New Matter: Inside the Minds of SLAS Scientists
The official Society for Laboratory Automation and Screening (SLAS) podcast explores advances in automation, cellular imaging, big data and what's coming in the spaces between traditional scientific disciplines. Guests often include members of SLAS along with innovators, leading experts and other members of the global scientific community to highlight technology and even career stories. Episodes are released every week and subscribe to New Matter - available on all podcast players.
New Matter: Inside the Minds of SLAS Scientists
Saving the World With a Lab in a Box
Julio Martin, SLAS European Ambassador, joins us again to co-host as we talk to Winston Chiu. Winston is an amazing young scientists who is a PhD student at KU Keuven in Belgium. Winston walks us through his research into highly infectious diseases, his adventures in robotic programming (and the accidents that happened along the way), and his viewpoint on life and learning.
Winston was a poster presenter at SLAS Europe 2021, a SLAS Student Poster Award Winner, and is an Expert Operator who manages all the technical aspects and operations of the state-of-the-art Caps-It system. Under the direction of his supervisor, Pieter Leyssen, he setup Caps-It from scratch by teaching the robotic arms, writing pipetting scripts and developing image analysis protocols. Winston has a background in industrial engineering biochemistry and has worked in clinical research laboratories where he acquired extensive knowledge in assay optimisation and validation.
Check out his winning poster: Caps-It System Facilitates Screening of 1.5 Million Molecules Identifying 6500 Inhibitors of SARS-CoV-2 Replication
Watch this cool video on the Caps-It and check out his labs twitter account!
Upcoming SLAS Events:
SLAS Europe 2025 Conference and Exhibition
- 20-22 May 2025
- Hamburg, Germany
