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Advances in Bioanalytics and Biomarkers
Monday, Feb 4
10:30 am

Chemoproteomics and Thermal Protein Profiling in Target Discovery and Validation
Location: 146B
Friedrich BM Reinhard, PhD – Cellzome GmbH - a GSK Company
Sponsored By:
Monday, Feb 4
11:00 am

Exploiting the Potential of Ultra High Throughput Mass Spectrometry Approaches to Drug Discovery
Location: 146B
Melanie Leveridge – GlaxoSmithKline, Stevenage UK
Sponsored By:
Monday, Feb 4
11:30 am

High-Throughput ESI-MS Enabled by the Acoustic Droplet Ejection to the Open-Port Probe Sampling Interface
Location: 146B
Chang Liu, PhD – Sciex
Sponsored By:
Monday, Feb 4
12:00 pm

Ultrahigh-Throughput Screening of Chemical Reactions Using MALDI-TOF MS and Nanomole Synthesis
Location: 146B
Sergei Dikler, PhD – Bruker Corporation
Sponsored By:
Monday, Feb 4
3:00 pm

Application of acoustic mist ionisation mass spectrometry for metabolic profiling – case study in hepatic toxicology
Location: 146B
Delyan Ivanov, PhD – Discovery Sciences
Monday, Feb 4
3:30 pm

SLAS2019 Innovation Award Finalist: Live-cell Gene Imaging Nanotechnology for Cells, Tissue and Pre-clinical Abnormal Scarring Challenges
Location: 146B
David Yeo, PhD – Nanyang Technological University
Monday, Feb 4
4:00 pm

Screening a secretome library to discover novel biology and targets relevant to drug discovery
Location: 146B
Lovisa Holmberg Schiavone, PhD – IMED Biotech Unit, AstraZeneca, Gothenburg, Sweden
Monday, Feb 4
4:30 pm

Lipidomics and Metabolomics in drug research, a case study for dehydrocholesterol reductase 24
Location: 146B
Martin Giera, PhD – Leiden University Medical Center
Tuesday, Feb 5
10:30 am

Mechanism of Action and Molecular Target follow-up following a Phenotypic Screen
Location: 146B
Jonathan Lee, PhD – PDD4Patients LLC.
Tuesday, Feb 5
11:00 am

Hit Dissection and Target Identification from a Cell Viability Chemogenomic Screen
Location: 146B
Shaun McLoughlin, PhD – AbbVie
Tuesday, Feb 5
11:30 am

SLAS2019 Innovation Award Finalist: Digging into molecular MOA’s with high-content imaging and deep-learning
Location: 146B
Sam Cooper – Phenomic AI
Tuesday, Feb 5
12:00 pm

Navigating the Small Molecule Target Deconvolution Challenge within Unprecedented Target Space
Location: 146B
Scott E. Warder, PhD – AbbVie
Assay Development and Screening
Monday, Feb 4
10:30 am

Single cell-based investigations of endocrine disrupting chemicals by high content analysis
Location: 145AB
Fabio Stossi, PhD – Baylor College of Medicine
Monday, Feb 4
11:00 am

Mechanical Trap Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy for Live Three-Dimensional Molecular Imaging of Single Cells
Location: 145AB
Santosh K. Paidi, MSE – Johns Hopkins University
Monday, Feb 4
11:30 am

Combining machine learning and microscopy in drug discovery: from high throughput screening to cell activity prediction
Location: 145AB
Lina Nilsson, PhD – Recursion Pharmaceuticals
Monday, Feb 4
12:00 pm

Screening patient-derived colorectal cancer models to interrogate tumor-stromal interactions and drug response
Location: 145AB
Shannon Mumenthaler, PhD – University of Southern California
Monday, Feb 4
3:00 pm

On-chip Membrane Protein Cell-free Expression: Enables Direct Binding Assay
Location: 145AB
Amit Vaish – Discovery Research, Amgen
Sponsored By
Monday, Feb 4
3:30 pm

Residence time and affinity of tightly bound drug-target complexes by label-free biosensing
Location: 145AB
Melinda M. Mulvihill, PhD – Genentech
Sponsored By
Monday, Feb 4
4:00 pm

The evolution of a multidimensional approach combining existing and next wave technologies in delivering binding kinetics in early drug discovery
Location: 145AB
Daniel Thomas, PhD – GSK
Sponsored By
Monday, Feb 4
4:30 pm

Utilizing a modified RapidFire 365 system improves throughput and enables simultaneous mechanistic evaluation of multiple Histone Acetyltransferase enzymes and their small molecule inhibitors
Location: 145AB
Patrick J. Bingham – Pfizer
Sponsored By
Tuesday, Feb 5
10:30 am

Pre-clinical drug development progressing towards implementation of multi-dimensional cellular models with increased throughput and enhanced translational relevance
Location: 145AB
Jason Ekert, PhD – GlaxoSmithKline
Tuesday, Feb 5
11:00 am

SLAS2019 Innovation Award Finalist: Integrated 3D in vitro models of human bone marrow and cancer
Location: 145AB
Steven C. George, MD, PhD – University of California, Davis
Tuesday, Feb 5
11:30 am

Rapid measurement and comparison of multiple cytokines and immune checkpoint molecules from 2D and 3D cell cultures of immune and breast cancer cell populations grown in a complex co-culture model
Location: 145AB
Jeanine M. Hinterneder, PhD – PerkinElmer
Tuesday, Feb 5
12:00 pm

Fully Automated Large Scale uHTS using 3D Cancer Organoid Models for Phenotypic Drug Discovery Applications
Location: 145AB
Virneliz Fernandez Vega – Scripps Research
Tuesday, Feb 5
3:00 pm

Discovery of Next-Generation Antimicrobials through Bacterial Self-Screening of Surface-Displayed Peptide Libraries
Location: 145AB
Bryan Davies, PhD – University of Texas At Austin
Tuesday, Feb 5
3:30 pm

Next-generation approaches to antibody discovery for treatment and prevention of infections caused by Gram-negative pathogens
Location: 145AB
Dante Ricci, PhD – Achaogen
Tuesday, Feb 5
4:00 pm

Single-cell and spatial transcriptomic profiling of mammalian spermatogenesis
Location: 145AB
Bo Xia, MS – New York University School of Medicine
Tuesday, Feb 5
4:30 pm

SLAS2019 Innovation Award Finalist: High-throughput, CRISPR based 3D screening platform for rapid discovery of novel CDK4/6 inhibitor resistance
Location: 145AB
TARAKA SAI PAVAN GRANDHI, PhD – Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation
Wednesday, Feb 6
9:30 am

Induced pluripotent stem cell-based high throughput screening for modulators of cardiac hypertrophy
Location: 145AB
Stefan Braam, PhD – Ncardia
Wednesday, Feb 6
10:00 am

Cell Stress Biosensors for Rapid, Live-Cell Detection of Neurotoxic and Cardiotoxic Compounds in iPSC-Derived Neurons and Cardiomyocytes
Location: 145AB
Kevin M. Harlen, PhD – Montana Molecular
Wednesday, Feb 6
10:30 am

Applications of brain-model technology to study neurodevelopmental disorders
Location: 145AB
Cleber A. Trujillo, PhD – University of California, San Diego
Wednesday, Feb 6
11:00 am

3-Dimensional Human Cortical Neural Platforms for Drug Discovery in Neurodevelopmental Disorders
Location: 145AB
Cassiano Carromeu, PhD – StemoniX
Wednesday, Feb 6
1:30 pm

Phenotypic discovery and mechanism-of-action studies: a focus on the beta cell
Location: 145AB
Bridget K. Wagner, PhD – Broad Institute
Wednesday, Feb 6
2:00 pm

Improving the Drug Discovery Tool Box
Location: 145AB
Daniel Weaver, PhD – PerkinElmer
Wednesday, Feb 6
2:30 pm

Accelerating cancer drug discovery through accurate safety predictions: one goal of The ATOM consortium
Location: 145AB
Sarine Markossian, PhD – University of California, San Francisco
Wednesday, Feb 6
3:00 pm

Target Identification and Mechanism of Action in Drug Discovery
Location: 145AB
Monica Schenone, PhD – Pfizer
Automation and High Throughput Technologies
Monday, Feb 4
10:30 am

Using a novel microfluidics device to replicate drug PK profiles in vitro to improve in vivo translation of drug actions
Location: 147AB
Clay W. Scott, PhD – AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals
Sponsored By
Monday, Feb 4
11:00 am

Driven assembly of stem cell-derived human tissues for disease modeling and discovery
Location: 147AB
Bill Murphy, PhD – University of Wisconsin
Sponsored By
Monday, Feb 4
11:30 am

Performance of an automated Multi-Organ-Chip based long-term co-culture assay of a liver and an intestine organ model using a new robot platform
Location: 147AB
Florian W. Huber, MSc – Technical University of Berlin
Sponsored By
Monday, Feb 4
12:00 pm

3D Paper-Based Tumor Models to Characterize the Relationship Between the Tissue Microenvironment and Multidrug Resistant Phenotypes
Location: 147AB
Julie C. McIntosh – UNC Chapel Hill
Sponsored By
Monday, Feb 4
3:00 pm

High content 3-D light sheet microscopy in 96 and 384-well plate formats: cancer cell morphology and invasiveness and spheroid-based assays for compound safety screening
Location: 147AB
Chris Dunsby, PhD – Imperial College London
Sponsored By
Monday, Feb 4
3:30 pm

Development and Characterization of Patient Derived 3D Hepatocellular Carcinoma Organoid Models using HCS Methods and their Application to Precision Medicine and Drug Discovery
Location: 147AB
Paul A. Johnston, PhD – University of Pittsburgh Dept. Pharmaceutical Sci.
Sponsored By
Monday, Feb 4
4:00 pm

High-Content Imaging of Colorectal Cancer Patient-derived Organoids to study Tumor Microenvironment
Location: 147AB
Seungil Kim, PhD – Lawrence J. Ellison Institute for Transformative Medicine (USC)
Sponsored By
Monday, Feb 4
4:30 pm

Perfusable 3D angiogenic networks in a high-throughput, microfluidic culture platform
Location: 147AB
Remko van Vught – Mimetas
Sponsored By
Tuesday, Feb 5
10:30 am

Discerning function from phenotype with high throughput image analysis
Location: 147AB
Beth Cimini, PhD – Broad Institute
Sponsored By:
Tuesday, Feb 5
11:00 am

An automated ‘Target-class’ assay to identify novel activators of K2P Ion channels
Location: 147AB
Paul D. Wright, PhD – LifeArc
Sponsored By
Tuesday, Feb 5
11:30 am

A fully automated Multi-Organ-Chip Robot for standardized long-term culture, substance application and microscopic analysis
Location: 147AB
Ann-Kristin Muhsmann, MSc – Technische Universität Berlin
Sponsored By
Tuesday, Feb 5
12:00 pm

Development of high-throughput data analysis methods to bridge high-throughput APC assay with ion channel research and drug discovery
Location: 147AB
Tianbo Li, PhD – Genentech (Roche)
Sponsored By
Tuesday, Feb 5
3:00 pm

Yoga for uHTS: How to be both strong and flexible to adapt to stretching requirements
Location: 147AB
Yunyun Hsu, MS – UHTS Group - Discovery Technologies
Sponsored By
Tuesday, Feb 5
3:30 pm

Perspectives on the design, deployment and utilisation of modular, mobile screening automation
Location: 147AB
Paul Harper – AstraZeneca
Sponsored By
Tuesday, Feb 5
4:00 pm

Automated System Integration – Some Useful Paradigms
Location: 147AB
Paul Hensley – Ionfield Systems
Sponsored By
Tuesday, Feb 5
4:30 pm

Reducing the Science Community Plastic Waste Contribution Through Financially Viable Solutions
Location: 147AB
Ali Safavi, MS – Grenova
Sponsored By
Wednesday, Feb 6
9:30 am

Toward Standardizing Automated DNA Assembly
Location: 147AB
Luis Ortiz – Boston University
Sponsored By
Wednesday, Feb 6
10:00 am

Routine lab assembly line 2.0 – 3D-Inspection and manipulation of biological samples in culture dishes with the PetriJet31X platform
Location: 147AB
Felix Lenk, Dr. – TU Dresden INT
Sponsored By
Wednesday, Feb 6
10:30 am

SLAS2019 Innovation Award Finalist: Microfluidic chambers using fluid walls for cell biology
Location: 147AB
Cristian Soitu, MEng – University of Oxford
Sponsored By
Wednesday, Feb 6
11:00 am

Achieving Reproducibility in Biological Experimentation with an IoT-Enabled Lab of the Future
Location: 147AB
Ben Miles, PhD – Transcriptic
Sponsored By
Wednesday, Feb 6
1:30 pm

3D printing to cut out the middle man: rapid prototyping to innovate robots and save money
Location: 147AB
J. Colin Cox, PhD – Genentech
Sponsored By
Wednesday, Feb 6
2:00 pm

An Additive Biomanufacturing Platform to Automate 3D Cell Culture and Screen for 3D Biomaterial Properties
Location: 147AB
Sebastian Eggert – Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation, Queensland University of Technology
Sponsored By
Wednesday, Feb 6
2:30 pm

Enabling Endogenous Protein Detection by Acoustic Droplet Ejection: 3D-Printed Labware and Beyond
Location: 147AB
Michael J. Iannotti, PhD – NIH/NCATS
Sponsored By
Wednesday, Feb 6
3:00 pm

Collaborative product development of equipment for high throughput screening
Location: 147AB
Helen Plant – AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals
Sponsored By
Biologics Discovery
Monday, Feb 4
10:30 am

Generation of ion channel blocking antibodies by fusing venom-derived 'knottins' into antibody CDR loops
Location: 146C
Damian C. Bell, PhD – IONTAS
Monday, Feb 4
11:00 am

Antibacterial monoclonal antibodies : A strategy to prevent serious bacterial infections
Location: 146C
Christine Tkaczyk, PhD – MedImmune
Monday, Feb 4
11:30 am

Recombinant human B cell repertoires enable screening for rare, specific and natively-paired antibodies
Location: 146C
Saravanan Rajan, PhD – MedImmune
Monday, Feb 4
12:00 pm

Integration of biotherapeutics in combination screening with small molecule libraries
Location: 146C
Matthew D. Hall – National Ctr for Advancing Translational Sci
Monday, Feb 4
3:00 pm

Accelerate Library-to-Lead Triage of Antibody Libraries Using Array SPR
Location: 146C
Yasmina N. Abdiche, PhD – Carterra
Monday, Feb 4
3:30 pm

When the Power of Nature Meets Technology: Overcoming Tolerance by Deep Mining of Immune Repertoires
Location: 146C
Veronique Lecault, PhD – AbCellera
Monday, Feb 4
4:00 pm

Single-cell Deposition Technologies to Increase Cloning Efficiency During Cell Line Development
Location: 146C
Mandy Yim – Genentech
Monday, Feb 4
4:30 pm

The Data Journey at GSK: How Biopharm Molecular Discovery has digitalised its workflows to increase data quality, reduce cycle-times and enable data reuse.
Location: 146C
Stephen Ashman, BSc, PhD – GlaxoSmithKline
Tuesday, Feb 5
10:30 am

A patient centric function F.I.R.S.T™ approach to cancer immunotherapy discovery
Location: 146C
Björn L. Frendéus, PhD – BioInvent
Tuesday, Feb 5
11:00 am

High Throughput Measurement of Antibody Drug Pharmacokinetics: Assessment of Penetration of Antibodies and Conjugates into 3D Cell Culture Models
Location: 146C
Thomas Villani, PhD – Visikol, Inc
Tuesday, Feb 5
11:30 am

High-throughput Analysis of Bispecific Antibodies for Clone Selection using RapidFire Mass Spectrometry
Location: 146C
John Tran, PhD – Genentech
Tuesday, Feb 5
12:00 pm

Antibody Phenotypic Selection Enables the Discovery of Novel Molecular Targets and Therapies
Location: 146C
Steven Rust, BSc – MedImmune
Career Connections
Tuesday, Feb 5
7:30 am

What do you want from me? Getting an Industry Position from the Hiring Manager’s Perspective
Location: 140AB
Deborah G. Nguyen, PhD – Pain Points Lifeworks
Tuesday, Feb 5
1:00 pm

How to Survive – and Thrive – In Industry
Location: 140AB
Deborah G. Nguyen, PhD – Pain Points Lifeworks
Cellular Technologies
Monday, Feb 4
10:30 am

Strategies for Addressing Chromatin Limitations in CRISPR-based Genome Editing
Location: 146A
Gregory Davis, PhD – MilliporeSigma
Monday, Feb 4
11:00 am

Developing methods to enable precise and specific genome editing in living cells
Location: 146A
Wei-Hsi Yeh, PhD candidate – Harvard University and Broad Institute
Monday, Feb 4
11:30 am

CRISPR-STOP: gene silencing through base-editing-induced nonsense mutations
Location: 146A
Cem Kuscu, PhD – University of Tennessee Health Science Center
Monday, Feb 4
12:00 pm

An Automated Gene-Editing Platform for Breast Cancer
Location: 146A
Angela Bao Van Quach – Concordia University
Monday, Feb 4
3:00 pm

Mapping the genetic landscape of human cells
Location: 146A
Luke Gilbert, PhD – UCSF
Monday, Feb 4
3:30 pm

Hierarchical organization of the human cell from a cancer coessentiality network
Location: 146A
Traver Hart, PhD – MD Anderson Cancer Center
Monday, Feb 4
4:00 pm

Cell growth is an omniphenotype.
Location: 146A
Tim Peterson, PhD – Washington University
Monday, Feb 4
4:30 pm

Capturing macrophage complexity in vitro: human iPSC models as a platform for disease modelling and drug discovery
Location: 146A
David J. Brierley, BSc PhD – GlaxoSmithKline
Tuesday, Feb 5
10:30 am

Building accurate research models via genome editing
Location: 146A
Xiaoxia Cui, PhD – Washington University in St. Louis
Tuesday, Feb 5
11:00 am

Patient specific human iPSCs to model fetal hematopoietic anomalies associated with infant leukemia
Location: 146A
Todd E. Druley, MD, PhD – Washington University School of Medicine
Tuesday, Feb 5
11:30 am

Magneto-mechanical force enhancement of cell transfection
Location: 146A
Andy Tay, PhD – Stanford University
Tuesday, Feb 5
12:00 pm

RepliGut: An advanced adult human stem cell screening platform for the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries
Location: 146A
Nancy L. Allbritton, MD, PhD – Altis Biosystems
Data Analysis and Informatics
Monday, Feb 4
10:30 am

The Digital Lab: Enhancing Data Integrity and Adherence to FAIR Guiding Principles
Location: 140AB
Dana Vanderwall, PhD – Bristol-Myers Squibb
Monday, Feb 4
11:00 am

Building the Laboratory of the Future: How Digital Tools can Augment Human Scientific Output
Location: 140AB
Charles Fracchia, CEO – BioBright
Monday, Feb 4
11:30 am

A Cloud-based Solution for Automated Device Data Collection, Validation, and LIMS Integration for Analytical QC
Location: 140AB
Scott Rehlander – StackWave
Monday, Feb 4
12:00 pm

'Self-Driving Experiments': How IoT, AI, and Robotics Can Enable the Future of Science
Location: 140AB
Sridhar Iyengar, PhD in Biology, Serial Entrepreneur – Elemental Machines
Monday, Feb 4
3:00 pm

Towards a PC-Less Laboratory
Location: 140AB
Joshua Bishop, MA/PhD – Merck & Co
Monday, Feb 4
3:30 pm

The Practical Application of Natural Language Processing to Improving Data Quality in Drug Discovery.
Location: 140AB
Jay M. Gill, PhD – BFLConsulting LLC
Monday, Feb 4
4:00 pm

SiLA & AnIML: Lab of the Future, meet Data Analytics
Location: 140AB
Burkhard Schaefer, Dipl-Inf. – BSSN Software GmbH
Monday, Feb 4
4:30 pm

LARA and SiLA2.0/AnIML – an integrated open source laboratory automation planning and evaluation suite.
Location: 140AB
Mark Doerr, Dr – Institute of Biochemistry Uni Greifswald
Tuesday, Feb 5
10:30 am

Shared data ecosystem of NCI’s Cancer Target Discovery and Development (CTD^2) Network
Location: 140AB
Paul A. Clemons, PhD – Broad Institute
Tuesday, Feb 5
11:00 am

One of these things is not like the other… or is it? How to know when to repurpose software solutions for your laboratory
Location: 140AB
Abbey D. Vangeloff, MS – Yahara Software
Tuesday, Feb 5
11:30 am

A longitudinal analysis over 10 years of enabling technologies for early drug discovery using open source tools
Location: 140AB
Pierre Baillargeon, MS – The Scripps Research Institute
Tuesday, Feb 5
12:00 pm

Can automated reasoning over large data sets accelerate translational science?
Location: 140AB
Mathias J. Wawer, PhD – Broad Institute
Drug Target Strategies
Tuesday, Feb 5
3:00 pm

The Degrader Strategy Rule Book
Location: 146A
Robert A. Blake, DPhil – Genentech
Tuesday, Feb 5
3:30 pm

Activity of CRBN and VHL Derived PROTACs Across a Cancer Cell Line Panel
Location: 146A
Dane A. Mohl, PhD – Amgen - Oncology Research
Tuesday, Feb 5
4:00 pm

Small-molecule induced protein degradation with proteolysis targeting chimeric molecules (PROTACs)
Location: 146A
Markus Alexander Queisser, PhD – GlaxoSmithKline
Tuesday, Feb 5
4:30 pm

Expanding the Tool-Box of Ligands for Targeted Protein Degradation
Location: 146A
Gwenn M. Hansen, PhD – Nurix Therapeutics
Wednesday, Feb 6
9:30 am

Critical Decision Making using Biophysics
Location: 146A
John G. Quinn, PhD – Genentech
Wednesday, Feb 6
10:00 am

A Unique Automated Hydrogen / Deuterium Exchange Mass Spectrometry Platform for the Characterization of Protein Ligand Interactions
Location: 146A
Michael Chalmers, PhD – Eli Lilly and Company
Wednesday, Feb 6
10:30 am

