Send us a text 2021 SLAS Fellowship Winner David McIntyre , from the Densmore Lab at Boston University, is automating the design of microfluidics through rapid prototyping and machine learning for use in screening synthetic biological systems. Coming from Silicon Valley, David was exposed to science and tech from an early age, and spurred his desire to accelerate biological research. Listen in to hear about his most exciting accomplishments and the new and projects his lab has coming down the pi...
Mar 03, 2021•13 min•Ep. 66
Send us a text How do you enable labs to easily leverage equipment and people so they can automate their experiments? Artificial 's Chief Product Officer Nikhita Singh joins New Matter today to tell us how Artificial's aLab Suite brings together scientists and automation engineers to do just that. She also shares about their recent win of the SLAS Ignite Award and participation in Innovation Ave NEW . The SLAS Ignite Award is sponsored by the Pistoia Alliance President's Startup C...
Mar 01, 2021•18 min•Ep. 65
Send us a text Solentim is a SLAS2021 New Product Award Winner for ICON and they loaned us Duncan Borthwick today to tell us how they are dedicated to listening to scientists to make better tools to improve science. Duncan shares how this quality assurance product company works on improving therapeutics by reducing variability. Upcoming SLAS Events: SLAS Europe 2025 Conference and Exhibition 20-22 May 2025 Hamburg, Germany View the full events calendar...
Feb 22, 2021•17 min•Ep. 64
Send us a text At SLAS2021 Sisi Chen (Caltech) was awarded the SLAS Innovation Award, honoring research that proved to be exceedingly innovative. In this episode of New Matter, Sisi talks more about her research in defining the breadth and specificity of drug response in heterogeneous immune cell populations. Sisi shares more about her passions, her research, and her primordial early life bioengineering manifesto. Upcoming SLAS Events: SLAS Europe 2025 Conference and Exhibition 20-22 May 2025 Ha...
Feb 15, 2021•20 min•Ep. 63
Send us a text Julio Martin , a “playmaker scientist” with over 30 years of experience working in the pharmaceutical industry, shares his vision on better management of scientific organizations and labs. He emphasizes the need to create new patterns of order at the edge of chaos and relationships that are not top down. His blog, Sciengement Lab, is a great space for the exchange of ideas and scientific knowledge in management. Make sure to check it out! Upcoming SLAS Events: SLAS Europe 2025 Con...
Feb 08, 2021•25 min•Ep. 62
Send us a text Advising. Visiting. Troubleshooting. Those are the keywords that describe Constanza Curotto 's ( Corning) day to day work. She joins Marshall and guest host Marc Bickle ( Max Planck Dresden ) to discuss her winding road from Chile all the way to Amsterdam. She decided early on that she wanted to shift from hands on science to the business side of things. Since the forced incubation period that has come out of the current pandemic, Costanza and her colleagues are teaching them...
Feb 01, 2021•15 min•Ep. 61
Send us a text Dhash Shrivathsa drills down into what they do at Radix Labs . In response to the SLAS challenge he came up with Operating systems for biology labs, we cook software drugs . He talks about how Radix started off with a joke that went too far and evolved into making software for not software people. Learn about their new approach to the tools you already have and the philosophy of software. His philosophy is that one of the best skills in life is thinking like a computer. Check out ...
Jan 25, 2021•15 min•Ep. 60
Send us a text Marshall chats with Mike Tarselli about his birth on a planet far, far away to his rise as Chief Scientific Officer at TetraScience (a SLAS2021 Innovation AveNEW company). Mike discusses his winding journey starting as a pre-med major and eventually careening to his final path - a Ph.D. in Chemistry and the battle scars accumulated from the arduous path to completion. And then hitting the Great Recession! Mike shares his thoughts on the challenge of “Big Data” in life science R&am...
Jan 18, 2021•19 min•Ep. 59
Send us a text Manuela Beil-Peter ( Analytik Jena AG ) didn't choose her career, it kind of evolved from her first love; languages. Hear how this SLAS board member hopes to help the community connect more and emphasize the journey of science and technology moving forward together. Upcoming SLAS Events: SLAS Europe 2025 Conference and Exhibition 20-22 May 2025 Hamburg, Germany View the full events calendar...
Dec 14, 2020•14 min•Ep. 56
Send us a text Mel Leveridge ( GSK ) shares her deep passion for biology and biochemistry with guest host Mario Richter ( AbbVie ). Listen to her extraordinary experience leading the establishment of a COVID19 testing center at Cambridge UK last year as part of the collaboration between GSK, AstraZeneca and the University of Cambridge, and her dedication to delivering science and technology to discover new medicines. Take a page from Mel's book and apply your love of science to something ta...
