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.

The Automated Science Education TIG’s conversation will focus on lab automation standard practices and education in this upcoming TIG Science Circle. TIG Chairs Joshua Kangas and Kennedy McDaniel Bae will lead the discussion alongside guest speakers Kathryn Liles, Director of Customer Success at Automata, and Cameron Kim, Assistant Professor at Duke University.

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.

This SLAS Technology Idea Exchange features three companies from the inaugural SLAS NexusXp People's Choice Award-winning collaboration: "TEST," - The Future of Drug Discovery: DeepCure's AI and Robotics Driven Pipeline.

DeepCure is accelerating drug discovery through AI, robotics and advanced informatics. A fully integrated hardware and software solution was deployed to synthesize, purify and advance 5,000 to 10,000 new compounds every month through the development pipeline. Design-Make-Test-Analyze (DMTA) was fully automated and increased laboratory efficiency by orders of magnitude. This was accomplished through deep collaboration between DeepCure, Waters and Biosero.

Representing TEST for this T.I.E. will be Thrasyvoulos Karydis (DeepCure), Dustin Whitson (Biosero), and Andrew Leightner (Waters), with Hayley Dyer (Biosero) and SLAS Scientific Manager Emily Yamasaki, Ph.D., serving as moderators.