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Autonomous Science Night Event Recap
A recap of our "Autonomous Science Night" held at the California Academy of Sciences.
Two nights ago, Tetsuwan hosted a collection of speakers from groups working across automated tooling for research, in partnership with TechBioTransformers and Bay Area Lab Automators.
Alex and I were surprised by the interest a similar event that we ran with Ginkgo Bioworks (thanks for hosting us!) in Boston had garnered on very short notice during this year’s SLAS conference. The Society for Lab Automation or Screening (SLAS), holds its annual conferences in Boston and San Diego on alternating years. Yet, much of the exciting work being done in lab automation & tooling today is being done in the Bay Area, so we wanted to do something special with the community here. The lab automation community here in the Bay is special. Bay Area Lab Automators (BALA) and the Laboratory Robotics Interest Group (LRIG) are welcoming, helpful communities filled with people who are deeply passionate about improving the tooling that research sits on top of. There are few rooms I have enjoyed walking into more than Foundry & Lux during a BALA event night. Being involved with the wider lab automation community has been deeply rewarding.
Largely thanks to our incredible speakers (Dr. Jimmy Sastra from Monomer Bio, Dr. Will Serber from Ginkgo Bioworks, Mark Bissell from Ginkgo, and my cofounder, Alex) and our community partners, the event turned out great! The talks were recorded, and can be found on our YouTube page. The opening remarks are also available, under the blog post, “The Toolmaker’s Burden”. Unfortunately, we were unable to record some of the best parts of the evening, which happened at the reception following the talks. Here are some pictures from the night:
