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Saturday, January 25, 2020
7:30 AM - 5:00 PM

Exhibitor Badge Pick-Up
7:30 AM - 5:00 PM

Exhibitor Badge Pick-Up
Room/Location:Hall C Lobby

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7:30 AM - 5:00 PM

Registration Open
7:30 AM - 5:00 PM

Registration Open
Room/Location:Hall C Lobby

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8:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Assay Guidance Workshop for High Throughput Screening and Lead Discovery
Short Course
8:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Assay Guidance Workshop for High Throughput Screening and Lead Discovery
Room/Location:1A
Short Course

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G. Sitta Sittampalam, PhD – NIH/NCATS ### 119623###Workshop Faculty @@@ Abigail Grossman – NCATS ### 885836###Workshop Faculty @@@ Yueming Wang, PhD – Pfizer ### 885948###Workshop Faculty @@@ Nathan P. Coussens, PhD – Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research ### 187865###Workshop Instructor @@@ Terry Riss, n/a – Promega Corporation ### 62431###Workshop Faculty @@@ Joe Trask, n/a – PerkinElmer ### 308266###Workshop Faculty @@@ Jayme L. Dahlin, MD, PhD – Brigham and Women's Hospital ### 302814###Workshop Instructor @@@ Samuel Hoare, PhD – Pharmechanics, LLC ### 685451###Workshop Instructor @@@ Thomas D.Y Chung, PhD – Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute ### 72744###Workshop Faculty @@@ Viswanath Devanarayan, PhD, FAAPS – GlaxoSmithKline ### 685450###Workshop Instructor @@@ Samarjit Patnaik, PhD – National Center of Advancing Translational Sciences ### 885952###Workshop Faculty
8:30 AM - 4:30 PM

Saturday Short Courses
Short Course
8:30 AM - 12:00 PM

Introduction to Flow Cytometry
Room/Location:4
Short Course

Favorite

John Nolan, PhD – Scintillon Institute ### 263599###Short Course Instructor - Not Funded @@@ Paul Robinson, PhD – Purdue University ### 620206###Short Course Instructor - Funded
8:30 AM - 4:30 PM

Applications of Biophysical Methods in Small-Molecule Drug Discovery
Room/Location:5A
Short Course

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Geoff Holdgate – AstraZeneca ### 485209###Short Course Instructor - Funded @@@ Christian Bergsdorf, PhD – Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research ### 884124###Short Course Instructor - Funded
8:30 AM - 4:30 PM

Phenotypic Screening: Why, When and How
Room/Location:3
Short Course

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Fabien Vincent, PhD – Pfizer ### 119517###Short Course Instructor - Not Funded @@@ Jonathan Lee, PhD – PDD4Patients LLC. ### 185951###Short Course Instructor - Funded @@@ David C. Swinney, PhD – DCSwinney consulting ### 61363###Short Course Instructor - Funded
8:30 AM - 4:30 PM

Sample Management: Best Practice, Trends and Challenges
Room/Location:2
Short Course

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Susan Crimmin, Bsc PhD – Glaxo SmithKline ### 43275###Short Course Instructor - Funded @@@ Kathi E. Shea, BS – Brooks Life Sciences ### 62434###Short Course Instructor - Funded
8:30 AM - 4:30 PM

Streamlining your Laboratory with Python, an Introduction (Laptop Required)
Room/Location:1B
Short Course

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Mark F. Russo, PhD – Bristol-Myers Squibb ### 62432###Short Course Instructor - Funded @@@ William Neil – XLVBALAB ### 62427###Short Course Instructor - Funded @@@ Andrew Neil – University of Chicago ### 943099###Short Course Instructor - Funded
1:00 PM - 4:30 PM

Advanced Flow Cytometry
Room/Location:4
Short Course

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John Nolan, PhD – Scintillon Institute ### 263599###Short Course Instructor - Not Funded @@@ Paul Robinson, PhD – Purdue University ### 620206###Short Course Instructor - Funded
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM

Short Course Participant Beverage Break
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM

Short Course Participant Beverage Break
Room/Location:6CD

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12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Short Course Participant Lunch (full-day participants only)
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Short Course Participant Lunch (full-day participants only)
Room/Location:6CD

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2:30 PM - 3:00 PM

Short Course Participant Beverage Break
2:30 PM - 3:00 PM

Short Course Participant Beverage Break
Room/Location:6CD

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Sunday, January 26, 2020
7:30 AM - 5:00 PM

Exhibitor Badge Pick-Up
7:30 AM - 5:00 PM

Exhibitor Badge Pick-Up
Room/Location:Hall C Lobby

Favorite
7:30 AM - 5:00 PM

Registration Open
7:30 AM - 5:00 PM

Registration Open
Room/Location:Hall C Lobby

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8:30 AM - 4:30 PM

Sunday Short Courses
Short Course
8:30 AM - 12:00 PM

Liquid Handling Essentials (Interactive Course) - Morning
Room/Location:10
Short Course

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Nathaniel Hentz, PhD – Artel, Inc. ### 653770###Short Course Instructor - Funded @@@ Dana Campbell, BS, MS – Artel ### 72843###Short Course Instructor - Funded @@@ Kaziya Lee, PhD – Artel ### 884128###Short Course Instructor - Funded
8:30 AM - 12:00 PM

Pharmacological Target Engagement and Validation
Room/Location:15B
Short Course

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Terry Kenakin, PhD – UNC School of Medicine ### 62420###Short Course Instructor - Funded
8:30 AM - 12:00 PM

Set-up and Validation of 3D Primary, Stem Cell and Immortalized Cultures for Downstream Microplate Reader and Imaging Applications
Room/Location:14A
Short Course

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Joe E. Clayton, n/a – BioTek Instruments ### 884129###Short Course Instructor - Funded @@@ Austin B. Mogen, PhD – Corning Life Sciences ### 884130###Short Course Instructor - Not Funded
8:30 AM - 4:30 PM

3D Cell-Based Assays for Drug De-Risking
Room/Location:5A
Short Course

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Terry Riss, n/a – Promega Corporation ### 62431###Short Course Instructor - Not Funded @@@ Anthony Essex, PhD – Phenovista Biosciences ### 431366###Short Course Instructor - Not Funded @@@ Olivier Frey – InSphero AG ### 431006###Short Course Instructor - Funded @@@ Alex Ng, PhD – Harvard Medical School ### 620211###Short Course Instructor - Funded @@@ Jan Lichtenberg, PhD – InSphero AG ### 635919###Short Course Instructor - Not Funded
8:30 AM - 4:30 PM

3D Printing for Scientific Applications (Live Demo)
Room/Location:9
Short Course

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Mykle C. Gaynor – ClickBio ### 646567###Short Course Instructor - Funded @@@ J. Colin Cox, PhD – Synthego ### 72748###Short Course Instructor - Funded
8:30 AM - 4:30 PM

Data Analytics with KNIME (Laptop Required)
Room/Location:1B
Short Course

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Marc Bickle, Dr. – MPI-CBG ### 61272###Short Course Instructor - Funded
8:30 AM - 4:30 PM

Data Management in the Age of Big Data, Mobile, and the Cloud
Room/Location:2
Short Course

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Burkhard Schaefer, n/a – BSSN Software ### 62433###Short Course Instructor - Funded
8:30 AM - 4:30 PM

High Content Screening: An Introduction to Instrumentation, Assay Development, Screening, Image and Data Analysis
Room/Location:4
Short Course

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Eberhard Krausz, Dr rer nat – Evotec (France) ### 62422###Short Course Instructor - Funded @@@ Steffen Jaensch, Dr – Janssen R&D, Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson ### 185946###Short Course Instructor - Funded
8:30 AM - 4:30 PM

Introduction to Laboratory Automation
Room/Location:1A
Short Course

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Benjamin G. Carvalho ### 142467###Short Course Instructor - Funded @@@ Peter S. Chase – Bristol-Myers Squibb ### 185937###Short Course Instructor - Not Funded
8:30 AM - 4:30 PM

Lab-on-a-Chip: From Technology to Bioanalysis on Chip
Room/Location:3
Short Course

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Jorg P. Kutter, PhD, M.Sc. – University of Copenhagen ### 62423###Short Course Instructor - Funded @@@ Johan Nilsson, PhD – Lund University ### 62429###Short Course Instructor - Not Funded @@@ Sabeth Verpoorte, PhD – Pharmaceutical Analysis Groningen Research Institute of Pharmacy University of Groningen ### 62436###Short Course Instructor - Funded
8:30 AM - 4:30 PM

Microcontrollers, the IoT and our Laboratories (Hands On, Laptop Required)
Room/Location:11A
Short Course

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Erik Werner, MS – University of California, Irvine ### 431375###Short Course Instructor - Funded @@@ Justin Provchy – Amgen ### 286967###Short Course Instructor - Funded
8:30 AM - 4:30 PM

Why it Matters: Value Propositions in Scientific Innovation
Room/Location:11B

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Mark Crowell, RTTP – Arkane Innovation ### 914282###Short Course Instructor - Funded @@@ Gordon McConnell, MBS – Arkane Innovation ### 914283###Short Course Instructor - Funded
1:00 PM - 4:30 PM

An Introduction to Mass Spectrometry and its Applications within Drug Discovery
Room/Location:14A
Short Course

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Jonathan Wingfield, PhD – AstraZeneca ### 119486###Short Course Instructor - Funded @@@ Paul R.J Davey – AstraZeneca ### 884134###Short Course Instructor - Funded
1:00 PM - 4:30 PM

Genome Editing Applications in Drug Discovery and Target Validation
Room/Location:15B
Short Course

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Scott T. Younger, PhD – Children’s Mercy Research Institute ### 620207###Short Course Instructor - Funded @@@ Jason Potter – Thermo Fisher Scientific ### 430956###Short Course Instructor - Not Funded
1:00 PM - 4:30 PM

Liquid Handling Essentials (Interactive Course) - Afternoon
Room/Location:10
Short Course

Favorite

Nathaniel Hentz, PhD – Artel, Inc. ### 653770###Short Course Instructor - Funded @@@ Dana Campbell, BS, MS – Artel ### 72843###Short Course Instructor - Funded @@@ Kaziya Lee, PhD – Artel ### 884128###Short Course Instructor - Funded
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM

Short Course Participant Beverage Break
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM

Short Course Participant Beverage Break
Room/Location:6CD

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12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Short Course Participant Lunch (full-day participants only)
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Short Course Participant Lunch (full-day participants only)
Room/Location:6CD

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12:00 PM - 4:00 PM

Speaker Ready Room Open
12:00 PM - 4:00 PM

Speaker Ready Room Open
Room/Location:5B

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2:30 PM - 3:00 PM

Short Course Participant Beverage Break
2:30 PM - 3:00 PM

Short Course Participant Beverage Break
Room/Location:6CD

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Monday, January 27, 2020
7:30 AM - 6:00 PM

Registration Open
7:30 AM - 6:00 PM

Registration Open
Room/Location:Hall C Lobby

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8:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Speaker Ready Room Open
8:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Speaker Ready Room Open
Room/Location:5B

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8:00 AM - 6:00 PM

Coat & Luggage Check
8:00 AM - 6:00 PM

Coat & Luggage Check
Room/Location:Hall A Lobby

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8:30 AM - 9:00 AM

Keynote Session: Welcome and Opening Remarks
Keynote
8:30 AM - 9:00 AM

Keynote Session: Welcome and Opening Remarks
Room/Location:6AB
Keynote

Sponsored By:

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9:00 AM - 10:00 AM

Keynote Session: Jackie Hunter, Ph.D.<br>Board Director, BenevolentAI
Keynote
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM

Keynote: "How AI is disrupting Pharmaceutical R&D"
Room/Location:6AB
Keynote

Sponsored By

Favorite

Jackie Hunter, PhD, DSc – BenevolentAI ### 880598###Keynote Speaker
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM

Beverage Break in the Exhibition Hall
Networking Events
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM

Beverage Break in the Exhibition Hall
Room/Location:Exhibition Hall A-C
Networking Events

Favorite
10:00 AM - 4:30 PM

Career Connections: Mentoring Sessions / Job Boards
Career Connections
10:00 AM - 4:30 PM

Career Connections: Mentoring Sessions / Job Boards
Room/Location:SLAS Booth (#126) in Exhibition
Career Connections

Favorite
10:00 AM - 6:00 PM

Exhibition Open
10:00 AM - 6:00 PM

Exhibition Open
Room/Location:Exhibition Hall A-C

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10:00 AM - 6:00 PM

Poster Information Desk Open
10:00 AM - 6:00 PM

Poster Information Desk Open
Room/Location:Exhibition Hall A-C

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10:00 AM - 6:00 PM

Poster Viewing in Exhibition Hall
10:00 AM - 6:00 PM

Poster Viewing in Exhibition Hall
Room/Location:Exhibition Hall A-C

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10:00 AM - 6:00 PM

SLAS Booth Open
10:00 AM - 6:00 PM

SLAS Booth Open
Room/Location:SLAS Booth (#126) in Exhibition

Favorite
10:30 AM - 12:30 PM

Demonstrating translational relevance of organoid and multicellular tissues for preclinical models of human disease
Session Chair: Nancy Allbritton, MD, PhD – University of Washington

Cellular Technologies
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM

SLAS2020 Innovation Award Finalist: Advanced Bioprinting Strategies for Tissue and Tissue Model Fabrication
Room/Location:6D
Cellular Technologies

Favorite

Y. Shrike Zhang, PhD – Harvard Medical School ### 286964###Speaker - Funded
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM

Wound-conformal delivery of dermal tissue constructs for full-thickness burn treatment using a handheld bioprinter
Room/Location:6D
Cellular Technologies

Favorite

Richard Cheng, B.Sc., M.A.Sc. – University of Toronto - ### 855895###Speaker - Tony B. Awardee
11:30 AM - 12:00 PM

Generation, Validation and Application of Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell Models for Functional Genomics
Room/Location:6D
Cellular Technologies

Favorite

Lisa Mohamet, PhD – GSK ### 855958###Speaker - Not Funded
12:00 PM - 12:30 PM

High-throughput organoid and monolayer platforms to study intestinal physiology
Room/Location:6D
Cellular Technologies

Favorite

Scott Magness, PhD – UNC Chapel Hill ### 861963###Speaker - Funded
10:30 AM - 12:30 PM

