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

Exhibitor Badge Pick-Up

7:30 AM – 5:00 PM

Registration Open

8:00 AM – 5:00 PM

Assay Guidance Workshop for High Throughput Screening and Lead Discovery

8:30 AM – 4:30 PM

Saturday Short Courses

10:00 AM – 10:30 AM

Short Course Participant Beverage Break

12:00 PM – 1:00 PM

Short Course Participant Lunch (full-day participants only)

2:30 PM – 3:00 PM

Short Course Participant Beverage Break

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

Exhibitor Badge Pick-Up

7:30 AM – 5:00 PM

Registration Open

8:30 AM – 4:30 PM

Sunday Short Courses

10:00 AM – 10:30 AM

Short Course Participant Beverage Break

12:00 PM – 1:00 PM

Short Course Participant Lunch (full-day participants only)

12:00 PM – 4:00 PM

Speaker Ready Room Open

2:30 PM – 3:00 PM

Short Course Participant Beverage Break

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

Registration Open

8:00 AM – 5:00 PM

Speaker Ready Room Open

8:00 AM – 6:00 PM

Coat & Luggage Check

8:30 AM – 9:00 AM

Keynote Session: Welcome and Opening Remarks

9:00 AM – 10:00 AM

Keynote Session: Jackie Hunter, Ph.D.
Board Director, BenevolentAI

10:00 AM – 10:30 AM

Beverage Break in the Exhibition Hall

10:00 AM – 4:30 PM

Career Connections: Mentoring Sessions / Job Boards

10:00 AM – 6:00 PM

Exhibition Open

10:00 AM – 6:00 PM

Poster Information Desk Open

10:00 AM – 6:00 PM

Poster Viewing in Exhibition Hall

10:00 AM – 6:00 PM

SLAS Booth Open

10:30 AM – 12:30 PM

Antibody therapeutics discovery: Focus on bispecifics and immune checkpoint modulators

10:30 AM – 12:30 PM

Demonstrating translational relevance of organoid and multicellular tissues for preclinical models of human disease

10:30 AM – 12:30 PM

Optimization of Assays for Challenging Targets for Lead Discovery and Screening

10:30 AM – 12:30 PM

Screening & Profiling at higher throughput using physiologically relevant cell models

10:30 AM – 12:30 PM

Target and Mechanism Deconvolution After Phenotypic Screens

10:30 AM – 12:30 PM

The Lab of the Future: Automation in the Digital Age

10:30 AM – 6:00 PM

Solutions Spotlight

10:50 AM – 12:00 PM

Innovation AveNEW - Ignite Award Presentations

12:30 PM – 1:15 PM

Exhibitor Tutorials

12:30 PM – 1:30 PM

Lunch in the Exhibition Hall

12:30 PM – 1:30 PM

Meet SLAS Technology Editor-in-Chief (Edward Kai-Hua Chow, Ph.D., National University of Singapore)

12:30 PM – 1:45 PM

Exhibitor Tutorials

12:30 PM – 2:30 PM

Exhibitor Tutorials

1:15 PM – 2:15 PM

Ignite Academic Collaboration Presentations

2:00 PM – 2:45 PM

Exhibitor Tutorials

2:00 PM – 3:00 PM

Poster Presentations: Session A

2:30 PM – 3:00 PM

Beverage Break in the Exhibition Hall

2:30 PM – 3:45 PM

Ignite Panel: Success Stories - Commercial Products from Ideas

3:00 PM – 5:00 PM

Application of Organ-on-chips and micro-physiological systems

3:00 PM – 5:00 PM

Automating Chemistry in the age of AI

3:00 PM – 5:00 PM

Biochemical & Biophysical Assays

3:00 PM – 5:00 PM

Cell therapies for cancer: CAR-Ts in development

3:00 PM – 5:00 PM

Data Strategy: Sharing and Repurposing Data

3:00 PM – 5:00 PM

Target Engagement and Pathways

4:00 PM – 4:30 PM

Student Poster Award Winner Announcement

4:00 PM – 5:00 PM

TRISH, Where Space and Health Intersect

5:00 PM – 5:30 PM

SLAS Europe Meet & Greet: Austrian Wine & Strudel Reception

5:00 PM – 6:00 PM

Poster Presentations: Session B

5:00 PM – 6:00 PM

Reception in Exhibition Hall Celebrating the 2020 SLAS Journal Achievement Award Honorees

5:00 PM – 6:00 PM

Student and Early Career Professionals Mixer in SLAS Booth

5:15 PM – 6:00 PM

New Product Award Press Conference & Ignite Award Announcement

6:30 PM – 8:30 PM

SLAS Student and Early Career Professionals Event

Tuesday, January 28, 2020
6:30 AM – 7:30 AM

SLAS FUNd Run 2020

7:15 AM – 9:00 AM

Analytical, Life Science and Diagnostic Association Executives Breakfast (ALDA) (Invitation Only)

7:30 AM – 8:15 AM

Academia vs. Industry, Where Do You Fit?

