This webinar explores how micro-scale synthesis is transforming Medicinal Chemistry workflows. By miniaturizing reactions, laboratories can reduce material usage, optimize compound storage, and introduce more automation-friendly processes that improve efficiency and scalability. 

In this session, you’ll hear how this transformation began at Boehringer Ingelheim, the operational efficiencies achieved through micro-scale adoption, how automation platforms and storage solutions were evaluated and selected, and what the roadmap looks like for scaling to meet future demands. 

Discover how thoughtful integration of synthesis, purification, storage and data management can unlock a more agile and future-ready compound management strategy. 

Learning Objectives 

• Micropurification and the impact it has on downstream compound management 

• Selection of a storage tube to meet reaction size needs 

• Evaluating storage options based on capacity needs, size requirements and product advantages 

• Integrating storage and tube selections into current compound management strategies while preparing for future 

• Concepts for a fully integrated solution for data management and sample management around compound synthesis from design to library 

 Speakers 

Matthias Schmid, MS, PhD 
Senior Scientist Medicinal Chemistry Technologies 
Boehringer-Ingelheim 

Matthias is an organic chemist with a strong focus on automation and novel technology implementation in medicinal chemistry. With a background in organic chemistry and chemical engineering, he aims to optimize parallel synthesis and screening workflows related to medicinal chemistry projects within Boehringer-Ingelheim. With a private interest in 3D printing, CAD-design, and basic programming, he aims for fast prototyping and then building up robust future-proof workflows. 

Cory Tiller 
Product Manager 
SPT Labtech 

Cory is an automation enthusiast with over 12 years of experience in the life sciences industry. Most of his career has been in various laboratory settings, from high throughput blood testing to next gen sequencing, with roles from clinical technologist to manufacturing engineer. His interest in process brought him to appreciate and learn more about laboratory automation and his passion in managing cross-departmental projects brought him to product management. 

About SPT Labtech 

SPT Labtech designs and makes products that transform the way scientists work. For over two decades, our expert scientists, engineers, and business innovators have created innovative solutions for liquid handling, sample preparation and management that help accelerate research and make a real difference to human health. We work collaboratively with our customers, building trusted relationships that enable us to deliver exceptional, personalized experiences designed for real world challenges in the lab. 

CRISPR-mediated gene activation (CRISPRa) efficiently mimics physiological gene overexpression, yet traditional arrayed plasmid and lentiviral library production and screening remain labor-intensive and costly to scale. 

In this webinar presented by Beckman Coulter Life Sciences, we’ll discuss the automated workflows we adopted to overcome these bottlenecks and the limitations of conventional cell culture in fast-growing models, using the Biomek i7 Hybrid platform integrated with multiple instruments. Managed by intuitive SAMI EX software, this workstation streamlines arrayed plasmid miniprep, lentivirus production, and CRISPRa screening by automating cell library passaging. Building on these easily customizable and highly adaptable workflows, we accelerate high-throughput siRNA, Open Reading Frame (ORF), and small-molecule library screens, enable flexible scalability for lentiviral/retroviral and rAAV production, and facilitate the establishment of mutagenesis-driven clonal lines for advanced functional genomics applications. 

Learning Objectives 

• Understand automated workflows for scalable arrayed CRISPRa screening. 

• Gain insight into how combining automated liquid handling with the complementary devices can help stream complex functional genomics workflows, from CRISPRa to siRNA, ORF, and small molecule screens. 

• Learn strategies to expand automated cell-based screening applications. 

Speaker 

Chun-Teng Huang, MS 
Director, Functional Genomics Core Facility 
(Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute) 

Chun-Teng Huang, MS, joined Sanford Burnham Prebys in 2008 and has accumulated extensive expertise in functional genomics and viral vector technologies. He has over 12 years of experience managing the Viral Vector Core, 7 years supervising the Training and Educational Laboratory, and 5 years serving as Director of the Functional Genomics Core Facility, supported by an NCI Cancer Center Support Grant (P30 CA030199). In addition to his primary specialization in exosomes and viral vectors, including lentivirus, retrovirus, adenovirus, adeno-associated virus, sindbis virus, zika virus, and vesicular stomatitis virus, Mr. Huang has developed broad skill sets and customized services in CRISPR/Cas technologies, high-throughput automation, stem cell cultivation, and pooled and arrayed gene perturbation library screening. 

He has collaborated with numerous research laboratories and coauthored more than 20 publications addressing cancer and other human diseases. With the recent acquisition of the NIH S10-awarded Biomek i7 Hybrid automated workstation (S10 OD036254), he has established high-throughput, automated workflows that streamline arrayed mammalian cell cultivation, plasmid minipreparation, lentivirus production, and CRISPR library screening on the Biomek i7 platform, resulting in four preprint publications as corresponding author since October 2025. 