Optimization of Assays for Challenging Targets for Lead Discovery and Screening
Session Chair: Julie Conkright-Fincham, PhD – Stowers Institute for Medical Research

Assay Development and Screening
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM

Functional proteome array screening strategies for biomarker discovery
Room/Location:6C
Assay Development and Screening

Sponsored By:

Favorite

Joshua LaBaer, MD, PhD – The Biodesign Institute, ASU ### 855903###Speaker - Not Funded
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM

NanoClick Assay: A high throughput, target-agnostic cell permeability assay that combines NanoBRET technology with intracellular Click chemistry
Room/Location:6C
Assay Development and Screening

Sponsored By:

Favorite

Andrea Peier, PhD – Merck ### 855911###Speaker - Not Funded
11:30 AM - 12:00 PM

Building toolkits for the orphan kinome
Room/Location:6C
Assay Development and Screening

Sponsored By:

Favorite

Laurie Parker, PhD – University of Minnesota ### 855981###Speaker - Not Funded
12:00 PM - 12:30 PM

Hybridization Chain Reaction for single-cell visualization of RNA in high content imaging assays
Room/Location:6C
Assay Development and Screening

Sponsored By:

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Gianluca Pegoraro, PhD – National Cancer Institute ### 286893###Speaker - Not Funded
10:30 AM - 12:30 PM

Screening & Profiling at higher throughput using physiologically relevant cell models
Session Chair: Roger Clark – Charles River Labs

Automation and High-Throughput Technologies
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM

A systematic medium-scale comparative study of 2D vs. 3D models using high content imaging approaches
Room/Location:6F
Automation and High-Throughput Technologies

Favorite

Thierry Dorval, PhD – Institut De Recherches Servier ### 855978###Speaker - Funded
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM

A novel multiplexed uHTS and uHCS (MuHTCS) platform in a 1536-well format for chemical biology screening using 3D patient-derived cancer organoids
Room/Location:6F
Automation and High-Throughput Technologies

Favorite

Yuhong Du – Emory Chemical Biology Discovery Center ### 61327###Speaker - Funded
11:30 AM - 12:00 PM

Acute Myeloid Leukemia Drug Sensitivity Testing Using Patient-Derived Cells in 1536 Format
Room/Location:6F
Automation and High-Throughput Technologies

Favorite

Lynn Rasmussen, MS – SOUTHERN RESEARCH ### 198571###Speaker - Not Funded
12:00 PM - 12:30 PM

Automating a CRISPR based rescue screen for Alzheimer’s phenotypes in iPSC derived neurons
Room/Location:6F
Automation and High-Throughput Technologies

Favorite

Shushant Jain, PhD – Charles River ### 855970###Speaker - Funded
10:30 AM - 12:30 PM

Target and Mechanism Deconvolution After Phenotypic Screens
Session Chair: Paul Tesar, PhD – Case Western Reserve University

Advances in Bioanalytics and Biomarkers
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM

Identifying Compounds that Improve Neuromuscular Function
Room/Location:6E
Advances in Bioanalytics and Biomarkers

Favorite

Lee L. Rubin, PhD – Dept of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology, Harvard University; Harvard Stem Cell Institute ### 431012###Speaker - Funded
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM

Can lattice theory help find a cure for paralysis?
Room/Location:6E
Advances in Bioanalytics and Biomarkers

Favorite

Nicola J. Richmond, PhD Mathematics, MSc Computer Science, BSc Mathematics – GlaxoSmithKline ### 620199###Speaker - Funded
11:30 AM - 12:00 PM

Cytosolic Proteome & Affinity-based Target Identification (CPATI)
Room/Location:6E
Advances in Bioanalytics and Biomarkers

Favorite

Xianshu Yang, PhD – MERCK ### 855905###Speaker - Not Funded
12:00 PM - 12:30 PM

Combining large-scale in vitro pharmacological profiling and human cell-based phenotypic profiling identifies novel mechanisms of cardiovascular toxicity
Room/Location:6E
Advances in Bioanalytics and Biomarkers

Favorite

Ellen L. Berg, PhD – Eurofins Discovery ### 855946###Speaker - Not Funded
10:30 AM - 12:30 PM

Antibody therapeutics discovery: Focus on bispecifics and immune checkpoint modulators
Session Chair: Janice Reichert – Antibody Society/Mabs

Biologics Discovery
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM

Creating a novel T-cell engaging bispecific antibody platform: Fine tuning anti-tumor activity with sequence-based discovery and machine learning
Room/Location:7AB
Biologics Discovery

Favorite

Katherine E. Harris, PhD – Teneobio ### 855962###Speaker - Not Funded
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM

Benefits of Chicken-Derived Antibodies for Combination Immunotherapy
Room/Location:7AB
Biologics Discovery

Favorite

Torben Gjetting, MSc PhD – Symphogen ### 861962###Speaker - Funded
11:30 AM - 12:00 PM

Quantitative high-throughput screening assays for the discovery and development of SIRPα-CD47 interaction inhibitors
Room/Location:7AB
Biologics Discovery

Sponsored By:

Favorite

Thomas Miller, PhD – Institut Paoli Calmettes ### 855893###Speaker - Not Funded
12:00 PM - 12:30 PM

Discovery of high affinity, pan-allelic, and pan-mammalian reactive antibodies against the myeloid checkpoint receptor SIRPa
Room/Location:7AB
Biologics Discovery

Favorite

Janet Sim, PhD – ALX Oncology ### 855931###Speaker - Funded
10:30 AM - 12:30 PM

The Lab of the Future: Automation in the Digital Age
Session Chair & Speaker: Umesh Katpally, PhD – Novartis

Data Analysis and Informatics
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM

The Lab of the Future: Automation in the Digital Age
Room/Location:8
Data Analysis and Informatics

Favorite

Michael S. Shanler, B.S. Biomedical Engineering – Gartner, Inc. ### 855960###Speaker - Funded
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM

How advances in mobile, voice and AI technology are impacting scientists: The evolution of technology in the lab - University of California, San Francisco case study
Room/Location:8
Data Analysis and Informatics

Favorite

Guru Singh – LabTwin ### 855938###Speaker - Not Funded @@@ Ernesto Diaz Flores, PhD – University of California San Francisco ### 880593###Speaker - Not Funded
11:30 AM - 12:00 PM

The hyperloop for the lab: An integrated approach for sample delivery and treatment of culture dishes.
Room/Location:8
Data Analysis and Informatics

Favorite

Christoph Otto, Dipl.-Ing. – TU Dresden ### 199112###Speaker - Not Funded
12:00 PM - 12:30 PM

Lab of the Future Panel Discussion
Room/Location:8
Data Analysis and Informatics

Favorite

Umesh Katpally, PhD – BC Platforms ### 855955###Session Chair & Speaker - WITH Funding
10:30 AM - 6:00 PM

Solutions Spotlight
Solutions Spotlight
10:30 AM - 10:50 AM

Nikon Instruments Inc. Solutions Spotlight: High-Content Imaging and Analysis: Any way you want it!
Room/Location:Exhibition Theater (#2225 in Exhibition)
Solutions Spotlight

Favorite

Kelley Boyer ### 938323###Theater Organizer @@@ Jeffery Bylund, Ph.D. – Nikon Instruments Inc. ### 950727###Theater Speaker
11:00 AM - 11:20 AM

Announcing Benchling for Lab Automation: Digital Transformation for High-throughput Workflows
Room/Location:Exhibition Theater (#2225 in Exhibition)
Solutions Spotlight

Favorite

Irina Silva ### 880738###Theater Organizer @@@ Rashi Takkar – Benchling ### 915029###Theater Speaker
11:30 AM - 11:50 AM

SGI-DNA Solutions Spotlight: Bypass E Coli transformation using the fully automated BioXp™ 3200 System for production of transfection ready DNA, libraries, and complex Gibson Assemblies.
Room/Location:Exhibition Theater (#2225 in Exhibition)
Solutions Spotlight

Favorite

Valerie Weld ### 904165###Theater Organizer @@@ John Gill – SGI-DNA, Inc. ### 935167###Theater Speaker
12:00 PM - 12:20 PM

NEW 384-well NanoSurface Plate: Align Your Cells in a High-throughput, Instrument-, and Assay-agnostic Manner
Room/Location:Exhibition Theater (#2225 in Exhibition)
Solutions Spotlight

Favorite

Heejoon Choi – NanoSurface Biomedical ### 675830###Theater Organizer @@@ Nicholas A. Geisse, PhD – NanoSurface Biomedical ### 675910###Theater Speaker
12:30 PM - 12:50 PM

‘Will Next-Generation Microfluidics Drive your Future Products’
Room/Location:Exhibition Theater (#2225 in Exhibition)
Solutions Spotlight

Favorite

Jose Aalbers ### 851286###Theater Organizer @@@ Monica Brivio, PhD – Micronit Microtechnologies ### 904414###Theater Speaker
1:00 PM - 1:20 PM

Automated 3D Cell-Based Assays and Immunoassays Using the Pu·MA System
Room/Location:Exhibition Theater (#2225 in Exhibition)
Solutions Spotlight

Favorite

Evan F. Cromwell, PhD – Protein Fluidics Inc ### 201270###Theater Organizer @@@ Evan F. Cromwell, PhD – Protein Fluidics Inc ### 201270###Theater Speaker
1:30 PM - 1:50 PM

YAMAHA CELL HANDLER provides automated, rapid spheroid, organoid and single cell picking
Room/Location:Exhibition Theater (#2225 in Exhibition)
Solutions Spotlight

Favorite

Kazunori Kochiya ### 895522###Theater Organizer @@@ Yuichi Hikichi ### 653841###Theater Speaker
2:30 PM - 2:50 PM

Use of High Content Imaging to Compare 2D and 3D Cell Culture Approaches to Model Steatosis, Inflammation, and Fibrosis in the Context of NASH
Room/Location:Exhibition Theater (#2225 in Exhibition)
Solutions Spotlight

Favorite

Michael Johnson, Dr. – Visikol ### 443933###Theater Organizer @@@ Erin Elizabeth Edwards, PhD – Visikol, Inc. ### 635915###Theater Speaker
3:00 PM - 3:20 PM

Eppendorf Solutions Spotlight: Protecting your sacrifices- A look at the evolving solutions for sample protection
Room/Location:Exhibition Theater (#2225 in Exhibition)
Solutions Spotlight

Favorite

Amy Plasse ### 932829###Theater Organizer @@@ Michael Castelli ### 653807###Theater Speaker
4:30 PM - 4:50 PM

Predictive Retrosynthesis - a new tool for synthesis planning in SciFinder-n
Room/Location:Exhibition Theater (#2225 in Exhibition)
Solutions Spotlight

Favorite

Kurt Zielenbach ### 938236###Theater Organizer @@@ Orr Ravitz – CAS ### 948908###Theater Speaker
5:30 PM - 6:00 PM

Corning Life Sciences Solutions Spotlight: Unlocking the Potential of 3D Cell Culture
Room/Location:Exhibition Theater (#2225 in Exhibition)
Solutions Spotlight

Favorite

Valarie Cassada ### 932489###Theater Organizer @@@ Christopher Suarez, PhD – Corning Life Sciences ### 908820###Theater Speaker
10:50 AM - 12:00 PM

Innovation AveNEW - Ignite Award Presentations
Ignite Award Presentations
10:50 AM - 12:00 PM

Innovation AveNEW - Ignite Award Presentations
Room/Location:Ignite Theater (#100 in Exhibition)
Ignite Award Presentations

Favorite

Arne Vandenbroucke, PhD – Synthace Ltd ### 915010###Ignite Award Presenter @@@ Mark Harfouche, PhD – Ramona Optics, Inc. ### 922189###Ignite Award Presenter @@@ Michele Zagnoni, PhD – ScreenIn3D ### 915807###Ignite Award Presenter @@@ Karen Wu, PhD – Lucerna, Inc. ### 199105###Ignite Award Presenter @@@ Paul Ju-Sung Hung, PhD – COMBiNATi Inc ### 430979###Ignite Award Presenter @@@ Akwasi Apori, PhD – Correlia Biosystems ### 929525###Ignite Award Presenter @@@ Dan Close, PhD – 490 BioTech, Inc. ### 72750###Ignite Award Presenter
12:30 PM - 1:15 PM

Exhibitor Tutorials
Exhibitor Tutorial
12:30 PM - 1:15 PM

Choosing the Right Liquid Handler and Verifying its Performance
Room/Location:Room 4
Exhibitor Tutorial

Favorite

Linda Sheehy ### 436241###Exhibitor Tutorial Organizer @@@ Jason Graves, MS – Artel, Inc. ### 906731###Exhibitor Tutorial Presenter
12:30 PM - 1:15 PM

Biortus: from Protein Expression to Structure
Room/Location:Room 9
Exhibitor Tutorial

Favorite

Yujian You ### 851334###Exhibitor Tutorial Organizer @@@ Jiaquan Wu – Wuxi Biortus Biosciences Co., Ltd. ### 904413###Exhibitor Tutorial Presenter
12:30 PM - 1:15 PM

Brooks Life Sciences and PerkinElmer - The Importance of Sample Management in Precision Medicine: A High-throughput Biobanking Workflow Solution
Room/Location:Room 11A
Exhibitor Tutorial

Favorite

Caroline Mackinnon ### 861981###Exhibitor Tutorial Organizer @@@ Andrew Brooks – RUCDR Infinite Biologics / Brooks Life Sciences ### 908172###Exhibitor Tutorial Presenter @@@ Carola Schmidt – PerkinElmer Applied Genomics ### 908173###Exhibitor Tutorial Presenter
12:30 PM - 1:15 PM

Evotec Exhibitor Tutorial: From phenotypic screens to molecular targets – strategies and technologies to increase success rates
Room/Location:Room 1A
Exhibitor Tutorial

Favorite

Melanie Charpenay ### 902052###Exhibitor Tutorial Organizer @@@ Dirk Winkler ### 908826###Exhibitor Tutorial Presenter
12:30 PM - 1:15 PM

heliX® - introducing a next generation modular biosensor for interaction and conformation analysis
Room/Location:Room 10
Exhibitor Tutorial

Favorite

Katharina Lang ### 861979###Exhibitor Tutorial Organizer @@@ Ulrich Rant – Dynamic Biosensors GmbH ### 72743###Exhibitor Tutorial Presenter
12:30 PM - 1:15 PM

Tecan Tutorial: Evolution of Modular Automation at Zymergen
Room/Location:Room 1B
Exhibitor Tutorial

Favorite

Kim Dellis ### 880579###Exhibitor Tutorial Organizer @@@ Peter Kelly – Zymergen ### 922440###Exhibitor Tutorial Presenter
12:30 PM - 1:15 PM

The Development and Exploration of Multiplex Hextuple Luciferase Assaying
Room/Location:Room 5A
Exhibitor Tutorial

Favorite

Claudia Utcke ### 620252###Exhibitor Tutorial Organizer @@@ Koen Venken, PhD – Baylor College of Medicine ### 903720###Exhibitor Tutorial Presenter @@@ Carl Peters, PhD – BMG LABTECH ### 45027###Exhibitor Tutorial Presenter
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM

Lunch in the Exhibition Hall
Networking Events
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM

Lunch in the Exhibition Hall
Room/Location:Exhibition Hall A-C
Networking Events

Sponsored By:

Favorite
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM

Meet SLAS Technology Editor-in-Chief (Edward Kai-Hua Chow, Ph.D., National University of Singapore)
Networking Events
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM

Meet SLAS Technology Editor-in-Chief (Edward Kai-Hua Chow, Ph.D., National University of Singapore)
Room/Location:SLAS Booth (#126) in Exhibition
Networking Events

Favorite

Edward Kai-Hua Chow, Ph.D. – National University of Singapore ### 934086###Presenter
12:30 PM - 1:45 PM

Exhibitor Tutorials
Exhibitor Tutorial
12:30 PM - 1:45 PM

Developing high-throughput organ-on-a-chip tissue models for drug discovery and unlocking their full potential using high-content imaging
Room/Location:Room 2
Exhibitor Tutorial

Favorite

Jared Chapa ### 436261###Exhibitor Tutorial Organizer @@@ Jeffrey McMillan – Molecular Devices ### 914416###Exhibitor Tutorial Presenter @@@ Kristina Bishard – MIMETAS ### 914417###Exhibitor Tutorial Presenter
12:30 PM - 1:45 PM

Thermo Fisher Scientific Presents: Stepping beyond throughput with laboratory automation
Room/Location:Room 11B
Exhibitor Tutorial

Favorite

Ian Estrin ### 895497###Exhibitor Tutorial Organizer @@@ Dr. Amanda Au ### 941248###Exhibitor Tutorial Presenter @@@ Ben Hoffstrom ### 941249###Exhibitor Tutorial Presenter
12:30 PM - 2:30 PM

Exhibitor Tutorials
Exhibitor Tutorial
12:30 PM - 2:30 PM

Hamilton Exhibitor Tutorial: Lilly Life Sciences Studio: A Next Generation Drug Discovery Platform
Room/Location:Room 3
Exhibitor Tutorial

Favorite

Kelli Cavallaro ### 190842###Exhibitor Tutorial Organizer @@@ Ryan Bernhardt – Eli Lilly and Company ### 910300###Exhibitor Tutorial Presenter @@@ Todd V De Collo, BS Chemistry; MS Organic Chemistry – Eli Lilly and Company ### 910301###Exhibitor Tutorial Presenter
1:15 PM - 2:15 PM

Ignite Academic Collaboration Presentations
Ignite Academic Collaboration Presentations
1:15 PM - 2:15 PM

Ignite Academic Collaboration Presentations
Room/Location:Ignite Theater (#100 in Exhibition)
Ignite Academic Collaboration Presentations

Favorite

Pavan Chandra Konda, Ph.D in Physics and Astronomy – Duke University ### 855907###Ignite Speaker @@@ Ann-Kristin Muhsmann, MSc – Technische Universität Berlin ### 619211###Ignite Speaker @@@ Yilian Wang – UCLA ### 886138###Ignite Speaker
2:00 PM - 2:45 PM

Exhibitor Tutorials
Exhibitor Tutorial
2:00 PM - 2:45 PM

An automated deep-learning workflow for analyzing HCS screens
Room/Location:Room 1B
Exhibitor Tutorial

Favorite

Jordan Pitzen ### 907046###Exhibitor Tutorial Organizer @@@ Oren Kraus, PhD – Phenomic AI ### 672386###Exhibitor Tutorial Presenter
2:00 PM - 2:45 PM

Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Synthetic Biology—New Dimensions for Accelerating Research and Discovery.
Room/Location:Room 4
Exhibitor Tutorial

Favorite

Claire Rhodes ### 620249###Exhibitor Tutorial Organizer @@@ Christopher Bremner – Zymergen ### 943087###Exhibitor Tutorial Presenter @@@ George McArthur, PhD – Arzeda ### 943088###Exhibitor Tutorial Presenter
2:00 PM - 2:45 PM

Brooks Life Sciences, Tecan and Titian - Trends in Automated Sample Management; Brooks Life Sciences, Tecan and Titian present innovations in unmanned integration from order to plate delivery.
Room/Location:Room 11A
Exhibitor Tutorial

Favorite

Caroline Mackinnon ### 861981###Exhibitor Tutorial Organizer @@@ Dean P. Montano, BEng(Hons) CEng MIET – Brooks Life Sciences ### 908170###Exhibitor Tutorial Presenter @@@ Toby Winchester, MSc – Titian Software ### 308680###Exhibitor Tutorial Presenter @@@ Jason Meredith – Tecan ### 908171###Exhibitor Tutorial Presenter
2:00 PM - 2:45 PM

Bruker - Interested in smart automation and integration of high-end analytical tools? Join our workshop on label-free high-throughput screening by Mass Spectrometry!
Room/Location:Room 2
Exhibitor Tutorial

Favorite

Nancy Salt ### 300994###Exhibitor Tutorial Organizer @@@ Dr. Roman Simon ### 915696###Exhibitor Tutorial Presenter @@@ David McLaren ### 915809###Exhibitor Tutorial Presenter
2:00 PM - 2:45 PM

Enabling Drug Discovery with Multispan
Room/Location:Room 5A
Exhibitor Tutorial

Favorite

Jennifer Pham ### 867510###Exhibitor Tutorial Organizer @@@ Lisa Minor, Ph.D – Multispan, Inc. ### 187995###Exhibitor Tutorial Presenter
2:00 PM - 2:45 PM

Genome Sensor and the Cardean Transistor Infrastructure - Converting Biological Signals of Interest into Digital Information
Room/Location:Room 1A
Exhibitor Tutorial

Favorite

Amanda Zimmer ### 916353###Exhibitor Tutorial Organizer @@@ Brett Goldsmith ### 943143###Exhibitor Tutorial Presenter
2:00 PM - 2:45 PM

InSphero, Inc Exhibitor Tutorial: Why the Akura™ Technology platform enables a seamless link from screening in 3D to organ-on-chip
Room/Location:Room 9
Exhibitor Tutorial

Favorite

Annamaria Bozsa ### 620261###Exhibitor Tutorial Organizer @@@ Olivier Frey – InSphero AG ### 431006###Exhibitor Tutorial Presenter @@@ Jan Lichtenberg, PhD – InSphero AG ### 635919###Exhibitor Tutorial Presenter
2:00 PM - 2:45 PM

MS-Screening with Genedata: A fully automated End-to-End data analysis solution for High-Throughput Mass Spectrometry Screening
Room/Location:Room 10
Exhibitor Tutorial

Favorite

Michaela Kraus ### 289622###Exhibitor Tutorial Organizer @@@ Isabel Kolinko, n/a – Genedata ### 922444###Exhibitor Tutorial Presenter
2:00 PM - 2:45 PM

RealTime Cell Health Assays Designed for Plate Readers
Room/Location:Room 11B
Exhibitor Tutorial

Favorite

Claudia Utcke ### 620252###Exhibitor Tutorial Organizer @@@ Terry Riss, PhD – Promega Corporation ### 912536###Exhibitor Tutorial Presenter @@@ Catherine Wark, PhD – BMG LABTECH Ltd. ### 199127###Exhibitor Tutorial Presenter
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Poster Presentations: Session A
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Poster Presentations: Session A
Room/Location:Exhibition Hall A-C

Favorite
2:30 PM - 3:00 PM

Beverage Break in the Exhibition Hall
Networking Events
2:30 PM - 3:00 PM

Beverage Break in the Exhibition Hall
Room/Location:Exhibition Hall A-C
Networking Events

Favorite
2:30 PM - 3:45 PM

Ignite Panel: Success Stories - Commercial Products from Ideas
Ignite Panel
2:30 PM - 3:45 PM

Ignite Panel: Success Stories - Commercial Products from Ideas
Room/Location:Ignite Theater (#100 in Exhibition)
Ignite Panel

Favorite

Nancy L. Allbritton, MD, PhD – University of Washington ### 619234###Ignite Panel Presenter @@@ June H. Lee, MD, FACCP – Myokardia, Inc. ### 880596###Ignite Panel Presenter @@@ Jackie Hunter, PhD, DSc – BenevolentAI ### 880598###Ignite Panel Presenter @@@ Elizabeth Iorns, PhD – Science Exchange ### 119548###Ignite Panel Presenter @@@ Raphael Werding, MSc – QIAGEN GmbH ### 880597###Ignite Panel Presenter @@@ Andrew D. Napper, PhD – Evotec ### 119506###Moderator
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Application of Organ-on-chips and micro-physiological systems
Session Chair & Speaker: Deok-Ho Kim, PhD – Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Cellular Technologies
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM

Modeling Dystrophic Cardiomyopathy on a Chip for Phenotypic Drug Screening
Room/Location:6D
Cellular Technologies

Favorite

Jason Miklas ### 954925###Speaker - Not Funded @@@ Deok-Ho Kim, PhD – Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine ### 855963###Session Chair & Speaker - WITH Funding
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM

Engineering the Cell Niche to Enhance iPSC-derived Cardiomyocyte Maturity and Predictivity in a High-throughput, Assay-agnostic Manner
Room/Location:6D
Cellular Technologies

Favorite

Nicholas A. Geisse, PhD – NanoSurface Biomedical ### 675910###Speaker - Funded
4:00 PM - 4:30 PM

Automation of Multi-Organ-Chip Assays and Microscopic Analysis
Room/Location:6D
Cellular Technologies

Favorite

Ann-Kristin Muhsmann, MSc – Technische Universität Berlin ### 619211###Speaker - Not Funded
4:30 PM - 5:00 PM

Novel oxygen-gradient platform for the co-culture of anaerobic gut microbiota with primary human colon epithelium
Room/Location:6D
Cellular Technologies

Favorite

Raehyun Kim, PhD – University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ### 902059###Speaker - Tony B. Awardee
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Automating Chemistry in the age of AI
Session Chair: Alex G. Godfrey, PhD – NCATS

Automation and High-Throughput Technologies
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM

Modern Automated Chemical Synthesis and Purification of Small Molecules
Room/Location:6F
Automation and High-Throughput Technologies

Favorite

Gerard Rosse, PhD – Arrival Discovery LLC ### 861970###Speaker - Not Funded
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM

A beginner’s guide to the practicalities of automating chemical synthesis
Room/Location:6F
Automation and High-Throughput Technologies

Favorite

Paul Harper, BSc (Hons) – AstraZeneca ### 286936###Speaker - Not Funded
4:00 PM - 4:30 PM

SynFini: An Automated Chemical Synthesis Platform
Room/Location:6F
Automation and High-Throughput Technologies

Favorite

Nathan Collins, PhD – SRI Biosciences, SRI International ### 855949###Speaker - Not Funded
4:30 PM - 5:00 PM

A Decade and Journey of Lilly’s Discovery Automated Synthesis
Room/Location:6F
Automation and High-Throughput Technologies

Favorite

James P. Beck, PhD – Eli Lilly ### 861949###Speaker - Not Funded
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Biochemical & Biophysical Assays
Session Chair: Amy M. Quinn, PhD – GSK

Assay Development and Screening
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM

Enzymology Framework and Assay Platform for Targeted Protein Degradation Optimization:
Room/Location:6C
Assay Development and Screening

Sponsored By:

Favorite

Stewart L. Fisher, PhD – C4 Therapeutics, Inc. ### 855892###Speaker - Not Funded
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM

Mass Spectrometric Assay of METTL3/METTL14 Methyltransferase Activity
Room/Location:6C
Assay Development and Screening

Sponsored By:

Favorite

Shane Buker, PhD – Accent Therapeutics ### 855957###Speaker - Not Funded
4:00 PM - 4:30 PM

Fragment Based Target Screening - An Empirical Approach to Prioritising Targets; A Case Study on Antibacterials
Room/Location:6C
Assay Development and Screening

Sponsored By:

Favorite

Peter Coombs, DPhil – LifeArc ### 855913###Speaker - Not Funded
4:30 PM - 5:00 PM

Identification and biophysical characterization of STING modulators
Room/Location:6C
Assay Development and Screening

Sponsored By:

Favorite

Charles A. Lesburg, PhD – Merck & Co. Inc. ### 855959###Speaker - Funded
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Target Engagement and Pathways
Session Chair & Speaker: Martin Giera, PhD – Leiden University Medical Center

Advances in Bioanalytics and Biomarkers
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM

Activity Metabolomics
Room/Location:6E
Advances in Bioanalytics and Biomarkers

Favorite

Gary Siuzdak, PhD – Scripps Research ### 855891###Speaker - Not Funded
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM

Connecting high-throughput screening and clinical pharmacology using stable isotope tracer kinetics and mass spectrometry: Moving from enzyme activity to in vivo pathway flux with the same assay.
Room/Location:6E
Advances in Bioanalytics and Biomarkers

Favorite

Stephen Previs, PhD – Merck ### 855948###Speaker - Not Funded
4:00 PM - 4:30 PM

Novel Approaches to Quantitative Metabolomics
Room/Location:6E
Advances in Bioanalytics and Biomarkers

Favorite

Loren Y. Olson – SCIEX ### 937512###Speaker - Not Funded
4:30 PM - 5:00 PM

NMR based Metabolomics in Drug Research - Cancer Metabolism
Room/Location:6E
Advances in Bioanalytics and Biomarkers

Favorite

Martin Giera, PhD – Leiden University Medical Center ### 855953###Session Chair & Speaker - WITH Funding
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Cell therapies for cancer: CAR-Ts in development
Session Chair & Speaker: David E. Gilham, PhD – Celyad