7:30 AM – 6:00 PM

Registration Open

8:00 AM – 9:15 AM

Special Interest Group (SIG)

8:00 AM – 5:00 PM

Speaker Ready Room Open

8:00 AM – 6:00 PM

Coat & Luggage Check

9:30 AM – 10:15 AM

Exhibitor Tutorials

9:30 AM – 5:00 PM

Career Connections: Mentoring Sessions / Job Boards

9:30 AM – 6:00 PM

Exhibition Open

9:30 AM – 6:00 PM

Poster Information Desk Open

9:30 AM – 6:00 PM

Poster Viewing in Exhibition Hall

9:30 AM – 6:00 PM

SLAS Booth Open

10:00 AM – 10:30 AM

Beverage Break in the Exhibition Hall

10:00 AM – 6:00 PM

Solutions Spotlight

10:30 AM – 12:30 PM

Advanced Imaging & High-Content Assays

10:30 AM – 12:30 PM

Development and applications of Functional Genomics technologies

10:30 AM – 12:30 PM

From instrument to decision: improved decision-making on complex data at scale

10:30 AM – 12:30 PM

Future technologies for biologics drug discovery

10:30 AM – 12:30 PM

Label Free Bioanalytical Techniques

10:30 AM – 12:30 PM

Screening Automation: Modular vs. Highly integrated systems

12:00 PM – 1:15 PM

Special Interest Group (SIG)

12:30 PM – 1:15 PM

Exhibitor Tutorials

12:30 PM – 1:30 PM

Lunch in the Exhibition Hall

12:30 PM – 1:30 PM

Meet SLAS Discovery Editor-in-Chief (Robert M. Campbell, Ph.D., Eli Lilly & Co., Indianapolis, IN)

12:30 PM – 1:45 PM

Exhibitor Tutorials

1:15 PM – 2:15 PM

Ignite Academic Collaboration Presentations

2:00 PM – 2:45 PM

Exhibitor Tutorials

2:00 PM – 3:00 PM

Poster Presentations: Session C

2:30 PM – 3:00 PM

Beverage Break in the Exhibition Hall

2:30 PM – 3:45 PM

Ignite Panel: How Diversity Drives Entrepreneurial Success

3:00 PM – 5:00 PM

Advanced imaging technologies to bridge the gap between high-content and high-throughput

3:00 PM – 5:00 PM

Advanced In Vitro Cell Culture Systems

3:00 PM – 5:00 PM

Microdevices for high-throughput cellular and biomolecular profiling

3:00 PM – 5:00 PM

Protein Homeostasis: new drug discovery directions

3:00 PM – 5:00 PM

Small Molecule Libraries

3:00 PM – 5:00 PM

Tools to Resolve Disease Complexity

4:00 PM – 5:10 PM

Innovation AveNEW - Ignite Award Presentations

5:00 PM – 6:00 PM

Poster Presentations: Session D

5:00 PM – 6:00 PM

Reception in Exhibition Hall

6:30 PM – 9:30 PM

Tuesday Night Celebration – Seaport Village Sponsored by Hamilton

Wednesday, January 29, 2020
7:30 AM – 8:15 AM

Career Guidance Session - Transferable Skills: Adventures Beyond Chemistry

8:00 AM – 9:15 AM

Special Interest Group (SIG)

8:00 AM – 12:00 PM

Speaker Ready Room Open

8:00 AM – 2:00 PM

Coat & Luggage Check

8:30 AM – 1:30 PM

Registration Open

9:00 AM – 9:30 AM

Beverage Break in the Exhibition Hall

9:00 AM – 1:00 PM

Career Connections: Job Boards

9:00 AM – 1:00 PM

Exhibition Open

9:00 AM – 1:00 PM

Poster Information Desk Open

9:00 AM – 1:00 PM

Poster Viewing in Exhibition Hall

9:00 AM – 1:00 PM

SLAS Booth Open

9:30 AM – 10:30 AM

SLAS Journal Strategy Workshop

9:30 AM – 11:30 AM

1536 and beyond: HT miniaturization while maintaining physiological relevance

9:30 AM – 11:30 AM

Applications of CRISPR Technology in Drug Discovery

9:30 AM – 11:30 AM

Applications of Single Cell Analysis to Disease Studies

9:30 AM – 11:30 AM

DNA-Encoded Chemical Libraries

9:30 AM – 11:30 AM

Drugging RNA

9:30 AM – 11:30 AM

Novel sampling strategies and highly miniaturized systems for mass spectrometric analysis

10:00 AM – 1:50 PM

Solutions Spotlight

11:30 AM – 12:00 PM

Lunch in the Exhibition Hall

11:30 AM – 12:30 PM

Poster Presentations: Session E

11:45 AM – 12:00 PM

Passport to Prizes Award Announcements

12:00 PM – 12:45 PM

Exhibitor Tutorials

12:00 PM – 1:15 PM

Special Interest Group (SIG)

12:30 PM

SLAS Journals Prize Drawing

1:30 PM – 3:30 PM

Advances in Cellular Target Engagement

1:30 PM – 3:30 PM

Chemistry AI

1:30 PM – 3:30 PM

Development of Cellular Assays to Understand Protein Homeostasis

1:30 PM – 3:30 PM

Open Source Automation

1:30 PM – 3:30 PM

Systematic Data-Based Approaches for Precision Medicine

1:30 PM – 3:30 PM

Technology development for micro and nanofluidic devices

3:45 PM – 5:00 PM

Keynote Session: “Digitizing Chemical Synthesis and Discovery using Chemputers