How Amphasys creates a user community

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Stefan Kyora

11.05.2015

Amphaysy’ system Ampha Z30 analyses pollen viability for the optimization of plant breeding and seed production processes. The number of users is rising and now the start-up has launched the “Amphacademy” for them. The conference is a good example how innovative start-ups can create a user community.

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).

Interesting speeches and the summits of Switzerland
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 get-together 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 programme includes keynote speeches, “AmphaPitches”, short presentations of interesting results from participants, and sessions and workshops about tips and tricks, technological developments and the next generation software.

Amphasys creates an additional incentive to come to the event. Apart from the conference the start-up from Lucerne invites the users to a breathtaking excursion "Summits of Switzerland" on the day after the scientific get-together.

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