High-throughput agonist shift assay development, automation of global curve fit analysis and visualization of positive allosteric modulators (PAM) to support Drug Discovery
Location: 146A
Sony Agrawal, M. Sc., and M.Phil – Merck Research Labs
Wednesday, Feb 6
11:00 am

Advantages of applying a new biophysical approach to HTS for lead ID, lead validation and optimization
Location: 146A
Matthias Molnar, PhD – NanoTemper Technologies
Wednesday, Feb 6
1:30 pm

Defining a cancer dependency map
Location: 146A
William C. Hahn, MD, PhD – Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Wednesday, Feb 6
2:00 pm

Guiding the use of small molecule inhibitors in cancer using chemical-genetic interaction maps
Location: 146A
Sourav Bandyopadhyay, PhD – University of California, San Francisco
Wednesday, Feb 6
2:30 pm

High throughput antigen and antibody production at multiple scales, in support of an open source antibody discovery platform
Location: 146A
James Love, PhD – Institute for Protein Innovation
Wednesday, Feb 6
3:00 pm

TARGATT™: Rapid and Efficient Transgene Integration Technology to Develop Large Mammalian Cell-Based Screening Libraries
Location: 146A
Andrew J. Hilmer, PhD – Applied StemCell, Inc.
Exhibitor Tutorial
Monday, Feb 4
12:30 pm

Automating Simple to Complex Workflows with Green Button Go Automation Scheduling Software AND Agile Automation: Developing Flexible Workcells for Research and Development in Drug Discovery
Location: 144B
Transon V. Nguyen – Notable Labs; David Dambman – Biosero, Inc
Monday, Feb 4
12:30 pm

A Highly Reproducible Automated Proteomics Sample Preparation Workflow for Quantitative Mass Spectrometry
Location: 150B
Qin Fu, PhD – Cedars Sinai Medical Center
Monday, Feb 4
12:30 pm

Cell and Gene Therapy Supply Chain Considerations
Location: 143B
George O'Sullivan
Monday, Feb 4
12:30 pm

Measuring cell health in real-time using a plate reader with atmospheric control
Location: 144A
Terry Riss, PhD – Promega Corporation; Oliver Carney – BMG LABTECH
Monday, Feb 4
12:30 pm

PerkinElmer Exhibitor Tutorial: Boldly Going Where No One Has Gone Before: Automating and Standardizing Physiological-Relevant Cell Culture Models
Location: 144C
Monday, Feb 4
12:30 pm

Phenotypic screening in 3D culture including ECM : Advantages and challenges
Location: 143C
Nathalie Maubon – HCS Pharma; Grégory Maubon, PhD – HCS Pharma
Monday, Feb 4
12:30 pm

Genomics workflow optimization: Coupling assay development and process characterization toward automation
Location: 152A
Nathaniel Hentz, PhD – Artel, Inc.; Keith J. Albert, PhD – Artel
Monday, Feb 4
12:30 pm

Optimise your Lab Automation using Overlord™ Scheduling Software
Location: 150A
Michael Nguyen – Sanofi Pasteur; Martijn Bosch – Genmab; Malcolm Crook – Peak Analysis and Automation Ltd
Monday, Feb 4
12:30 pm

Reset Your Expectations: Bruker's Solutions for Label-Free High Throughput Screening Utilizing Mass Spectrometry and Surface Plasmon Resonance (SPR)
Location: 151B
Dr. Martin Winter – Boehringer-Ingelheim, Germany; David Weigt, MSc – Center for Mass Spectrometry and Optical Spectroscopy (CeMOS), Mannheim University, Germany ; Adam Miles – Bruker Daltonics
Monday, Feb 4
12:30 pm

The New Sound of Sample Management – Implementation of a Fully Acoustic Sample Management Solution
Location: 151A
Alan Parkin – Titian Software Ltd; Silvio Di Castro – AstraZeneca, Mölndal, Sweden; Carson Riche – Labcyte; James Craven – Brooks Life Sciences
Monday, Feb 4
2:00 pm

Advancing high-throughput screening with FirePlex® technology from Abcam
Location: 150B
Dr. Elnaz Atabakhsh – Abcam Inc; Dr. Wayne Austin – FirePlex immunoassays
Monday, Feb 4
2:00 pm

Corning Life Sciences Exhibitor Tutorial: Spheroids and Mini Brains for Studying Glioblastoma
Location: 151A
Amanda Linkous, PhD – NCI Center for Systems Biology of Small Cell Lung Cancer at Vanderbilt University
Monday, Feb 4
2:00 pm

Enhancing High-Throughput Cell-Based Assays with Biomimetic Culture Environments Using NanoSurface Cultureware
Location: 143C
Nicholas A. Geisse, PhD – NanoSurface Biomedical, Inc.
Monday, Feb 4
2:00 pm

Genedata Exhibitor Tutorial: A New Enterprise Solution for Efficient Processing of Biosensor Data (SPR/BLI) for Large-Molecule Screening, Antibody Characterization and Epitope Binning
Location: 150A
Evan Mulligan – Genedata Inc.
Monday, Feb 4
2:00 pm

Measuring β-Arrestin Recruitment Through Native GPCRs in High Throughput
Location: 144A
Lisa Minor, Ph.D – Multispan, Inc.
Monday, Feb 4
2:00 pm

Thermo Fisher Scientific Exhibitor Tutorial: Addressing the Scalability of Human iPSC-derived Neurons for HTS Implementation and Phenotypic Screening
Location: 151B
BanuPriya Sridharan, PhD – The Scripps Research Institute
Monday, Feb 4
2:00 pm

TTP Labtech Exhibitor Tutorial: From sequence to function, improving the efficiency of high-throughput genomics workflows through automation
Location: 143B
David Kahler, PhD PMP – NYU Langone Health; Michael Humphrys
Monday, Feb 4
2:00 pm

Using molecular biosensors to examine mechanisms of bias signaling by G protein-coupled receptors
Location: 144B
Marta Sanchez Soto, PhD – NINDS/NIH; Carl Peters, PhD – BMG LABTECH
Monday, Feb 4
2:00 pm

Vision Research Exhibitor Tutorial and Demonstration: High Speed Imaging in Microfluidics Applications
Location: 144C
Kyle D. Gilroy, PhD – Vision Research
Tuesday, Feb 5
9:30 am

3D Tissue Models for Drug Discovery and Development: From Screening to MPS/BOC Applications
Location: 144A
Olivier Frey, PhD – InSphero AG; Patrick Guye, PhD – InSphero AG
Tuesday, Feb 5
9:30 am

Advances in Industrial-Scale Generation of Human Hepatocytes for Liver-Disease and Drug Development Studies
Location: 143B
Liz Quinn, PhD – Takara Bio USA, Inc.
Tuesday, Feb 5
9:30 am

Dual channel kinetic assays for detecting ligand bias at GPCRs
Location: 152A
Anne Marie Quinn, MPH – Montana Molecular; Kevin M. Harlen, PhD – Montana Molecular; Carl Peters, PhD – BMG LABTECH
Tuesday, Feb 5
9:30 am

Fully Integrated Rapid Extraction Protocol for Nucleic Acid Quantification
Location: 154AB
Andrew Brooks – RUCDR
Tuesday, Feb 5
9:30 am

Genedata Exhibitor Tutorial: Genedata Imagence: A New Deep Learning-Based Enterprise Solution Dramatically Increases Efficiency in HCS Image Analysis
Location: 151A
Stephan Steigele, Dr – Genedata AG
Tuesday, Feb 5
9:30 am