Biologics Discovery
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM

Generation of a controllable CAR-T cell therapy
Room/Location:7AB
Biologics Discovery

Favorite

Travis Young, PhD – Calibr, a Division of Scripps Research ### 855964###Speaker - Not Funded
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM

Pluripotent Cell-Derived Engineered T and NK Cells as a Cornerstone Approach for Off-the-Shelf Cancer Immunotherapy
Room/Location:7AB
Biologics Discovery

Favorite

Bob Valamehr, PhD – Fate Therapeutics ### 861975###Speaker - Not Funded
4:00 PM - 4:30 PM

Exploiting natural killer receptors for autologous and allogeneic CAR T cell therapy of cancer
Room/Location:7AB
Biologics Discovery

Favorite

David E. Gilham, PhD – Celyad ### 861960###Session Chair & Speaker - No Funding
4:30 PM - 5:00 PM

An Innovative Method for the Efficient, High-Throughput Transfection of Primary Human T-Cells
Room/Location:7AB
Biologics Discovery

Favorite

Gregory F. Alberts – Lonza Inc. ### 298486###Speaker - Not Funded
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Data Strategy: Sharing and Repurposing Data
Session Chair & Speaker: Marti Head, PhD – ORNL

Data Analysis and Informatics
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM

Adventures in Data Sharing
Room/Location:8
Data Analysis and Informatics

Favorite

Katie Knight ### 950079###Session Chair & Speaker - No Funding
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM

To Blockchain or Not to Blockchain? Practical Applications, Benefits, and Considerations of Blockchain Technology in Laboratory Workflows
Room/Location:8
Data Analysis and Informatics

Favorite

Patrick Cullen – Yahara Software ### 884123###Speaker - Not Funded @@@ James Smagala, PhD – Revolutionary Informatics ### 939310###Speaker - Not Funded
4:00 PM - 4:30 PM

Enabling "Bench-to-Bedside" with FAIR data
Room/Location:8
Data Analysis and Informatics

Favorite

Viral Vyas, MSIS – Bristol Myers Squibb ### 855886###Speaker - Not Funded
4:30 PM - 5:00 PM

Machine Learning is the Easy Part
Room/Location:8
Data Analysis and Informatics

Favorite

Lauren DeMeuse, MBA – Roam Analytics ### 908807###Speaker - Funded
4:00 PM - 4:30 PM

Student Poster Award Winner Announcement
4:00 PM - 4:30 PM

Student Poster Award Winner Announcement
Room/Location:Exhibition Hall A-C

Favorite
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM

TRISH, Where Space and Health Intersect
Ignite Panel
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM

TRISH, Where Space and Health Intersect
Room/Location:Ignite Theater (#100 in Exhibition)
Ignite Panel

Favorite

Jimmy Wu – Translational Research Institute for Space Health ### 909971###Ignite Panel Presenter
5:00 PM - 5:30 PM

SLAS Europe Meet & Greet: Austrian Wine & Strudel Reception
Networking Events
5:00 PM - 5:30 PM

SLAS Europe Meet & Greet: Austrian Wine & Strudel Reception
Room/Location:SLAS Booth (#126) in Exhibition
Networking Events

Favorite
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM

Reception in Exhibition Hall Celebrating the 2020 SLAS Journal Achievement Award Honorees
Networking Events
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM

Reception in Exhibition Hall Celebrating the 2020 SLAS Journal Achievement Award Honorees
Room/Location:Exhibition Hall A-C
Networking Events

Favorite
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM

Student and Early Career Professionals Mixer in SLAS Booth
Networking Events
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM

Student and Early Career Professionals Mixer in SLAS Booth
Room/Location:SLAS Booth (#126) in Exhibition
Networking Events

Favorite
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM

Poster Presentations: Session B
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM

Poster Presentations: Session B
Room/Location:Exhibition Hall A-C

Favorite
5:15 PM - 6:00 PM

New Product Award Press Conference & Ignite Award Announcement
5:15 PM - 6:00 PM

New Product Award Press Conference
Room/Location:Ignite Theater (#100 in Exhibition)

Favorite
6:30 PM - 8:30 PM

SLAS Student and Early Career Professionals Event
Networking Events
6:30 PM - 8:30 PM

SLAS Student and Early Career Professionals Event
Room/Location:Off-Site (Smoking Gun San Diego)
Networking Events

Sponsored By:

Favorite
Tuesday, January 28, 2020
6:30 AM - 7:30 AM

SLAS FUNd Run 2020
Networking Events
6:30 AM - 7:30 AM

SLAS FUNd Run 2020
Room/Location:Roy's Restaurant at Marriott Marquis (Outdoors; Seaside Boardwalk)
Networking Events

Sponsored By:

Favorite
7:15 AM - 9:00 AM

Analytical, Life Science and Diagnostic Association Executives Breakfast (ALDA) (Invitation Only)
7:15 AM - 9:00 AM

Analytical, Life Science and Diagnostic Association Executives Breakfast (ALDA) (Invitation Only)
Room/Location:14B

Favorite
7:30 AM - 8:15 AM

Academia vs. Industry, Where Do You Fit?
Career Connections
7:30 AM - 8:15 AM

Academia vs. Industry, Where Do You Fit?
Room/Location:9
Career Connections

Favorite

Elliot E. Hui, PhD – University of California, Irvine ### 62454###Presenter @@@ Timothy Dawes, PhD – Genentech ### 302258###Presenter
7:30 AM - 6:00 PM

Registration Open
7:30 AM - 6:00 PM

Registration Open
Room/Location:Hall C Lobby

Favorite
8:00 AM - 9:15 AM

Special Interest Group (SIG)
SIG
8:00 AM - 9:15 AM

Academic Drug Discovery Special Interest Group (SIG)
Room/Location:11B
SIG

Favorite

Marlene Jacobson, PhD – Moulder Center for Drug Discover Research, Temple University School Of Pharmacy ### 72879###SIG Chair @@@ Robert Damoiseaux, PhD – UCLA ### 185940###SIG Speaker - Not Funded @@@ Annika Jenmalm Jensen, PhD – Karolinska Institutet, ScilifeLab ### 119503###SIG Speaker - Not Funded @@@ Yuhong Du – Emory Chemical Biology Discovery Center ### 61327###SIG Speaker - Not Funded
8:00 AM - 9:15 AM

ADMET Special Interest Group (SIG)
Room/Location:11A
SIG

Favorite

Amy Siu, MS – Abbvie ### 302260###SIG Chair @@@ W. George Lai, PhD – Schrodinger Inc. ### 925676###SIG Speaker - Not Funded
8:00 AM - 9:15 AM

Stem Cells and 3D Microtissues Special Interest Group (SIG)
Room/Location:10
SIG

Favorite

Marcie Glicksman, PhD – Orig3n, Inc Boston, MA, USA ### 62448###SIG Chair @@@ Ilyas Singec – NIH/NCATS ### 286915###SIG Chair and Speaker - Not Funded @@@ Ty Voss ### 947185###SIG Speaker - Not Funded
8:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Speaker Ready Room Open
8:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Speaker Ready Room Open
Room/Location:5B

Favorite
8:00 AM - 6:00 PM

Coat & Luggage Check
8:00 AM - 6:00 PM

Coat & Luggage Check
Room/Location:Hall A Lobby

Favorite
9:30 AM - 10:15 AM

Exhibitor Tutorials
Exhibitor Tutorial
9:30 AM - 10:15 AM

Advanced 3D Cell Culture Applications and Tips for Optimizing your 3D Assays
Room/Location:Room 3
Exhibitor Tutorial

Favorite

Nicole Athanas ### 299608###Exhibitor Tutorial Organizer @@@ Hilary Sherman, n/a – Corning Life Sciences ### 72808###Exhibitor Tutorial Presenter @@@ Christopher Suarez, PhD – Corning Life Sciences ### 908820###Exhibitor Tutorial Presenter
9:30 AM - 10:15 AM

Bruker - Interested in smart automation and integration of high-end analytical tools? Join our Surface Plasmon Resonance (SPR) workshop!
Room/Location:Room 2
Exhibitor Tutorial

Favorite

Nancy Salt ### 300994###Exhibitor Tutorial Organizer @@@ Sven Malik – Bruker Daltonics SPR ### 915906###Exhibitor Tutorial Presenter @@@ Adam Miles – Bruker Daltonics ### 657898###Exhibitor Tutorial Presenter
9:30 AM - 10:15 AM

Empowering Researchers with New Technology and Innovation
Room/Location:Room 1A
Exhibitor Tutorial

Favorite

Molly Ferrara ### 880656###Exhibitor Tutorial Organizer @@@ Matthew Hamilton – Hamilton Storage Technologies ### 915813###Exhibitor Tutorial Presenter @@@ Martin Frey – Hamilton Storage Technologies ### 915814###Exhibitor Tutorial Presenter @@@ Tobias Gafafer – Hamilton Storage ### 915815###Exhibitor Tutorial Presenter @@@ Thomas Jäger ### 915816###Exhibitor Tutorial Presenter @@@ John Leach ### 915818###Exhibitor Tutorial Presenter
9:30 AM - 10:15 AM

Finding the Best Cells for Antibody Discovery, Cell Line Development, and T Cell Discovery
Room/Location:Room 11B
Exhibitor Tutorial

Favorite

Kristina Vaughan ### 918003###Exhibitor Tutorial Organizer @@@ Mark White – Berkeley Lights Inc ### 949313###Exhibitor Tutorial Presenter
9:30 AM - 10:15 AM

Genedata Exhibitor Tutorial: Streamlined, High-Quality Interpretation of Mechanistic Screening Data
Room/Location:Room 10
Exhibitor Tutorial

Favorite

Michaela Kraus ### 289622###Exhibitor Tutorial Organizer @@@ John Uhrig – Genedata ### 922445###Exhibitor Tutorial Presenter
9:30 AM - 10:15 AM

Launch of HTS at Sygnature Discovery (supported by Titian Software, HighRes Biosolutions and Genedata)
Room/Location:Room 11A
Exhibitor Tutorial

Favorite

Karen Holton ### 627443###Exhibitor Tutorial Organizer @@@ Denise M. Swift, n/a – Sygnature Discovery limited ### 199126###Exhibitor Tutorial Presenter @@@ Toby Winchester, MSc – Titian Software ### 308680###Exhibitor Tutorial Presenter @@@ Oliver Leven – Genedata AG, Switzerland ### 184250###Exhibitor Tutorial Presenter @@@ Jack Dawson ### 908175###Exhibitor Tutorial Presenter
9:30 AM - 10:15 AM

Miltenyi Biotec Exhibitor Tutorial: Automation meets cell separation: primary cell isolation for drug discovery assays
Room/Location:Room 5A
Exhibitor Tutorial

Favorite

Christina Berg ### 620262###Exhibitor Tutorial Organizer @@@ Lotta Raety ### 652175###Exhibitor Tutorial Presenter
9:30 AM - 10:15 AM

PerkinElmer Exhibitor Tutorial: Technical and Workflow Considerations for cfDNA Applications
Room/Location:Room 9
Exhibitor Tutorial

Favorite

Andrea Feher ### 445646###Exhibitor Tutorial Organizer @@@ Thomas Rawlins, B.S. Biology – PerkinElmer ### 886254###Exhibitor Tutorial Presenter
9:30 AM - 10:15 AM

SiLA 2 - up and running!
Room/Location:Room 4
Exhibitor Tutorial

Favorite

Carmen Condrau ### 656399###Exhibitor Tutorial Organizer @@@ Thomas Frech – Xavo Systems AG / SiLA Consortium ### 486185###Exhibitor Tutorial Presenter @@@ Burkhard Schaefer – SiLA Consortium / BSSN Software GmbH / AnIML ### 906920###Exhibitor Tutorial Presenter
9:30 AM - 10:15 AM

Tecan Tutorial: Using patient-derived organoid models of pancreatic disease to predict treatment response
Room/Location:Room 1B
Exhibitor Tutorial

Favorite

Kim Dellis ### 880579###Exhibitor Tutorial Organizer @@@ Danielle Engle ### 934098###Exhibitor Tutorial Presenter
9:30 AM - 5:00 PM

Career Connections: Mentoring Sessions / Job Boards
Career Connections
9:30 AM - 5:00 PM

Career Connections: Mentoring Sessions / Job Boards
Room/Location:SLAS Booth (#126) in Exhibition
Career Connections

Favorite
9:30 AM - 6:00 PM

Exhibition Open
9:30 AM - 6:00 PM

Exhibition Open
Room/Location:Exhibition Hall A-C

Favorite
9:30 AM - 6:00 PM

Poster Information Desk Open
9:30 AM - 6:00 PM

Poster Information Desk Open
Room/Location:Exhibition Hall A-C

Favorite
9:30 AM - 6:00 PM

Poster Viewing in Exhibition Hall
9:30 AM - 6:00 PM

Poster Viewing in Exhibition Hall
Room/Location:Exhibition Hall A-C

Favorite
9:30 AM - 6:00 PM

SLAS Booth Open
9:30 AM - 6:00 PM

SLAS Booth Open
Room/Location:SLAS Booth (#126) in Exhibition

Favorite
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM

Beverage Break in the Exhibition Hall
Networking Events
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM

Beverage Break in the Exhibition Hall
Room/Location:Exhibition Hall A-C
Networking Events

Favorite
10:00 AM - 6:00 PM

Solutions Spotlight
Solutions Spotlight
10:00 AM - 10:20 AM

An enabling label-free platform for RNA drug discovery using SAMDI mass spectrometry
Room/Location:Exhibition Theater (#2225 in Exhibition)
Solutions Spotlight

Favorite

Zachary A. Gurard-Levin, PhD – SAMDI Tech, Inc ### 652893###Theater Organizer @@@ Zachary A. Gurard-Levin, PhD – SAMDI Tech, Inc ### 652893###Theater Speaker
10:30 AM - 10:50 AM

Multiplexed Imaging of Slides and 3D Cell Culture Models for Deep Tissue Interrogation
Room/Location:Exhibition Theater (#2225 in Exhibition)
Solutions Spotlight

Favorite

Michael Johnson, Dr. – Visikol ### 443933###Theater Organizer @@@ Michael Johnson, Dr. – Visikol ### 443933###Theater Speaker
11:00 AM - 11:20 AM

