January 25-29, 2025
San Diego Convention Center
San Diego, CA, USA
January 25-29, 2025
San Diego Convention Center
San Diego, CA, USA
New on the SLAS2025 exhibition floor will be the NexusXp interactive pavilion designed to showcase collaborative and integrated lab automation scenarios!
NexusXp combines Nexus, the Latin word for link or connection where multiple elements meet, with the modern “Xp” to signify the “Xperience” of making that critical link or connection. Significant within cell biology, Nexus signifies a specialized area of the cell membrane involved in intercellular communication and adhesion, implying that the nexus of a cell facilitates communication among the various parts and allows it to work properly.
SLAS is focusing this year’s integration “story” on the well-known Design – Make – Test - Analyze cycle to illustrate all the ways lab automation platforms can come together to enable effective drug discovery. By showcasing successful collaborations at each step of this cycle, NexusXp can assist any lab director, principal investigator or other lab head to identify their spot in the automation trajectory and build a plan to accelerate their research.
A new and unique opportunity for collaboration between technology providers, the NexusXp pavilion will feature:
solutions-focused Automation Success Stories using physical and digital examples of system integrations, live storytelling and simulations;
Collaborative Integration Scenario Showcases to demonstrate how a lab can integrate various technology providers’ automation solutions to work in unison through the four pillars of the Design – Make – Test - Analyze cycle; and
Multi-company discussion areas to better understand the platform relationships and provide participants with actionable insights.
The pavilion will not be another lecture hall or theater space, it is an exclusive cross-media presentation space to showcase integrations, success stories, solve challenges and build plans to move a lab forward, whether you're buying your first piece of equipment or looking for the next best product or process to propel your research.
Sam Michael, Director of Automation and Compound Management and Acting Chief Information Officer at the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences at the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NCATS/NIH), will be curating the content scenarios. In collaboration with the technology providers, and the SLAS scientific director Lesley Mathews, Ph.D., Michael will ensure a scientifically rigorous and engaging pavilion for participants. Learn more about Sam Michael.