SiLA Consortium Exhibitor Tutorial: SiLA 2
Location: 144C
Thomas Frech – Xavo Systems AG / SiLA Consortium; Burkhard Schaefer, Dipl-Inf. – BSSN Software GmbH
Tuesday, Feb 5
9:30 am

Step-by-Step generation and rapid screening of a 76 billion member therapeutic library against a challenging drug target
Location: 143C
Sarah Ives, PSM – Distributed Bio
Tuesday, Feb 5
9:30 am

The use of CETSA® in Drug Discovery
Location: 144B
Nancy Dekki Shalaly – Pelago Bioscience; Sean Tyacke; Torben Österlund, PhD – Pelago Bioscience
Tuesday, Feb 5
9:30 am

Thermo Fisher Scientific Exhibitor Tutorial: Cutting the mess and reducing time with hard to lyse samples: A high throughput sample prep solution for Infectious Disease Studies and Microbiome
Location: 150A
Xingwang Fang, PhD – ThermoFisher Scientific
Tuesday, Feb 5
9:30 am

Titian’s and Tecan’s Soundly Fluent Support of AstraZeneca’s Vision of Acoustic Sample Management
Location: 151B
Toby Winchester, MSc – Titian Software; Jason Meredith, BSc. – Tecan Switzerland; Clive Green, PhD – AstraZeneca
Tuesday, Feb 5
9:30 am

Vision Research Exhibitor Tutorial and Demonstration: High Speed Imaging in Microfluidics Applications
Location: 149AB
Kyle D. Gilroy, PhD – Vision Research
Tuesday, Feb 5
12:30 pm

Beyond Drug Discovery – Another Step Forward for Acoustic Liquid Handling
Location: 151A
Iain Russell, Ph.D. – Labcyte Inc.; Christopher Groves – MedImmune
Tuesday, Feb 5
12:30 pm

Automation meets cell separation: Isolation of primary cells for in vitro assays in drug discovery
Location: 144B
Lotta Raety
Tuesday, Feb 5
12:30 pm

Combining Barcoding and an Automated ZE5 Flow Cytometer to Screen for Receptor Binding
Location: 143B
Christopher Trussell
Tuesday, Feb 5
12:30 pm

Coupling assay design and process optimization toward minimizing variability
Location: 152A
Nathaniel Hentz, PhD – Artel, Inc.
Tuesday, Feb 5
12:30 pm

Difficult Disease Diagnosis Delivered: Case Studies using the Enable-Hamilton Automated High-throughput PCR-based Immunoassay Solution
Location: 151B
David Seftel, M.D., M.B.A. – Enable Biosciences
Tuesday, Feb 5
12:30 pm

Expansion of a Dynamic Genomics Facility Using High Throughput Automation & Agile Automation Strategies in a Genomic Core Facility
Location: 150B
Zach Herbert – Dana-Farber Cancer Institute; Jürgen Zimmermann, PhD – European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL)
Tuesday, Feb 5
12:30 pm

Festo Exhibitor Tutorial: Ultra-HT DNA extraction
Location: 143C
Niels Kruize; Wolfang Trautwein
Tuesday, Feb 5
12:30 pm

Simulating ischaemia-reperfusion injury in vitro as a potential method for drug screening
Location: 144A
Ben Allsop, PhD – University College London; Catherine Wark – BMG LABTECH
Tuesday, Feb 5
12:30 pm

Thermo Fisher Scientific Exhibitor Tutorial: Increasing Productivity Through Laboratory Automation
Location: 150A
Matthew Cox; Asli Goktug
Tuesday, Feb 5
2:00 pm

A Comprehensive Data Analysis Solution for Tackling Large Screening Data Sets
Location: 152A
Aaron Kennington – Sartorius
Tuesday, Feb 5
2:00 pm

AlphaLISA SureFire Ultra - high throughput single and multiplex phosphoprotein detection
Location: 143C
Michael F. Crouch – TGR BioSciences
Tuesday, Feb 5
2:00 pm

Identification, Enrichment & Analysis: Revealing the biology of Regulatory T cells (Tregs) using flow cytometry
Location: 151A
Tuesday, Feb 5
2:00 pm

Optimizing Your Automated Laboratory Performance
Location: 151B
Ben Millier
Tuesday, Feb 5
2:00 pm

Smarter Design of Sample Preparation Protocols for Automation
Location: 144B
Paula Marie Orens – Waters Corporation; Corey E. Reed – Waters Corporation
Tuesday, Feb 5
2:00 pm

Streamlining workflows for single-cell cloning. Single-cell identification and productivity screening simplified.
Location: 144A
Brian Bordeau; Alison Glaser – Molecular Devices
Tuesday, Feb 5
2:00 pm

The Connected Digital Laboratory with Eppendorf and Bio-ITech
Location: 150B
Michael Castelli; Stacey Willard, PhD – Bio-ITech
Tuesday, Feb 5
2:00 pm

TTP Labtech Exhibitor Tutorial: Enabling more efficient drug discovery workflows through technology innovation
Location: 143B
Daniel Thomas, PhD – GSK; Maureen H. Beresini – Genentech
Wednesday, Feb 6
12:00 pm

Protein-Protein Interaction (PPI) Assays: Discuss Optimizing Your Assay Setup and Overcoming Challenges with PerkinElmer Experts
Location: 150A
Vincent Dupriez, PhD
High-Definition Biotechnology
Tuesday, Feb 5
3:00 pm

SLAS2019 Innovation Award Finalist: Dissecting tumor cell plasticity and population interactions supporting metastasis using single cell genomics
Location: 140AB
Ashley Laughney, PhD – MSKCC
Tuesday, Feb 5
3:30 pm

CITE-seq and related technologies for high content single cell phenotyping
Location: 140AB
Peter Smibert, PhD – New York Genome Center
Tuesday, Feb 5
4:00 pm

Amphiphilic Particle-templated Monodisperse Droplet Generation for Democratized Digital Bioassays
Location: 140AB
Chueh-Yu Wu, PhD – University of California, Los Angeles
Tuesday, Feb 5
4:30 pm

Droplet-Microarray - a universal miniaturized platform for screening of live cells in 2D and 3D environments
Location: 140AB
Anna A. Popova, PhD – Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Wednesday, Feb 6
9:30 am

SLAS2019 Innovation Award Finalist: AID.One: An Artificial Intelligence-Driven Digital Health Application for Clinical Optimization of Combination Therapy
Location: 140AB
Theodore Kee, M.S. – National University of Singapore
Wednesday, Feb 6
10:00 am

Genetic analysis at scale
Location: 140AB
Benjamin M. Neale, PhD – Massachusetts General Hospital
Wednesday, Feb 6
10:30 am

Cloud-based Data Analytics Brings the Power of Artificial Intelligence to Biologists for High Content Analysis
Location: 140AB
David Egan, PhD – Core Life Analytics
Wednesday, Feb 6
11:00 am

Data Integration: Genome X Transcriptome X EHR
Location: 140AB
Nancy Cox, PhD – Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Wednesday, Feb 6
1:30 pm

SLAS2019 Innovation Award Finalist: Lineage-resolved molecular and functional analyses of cancer cell populations
Location: 140AB
Amy Brock, PhD – University of Texas at Austin
Wednesday, Feb 6
2:00 pm

Integrative analysis of complex host-microbial interactions in the gut
Location: 140AB
Ken Lau, PhD – Vanderbilt University
Wednesday, Feb 6
2:30 pm

Miniaturization of Illumina library preparation for high throughput, plate-based next generation sequencing studies
Location: 140AB
Stuart S. Levine, PhD – Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Wednesday, Feb 6
3:00 pm

