgency of mRNA vaccines, to minimise the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, to other exciting nucleotide therapies two significant issues need to be addressed before nanomedicines become truly mainstream therapies; tissue targeting and robust scalability from discovery to manufacture.

This presentation will address the importance of resolving the latter issue as a means of imparting high levels of control, in a formulation agnostic manner, to allow scale-appropriate optimisation of formulations for therapeutic outcomes with no compromises. Micropore Technologies’ established approach to development and manufacture of a variety of nanoparticles will be discussed. A novel whole-process approach, unlocking a route to distributed manufacturing, will be described.

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Light Microscopy Australia Virtual Conference, LMA2021

12 August 2021, @4pm (EAST)

Zoom seminar: Label-free live cell analysis using LiveCyte. ATA Scientific presented a 10min talk with Q&A on 12 August, at 4pm (AEST) during LMA2021. This virtual meeting covered some of the most cutting-edge techniques and applications of light microscopy. Talks and workshops featured Live imaging of cells, tissues, and organisms, Image processing and analysis, and Advances microscopy. Contact us for a copy of the recorded talk.

17 August 2021, @10am – 1pm (AEST)

Livecyte Workshop: Uncovering the inconvenient truth behind manual cell tracking
Our workshop series included three half hour webinars.
1/ Measuring random motility and wound healing with Livecyte: Are you only scratching the surface? (time 10.00-10.30am)
2/ Multiplication and division: Calculating growth and proliferation at population and single level with Livecyte. (time 11am-11.30am)
3/ Fluorescence in QPI Imaging: The mCherry on Top. (time 12noon-12.30pm)

The talks illustrated the root causes of manual tracking inaccuracies on a fundamental level and how using computer algorithms can eliminate them by removing the subjective nature of human interaction. The Livecyte system, is currently installed and ready for use within the UNSW. Using ptychography, a quantitative phase imaging modality, Livecyte is both ideally suited to label-free automated single cell tracking and extremely low phototoxicity.

This was an online workshop. Contact: Peter Davis (pdavis@atascientific.com.au)
for a copy of the recordings. https://www.lmameeting.com.au/preliminary-program/

Tissue clearing seminar : Accelerate your 3D imaging workflow 2019

6 – 13 December 2019

ADELAIDE MELBOURNE SYDNEY BRISBANE

We would like to thank everyone who attended our seminar “Tissue Clearing seminar – Accelerate your 3D imaging workflow”.

Tissue clearing is essential for non-destructive, three-dimensional (3D) imaging of biological samples. Combined with labeling techniques, tissue clearing allows for the visualisation of cellular structures in their physiological context.

This seminar focused on the X-CLARITY systems and reagents used standardise, simplify, and accelerate each step of the tissue clearing process. X-CLARITY is based on CLARITY (Clear Lipid-exchanged Acrylamide-hybridized Rigid Imaging / Immunostaining /in situ-hybridization-compatible Tissue hYdrogel), a tissue clearing method developed by the Deisseroth lab at Stanford University. The new DeepLabel Antibody Staining Kit accelerates immunolabeling of cleared tissues for a broad range of applications.

If you missed us or were not able to attend please contact us to arrange a follow up visit or demonstration.

Mastersizer and Zetasizer training 2019

June – September 2019

SYDNEY PERTH BRISBANE ADELAIDE MELBOURNE

We recently hosted a series of training courses focused on the Malvern Mastersizer and Malvern Zetasizer instruments. Courses were run in all major cities around Australia and provided users with the opportunity to develop their skills and knowledge in achieving reliable particle sizing.