Switzerland
May 11, 2015

The Amphacademy is a scientific get-together of experienced researches and Ampha Z30 users with a clear focus on pollen analysis. Amphasys’ patented “lab-on-a-chip” technology enables efficient and reproducible determination of pollen viability, ploidy and developmental stages of microspores.

Plant breeders know by experience that pollen quality is influenced by many factors like temperature, light and chemical agents. Amphasys provides a standardized, reliable and easy-to-use method that allows a constant monitoring of pollen viability.

This new technology finds more and more applications in the seed industry, for example quantitative analysis of pollen or microspore viability, germinability, ploidy and developmental stages. It is a powerful tool to reduce the costs of production (e.g. by improving the female-to-male ratio) and to increase the yield of high quality seed (e.g. by use of high quality pollen for manual pollination and prevention of losses due to inferior pollen quality).

The Amphacademy is designed to help current and future users to keep up with the growing number of applications. The conference from June 12-13 is a scientific gettogether of experienced researches and Ampha Z30 users with a clear focus on pollen analysis. Renowned keynote speakers will introduce new applications and present amazing results out of their field of study. The participation is free of charge. See www.amphasys.com/amphacademy for more info.

Amphasys is a Swiss high-tech company providing premium-quality, label-free solutions for analysis of single cell characteristics such as cell size and morphology, viability (apoptosis), or cell differentiation. The patented, chip-based technology eliminates time-consuming, complex sample preparation steps like cell labelling and the need of expensive laboratory infrastructure.
For more information, please visit www.amphasys.com.

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Published: May 11, 2015