Alice Tome-Fernandez is a Senior Applications Scientist here at Automata. She leverages her experience in developing multi-omics tools and the application of laboratory automation to create people-centric solutions for labs.

Jesse Mayer is a Senior Field Applications Scientist at Automata with specialisms in extraction, sequencing and cell-based assays. He has a PdD in Biochemistry from the University of Nevada and a BsC from Washington State University. Jesse joins us with a wealth of experience from both in-lab and within lab automation, having previously worked for Thermo Fisher Scientific and Biosero to name a few.

Maureen Makes is Director of Engineering at Recursion in the infrastructure and tools team. Recursion unites technology, biology, chemistry and patient-centric data to industrialise drug discovery at scale.

Satnam Sura is the Chief Technology Officer and Co-founder of the bioengineering company Twig Bio. Twig Bio’s automated lab enables the manipulation and analysis of tens of thousands of bacterial strains each week.

Lilly Wollman is Co-founder and CEO of AI software platform developer Synteny. The Synteny AI Platform for Disease Discoveries utilises artificial intelligence to decode the signal of immune repertoires to power disease discoveries.