Miniaturized Illumina Nextera XT Library Prep on an Integrated Biomek i5 Multichannel 384 and Echo 525 Workstation
Room/Location:Exhibition Theater (#2225 in Exhibition)
Solutions Spotlight

Favorite

Claire Rhodes ### 620249###Theater Organizer @@@ Shilpa Parakh – Beckman Coulter ### 328268###Theater Speaker @@@ Alex Pierson – Beckman Coulter Life Sciences ### 943141###Theater Speaker
11:30 AM - 11:50 AM

Liquid Handling Pre-Optimized: The Formulatrix FLO i8™
Room/Location:Exhibition Theater (#2225 in Exhibition)
Solutions Spotlight

Favorite

Chris Utzat ### 855117###Theater Organizer @@@ Michael Nilsson – Formulatrix ### 915668###Theater Speaker
12:00 PM - 12:20 PM

The Challenge & Demands for Establishing a New Cell Line Development Lab
Room/Location:Exhibition Theater (#2225 in Exhibition)
Solutions Spotlight

Favorite

Mark Truesdale ### 895524###Theater Organizer @@@ Ian M. Taylor, Ph.D – Solentim ### 906921###Theater Speaker
12:30 PM - 12:50 PM

Thermo Fisher Scientific Solutions Spotlight: Step ahead with the newest Cytomat and learn how it uses the latest technology to safeguard your cells
Room/Location:Exhibition Theater (#2225 in Exhibition)
Solutions Spotlight

Favorite

Ian Estrin ### 895497###Theater Organizer @@@ Dieter Wagner – Thermo Fisher Scientific ### 943106###Theater Speaker
1:00 PM - 1:20 PM

‘Will Next-Generation Microfluidics Drive your Future Products’
Room/Location:Exhibition Theater (#2225 in Exhibition)
Solutions Spotlight

Favorite

Jose Aalbers ### 851286###Theater Organizer @@@ Monica Brivio, PhD – Micronit Microtechnologies ### 904414###Theater Speaker
1:30 PM - 1:50 PM

Brooks Life Sciences Solutions Spotlight: New Automation Friendly Product Innovations from Brooks Life Sciences
Room/Location:Exhibition Theater (#2225 in Exhibition)
Solutions Spotlight

Favorite

Caroline Mackinnon ### 861981###Theater Organizer @@@ Hannah Burke – Brooks Life Sciences ### 943652###Theater Speaker @@@ Rebecca Biloune – Brooks Life Sciences ### 943653###Theater Speaker
2:00 PM - 2:20 PM

Characterization of Immune Cell Synapses for Use in Immuno-Oncology Screening Programs
Room/Location:Exhibition Theater (#2225 in Exhibition)
Solutions Spotlight

Favorite

Michael Johnson, Dr. – Visikol ### 443933###Theater Organizer @@@ Erin Elizabeth Edwards, PhD – Visikol, Inc. ### 635915###Theater Speaker
2:30 PM - 2:50 PM

V&P Scientific, Inc. Solutions Spotlight: Mix Without A Stir Bar - SpinVessel® and MagWash®
Room/Location:Exhibition Theater (#2225 in Exhibition)
Solutions Spotlight

Favorite

John Chavez – V&P Scientific, Inc. ### 861996###Theater Organizer @@@ John Chavez – V&P Scientific, Inc. ### 861996###Theater Speaker
3:00 PM - 3:20 PM

Eppendorf Solutions Spotlight: Beyond Throughput- How Automation Improves Productivity in Your Genomics Workflow
Room/Location:Exhibition Theater (#2225 in Exhibition)
Solutions Spotlight

Favorite

Amy Plasse ### 932829###Theater Organizer @@@ Tim Schommartz, Dr. – Eppendorf AG ### 467230###Theater Speaker
4:00 PM - 4:20 PM

Predictive Retrosynthesis - a new tool for synthesis planning in SciFinder-n
Room/Location:Exhibition Theater (#2225 in Exhibition)
Solutions Spotlight

Favorite

Kurt Zielenbach ### 938236###Theater Organizer @@@ Orr Ravitz – CAS ### 948908###Theater Speaker
5:30 PM - 5:50 PM

Accelerate your drug discovery with Nicoya’s Alto: the world's first digital, high-throughput, benchtop SPR system
Room/Location:Exhibition Theater (#2225 in Exhibition)
Solutions Spotlight

Favorite

Owen Masterton ### 895106###Theater Organizer @@@ Ryan Denomme – Nicoya Lifesciences ### 908932###Theater Speaker
10:30 AM - 12:30 PM

Advanced Imaging & High-Content Assays
Session Chair: James G. Evans, PhD – Phenovista

Assay Development and Screening
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM

Applications of high content imaging in drug discovery using physiologically relevant models of disease
Room/Location:6C
Assay Development and Screening

Sponsored By

Favorite

Monica W. Chu, PhD – Phenovista ### 861952###Speaker - Not Funded
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM

Deep, single-cell analysis by microscopy: beyond human vision
Room/Location:6C
Assay Development and Screening

Sponsored By:

Favorite

Anne E. Carpenter, PhD – Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT ### 43343###Speaker - Funded
11:30 AM - 12:00 PM

Cell-based screening to identify a lead humanised Antibody-Drug Conjugate
Room/Location:6C
Assay Development and Screening

Sponsored By

Favorite

Laura Murch, PhD – LifeArc ### 922541###Speaker - Not Funded
12:00 PM - 12:30 PM

Cell Painting in Hit Discovery
Room/Location:6C
Assay Development and Screening

Sponsored By

Favorite

Charles-Hugues Lardeau – AstraZeneca ### 855898###Speaker - Not Funded
10:30 AM - 12:30 PM

Development and applications of Functional Genomics technologies
Session Chair & Speaker: Alejandro Amador, PhD – GlaxoSmithKline

Cellular Technologies
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM

Application of genome-wide arrayed CRISPRn screening for target discovery
Room/Location:6D
Cellular Technologies

Favorite

Davide Gianni, PhD – AstraZeneca ### 443872###Speaker - Funded
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM

Leveraging Functional Genomics in Oncology: A High Throughput Biology Platform for Novel Drug Target Candidates
Room/Location:6D
Cellular Technologies

Favorite

Alejandro Amador, PhD – GlaxoSmithKline ### 861948###Session Chair & Speaker - WITH Funding
11:30 AM - 12:00 PM

Using CRISPR-Cas9 Screening to Identify Genes Modulating the Nigericin Induced Pyroptosis
Room/Location:6D
Cellular Technologies

Sponsored By:

Favorite

Christian N. Parker, PhD – Novartis ### 72775###Speaker - Not Funded
12:00 PM - 12:30 PM

Tackling Antisense Drug Discovery Through Transcriptome Profiling at Scale
Room/Location:6D
Cellular Technologies

Favorite

Sagar Damle, PhD – Ionis Pharmaceuticals ### 943656###Speaker - Not Funded
10:30 AM - 12:30 PM

Future technologies for biologics drug discovery
Session Chair & Speaker: Rob Howes, PhD – AstraZeneca

Biologics Discovery
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM

Target- and Drug discovery in ‘undruggable space’ using functional proteomics
Room/Location:7AB
Biologics Discovery

Favorite

Markus Muellner, PhD, MSc – PhoreMost ### 855917###Speaker - Funded
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM

New Modalities for Drug Discovery
Room/Location:7AB
Biologics Discovery

Favorite

Rob Howes, PhD – AstraZeneca ### 140366###Session Chair & Speaker - WITH Funding
11:30 AM - 12:00 PM

SLAS2020 Innovation Award Finalist: µ-Hydroporator: A Next Generation Intracellular Delivery Platform
Room/Location:7AB
Biologics Discovery

Favorite

Aram Chung, PhD – Korea University ### 855888###Speaker - Not Funded
12:00 PM - 12:30 PM

SLAS2020 Innovation Award Finalist: High-Throughput Encapsulation and Selection of Cells Based on Antibody Secretion Using Lab-on-a-Particle Technology
Room/Location:7AB
Biologics Discovery

Favorite

Joseph M. de Rutte, MS – University of California, Los Angeles ### 855951###Speaker - Tony B. Awardee
10:30 AM - 12:30 PM

Label Free Bioanalytical Techniques
Session Chair: Daniel Bischoff, PhD – Boehringer Ingelheim

Advances in Bioanalytics and Biomarkers
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM

Combining Arrays and Mass Spectrometry for High Throughput Experiments in Chemistry and Biology
Room/Location:6E
Advances in Bioanalytics and Biomarkers

Sponsored By:

Favorite

Milan Mrksich, PhD – Northwestern University ### 855967###Speaker - Not Funded
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM

CETSA® beyond soluble targets: a broad application to multi-pass transmembrane proteins
Room/Location:6E
Advances in Bioanalytics and Biomarkers

Sponsored By:

Favorite

Aarti Kawatkar, Sr. Scientist – AstraZeneca ### 855889###Speaker - Not Funded
11:30 AM - 12:00 PM

Establishing Capabilities for (ultra)High Throughput Mass Spectrometry at Merck: Reflections from “Year One”
Room/Location:6E
Advances in Bioanalytics and Biomarkers

Sponsored By:

Favorite

David G. McLaren, PhD – Merck ### 431008###Speaker - Not Funded
12:00 PM - 12:30 PM

Novel HT applications employing MALDI and ESI-MS in drug discovery
Room/Location:6E
Advances in Bioanalytics and Biomarkers

Sponsored By:

Favorite

Dr. Roman Simon ### 915696###Speaker - Not Funded
10:30 AM - 12:30 PM

From instrument to decision: improved decision-making on complex data at scale
Session Chair: Nicola J. Richmond, PhD Mathematics, MSc Computer Science, BSc Mathematics – GlaxoSmithKline

Data Analysis and Informatics
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM

SLAS2020 Innovation Award Finalist: Interpreting AI models trained on high-content microscopy data
Room/Location:8
Data Analysis and Informatics

Favorite

Oren Kraus, PhD – Phenomic AI ### 672386###Speaker - Not Funded
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM

Image-based Cell Phenotyping Using Deep-Learning
Room/Location:8
Data Analysis and Informatics

Favorite

Samuel G. Berryman, BASc – University of British Columbia ### 855916###Speaker - Tony B. Awardee
11:30 AM - 12:00 PM

Assessing biological diversity of a compound collection using high throughput cellular imaging and no ground truth
Room/Location:8
Data Analysis and Informatics

Favorite

Yusuf Roohani, M.S. – GlaxoSmithKline ### 855942###Speaker - Funded
12:00 PM - 12:30 PM

Deep characterization of drug libraries by image-based profiling and machine learning
Room/Location:8
Data Analysis and Informatics

Favorite

Christian Scheeder ### 954952###Speaker - Not Funded @@@ Michael Boutros, PhD – German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) and Heidelberg University ### 861950###Speaker - Funded
10:30 AM - 12:30 PM

Screening Automation: Modular vs. Highly integrated systems
Session Chair: Helen Plant, BSc – AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals

Automation and High-Throughput Technologies
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM

Enabling Nontraditional Screeners from a Centralized uHTS Core
Room/Location:6F
Automation and High-Throughput Technologies

Favorite

Mitchell V. Hull – Calibr at Scripps Research ### 855952###Speaker - Not Funded
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM

Highly Integrated Modular Systems – Mobile Robots Unlock the Best of Both Architectures
Room/Location:6F
Automation and High-Throughput Technologies

Favorite

David Dambman – Biosero, Inc ### 119589###Speaker - Not Funded
11:30 AM - 12:00 PM

A B Cell Antibody Discovery Platform Using An ‘Islands of Automation’ Approach
Room/Location:6F
Automation and High-Throughput Technologies

Favorite

Paul Anderson – Eli Lilly and Company ### 855899###Speaker - Not Funded
12:00 PM - 12:30 PM

Innovative tube and dispensing technologies enable fully acoustic workflows for drug discovery assays
Room/Location:6F
Automation and High-Throughput Technologies

Favorite

Silvio Di Castro, MSc Eng – Sample Management / Discovery Sciences / AstraZeneca ### 187993###Speaker - Not Funded
12:00 PM - 1:15 PM

Special Interest Group (SIG)
SIG
12:00 PM - 1:15 PM

Standards Initiatives Special Interest Group (SIG)
Room/Location:15B
SIG

Favorite

Burkhard Schaefer, n/a – BSSN Software ### 62433###SIG Chair @@@ Dana Vanderwall, PhD – Bristol-Myers Squibb ### 62466###SIG Chair
12:30 PM - 1:15 PM

Exhibitor Tutorials
Exhibitor Tutorial
12:30 PM - 1:15 PM

Advancing Human Health through Innovative Automation and High-Throughput Sample Prep Technologies for Proteomic and NGS Analysis.
Room/Location:Room 4
Exhibitor Tutorial

Favorite

Claire Rhodes ### 620249###Exhibitor Tutorial Organizer @@@ Albert B. Arul, PhD – Vanderbilt University ### 886252###Exhibitor Tutorial Presenter @@@ Claudia Pahlke, PhD – DKMS Life Science Lab ### 943337###Exhibitor Tutorial Presenter
12:30 PM - 1:15 PM

CSox-based Sensors for Homogeneous and Quantitative Monitoring of Protein Kinase and Phosphatase Activity Using Kinetic or Endpoint/Eu3+/Red Formats
Room/Location:Room 5A
Exhibitor Tutorial

Favorite

Claudia Utcke ### 620252###Exhibitor Tutorial Organizer @@@ Erik M. Schaefer, PhD – AssayQuant Technologies, Inc. ### 912984###Exhibitor Tutorial Presenter @@@ Carl Peters, PhD – BMG LABTECH ### 45027###Exhibitor Tutorial Presenter
12:30 PM - 1:15 PM

Development of a T Cell stimulation assay for profiling agonistic antibodies, and application of FirePlex assays to high-throughput screening
Room/Location:Room 1A
Exhibitor Tutorial

Favorite

Greta Lindberg ### 914658###Exhibitor Tutorial Organizer @@@ Paul Wylie, Ph.D – Abcam ### 918191###Exhibitor Tutorial Presenter @@@ Jessica Whitehouse – Cancer Research UK- Medlmmune Alliance Laboratory ### 918225###Exhibitor Tutorial Presenter
12:30 PM - 1:15 PM