A novel, robust, label free system for measuring molecular interactions in solution, with picomolar sensitivity
Location: 140AB
Darryl J. Bornhop, PhD – Vanderbilt University
Ignite Award Presentation
Tuesday, Feb 5
2:00 pm

Forcyte Biotechnologies, Inc
Ivan Pushkarsky, PhD – Forcyte Biotechnologies, Inc
Tuesday, Feb 5
2:12 pm

Optofluidic Bioassay, LLC
Malcolm Khaing Oo, PhD – Optofluidic Bioassay, LLC
Tuesday, Feb 5
2:24 pm

SEED Biosciences
Georges Muller, PhD – SEED Biosciences SA
Tuesday, Feb 5
2:36 pm

Phenomic AI
Oren Kraus, MASc, PhD – Phenomic AI
Micro- and Nanotechnologies
Tuesday, Feb 5
3:00 pm

From “at some point in time” towards “in real time”: Emerging opportunities in micro- and nano-fluidic protein characterization
Location: 146B
Andrew K. Lynn, Phd – Fluidic Analytics
Tuesday, Feb 5
3:30 pm

Recent Developments in Microfluidics and Microtechnologies for Applications in Life Science Research, in vitro Diagnostics and Medical Devices
Location: 146B
Mark Olde Riekerink, PhD – Micronit Microtechnologies
Tuesday, Feb 5
4:00 pm

Application of Multi-Organ-Chips to Enhance Safety and Efficacy Assessment in Drug Discovery
Location: 146B
Reyk Horland, Dr.-Ing. – TissUse GmbH
Tuesday, Feb 5
4:30 pm

Electrokinetic micro- and nanofluidic technologies for point-of-care devices
Location: 146B
Sumita Pennathur, PhD – UCSB
Wednesday, Feb 6
9:30 am

Organs-on-Chips: A Platform for Drug Development and Disease Modeling
Location: 146B
Daniel Levner, PhD – Emulate, Inc.
Wednesday, Feb 6
10:00 am

SLAS2019 Innovation Award Finalist: A High-Throughput Organ-on-Chip Platform for Drug Screening with Applications in Immuno-oncology
Location: 146B
Jeffrey T. Borenstein, PhD – Draper; Joseph L. Charest, BS, MS, PhD – Draper
Wednesday, Feb 6
10:30 am

The next decade of pre-clinical drug discovery: Integrating disease-tunable 3D human microtissues into higher order systems
Location: 146B
Patrick Guye, PhD – InSphero AG
Wednesday, Feb 6
11:00 am

Towards a personalized drug development using autologous iPSC-derived Multi-Organ-Chips
Location: 146B
Anja Ramme, MSc – TissUse GmbH
Wednesday, Feb 6
1:30 pm

Single cell analysis in Microfluidics for cancer research
Location: 146B
Valerie Taly, PhD – UMRS1147- University Paris Descartes/INSERM
Wednesday, Feb 6
2:00 pm

ELASTO-TWEEZERS - a novel platform for high-precision cell elasticity measurements
Location: 146B
Severine Le Gac, PhD – University of Twente
Wednesday, Feb 6
2:30 pm

Unique Sensor Platform for Monitoring of Inflammation in Multi Body Fluids
Location: 146B
Badrinath Jagannath, MS – The University of Texas At Dallas
Wednesday, Feb 6
3:00 pm

A Microfluidic Trap Array with the Ability to Perform Serial Operations on Nano-liter Samples
Location: 146B
Pulak Nath – Los Alamos National Laboratory
Molecular Libraries
Tuesday, Feb 5
3:00 pm

Prospective Biologically Biased HTS Library Generation
Location: 146C
James Guy Breitenbucher, PhD – University of California, San Francisco
Tuesday, Feb 5
3:30 pm

Ultra-large library docking for ligand discovery
Location: 146C
John J. Irwin, PhD – UCSF
Tuesday, Feb 5
4:00 pm

Data Directed Approach for Diversity-based HTS library design
Location: 146C
Louis Scampavia, PhD – Scripps Florida; Department of Molecular Therapeutics
Tuesday, Feb 5
4:30 pm

A novel European Compound Screening Library for EU-OPENSCREEN
Location: 146C
Wolfgang Fecke, PhD – EU-OPENSCREEN ERIC
Wednesday, Feb 6
9:30 am

Establishing a DNA Encoded Library Screening Platform: Challenges and Learnings
Location: 146C
Christopher Kollmann, MA – FORMA Therapeutics
Wednesday, Feb 6
10:00 am

The value of normalization and impact of library size on identifying hits from DNA Encoded Library screens
Location: 146C
Christopher B. Phelps, PhD – GlaxoSmithKline
Wednesday, Feb 6
10:30 am

Nanomolar inhibitor for hexamer DNA helicase RuvBL1/2 identified in DEL screen
Location: 146C
Jacob Andersen, PhD – Vipergen
Wednesday, Feb 6
11:00 am

SLAS2019 Innovation Award Finalist: Microfluidic Functional Screening of DNA-Encoded Bead Libraries
Location: 146C
Brian M. Paegel, PhD – Scripps
Wednesday, Feb 6
1:30 pm

Compound Interest: Accessing the LifeArc compound bank
Location: 146C
Andy Merritt, PhD – LifeArc
Wednesday, Feb 6
2:00 pm

Reinvigorating old medicines: Discovering adjuvants that rescue antibiotic activity against resistant pathogens
Location: 146C
Andrew N. Lowell, PhD – Virginia Tech
Wednesday, Feb 6
2:30 pm

Maximizing Chemical Diversity in a Natural Product Screening Library
Location: 146C
John Beutler, MSc, PhD – Molecular Targets Program Center for Cancer Research National Cancer Institute
Wednesday, Feb 6
3:00 pm

Development of a Millennial Drug Discovery Platform using Microbial Treasure Trove
Location: 146C
Ashootosh Tripathi, PhD – University of Michigan
Short Courses
Saturday, Feb 2
8:00 am

3D Cell-Based Assays for Drug De-Risking
Location: 151A
Patrick Guye, PhD – InSphero AG; James G. Evans, PhD – Phenovista; Olivier Frey, PhD – InSphero AG; Alex Ng, PhD – Harvard Medical School; Terry Riss, PhD – Promega Corporation
Saturday, Feb 2
8:00 am

Getting Started with Excel & VBA in the Laboratory (2-Day)
Location: 159AB
Martin Echols, MS – EcholsTech; William Neil – XLVBALAB
Saturday, Feb 2
8:00 am

Introduction to Laboratory Automation
Location: 151B
Jay M. Gill, PhD – BFLConsulting LLC; Burkhard Schaefer, Dipl-Inf. – BSSN Software GmbH
Saturday, Feb 2
8:00 am

Lab-on-a-Chip: From Technology to Bioanalysis on Chip
Location: 144C
Jorg P. Kutter, PhD, M.Sc. – University of Copenhagen; Johan Nilsson, PhD – Lund University; Sabeth Verpoorte, PhD – Groningen Research Institute of Pharmacy University of Groningen
Saturday, Feb 2
8:00 am

Next Generation Sequencing Technology Fundamentals and Applications
Location: 144B
Abizar Lakdawalla, PhD – Proxeom
Saturday, Feb 2
8:00 am