Dec 11, 2020•14 min•Ep. 55
Send us a text New SLAS Board Member Jan Lichtenberg join us this week to talk about the importance of communication and more to being successful in science. He walks us through the roller coaster ride that was developing his start up, InSphero , and one of their most exciting movements. What is it like rowing in the same boat as a bigger pharmaceutical company? Listen and find out! Upcoming SLAS Events: SLAS Europe 2025 Conference and Exhibition 20-22 May 2025 Hamburg, Germany View the full eve...
Dec 08, 2020•22 min•Ep. 54
Send us a text Rising SLAS Board Member Jonathan O'Connell is passionate about the future of SLAS. He talks with guest host Karlton Moore (from Artel ) about his career path and how certain choices shaped his future. Hear about his new company, Valo Health , which has just come out of stealth mode and is leveraging compute, AI and data to transform the drug discovery and development process; after all, the beauty of AI is that it can think multidimensional. Learn about how Jonathan created ...
Nov 19, 2020•20 min•Ep. 53
Send us a text What are the best ways to apply 3D organoid models and get the answers to what you need in the simplest way possible? Hilary Sherman ( Corning ) can tell you! She and guest host Annika Jenmalm Jensen ( Karolinska Institutet ) dip into different fields of research and the advantages to always getting to learn something new. Hear how she moved from a career in marine biology to cellular biology and how trying new things can often lead to a career path you never thought of. And when ...
Nov 16, 2020•16 min•Ep. 52
Send us a text In this week's episode, guest host Andrew Napper , Vice President, Discovery Sciences at Evotec joins Zack Gurard-Levin Chief Scientific Officer at SAMDI Tech, Inc. Andrew and Zack discuss how high school chemistry sparked his interest in science and his work with SAMDI Tech helping companies solve challenging problems, and opening up avenues for networking and collaboration. Learn about what one of the best decisions of Zack’s life was and how to follow your passions and pur...
Nov 09, 2020•19 min•Ep. 51
Send us a text Join special guest host Dr. Colin Cox ( King of the Robots ) and Dr. Lauren Shields as they discuss what is important to think about in terms of organic team building, how to persevere and focus in the field of science, and the pro-bono COVID projects Benchling is working on. Along the way learn about her start in science at a very young age and her amazing personal growth in the field since, as well how to have fun in the Bay area, especially when avoiding wildfires. Check out th...
Nov 02, 2020•14 min•Ep. 50
Send us a text Robots never tire, and neither do we. Learn from Biosero CTO David Dambman about how a passion for software, repeatability, and impact on world health problems - plus side paths in radar and guitar equipment - led him to construct the Green Button Go™ Automation Scheduling Software integration layer atop the company's lab automation. We touch on how to make use of tight lab space, where the Cloud actually lives, and what David would do with a magic box to solve diagnostic pro...
Oct 26, 2020•20 min•Ep. 49
Send us a text If being scientifically "bilingual" is important for today's careers, Imran Haque is a master linguist - he speaks data science, immunology, chemistry, and relates it all with a smile and enthusiasm. Join Mike and Imran as they discuss COVID-19 cytokine storms, GIGO, "unshackling" scientists by teaching them scripting languages, and how a cartoon genetics book influenced his amazing career. Upcoming SLAS Events: SLAS Europe 2025 Conference and Exhibition 2...
Oct 19, 2020•21 min•Ep. 48
Send us a text Professor Shaghayegh Harbi has been listening to lectures since she was in utero. She's been propelled forward by the need to shout from the rooftops about everything science: immune social networking, ethnically diverse transcriptomics, and her true central passion of teaching science to non-majors. Along the way, learn a bit about spotting trends, working in isolation, and being in the right places at correct times. Upcoming SLAS Events: SLAS Europe 2025 Conference and Exhi...
Oct 12, 2020•11 min•Ep. 47
Send us a text Have you ever worn a "personal fume hood" to do your lab work? If you're Lynn Rasmussen, and you're handling the worst viruses known to man, you would! Join Mike and Lynn as they discuss COVID, social distancing, the revelation of lab automation, and the biggest drug hunting organization you've never heard of - Southern Research (they've had 7 FDA-approved molecules!). Wear a mask and listen in. Upcoming SLAS Events: SLAS Europe 2025 Conference and Ex...
Oct 05, 2020•17 min•Ep. 46
Send us a text Join Merck's MJ Wildey - a 26-year member of our community - as she and Mike wax historic and celebrate SLAS's 10th anniversary. If you like to think of screening as an enabling science to open the doors to multiple disease treatments and new tech, this one's for you! Upcoming SLAS Events: SLAS Europe 2025 Conference and Exhibition 20-22 May 2025 Hamburg, Germany View the full events calendar...