Implementing 3D neural spheroids in drug discovery: Identifying new and safe compounds through phenotypic screening and compound profiling using functional and structural assays.
Room/Location:Room 9
Exhibitor Tutorial

Favorite

Jared Chapa ### 436261###Exhibitor Tutorial Organizer @@@ Oksana Sirenko, PhD – Molecular Devices ### 454313###Exhibitor Tutorial Presenter @@@ Carole Crittenden, B.S., Biology – Molecular Devices, LLC ### 43351###Exhibitor Tutorial Presenter @@@ Blake Anson – StemoniX ### 914415###Exhibitor Tutorial Presenter
12:30 PM - 1:15 PM

Integration of ZE5 Cell Analyzer into High Throughput Automation Platform
Room/Location:Room 11B
Exhibitor Tutorial

Favorite

Marisol Gabriel ### 645412###Exhibitor Tutorial Organizer @@@ Nathaniel Chartrand – Juno Therapeutics ### 909168###Exhibitor Tutorial Presenter
12:30 PM - 1:15 PM

Leveraging Patient-Derived Organoids for Therapeutic Impact
Room/Location:Room 3
Exhibitor Tutorial

Favorite

Nicole Athanas ### 299608###Exhibitor Tutorial Organizer @@@ Ralph J. Garippa, Ph.D – Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center ### 184254###Exhibitor Tutorial Presenter
12:30 PM - 1:15 PM

Protein target class as a determinant of compound purity in screening hits: How to determine appropriate quality control processes and suitable assay conditions for a particular target class and how to guide decisions on library composition
Room/Location:Room 10
Exhibitor Tutorial

Favorite

Susan Desmond ### 436240###Exhibitor Tutorial Organizer @@@ David Cronk, CBiol, MRSB – Charles River ### 78013###Exhibitor Tutorial Presenter
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM

Lunch in the Exhibition Hall
Networking Events
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM

Lunch in the Exhibition Hall
Room/Location:Exhibition Hall A-C
Networking Events

Sponsored By:

Favorite
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM

Meet SLAS Discovery Editor-in-Chief (Robert M. Campbell, Ph.D., Eli Lilly & Co., Indianapolis, IN)
Networking Events
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM

Meet SLAS Discovery Editor-in-Chief (Robert M. Campbell, Ph.D., Eli Lilly & Co., Indianapolis, IN)
Room/Location:SLAS Booth (#126) in Exhibition
Networking Events

Favorite

Robert M. Campbell, Ph.D. – Eli Lilly & Co., Indianapolis, IN ### 934087###Presenter
12:30 PM - 1:45 PM

Exhibitor Tutorials
Exhibitor Tutorial
12:30 PM - 1:45 PM

The Key to Successfully Automating Your NGS Workflow
Room/Location:Room 11A
Exhibitor Tutorial

Favorite

Linda Sheehy ### 436241###Exhibitor Tutorial Organizer @@@ Nathaniel Hentz, PhD – Artel, Inc. ### 653770###Exhibitor Tutorial Presenter @@@ Joe Don Heath, PhD – Tecan Genomics ### 908832###Exhibitor Tutorial Presenter
12:30 PM - 1:45 PM

#HowToFeliX – experience the variety of flexible liquid handling
Room/Location:Room 1B
Exhibitor Tutorial

Favorite

Hanna Engelhard ### 441544###Exhibitor Tutorial Organizer @@@ Jason Graves – Artel ### 908802###Exhibitor Tutorial Presenter @@@ Rose Lassos-Payne – Kaleido Biosciences ### 908803###Exhibitor Tutorial Presenter @@@ Holly Reardon – Lundbeck La Jolla Research Center ### 908804###Exhibitor Tutorial Presenter @@@ Michael Churchill – SEngine Precision Medicine Se ### 908806###Exhibitor Tutorial Presenter @@@ Caleb Cassidy-Amstutz – Bristol-Myers Squibb ### 949943###Exhibitor Tutorial Presenter
12:30 PM - 1:45 PM

Streamline Your Laboratory Performance and Data Analytics with Green Button Go Automation Software Suite
Room/Location:Room 2
Exhibitor Tutorial

Favorite

Carole Garner ### 441538###Exhibitor Tutorial Organizer @@@ David Dambman – Biosero, Inc ### 119589###Exhibitor Tutorial Presenter @@@ John Palan – Takeda California Inc. ### 915526###Exhibitor Tutorial Presenter @@@ Chris Scholl – Cannalysis Labs ### 926466###Exhibitor Tutorial Presenter
1:15 PM - 2:15 PM

Ignite Academic Collaboration Presentations
Ignite Academic Collaboration Presentations
1:15 PM - 2:15 PM

Ignite Academic Collaboration Presentations
Room/Location:Ignite Theater (#100 in Exhibition)
Ignite Academic Collaboration Presentations

Favorite

Anne E. Carpenter, PhD – Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT ### 43343###Ignite Speaker @@@ Yuhong Du – Emory Chemical Biology Discovery Center ### 61327###Ignite Speaker @@@ Kamran Honarnejad – Fraunhofer ITEM ### 855976###Ignite Speaker
2:00 PM - 2:45 PM

Exhibitor Tutorials
Exhibitor Tutorial
2:00 PM - 2:45 PM

An advanced flow cytometry solution for screening an immunomodulatory-based SAR compound library harnessing turnkey software analysis for rapid data visualization.
Room/Location:Room 11A
Exhibitor Tutorial

Favorite

Sowmya Kedarnath ### 465883###Exhibitor Tutorial Organizer @@@ John Orourke – Sartorius ### 914385###Exhibitor Tutorial Presenter
2:00 PM - 2:45 PM

Automated Protein & Peptide Sample Prep
Room/Location:Room 11B
Exhibitor Tutorial

Favorite

Lauren Dostillio ### 436242###Exhibitor Tutorial Organizer @@@ Steve Murphy ### 907332###Exhibitor Tutorial Presenter
2:00 PM - 2:45 PM

Exploring Label-Free Phenotyping Advancements Using High-Speed Image Cytometry
Room/Location:Room 1A
Exhibitor Tutorial

Favorite

Kenya Ebersole ### 943020###Exhibitor Tutorial Organizer @@@ Kyle D. Gilroy, PhD – Vision Research ### 671144###Exhibitor Tutorial Presenter
2:00 PM - 2:45 PM

PAA Exhibitor Tutorial: Advanced & flexible systems software control - from R&D to QC. Our tutorial showcases different user experiences in different challenging environments.
Room/Location:Room 2
Exhibitor Tutorial

Favorite

Leah Martin ### 895498###Exhibitor Tutorial Organizer @@@ Malcom Crook – PAA ### 908185###Exhibitor Tutorial Presenter @@@ Brian Birdi – Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research ### 655833###Exhibitor Tutorial Presenter @@@ Josh Kurtenbach ### 908187###Exhibitor Tutorial Presenter
2:00 PM - 2:45 PM

PerkinElmer Exhibitor Tutorial: Taking the Guesswork Out of NGS Library Prep Reaction Miniaturization
Room/Location:Room 9
Exhibitor Tutorial

Favorite

Andrea Feher ### 445646###Exhibitor Tutorial Organizer @@@ Thomas Rawlins, B.S. Biology – PerkinElmer ### 886254###Exhibitor Tutorial Presenter
2:00 PM - 2:45 PM

Promega Exhibitor Tutorial: Lumit™ Immunoassays: Bioluminescent, Sensitive, and Homogeneous Analyte Detection Using Labeled Antibodies
Room/Location:Room 10
Exhibitor Tutorial

Favorite

Neal Cosby, PhD – Promega Corporation ### 486777###Exhibitor Tutorial Organizer @@@ Dan Lazar, PhD ### 914668###Exhibitor Tutorial Presenter
2:00 PM - 2:45 PM

Takara Bio USA Exhibitor Tutorial: Streamlining the drug discovery workflow with human iPS-derived cells and ICELL8 cx single-cell technology
Room/Location:Room 1B
Exhibitor Tutorial

Favorite

Claudia Tsunoda ### 442174###Exhibitor Tutorial Organizer @@@ Liz Quinn, PhD – Takara Bio USA, Inc. ### 317278###Exhibitor Tutorial Presenter @@@ Rachel Fish, PhD – Takara Bio USA, Inc. ### 915846###Exhibitor Tutorial Presenter
2:00 PM - 2:45 PM

Tecan Tutorial: Using 3D cell cultures and organoids to screen novel drugs and personalized drug combinations
Room/Location:Room 4
Exhibitor Tutorial

Favorite

Kim Dellis ### 880579###Exhibitor Tutorial Organizer @@@ Julia Kirshner, PhD – zPREDICTA, Inc. ### 922439###Exhibitor Tutorial Presenter @@@ Ricardo Antonia – UCSF ### 922441###Exhibitor Tutorial Presenter
2:00 PM - 2:45 PM

TTP Labtech Exhibitor Tutorial: Discover the benefits of miniaturized assay development, validation and CRISPR functional genomics screening, by overcoming common liquid handling challenges.
Room/Location:Room 3
Exhibitor Tutorial

Favorite

Dawn Browning ### 436243###Exhibitor Tutorial Organizer @@@ Christina Minnick – Merck ### 886264###Exhibitor Tutorial Presenter @@@ Sapna Desai – GlaxoSmithKline ### 855929###Exhibitor Tutorial Presenter
2:00 PM - 2:45 PM

Using KingFisher™ technology to advance human health across research areas: from oncology to the microbiome
Room/Location:Room 5A
Exhibitor Tutorial

Favorite

Sean Harrington ### 895499###Exhibitor Tutorial Organizer @@@ Xingwang Fang, PhD – ThermoFisher Scientific ### 318191###Exhibitor Tutorial Presenter @@@ Jen Whiting, PhD – Thermo Fisher Scientific ### 908964###Exhibitor Tutorial Presenter
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Poster Presentations: Session C
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Poster Presentations: Session C
Room/Location:Exhibition Hall A-C

Favorite
2:30 PM - 3:00 PM

Beverage Break in the Exhibition Hall
Networking Events
2:30 PM - 3:00 PM

Beverage Break in the Exhibition Hall
Room/Location:Exhibition Hall A-C
Networking Events

Favorite
2:30 PM - 3:45 PM

Ignite Panel: How Diversity Drives Entrepreneurial Success
Ignite Panel
2:30 PM - 3:45 PM

Ignite Panel: How Diversity Drives Entrepreneurial Success
Room/Location:Ignite Theater (#100 in Exhibition)
Ignite Panel

Favorite

Kevin Eggan, PhD – Harvard University ### 861958###Ignite Panel Presenter @@@ Rekha Hemrajani, MBA – Adverum ### 903956###Ignite Panel Presenter @@@ Elizabeth Iorns, PhD – Science Exchange ### 119548###Ignite Panel Presenter @@@ Phyllis Whiteley, PhD – Wildcat Venture Partners ### 918313###Ignite Panel Presenter @@@ Vicki Loise ### 954910###Moderator
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Advanced imaging technologies to bridge the gap between high-content and high-throughput
Session Chair: James Pilling, MA – AstraZeneca

Automation and High-Throughput Technologies
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM

Revolutionising Cellular Screening with Artificial-Intelligence-driven Label-free Imaging
Room/Location:6F
Automation and High-Throughput Technologies

Favorite

Adam M. Corrigan, PhD MA (Cantab) MSci – AstraZeneca ### 855923###Speaker - Not Funded
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM

Applications of Image-Based Artificial Intelligence in Drug Discovery and Safety Testing
Room/Location:6F
Automation and High-Throughput Technologies

Favorite

Mahnaz Maddah, PhD – Dana Solutions LLC ### 855935###Speaker - Not Funded
4:00 PM - 4:30 PM

Optical Pooled Screens in Human Cells
Room/Location:6F
Automation and High-Throughput Technologies

Sponsored By:

Favorite

Avtar Singh, BA, PhD – The Broad Institute ### 855914###Speaker - Tony B. Awardee
4:30 PM - 5:00 PM

High throughput single cell imaging and advanced machine learning supported image analysis of primary tumors enables anticancer therapy development
Room/Location:6F
Automation and High-Throughput Technologies

Favorite

Gregory I. Vladimer, PhD – Allcyte ### 855900###Speaker - Funded
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Advanced In Vitro Cell Culture Systems
Session Chair: Virneliz Fernandez-Vega – Scripps

Assay Development and Screening
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM

Pancreatic Cancer Patient-Derived Organoids as a Tool for Personalized Medicine
Room/Location:6C
Assay Development and Screening

Sponsored By

Favorite

Herve Tiriac, PhD – University of California, San Diego ### 855945###Speaker - Funded
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM

Drug Combination and Gene Network Analysis in 3D models of Brain and Pancreas Cancer towards Precision Medicine
Room/Location:6C
Assay Development and Screening

Sponsored By

Favorite

Timothy P. Spicer, PhD – Scripps Research-Florida ### 184233###Speaker - Not Funded
4:00 PM - 4:30 PM

New innovation to solve unmet needs: Implementing human induced pluripotent stem cell-derived neural spheroids as a robust screening platform for phenotypic-based central nervous system drug discovery
Room/Location:6C
Assay Development and Screening

Sponsored By

Favorite

Oivin M. Guicherit, PhD – StemoniX ### 478308###Speaker - Not Funded
4:30 PM - 5:00 PM

Maximizing the Value of Cancer Drug Screening in Multicellular Tumor Spheroid Cultures – Are you Analyzing your 3D Tumor Models Appropriately?
Room/Location:6C
Assay Development and Screening

Sponsored By

Favorite

Paul A. Johnston, PhD – University of Pittsburgh Dept. Pharmaceutical Sci. ### 62456###Speaker - Not Funded
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Microdevices for high-throughput cellular and biomolecular profiling
Session Chair & Speaker: Alex K. Shalek, PhD – Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Micro- and Nanotechnologies
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM

SLAS2020 Innovation Award Finalist: Enabling precision medicine: pipetting at single cell resolution
Room/Location:7AB
Micro- and Nanotechnologies

Favorite

Georges H. Muller, PhD – SEED Biosciences SA ### 672381###Speaker - Funded
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM

SLAS2020 Innovation Award Finalist: An Adaptable Microfluidic Platform for Single Cell Pathogen Identification and Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing
Room/Location:7AB
Micro- and Nanotechnologies

Favorite

Pak Kin Wong, PhD – The Pennsylvania State University ### 855887###Speaker - Not Funded
4:00 PM - 4:30 PM