Assay Guidance Workshop for High Throughput Screening and Lead Discovery
Location: 152A
Michelle Arkin, PhD – University of California - San Francisco; Douglas Auld, PhD – Novartis; Nathan P. Coussens, PhD – National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, National Institutes of Health; Thomas D.Y. D.Y. Chung, PhD – Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute; V. Devanarayan, PhD, FAAPS – Charles River; Terry Riss – Promega Corporation; G. Sitta Sittampalam, PhD – NIH/NCATS; Menghang Xia, PhD – National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences/NIH; Xin Xu, PhD – NCATS/NIH; Timothy L. Foley, PhD – Pfizer
Sponsored By:
Sunday, Feb 3
8:00 am

Gene Editing for Drug Discovery
Location: 143A
Samuel A. Hasson, PhD – Amgen; Scott T. Younger, PhD – Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
Sunday, Feb 3
8:00 am

Introduction to Flow Cytometry
Location: 149B
John Nolan, PhD – Scintillon Institute; Paul Robinson – Purdue University
Sunday, Feb 3
8:00 am

Set-up and Validation of 3D Primary, Stem Cell and Immortalized Cultures for Downstream Microplate Reader and Imaging Applications
Location: 143C
Brad Larson – BioTek Instruments; Mark Rothenberg, PhD – Corning Inc.
Sunday, Feb 3
8:00 am

3D Printing for Scientific Applications (Live Demo)
Location: 149A
Matthew Fronheiser, PhD – Bristol-Myers Squibb Co; Mark F. Russo, PhD – Bristol-Myers Squibb
Sunday, Feb 3
8:00 am

Applications of Biophysical Methods in Small-Molecule Drug Discovery
Location: 144C
Christine C. Genick, Dr. – Novartis; Geoffrey Holdgate – AstraZeneca R&D UK, Discovery Sciences, Hit Discovery
Sunday, Feb 3
8:00 am

Data Management in the Age of Big Data, Mobile, and the Cloud
Location: 144B
Burkhard Schaefer, Dipl-Inf. – BSSN Software GmbH
Sunday, Feb 3
8:00 am

Establishing Cell-Based Assays for Screening
Location: 151A
Terry Riss, PhD – Promega Corporation; Geoffrey A. Bartholomeusz, PH.D – UT MD Anderson Cancer Center; Eric N. Johnson, PhD – Exelixis; Lisa Minor, PhD – In Vitro Strategies, LLC
Sunday, Feb 3
8:00 am

Getting Started with Excel & VBA in the Laboratory (2-Day)
Location: 159AB
Martin Echols, MS – EcholsTech; William Neil – XLVBALAB
Sunday, Feb 3
8:00 am

High Content Screening: An Introduction to Instrumentation, Assay Development, Screening, Image and Data Analysis
Location: 152A
Steffen Jaensch, Dr – Janssen R&D, Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson; Eberhard Krausz, Dr rer nat – ChemBioCon
Sunday, Feb 3
8:00 am

Liquid Handling Essentials (Interactive Course)
Location: 152B
Emily Legere – Artel; Nathaniel Hentz, PhD – North Carolina State University; Lisa M. Knapp, MBA – Agilent Technologies
Sunday, Feb 3
8:00 am

Microcontrollers, the IoT and our Laboratories (Hands On, Laptop Required)
Location: 143B
Jay M. Gill, PhD – BFLConsulting LLC; Erik Werner, MS – University of California, Irvine
Sunday, Feb 3
8:00 am

Pharmacology in Drug Discovery and Development: New Lives for Receptors as Drug Targets Through Allostery and Biased Signaling
Location: 155
Terry Kenakin, PhD – UNC School of Medicine
Sunday, Feb 3
8:00 am

Phenotypic Screening: Why, When and How
Location: 144A
Fabien Vincent, PhD – Pfizer; Jonathan Lee, PhD – PDD4Patients LLC.; David C. Swinney, PhD – Institute for Rare and Neglected Diseases Drug Discovery
Sunday, Feb 3
8:00 am

Sample Management: Best Practice, Trends and Challenges
Location: 151B
Susan Crimmin, Bsc PhD – Glaxo SmithKline; Kathi Shea, BS – Brooks Life Sciences; Rob Perkinson, MS – Glaxo SmithKline
Sunday, Feb 3
1:00 pm

Advanced Flow Cytometry
Location: 149B
John Nolan, PhD – Scintillon Institute; Paul Robinson – Purdue University
Sunday, Feb 3
1:00 pm

An Introduction to Mass Spectrometry and its Applications within Drug Discovery
Location: 143C
Ian Sinclair, BSc – AstraZeneca, Discovery Sciences; Jonathan Wingfield, PhD – AstraZeneca
Sunday, Feb 3
1:00 pm

Why it Matters: Value Propositions in Scientific Innovation
Location: 154AB
Scott Atkin – IOI Partners; Tim Bruemmer – IOI Partners LLC
SLAS Ignite Collaboration Presentations
Monday, Feb 4
1:00 pm

A Novel Label-Free Dip Sensor to Facilitate Drug Discovery Screening and Development Effort
Location: Exhibition Theater
Natalie H. Luo – Rezonn Biosystems
Monday, Feb 4
1:20 pm

An Additive Biomanufacturing Platform to Automate and Accelerate the Discovery Process for 3D Cell Culture Models
Location: Exhibition Theater
Sebastian Eggert – Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation, Queensland University of Technology
Monday, Feb 4
1:40 pm

Configurable Micro-Physiological Systems
Location: Exhibition Theater
Pulak Nath – Los Alamos National Laboratory
Tuesday, Feb 5
1:00 pm

Accelerating Therapeutics for Opportunities in Medicine (ATOM)
Location: Exhibition Theater
Michelle Arkin, PhD – University of California - San Francisco
Tuesday, Feb 5
1:20 pm

Quantitative and Scalable Cell Separation using Magnetic Ratcheting Cytometry
Location: Exhibition Theater
Coleman Murray, PhD – Ferrologix Inc
Tuesday, Feb 5
1:40 pm

Rapid point of care diagnostic platforms using Raman spectroscopy
Location: Exhibition Theater
Soumik Siddhanta, PhD – Johns Hopkins University
Solutions Spotlight
Monday, Feb 4
10:30 am

Parallel CHO Cell Cultivation in Eppendorf BioBLU® Single-Use Bioreactors
Location: Exhibition Theater
Michelet Dorceus – Eppendorf
Monday, Feb 4
11:00 am

Thermo Fisher Scientific Solutions Spotlight: Integrating Sample Prep with UHPLC for Seamless Analytical Workflows
Location: Exhibition Theater
Mark M. Garner – ThermoFisher
Monday, Feb 4
11:30 am

Thermo Fisher Scientific Solutions Spotlight: Streamlining Laboratory Execution through a Connected Informatics Platform
Location: Exhibition Theater
Michael Huang – Thermo Fisher Scientific
Monday, Feb 4
12:00 pm

Bigger = Better? – What Really Counts To Successfully Automate Your Routine Liquid Handling Tasks
Location: Exhibition Theater
Tim Schommartz, Dr. – Eppendorf AG
Monday, Feb 4
3:00 pm

Thermo Fisher Scientific Solutions Spotlight: Microplate storage and incubation technologies for dependable, fast and precise plate delivery and for optimizing cell growth in biopharma and synthetic biology applications
Location: Exhibition Theater
Dieter Wagner
Monday, Feb 4
3:30 pm

Visikol Solutions Spotlight: High Content 3D Cell Culture Immune Cell Infiltration Assessment
Location: Exhibition Theater
Thomas Villani, PhD – Visikol, Inc
Monday, Feb 4
4:00 pm

BioIVT Solutions Spotlight: Making sense of the cells: which cells work for what applications
Location: Exhibition Theater
Sean Crudgington, MPH – BioIVT
Monday, Feb 4
4:30 pm

