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SLAS2025: curiosity ignites community in lab automation


Lesley Granberg is the Scientific Director for the Society for Laboratory Automation and Screening (SLAS). A laboratory scientist by training, Lesley has a background in oncology research, working at a few different companies, including Novartis (Basel, Switzerland), where she helped start a teaching lab. She now combines her education and science training to curate and direct SLAS’s educational content, from short courses to podium programs and poster presentations. We caught up with Lesley to discuss SLAS2025 (25–29 January; San Diego, CA, USA), including the theme of curiosity, lab integration and meeting Tom Cruise (sort of), as well as what to...

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