Building tissue to understand how tissues build themselves
Room/Location:7AB
Micro- and Nanotechnologies

Favorite

Zev J. Gartner, PhD – UCSF ### 855965###Speaker - Funded
4:30 PM - 5:00 PM

Translating Single-Cell Genomics to the Clinic
Room/Location:7AB
Micro- and Nanotechnologies

Favorite

Alex K. Shalek, PhD – Massachusetts Institute of Technology ### 855890###Session Chair & Speaker - WITH Funding
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Small Molecule Libraries
Session Chair: Guy Breitenbucher – UCSF

Molecular Libraries
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM

Library Of Compounds with Really Annoying Pharmacology (LOCRAP)
Room/Location:8
Molecular Libraries

Favorite

Jarrod J. Walsh – AstraZeneca ### 184200###Speaker - Not Funded
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM

Doubling Down: Betting on the success of HTS & DEL libraries in parallel
Room/Location:8
Molecular Libraries

Favorite

David Lancia, Jr. – FORMA Therapeutics ### 933691###Speaker - Not Funded @@@ Jonathan O'Connell – Forma Therapeutics ### 185958###Speaker - Not Funded
4:00 PM - 4:30 PM

Automated chemistry – from an idea to reality
Room/Location:8
Molecular Libraries

Favorite

Michael Kossenjans, PhD – AstraZeneca ### 855919###Speaker - Not Funded
4:30 PM - 5:00 PM

SLAS2020 Innovation Award Finalist: Integrated phenotypic screening and chemical proteomics to discover druggable immunomodulatory pathways
Room/Location:8
Molecular Libraries

Favorite

Ekaterina Vinogradova, PhD – The Scripps Research Institute ### 855930###Speaker - Not Funded
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Tools to Resolve Disease Complexity
Session Chair: John Joslin – GNF

Precision Medicine Technologies
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM

Toward Precision Medicines for Rare Diseases
Room/Location:6E
Precision Medicine Technologies

Favorite

Anna Greka, MD, PhD – BWH/Harvard/Broad ### 855977###Speaker - Not Funded
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM

A Hydrogel-Enabled 3D Liver Fibrosis Model for High-Throughput Phenotypic Screening Applications
Room/Location:6E
Precision Medicine Technologies

Favorite

Brandon Taylor, PhD – GNF ### 904625###Speaker - Not Funded
4:00 PM - 4:30 PM

Development of colorectal cancer patient-derived organoid-fibroblast models suitable for drug testing
Room/Location:6E
Precision Medicine Technologies

Favorite

Eliza Fong, PhD – National University of Singapore ### 855896###Speaker - Tony B. Awardee
4:30 PM - 5:00 PM

Liquid biopsy as a tool in anticancer drug screening for guiding personalized therapy decision and drug discovery
Room/Location:6E
Precision Medicine Technologies

Favorite

Kamran Honarnejad – Fraunhofer ITEM ### 855976###Speaker - Not Funded
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Protein Homeostasis: new drug discovery directions
Session Chair & Speaker: Robert A. Blake, DPhil – Genentech

Drug Target Strategies
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM

Leveraging intrinsic target degradation
Room/Location:6D
Drug Target Strategies

Favorite

Delphine Collin, PhD – Cedilla Therapeutics ### 855980###Speaker - Not Funded
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM

A Homogeneous Cell-Based Membrane Potential Assay to Identify Compounds That Promote Readthrough of Premature Termination Codons in the Cystic Fibrosis Transmembrane Conductance Regulator Ion Channel
Room/Location:6D
Drug Target Strategies

Sponsored By:

Favorite

Emery Smith – Scripps Research Institute Florida ### 119513###Speaker - Not Funded
4:00 PM - 4:30 PM

Monovalent Versus Bivalent Degraders
Room/Location:6D
Drug Target Strategies

Favorite

Robert A. Blake, DPhil – Genentech ### 431022###Session Chair & Speaker - No Funding
4:30 PM - 5:00 PM

Exploring protein homeostasis using DELPhe assays
Room/Location:6D
Drug Target Strategies

Favorite

Kandaswamy (Swamy) Vijayan – Plexium ### 886099###Speaker - Not Funded
4:00 PM - 5:10 PM

Innovation AveNEW - Ignite Award Presentations
Ignite Award Presentations
4:00 PM - 5:10 PM

Innovation AveNEW - Ignite Award Presentations
Room/Location:Ignite Theater (#100 in Exhibition)
Ignite Award Presentations

Favorite

Hugo Sinha, MASc – DropGenie ### 915012###Ignite Award Presenter @@@ Sebastian Metz, PhD – Byonoy ### 915015###Ignite Award Presenter @@@ Per Setterberg – Iscaffpharma ### 915016###Ignite Award Presenter @@@ Jonathan Hull, PhD – Bioelectronica ### 915018###Ignite Award Presenter @@@ Patrick Walsh, MS – Anatomi Corp ### 922191###Ignite Award Presenter @@@ Lowry Curley, PhD – AxoSim Inc ### 922190###Ignite Award Presenter @@@ Tei Newman-Lehman – DeepDiveBio, Inc. ### 915014###Ignite Award Presenter
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM

Reception in Exhibition Hall
Networking Events
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM

Reception in Exhibition Hall
Room/Location:Exhibition Hall A-C
Networking Events

Favorite
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM

Poster Presentations: Session D
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM

Poster Presentations: Session D
Room/Location:Exhibition Hall A-C

Favorite
6:30 PM - 9:30 PM

Tuesday Night Celebration – Seaport Village Sponsored by Hamilton
Networking Events
6:30 PM - 9:30 PM

Tuesday Night Celebration – Seaport Village Sponsored by Hamilton
Room/Location:Seaport Village (Off-Site)
Networking Events

Sponsored By: Hamilton Company

Favorite
Wednesday, January 29, 2020
7:30 AM - 8:15 AM

Career Guidance Session - Transferable Skills: Adventures Beyond Chemistry
Career Connections
7:30 AM - 8:15 AM

Career Guidance Session - Transferable Skills: Adventures Beyond Chemistry
Room/Location:6F
Career Connections

Favorite

Mike Tarselli, Ph.D. ### 943046###Speaker
8:00 AM - 9:15 AM

Special Interest Group (SIG)
SIG
8:00 AM - 9:15 AM

3D Printing Special Interest Group (SIG)
Room/Location:3
SIG

Favorite

J. Colin Cox, PhD – Synthego ### 72748###SIG Chair @@@ Mykle C. Gaynor – ClickBio ### 646567###SIG Chair
8:00 AM - 9:15 AM

Automation Quality Control Special Interest Group (SIG)
Room/Location:15B
SIG

Favorite

John T. Bradshaw, PhD – Artel ### 184708###SIG Chair @@@ Jason Graves, MS – Artel, Inc. ### 906731###SIG Speaker - Not Funded
8:00 AM - 9:15 AM

HCS/HCA Data and Informatics Special Interest Group (SIG)
Room/Location:11B
SIG

Favorite

Paul A. Johnston, PhD – University of Pittsburgh Dept. Pharmaceutical Sci. ### 62456###SIG Chair @@@ Daniel LaBarbera, Ph.D. – Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, The Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus. ### 937314###SIG Speaker - Not Funded @@@ Anne E. Carpenter, PhD – Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT ### 43343###SIG Speaker - Not Funded
8:00 AM - 9:15 AM

Labware Leachables Special Interest Group (SIG)
Room/Location:11A
SIG

Favorite

Lynn Rasmussen, MS – Southern Research ### 43423###SIG Chair and Speaker - Not Funded @@@ Steve Knight, MA, DipM MCIM – Ziath Ltd ### 948492###SIG Speaker - Not Funded
8:00 AM - 9:15 AM

Sample Management Special Interest Group (SIG)
Room/Location:2
SIG

Favorite

Susan Crimmin, Bsc PhD – Glaxo SmithKline ### 43275###SIG Chair @@@ Rosalia Gonzales, PhD – Pfizer, Inc. ### 319122###SIG Chair @@@ Marybeth Burton, MS – Merck and Co. ### 319123###SIG Speaker - Not Funded
8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Speaker Ready Room Open
8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Speaker Ready Room Open
Room/Location:5B

Favorite
8:00 AM - 2:00 PM

Coat & Luggage Check
8:00 AM - 2:00 PM

Coat & Luggage Check
Room/Location:Hall A Lobby

Favorite
8:30 AM - 1:30 PM

Registration Open
8:30 AM - 1:30 PM

Registration Open
Room/Location:Hall C Lobby

Favorite
9:00 AM - 9:30 AM

Beverage Break in the Exhibition Hall
Networking Events
9:00 AM - 9:30 AM

Beverage Break in the Exhibition Hall
Room/Location:Exhibition Hall A-C
Networking Events

Favorite
9:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Exhibition Open
9:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Exhibition Open
Room/Location:Exhibition Hall A-C

Favorite
9:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Poster Information Desk Open
9:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Poster Information Desk Open
Room/Location:Exhibition Hall A-C

Favorite
9:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Poster Viewing in Exhibition Hall
9:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Poster Viewing in Exhibition Hall
Room/Location:Exhibition Hall A-C

Favorite
9:00 AM - 1:00 PM

SLAS Booth Open
9:00 AM - 1:00 PM

SLAS Booth Open
Room/Location:SLAS Booth (#126) in Exhibition

Favorite
9:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Career Connections: Job Boards
Career Connections
9:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Career Connections: Job Boards
Room/Location:SLAS Booth (#126) in Exhibition
Career Connections

Favorite
9:30 AM - 10:30 AM

SLAS Journal Strategy Workshop
9:30 AM - 10:30 AM

SLAS Journal Strategy Workshop
Room/Location:Ignite Theater (#100 in Exhibition)

Favorite

Edward Kai-Hua Chow, Ph.D. – National University of Singapore ### 934086###Presenter @@@ Robert M. Campbell, Ph.D. – Eli Lilly & Co., Indianapolis, IN ### 934087###Presenter
9:30 AM - 11:30 AM

Applications of CRISPR Technology in Drug Discovery
Session Chair: Melissa Crisp, PhD – Eli Lilly & Company

Assay Development and Screening
9:30 AM - 10:00 AM

Quantitating Endogenous Protein Dynamics with a Bioluminescent Peptide Tag
Room/Location:6C
Assay Development and Screening

Sponsored By

Favorite

Marie K. Schwinn, PhD – Promega Corporation ### 855934###Speaker - Funded
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM

A 384-well workflow to execute an arrayed CRISPR-Cas9 Gene Editing screen in T-cells
Room/Location:6C
Assay Development and Screening

Sponsored By

Favorite

Sapna Desai – GlaxoSmithKline ### 855929###Speaker - Not Funded
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM

Development and Implementation of High-Throughput Cellular Protein Stability Assays for Evaluation of Target Engagement at Early Stages of Screening Projects
Room/Location:6C
Assay Development and Screening

Sponsored By

Favorite

John Holleran, PhD – Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute ### 855925###Speaker - Not Funded
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM

The development and application of a Whole Genome Arrayed CRISPR Screening Platform for target discovery and mechanism of action investigation
Room/Location:6C
Assay Development and Screening

Sponsored By

Favorite

Douglas Ross-Thriepland, BSc PhD – AstraZeneca ### 430987###Speaker - Funded
9:30 AM - 11:30 AM

Applications of Single Cell Analysis to Disease Studies
Session Chair & Speaker: Kevin Eggan, PhD – Harvard University

Precision Medicine Technologies
9:30 AM - 10:00 AM

Villages in a Dish: Scaling the use of human cell models to detect drug-genotype interactions
Room/Location:6E
Precision Medicine Technologies

Favorite

Kevin Eggan, PhD – Harvard University ### 861958###Session Chair & Speaker - WITH Funding
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM

Developing Epileptic Encephalopathy Models Using iPSC-Based Technologies
Room/Location:6E
Precision Medicine Technologies

Favorite

Evangelos Kiskinis, PhD – Northwestern University - Feinberg School of Medicine ### 855968###Speaker - Funded
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM

Application of subwell plates in single-cell analysis of T cell-mediated tumor cell killing for high-throughput pharmacological analyses
Room/Location:6E
Precision Medicine Technologies

Sponsored By:

Favorite

Katherine Kozak, PhD – Genentech ### 855932###Speaker - Not Funded
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM

Microfluidic platform for screening of antibiotic susceptibility at the single-cell level
Room/Location:6E
Precision Medicine Technologies

Favorite

Witold Postek, PhD – Institute of Physical Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences ### 70661###Speaker - Tony B. Awardee
9:30 AM - 11:30 AM

DNA-Encoded Chemical Libraries
Session Chair: Martin Matzuk – Baylor College of Medicine

Molecular Libraries
9:30 AM - 10:00 AM

Exploring Reliable and Cost-effective DNA-encoded Library Approaches for Developing Active Compounds
Room/Location:8
Molecular Libraries

Favorite

Raphael M. Franzini, PhD – University of Utah ### 855982###Speaker - Funded
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM

Drug Discovery with DNA-Encoded Chemical Libraries
Room/Location:8
Molecular Libraries

Favorite

John Faver, PhD – Baylor College of Medicine ### 855921###Speaker - Funded
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM

Off-DNA DNA Encoded Library Affinity Screening
Room/Location:8
Molecular Libraries

Favorite

Amber Hackler – The Scripps Research Institute ### 656635###Speaker - Tony B. Awardee
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM

DEL out of Water
Room/Location:8
Molecular Libraries

Favorite

Philip Dawson, PhD – Scripps Research ### 855969###Speaker - Not Funded
9:30 AM - 11:30 AM

Drugging RNA
Session Chair: Margaret Porter Scott – Genentech

Drug Target Strategies
9:30 AM - 10:00 AM

Opening New Frontiers of Biology with RNA-Targeted Small Molecules
Room/Location:6D
Drug Target Strategies

Sponsored By:

Favorite

Jessica Friedman, PhD – Arrakis Therapeutics ### 855975###Speaker - Not Funded
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM

Targeting Structurally and Functionally Diverse RNAs with Druglike Small Molecules
Room/Location:6D
Drug Target Strategies

Sponsored By:

Favorite

Jay Schneekloth, PhD – NIH ### 861971###Speaker - Funded
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM

Translating RNA sequence into lead small molecule medicines and progress towards small molecule antisense
Room/Location:6D
Drug Target Strategies