CETSA® HT assays for hit confirmation and potency of target engagement
Location: Exhibition Theater
Nancy Dekki Shalaly – Pelago Bioscience
Tuesday, Feb 5
9:30 am

SAMDI Tech, Inc. Solutions Spotlight: SAMDI Technology: Better, Faster, Label-Free Solutions for Drug Discovery
Location: Exhibition Theater
Zack A. Gurard-Levin, PhD – SAMDI Tech, Inc.
Tuesday, Feb 5
10:00 am

How do laboratory consumables affect experimental results?
Location: Exhibition Theater
Kayla Hager – Eppendorf North America
Tuesday, Feb 5
10:30 am

Visikol Solutions Spotlight: Building Consensus in the Liver 3D Cell Culture Model Space Through Open Source Models
Location: Exhibition Theater
Erin Elizabeth Edwards – Visikol, Inc.
Tuesday, Feb 5
11:00 am

Trajan Scientific and Medical Solutions Spotlight: Introducing the World's Most Accurate Integrated Powder Dispensing Automation
Location: Exhibition Theater
Eric Wethington – LEAP Technologies
Tuesday, Feb 5
11:30 am

Incorporating Covaris Focused-ultrasonication into a Fully Automated Diagnostic NGS Workcell
Location: Exhibition Theater
Devin Rhodenizer, MB(ASCP), PMP – ARUP Laboratories Automation Engineering
Tuesday, Feb 5
12:00 pm

Capture Elusive Small Molecule Binding Data with Direct Measurement Platform Agile R100
Location: Exhibition Theater
Brett Goldsmith, PhD – Nanomedical Diagnostics
Tuesday, Feb 5
3:00 pm

Hamilton Code Management in a Globally Regulated, Multi-Developer Environment
Location: Exhibition Theater
Douglas Fancis Flood, II – Foundation Medicine
Tuesday, Feb 5
3:30 pm

YAMAHA CELL HANDLER provides automated, rapid spheroid, organoid and single cell picking
Location: Exhibition Theater
Yuichi Hikichi
Tuesday, Feb 5
4:00 pm

SmartExtraction on CyBio FeliX – Examples of Application for High Throughput Isolation of DNA
Location: Exhibition Theater
Tuesday, Feb 5
4:30 pm

Using Smart Drug Discovery Software to Enhance Collaboration and Manage Disperse Assay Data
Location: Exhibition Theater
Samantha P. Jeschonek, PhD – Collaborative Drug Discovery; Robert Thorn, PhD – Collaborative Drug Discovery
Wednesday, Feb 6
9:00 am

Labcyte, Inc.: Another Step Forward for Acoustic Liquid Handling
Location: Exhibition Theater
Iain Russell, Ph.D. – Labcyte
Wednesday, Feb 6
9:30 am

Towards Standardized Workflows – NGS Methods with a Focus on Microbiome Insights
Location: Exhibition Theater
Christiane Honisch, PhD; Marc-Manuel Hahn
Wednesday, Feb 6
10:00 am

Applications of Graphene Biosensors in Basic Research and Clinical Diagnostics
Location: Exhibition Theater
Kiana Aran, PhD – Keck Graduate Institute of Applied Life Sciences
Wednesday, Feb 6
10:30 am

Autonomous Plate Handling for Lab Automation: Cell Culture Workflows
Location: Exhibition Theater
Ellen Gualtieri – FORMULATRIX
Special Interest Group (SIG)
Tuesday, Feb 5
8:00 am

3D Printing (SIG)
Location: 154AB
J. Colin Cox, PhD – Genentech; Mykle Gaynor – ClickBio; Ryan Pabalate; Gregg Sy – Genentech; Mykle Gaynor – ClickBio
Tuesday, Feb 5
8:00 am

Automation Quality Control Special Interest Group (SIG)
Location: 151B
John T. Bradshaw, PhD – Artel; George W. Rodrigues, PhD – US TAG, ISO TC 48
Tuesday, Feb 5
8:00 am

Phenotypic Drug Discovery Special Interest Group (SIG)
Location: 149AB
Jonathan Lee; Graham Johnson, PhD – Oricula Therapeutics
Tuesday, Feb 5
8:00 am

Standards Initiatives Special Interest Group (SIG)
Location: 152A
Burkhard Schaefer, Dipl-Inf. – BSSN Software GmbH; Dana Vanderwall, PhD – Bristol-Myers Squibb
Wednesday, Feb 6
8:00 am

Compound Combination Special Interest Group (SIG)
Location: 150B
Oliver Leven – Genedata AG, Switzerland; Rajarshi Guha, PhD – NIH; Charles-Hugues Lardeau – AstraZeneca; Jing Tang, PhD – Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland, University of Helsinki
Wednesday, Feb 6
8:00 am

Labware Leachables Special Interest Group (SIG)
Location: 144A
Lynn Rasmussen, MS – Southern Research Institute
Wednesday, Feb 6
8:00 am

Screen Design and Assay Technology Special Interest Group (SIG)
Location: 151A
Kenda Evans, Ph. D. – Agilent Technologies; James R. Beasley, PhD – Venenum Biodesign; Ying Qian – Merck & Co. Inc.; David J. Brierley, BSc PhD – GlaxoSmithKline
Wednesday, Feb 6
8:00 am

Technology Transfer and CRO/CMO Project Management Special Interest Group (SIG)
Location: 144C
Raymond Price, PhD MBA – PhenoVista BIosciences
Wednesday, Feb 6
8:00 am

uHTS Special Interest Group (SIG)
Location: 151B
Timothy Dawes, PhD – Genentech
Wednesday, Feb 6
12:00 pm

Academic Drug Discovery Special Interest Group (SIG) NEW TIME and NEW ROOM*
Location: 151A
Marlene Jacobson, PhD – Moulder Center for Drug Discover Research, Temple University School Of Pharmacy; Michelle Arkin, PhD – University of California - San Francisco; Tim Spicer, MS – Scripps Research Florida; Dave Weaver – Vanderbilt School of Medicine
Wednesday, Feb 6
12:00 pm

ADMET Special Interest Group (SIG)
Location: 159AB
Ritu Singh; Amy Siu, MS – Eisai Inc.; Amit Kalgutkar, MS, PhD – Pfizer
Wednesday, Feb 6
12:00 pm

HCS/HCA Data and Informatics Special Interest Group (SIG)
Location: 154AB
Paul A. Johnston, PhD – University of Pittsburgh Dept. Pharmaceutical Sci.; Shannon Mumenthaler, PhD – University of Southern California
Wednesday, Feb 6
12:00 pm

Sample Management Special Interest Group (SIG)
Location: 144C
Susan Crimmin, Bsc PhD – Glaxo SmithKline; Mary Beth Burton; Rosalia Gonzales, PhD – Pfizer, Inc.; Rosalia Gonzales, PhD – Pfizer, Inc.; Jefferson Chin – Bristol-Myers Squibb; Susan Crimmin, Bsc PhD – Glaxo SmithKline; Mary Beth Burton; Anne Vergnon – Titian Software; Bill Janzen; Thomas Frech – Xavo Systems AG
Wednesday, Feb 6
12:00 pm

Stem Cells and 3D Microtissues Special Interest Group (SIG)
Location: 149AB
Marcie Glicksman, PhD – Orig3n, Inc Boston, MA, USA; Ilyas Singec – NIH/NCATS; Jennifer C. Moore, PhD – RUCDR Infinite Biologics/Rutgers University; Ling Hao, PhD – NINDS/NIH