In Episode 8 of the Voices of Sample Management podcast, Toby Winchester, Product Manager at Titian and Neil Benn, founder and former managing director at Ziath, explore the history of rack scanning and the issues that come with successfully scanning multiple tubes.

From meat fridges in car parks to flatbed scanners and lunchbox ethanol stations for removing ice from tubes, Neil and Toby explore 30 years of rack and tube scanning solutions and look into what the future rack scanning industry could look like.

In Episode 7 of the Voices of Sample Management podcast, Toby Winchester, Product Manager at Titian, and Stuart Naylor, Owner of Roylan Developments, discuss the sample integrity challenges that come with potential effect of hydration of DSMO stocks on scientific assays.

From DMSO, the universal solvent, to flooding storage with nitrogen, Toby and Stuart cover a wide range of solutions to avoiding hydration problems in samples.

In Episode 6 of the Voices of Sample Management podcast, two longstanding members of the Titian team come together to discuss multifaceted nature of sample requesting.

From different types of ordering to the flexibility needed by scientists and lab operators, Toby Winchester, Product Manager, and Matt Peel, Technical Product Manager explore the different options for requesting systems and the considerations you need to take into account.

In Episode 5 of the Voices of Sample Management podcast, Titian Software's Toby Winchester speaks to Titian's Head of Software Development, Gergely Bandi.

Exploring the world of AI in sample management software, Toby and Gergely discuss how machine learning and AI can be used to automate processes, but with a stark warning that it can't do everything!

In Episode 4 of the Voices of Sample Management podcast, Titian Software's Toby Winchester speaks to fellow product manager, Cory Tiller from SPT Labtech.

Focusing on one of sample management's key questions, auto stores - to buy or not to buy? Toby and Cory cover some of the pros and cons of different types of stores, plus a deeper look into impact of temperature on samples, and how the 'penguin effect' plays a part!

In Voices of Sample Management Episode 3, Ruth Petersen, VP of Global Marketing at Titian and Derrick Miyao, Vice President of Molecular Foundry at DeepCure discuss mobile robots, build versus buy for lab software and why sample managers should view sales reps as partners!

In Voices of Sample Management Episode 2, Toby Winchester and Marcus Oxer take to the microphone to discuss a "huge topic": sustainability.

From the energy needed to run a lab freezer to the goals and strategies put in place by large pharma and academia, Marcus brings a wealth of knowledge to this episode, having worked in the industry for a long time, including 12 years at Titian Software!

With nearly 24 years at Titian between them, Toby Winchester and Arthur Yarwood, both product managers at Titian Software, discuss some of the developments between Mosaic 8 and 9 as well as breaking down abbreviations used by Titian and others in the Mosaic community, including: VSLH (Variable Span liquid handling), TFM (Tempo Fulfilment Module), CFM (Cellario Fulfilment Module) and JFM (Job Fulfilment Module).

If you have any topics or ideas for our future episodes, or you're interested in taking part, please contact us at info@titian.co.uk