Sep 28, 2020•15 min•Ep. 45
Send us a text What happens when a linguist and a biomedical engineer partner up to teach computers how to "solve" drug discovery? What role do humans play once computers are calling the shots? Can a biotech community grow up around Salt Lake City? Drs. Lina Nilsson and Katherine Matsumoto join Mike to answer these questions and encourage you to get involved with their (free!) data sets to do your own modeling at rxrx.ai . Upcoming SLAS Events: SLAS Europe 2025 Conference and Exhibitio...
Sep 21, 2020•27 min•Ep. 44
Send us a text A chance encounter with an ancient liquid handler in a dusty corner was all it took to propel Dr. Colin Cox into a life of robot wrangling. Join Colin and Mike as they discuss synthetic genes, reduction of "art" to "practice," being connected in the times of COVID-19, and why you should never binge-watch the Wizard of Oz. Millions of data points....without a team of 40. One man and a robot can rule the (biotech) world. Upcoming SLAS Events: SLAS Europe 2025 Con...
Sep 14, 2020•12 min•Ep. 43
Send us a text SLAS Board President Emilio Diez-Monedero is on his third act of an amazingly impactful career - as a molecular biologist in academia, as an automation leader in pharmaceuticals, and now as a consultant and investor in small-stage rare disease companies. Join Mike and Emilio as they discuss the impact of COVID-19 on the scientific enterprise, how all jobs are global jobs, and which moments of professional inspiration led Emilio to his current calling. And, of course, how SLAS and ...
Sep 07, 2020•20 min•Ep. 42
Send us a text Building robots and inspiring other students to follow suit are among the chief passions that propelled BadgerBOTS Team 1306 to win the Wisconsin Regional 2020 FIRST Robotics Chairman's award . Join Mike and Chair Kevin Chang, finance whiz Max Roquitte, and CAD engineer Cal Rossman as they explain the inner workings of their 'bot, how FIRST helps kids get into STEM fields, and how SLAS can help get automation motivation up! Upcoming SLAS Events: SLAS Europe 2025 Conferen...
Aug 31, 2020•14 min•Ep. 41
Send us a text Synthetic Biology has exploded - MIT professor Jim Collins outlines just a few of the opportunities in diagnostics among those in energy, materials, and sustainability. Along the way, learn about his shock at discovering that freeze-dried cell-free extracts could be brought "back to life," the amazing group of collaborators that propelled him forward, and some...interesting...approaches to cholera diagnostics. Upcoming SLAS Events: SLAS Europe 2025 Conference and Exhibit...
Aug 24, 2020•15 min•Ep. 40
Send us a text Bioengineer? Teacher? Analytical chemist? Carine Nemr , the 2019 SLAS Graduate Education Fellowship winner, is all of these (and more!). Join us as we discuss lab training, microfluidics, antibiotic resistance, and how small the world really is....networking is key! Upcoming SLAS Events: SLAS Europe 2025 Conference and Exhibition 20-22 May 2025 Hamburg, Germany View the full events calendar...
Aug 17, 2020•14 min•Ep. 39
Send us a text The discovery and application of different ways to edit genes has revolutionized how we understand biological systems. Mammoth Biosciences' CTO Dr. Janice Chen joins Mike to talk about how to launch a start-up, how to discover new CRISPR nucleases, and how to turn lab discoveries into products that benefit human health. You might also hear about riding in an Uber with a plate reader on your lap. Tune in! Upcoming SLAS Events: SLAS Europe 2025 Conference and Exhibition 20-22 M...
Aug 10, 2020•22 min•Ep. 38
Send us a text SLAS CEO Vicki Loise discusses with Mike how 2021 will look different - but better! - for our conferences, symposia, journals , eLearning , podcasts , and microcredentials. Get ready to engage with us on many more levels as we storm into '21. Upcoming SLAS Events: SLAS Europe 2025 Conference and Exhibition 20-22 May 2025 Hamburg, Germany View the full events calendar...
Aug 04, 2020•18 min•Ep. 37
Send us a text If you need a crash course in synthetic biology and the sheer joy of natural products discovery, look no further than Dr. Keith Robison of Ginkgo Bioworks and his blog Omics! Omics! . Mike and Keith cover the wacky world of biology, from finding bugs in oil reserves and sea slugs to the unexpected wealth of molecular diversity that emerges to treat human disease and even COVID-19. Careful listeners will hear about slime molds, dirty tubs, FK-506, and just how many computational cy...
Jul 27, 2020•28 min•Ep. 35
Send us a text Would you start from nothing, over and over? SLAS Board Member Peter Simpson has...twice! First as the founding CSO for Medicines Discovery Catapult, an innovation organization supporting biotech and pharma, and most recently as one of four leaders of the Lighthouse response effort to combat COVID-19. Learn how Peter displays resiliency, depends on the "non-sexy" transferable skills of screening and biomarkers, and pushes forward with a keen sense of humor and wit. Upcom...
Jul 20, 2020•13 min•Ep. 34