About Beckman Coulter Life Sciences 

At Beckman Coulter Life Sciences, we are partners in time. We accelerate answers to critical questions through the power of efficiency, saving hours from some workflows and delivering reliable outcomes in liquid handling, genomics, flow cytometry, particle analysis/counting, and centrifugation. 

View the SLAS Data Science and AI TIG Science Circle for a follow-up virtual discussion building on the momentum from the TIG meeting at the SLAS2026 International Conference in Boston.

Hosted by TIG Chair Ian Kerman, NVIDIA this session continues the conversation on the role of AI in scientific writing, posters and peer review for SLAS.

The discussion will explore the need for thoughtful, community-driven guidelines and expand the conversation to a broader audience, inviting new ideas on responsible AI use across SLAS posters and presentations. Join the conversation as they work toward practical, balanced principles that support innovation while maintaining scientific integrity.

Lab automation is constantly evolving. While teams work hard to keep their labs running smoothly today, they must also evaluate and incorporate the emerging automation technologies of tomorrow. In particular, the rise of AI-led scientific discovery may very well turn the entire research process upside down. How can automation teams manage these dynamics and effectively plan for the future?In this webinar from Trilobio, Roya Amini-Naieni, CEO & Co-founder, presents a look at where lab automation is heading and what labs can do to build towards that future. Additionally, with a focus on the practical questions that matter most to the hardware, software, AI, and people of the biology lab.

• Hardware: Making balanced investments that support today’s experiments while enabling long-term scale.
• Software: Ensuring devices stay connected across a growing ecosystem of tools and data.
• AI: Where do you let AI drive your lab, from data analysis to protocol design, and where human expertise remains essential
• People: How roles will evolve, and how to free up time for training and higher-value work.

In this insightful webinar from Roylan Developments, Stuart Naylor, Managing Director, presents storage and compound-handling practices and benefits to support your research.

The storage of small molecule compound collections (in DMSO) in a nitrogen storage environment can offer many benefits, such as avoiding the need to freeze compounds and maintaining compound concentrations and activity levels by keeping DMSO free of moisture.
Additionally, it is now possible to dehydrate DMSO compound solutions to recover ECHO® microplates. The benefits are numerous, including a significant extension of the shelf life of DMSO-solubilized samples stored in microplates, thereby reducing operational costs. This webinar examines these storage and compound-handling practices and present their benefits.
Key learning points:

• A technique for long-term, room temperature, high-quality storage of chemical libraries solubilized in DMSO
• Technique for recovery of ECHO®-plated test libraries to a >95% DMSO concentration
• Unique characteristics of an easy-to-use, small-footprint, scalable, and validated hardware solution
• How to eliminate moisture in your compound libraries and retain/reuse moisture-laden ECHO® plates.

This webinar is essential for scientists and lab managers focused on high-throughput screening, compound management, and assay development.

This TIE explores how digital twins are transforming laboratory design and automation - where they work, where they don’t, and what’s coming next. Speaker: Sura Hadi, E Tech Group

SLAS Meet-Ups allows you to stay connected to the latest research and opportunities happening within the SLAS global community. Meet-Ups include the  following: SLAS Technology Idea Exchange, the SLAS Get Ahead series, Special Interest Group Science Circle series and any in-person or virtual Regional Community Meet-Ups. 

This TIE discusses the challenges and opportunities of creating standardized automated workflows for single-cell analysis and highlighted innovations that bridge the gap from biopsy to clinically relevant insights. Speakers: Stefan Scheuermann, Fraunhofer IPA Mario Nikolas Graeve, Fraunhofer IPA

Join Rui Campos, VP of Product, and Mike Asham, MS, Head of Presales from Automata, to explore how connecting the bench to the cloud can transform lab operations—from scaling throughput to improving data quality and compliance.

Until recently, most training in lab automation has been on-the-job, making it relatively inefficient and informal. As the industry has grown, a small number of organizations have begun offering structured programs to provide classroom and laboratory training in lab automation and automated science. Join us for the Automated Science Education TIG Science Circle discussion on September 30, led by TIG Chairs Joshua Kangas and Kennedy McDaniel Bae, as they discuss lab automation standard practices and education in the life sciences. Guest Speakers: Jason Hattrick-Simpers, University of Toronto and Eric Sindelar, Hamilton Company The Automated Science Education TIG fosters collaboration and knowledge sharing to strengthen educational efforts across the community.