About Us

LRIG Bay Area supports the regional laboratory automation community through our free meetings and on-line resources. You can meet many of our 1000+ local members at our technical presentation and networking events or take advantage of the LRIG international membership of 8000 members to solve your automation issues using our discussion boards. Please visit the global LRIG website for additional resources.

LRIG Bay Area serves Northern California, home to approximately 800 bioscience companies as well as hundreds of academic life science laboratories and non-profit institutions. Our members include representatives from pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies as well as tool vendors that make instruments, software and reagents that accelerate laboratory automation. Below are some of the company representatives attending meetings in 2009:

Affymetrix All Temp Engineering, Inc. Amgen-San Francisco Applied Biosystems Avidia Research Institute Bayer Corporation Beeston Engineering Consulting BioMicroLab Biophile, Inc. Caliper Carl Zeiss MicroImaging, Inc. Celera Genomics Cerep, Inc. ChemSW Chiron Corporatio Ciphergen Biosystems Citregen Discoverx EDC Biosystems Elan Pharmaceuticals Enzyme Systems Products Exelixis FivePrime Therapeutics ForteBio Inc. Fusion Design GE Healthcare Genentech Genmark Automation Gilson Inc. Greiner Bio-One ISC BioExpress LabCyte Life Science Software, Inc. MedImmune Vaccines Meso Scale Discovery Metabolex Millipore MDS AT/Molecular Devices Corporation Novozymes Odyssey Thera Picarro Pierce Biotechnology Plexxikon Promega Proteomtech, Inc Renovis RoboTech Science, Inc Roche Molecular Systems Roche Palo Alto LLC Sangamo BioSciences Specs Sunesis Pharmaceuticals Theravance Inc USDA Agricultural Research Service Agilent/ Velocity11 WEIS Western Technology Marketing XOMA (US) LLC.

What LRIG Bay Area offers

Events with technical presentations on focused topics relevant to laboratory automation.
An active discussion board on laboratory automation topics. Tap into LRIG's international community of automation experts for advice on instrumentation, software, and validation.
Focused career postings for laboratory automation professionals currently in the Bay Area.

Joining LRIG Bay Area

Registering for our meetings is fast and free. All meetings are free of charge and registration is optional, but registration helps to gauge attendance for the food and beverage service. You'll receive meeting notifications by email or regular mail and will be eligible for our meeting raffles. LRIG Bay Area will not share your contact details with any other group or organization. Register now.

Changing your membership profile (including opt-in and opt-out of email)

As a member of LRIG Bay Area, you can change your contact preferences by logging in (your password will be sent to you if you have forgotten it), then selecting Register with Bay Area LRIG from the Membership menu.

Technical Resources

Visit the LRIG global website for more information on other regional chapters.