Sponsored By:

Favorite

Matthew D. Disney, PhD – The Scripps Research Insitiute ### 61268###Speaker - Funded
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM

Development of a novel high-throughput screening approach to target specific RNAs
Room/Location:6D
Drug Target Strategies

Sponsored By:

Favorite

John Joslin, PhD – GNF ### 61274###Speaker - Not Funded
9:30 AM - 11:30 AM

Novel sampling strategies and highly miniaturized systems for mass spectrometric analysis
Session Chair & Speaker: Daniel Austin, PhD – Brigham Young University

Micro- and Nanotechnologies
9:30 AM - 10:00 AM

Microscale Linear Ion Trap for Portable Mass Spectrometry
Room/Location:7AB
Micro- and Nanotechnologies

Favorite

Daniel Austin, PhD – Brigham Young University ### 855933###Session Chair & Speaker - WITH Funding
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM

SLAS2020 Innovation Award Finalist: A Benchtop Biochemical Analyzer: Microchip Capillary Electrophoresis Coupled to High Pressure Mass Spectrometry (HPMS)
Room/Location:7AB
Micro- and Nanotechnologies

Favorite

J. Michael Ramsey, PhD – UNC Chapel Hill ### 855894###Speaker - Funded
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM

A Small Footprint Ambient Ionization enabled High Throughput Chemical Detection System
Room/Location:7AB
Micro- and Nanotechnologies

Favorite

Brian Musselman, PhD – IonSense, Inc. ### 685500###Speaker - Not Funded
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM

ADE-OPP-MS: ESI-Mass Spectrometry Based Bioanalytical Platform with Ultra-High Throughput
Room/Location:7AB
Micro- and Nanotechnologies

Favorite

Hui Zhang, Ph.D – Pfizer Inc. ### 61275###Speaker - Not Funded
9:30 AM - 11:30 AM

1536 and beyond: HT miniaturization while maintaining physiological relevance
Session Chair: Mindy Davis, PhD – National Institutes of Health/NIAID

Automation and High-Throughput Technologies
9:30 AM - 10:00 AM

Continued development of high throughput MS and applications for cell analysis
Room/Location:6F
Automation and High-Throughput Technologies

Favorite

Jonathan Wingfield, PhD – AstraZeneca ### 119486###Speaker - Funded
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM

Array and microfluidic based cellular assays miniaturized beyond the 1536 well plate
Room/Location:6F
Automation and High-Throughput Technologies

Favorite

Jeffrey W. Gross, PhD – GlaxoSmithKline ### 862001###Speaker - Not Funded
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM

Approaches that enable large-scale chemical biology interrogations
Room/Location:6F
Automation and High-Throughput Technologies

Favorite

Fred King, PhD – GNF Systems ### 855909###Speaker - Not Funded
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM

Identification of chemical compounds inhibiting Zika virus replication through a large-scale high-content screening approach
Room/Location:6F
Automation and High-Throughput Technologies

Favorite

Laura Riva, PhD – Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery ### 855943###Speaker - Not Funded
10:00 AM - 1:50 PM

Solutions Spotlight
Solutions Spotlight
10:00 AM - 10:20 AM

Bruker-Arxspan - Automating structure confirmation and purity of compounds for high throughput chemistry
Room/Location:Exhibition Theater (#2225 in Exhibition)
Solutions Spotlight

Favorite

Nancy Salt ### 300994###Theater Organizer @@@ Jeff Carter ### 915907###Theater Speaker @@@ William Russo ### 915908###Theater Speaker
11:30 AM - 12:00 PM

Lunch in the Exhibition Hall
11:30 AM - 12:00 PM

Lunch in the Exhibition Hall
Room/Location:Exhibition Hall A-C

Favorite
11:30 AM - 12:30 PM

Poster Presentations: Session E
11:30 AM - 12:30 PM

Poster Presentations: Session E
Room/Location:Exhibition Hall A-C

Favorite
11:45 AM - 12:00 PM

Passport to Prizes Award Announcements
11:45 AM - 12:00 PM

Passport to Prizes Award Announcements
Room/Location:SLAS Booth (#126) in Exhibition

Favorite
12:00 PM - 12:45 PM

Exhibitor Tutorials
Exhibitor Tutorial
12:00 PM - 12:45 PM

Identification and Characterization of Non Covalent Small Molecule Binders of Proteins and Nucleic Acids using Affinity Selection Mass Spectrometry (ASMS)
Room/Location:Room 2
Exhibitor Tutorial

Favorite

William LaMarr ### 932843###Exhibitor Tutorial Organizer @@@ Can C. Ozbal – Purehoney Technologies ### 443870###Exhibitor Tutorial Presenter
12:00 PM - 1:15 PM

Special Interest Group (SIG)
SIG
12:00 PM - 1:15 PM

Molecular Biology and Protein Science Standards Special Interest Group (SIG)
Room/Location:3
SIG

Favorite

Rob Howes, PhD – AstraZeneca ### 140366###SIG Chair @@@ Marc A. Holbert, PhD – GSK ### 201294###SIG Speaker - Not Funded
12:00 PM - 1:15 PM

Phenotypic Drug Discovery Special Interest Group (SIG)
Room/Location:10
SIG

Sponsored By:

Favorite

Jonathan Lee, PhD – PDD4Patients LLC. ### 185951###SIG Chair
12:00 PM - 1:15 PM

Screen Design and Assay Technology Special Interest Group (SIG)
Room/Location:11A
SIG

Favorite

Kenda Evans, Ph. D. – Agilent Technologies ### 302253###SIG Chair @@@ James R. Beasley, PhD – Venenum Biodesign ### 43329###SIG Chair @@@ Andrew Napper ### 894365###SIG Speaker - Not Funded
12:00 PM - 1:15 PM

Technology Transfer and CRO/CMO Project Management Special Interest Group (SIG)
Room/Location:11B
SIG

Favorite

Raymond Price, PhD MBA – PhenoVista BIosciences ### 637979###SIG Chair and Speaker - Not Funded @@@ Mark Herbert, MSc – Scientist.com ### 947173###SIG Speaker - Not Funded @@@ Toni Wolinsky – Takeda California ### 952820###SIG Speaker - Not Funded
12:30 PM - 12:30 PM

SLAS Journals Prize Drawing
12:30 PM - 12:30 PM

SLAS Journals Prize Drawing

Favorite
1:30 PM - 3:30 PM

Advances in Cellular Target Engagement
Session Chair & Speaker: Tim Wigle, PhD – Ribon Therapeutics

Drug Target Strategies
1:30 PM - 2:00 PM

Re-evaluating kinase inhibitor selectivity and residence time in living cells with energy transfer
Room/Location:6D
Drug Target Strategies

Favorite

Matthew Robers, M.S. – Promega ### 75055###Speaker - Not Funded
2:00 PM - 2:30 PM

A bespoke screening platform to study mono(ADP-ribosylation)
Room/Location:6D
Drug Target Strategies

Favorite

Tim Wigle, PhD – Ribon Therapeutics ### 855908###Session Chair & Speaker - No Funding
2:30 PM - 3:00 PM

CETSA®-HT – enabling a new paradigm in Hit Discovery
Room/Location:6D
Drug Target Strategies

Favorite

Kirsten Tschapalda, PhD – AstraZeneca ### 855918###Speaker - Not Funded
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM

Targeting engagement by utilising CETSA in drug:target studies
Room/Location:6D
Drug Target Strategies

Favorite

Laurence H. Arnold, PhD – Pelago Bioscience ### 855927###Speaker - Not Funded
1:30 PM - 3:30 PM

Chemistry AI
Session Chair: Gerard Rosse, PhD – Arrival Discovery LLC

Molecular Libraries
1:30 PM - 2:00 PM

De novo drug design with chemistry-savvy machine intelligence
Room/Location:8
Molecular Libraries

Favorite

Gisbert Schneider, Dr – ETH Zurich ### 855983###Speaker - Funded
2:00 PM - 2:30 PM

Discovering multi-target pharmacology of drugs and drug candidates by 3D target models and machine-learning.
Room/Location:8
Molecular Libraries

Favorite

Ruben California Abagyan, PhD – University of California, San Diego ### 895360###Speaker - Not Funded
2:30 PM - 3:00 PM

Applying Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Techniques and Cross Platform Communication to Enable Informatics Driven Experimentation
Room/Location:8
Molecular Libraries

Favorite

Carleen Klumpp-Thomas, M.S. – NIH/NCATS ### 184267###Speaker - Not Funded
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM

Case studies in AI-driven drug design
Room/Location:8
Molecular Libraries

Favorite

John Griffin – Integral Health ### 855912###Speaker - Not Funded
1:30 PM - 3:30 PM

Development of Cellular Assays to Understand Protein Homeostasis
Session Chair: Dane A. Mohl, PhD – Amgen - Oncology Research

Assay Development and Screening
1:30 PM - 2:00 PM

Novel Strategies for Oncoprotein Degradation
Room/Location:6C
Assay Development and Screening

Sponsored By

Favorite

Willem Den Besten – Amgen ### 855971###Speaker - Not Funded
2:00 PM - 2:30 PM

Quantitative Live Cellular Assays for Screening Degradation Compounds and their Mechanism of Action
Room/Location:6C
Assay Development and Screening

Sponsored By

Favorite

Kristin Riching, PhD – Promega Corporation ### 855922###Speaker - Not Funded
2:30 PM - 3:00 PM

Cellular assays targeting two mutation classes causing Cystic Fibrosis: through (1) protein misfolding or (2) premature translational termination
Room/Location:6C
Assay Development and Screening

Sponsored By

Favorite

Feng Liang, PhD – Cystic Fibrosis Foundation ### 855944###Speaker - Not Funded
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM

Cellular thermal shift assays in high throughput: a 1536-well cellular target engagement assay for drug discovery
Room/Location:6C
Assay Development and Screening

Sponsored By

Favorite

Lorena Kallal, PhD – GlaxoSmithKline ### 486762###Speaker - Not Funded
1:30 PM - 3:30 PM

Open Source Automation
Session Chair: Sam Gamal Michael – NCATS

Automation and High-Throughput Technologies
1:30 PM - 2:00 PM

Improving daily operation of a fully automated uHTS system
Room/Location:6F
Automation and High-Throughput Technologies

Favorite

Steven van Helden, PhD – Pivot Park Screening Centre ### 78012###Speaker - Not Funded
2:00 PM - 2:30 PM

Leveraging Open Source Electronics for Rapid Development of Custom Laboratory Devices
Room/Location:6F
Automation and High-Throughput Technologies

Favorite

Pierre Baillargeon, M.S. Computer Engineering – The Scripps Research Institute ### 619200###Speaker - Not Funded
2:30 PM - 3:00 PM

SLAS2020 Innovation Award Finalist: Intelligent microscopes using open-source hardware for high-throughput laboratory automation
Room/Location:6F
Automation and High-Throughput Technologies

Favorite

Pavan Chandra Konda, Ph.D in Physics and Astronomy – Duke University ### 855907###Speaker - Funded
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM

Beyond High Content Screening: An Open Next Generation Image Analysis Platform
Room/Location:6F
Automation and High-Throughput Technologies

Favorite

Peter Bajcsy, PhD – NIST National Institute of Standards and Technology ### 855973###Speaker - Not Funded
1:30 PM - 3:30 PM

Systematic Data-Based Approaches for Precision Medicine
Session Chair & Speaker: Kelly A. Frazer, PhD – University of California, San Diego

Precision Medicine Technologies
1:30 PM - 2:00 PM

Overlap of fetal-specific cardiac regulatory variants and GWAS lead variants supports fetal origins of cardiovascular disease
Room/Location:6E
Precision Medicine Technologies

Favorite

Kelly A. Frazer, PhD – University of California, San Diego ### 855904###Session Chair & Speaker - WITH Funding
2:00 PM - 2:30 PM

Using Stem Cells to Explore the Genetics Underlying Neuropsychiatric Disease
Room/Location:6E
Precision Medicine Technologies

Favorite

Kristen Brennand, PhD – ISMMS ### 431048###Speaker - Not Funded
2:30 PM - 3:00 PM

CURATE.AI enabled personalised dosing for multiple myeloma
Room/Location:6E
Precision Medicine Technologies

Favorite

Agata Blasiak, PhD – National University of Singapore ### 855926###Speaker - Tony B. Awardee
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM

Personalizing Digital Therapeutics with CURATE.AI identified N.1 profiles
Room/Location:6E
Precision Medicine Technologies

Favorite

Theodore Kee, M.S. – National University of Singapore ### 635800###Speaker - Tony B. Awardee
1:30 PM - 3:30 PM

Technology development for micro and nanofluidic devices
Session Chair: Elodie Sollier-Christen, PhD – Benkei

Micro- and Nanotechnologies
1:30 PM - 2:00 PM

Limitations and new methods in the characterization of microfluidic devices for manufacturing QC
Room/Location:7AB
Micro- and Nanotechnologies

Favorite

Maximilian Pitzek, MA – Stratec Consumables ### 855974###Speaker - Funded
2:00 PM - 2:30 PM

A Portable Quality Control Lab in The Era of Food and Beverage Craftsmanship
Room/Location:7AB
Micro- and Nanotechnologies

Favorite

Maciej Grajewski – SG Papertronics B.V. and University of Groningen ### 685504###Speaker - Tony B. Awardee
2:30 PM - 3:00 PM

Single-cell hybrid microfluidics as a selection and sorting tool in the mammalian gene-editing pipeline
Room/Location:7AB
Micro- and Nanotechnologies

Favorite

Kenza Samlali, MSc – Concordia University ### 855901###Speaker - Tony B. Awardee
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM

Microfluidic circuits with fluid walls to study cell migration
Room/Location:7AB
Micro- and Nanotechnologies

Favorite

Cyril Deroy, MEng – Oxford University ### 653592###Speaker - Not Funded
3:45 PM - 5:00 PM

Keynote Session: “Digitizing Chemical Synthesis and Discovery using Chemputers
Keynote
3:45 PM - 5:00 PM

Keynote Session: “Digitizing Chemical Synthesis and Discovery using Chemputers" & SLAS Innovation and Ignite Awards Announcement
Room/Location:6AB
Keynote

Favorite

Leroy Cronin, Ph.D. – University of Glasgow ### 868086###Keynote Speaker