The Benefits of Presenting at SLAS2017
Delivering a podium or poster presentation at SLAS2017 offers significant benefits to both you and your organization. The SLAS community is extremely knowledgeable, well-connected, friendly and collaborative. As such, you can expect thoughtful input from a well-qualified scientific audience on how to further or refine your research, including insight to commercialization and partnership opportunities. As a presenter, you will also gain admittance to a select group of subject matter experts with whom you can network and exchange ideas not only at the conference, but on a year-round basis. Read on to learn more about the benefits of presenting from some folks who know best — members of the SLAS2017 Scientific Program Planning Committee:
"As at any good conference, there are many reasons to attend and present one's work. However, SLAS stands out with its unusual fusion of industry and academic participants. This is true both for the presenters and the audience at large. It is often surprisingly fruitful to encourage mixing of researchers from different fields, and it is equally true for mixing academic and industry scientists."
Lenny Teytelman, Protocols
Data Analysis and Informatics Track
"Presentations provide direct exposure for the organization's/employer's funded research to the most critical but also helpful audience – peers. The unique nature of SLAS also invites the opportunity for questions or suggestions posed to the presenter that may inspire alternative uses or directions for the described material."
John Doench, The Broad Institute, and
Benjamin Haley, Genentech
Cellular Technologies Track
"SLAS is a unique forum in that it effectively brings together academic and industrial expertise within the screening technology space. While other conferences do this, I think this multi-discipline mix is the key differentiator for SLAS."
Cathy Tralau-Stewart, University of California, San Francisco
Assay Development and Screening Track
"SLAS is a great channel to expose work to industry professionals who can be end-users or partners of your research. It's also an extremely strong opportunity to network with industry people to learn their needs, which can motivate new research."
Sindy Tang, Stanford University, and
Andrew deMello, Institute for Chemical and Bioengineering
Micro- and Nanotechnologies Track
"The scale and cross-disciplinary diversity of the SLAS conference provides a unique opportunity to showcase your work to an extensive network of life sciences and technology professionals from across industry and academia worldwide."
Dieter Drexler, Bristol-Myers Squibb, and
Melanie Leveridge, GlaxoSmithKline
Advances in Bioanalytics, Biomarkers and Diagnostics Track
"SLAS2017 is an excellent forum to see what technologies and approaches are being applied to practice. It is one thing to read about new technology applications (automation, NGS, CRISPR and imaging, etc.) but learning how your peers are using them in practice is much more valuable."
Ed Ainscow, Carrick Therapeutics
Assay Development and Screening Track
"SLAS attendees, by and large, are focused on applying novel technologies and methodology to answer both basic and clinically-relevant questions. One never knows what questions or suggestions may come up during a presentation, which could significantly alter the original intent or plan of the presenter. More so, presentations could stimulate collaborations between the presenter and parties interested in the described research."
John Doench, The Broad Institute, and
Benjamin Haley, Genentech
Cellular Technologies Track
"The diversity of the attendees at the SLAS conference enables presenters to promote their organization to various potential collaborations. The conference program is extremely well organized — there is ample time to network between talks, posters and social events."
Margaret DiFilippo, Dotmatics
Data Analysis and Informatics Track
