diff --git a/.github/workflows/scheduled.yaml b/.github/workflows/scheduled.yaml
index f03a58212..5dfd5497c 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/scheduled.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/scheduled.yaml
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ jobs:
       additional-env-vars: |
         PKG_SYSREQS_DRY_RUN=true
       extra-deps: |
-        SummarizedExperiment (>= 1.36.0)
+        matrixStats (>= 1.5.0)
   branch-cleanup:
     if: >
       github.event_name == 'schedule' || (
diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index a8a758a16..21ece43e2 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ Depends:
     R (>= 4.1),
     shiny (>= 1.8.1),
     teal.data (>= 0.6.0.9017),
-    teal.slice (>= 0.5.1.9015)
+    teal.slice (>= 0.5.1.9022)
 Imports:
     checkmate (>= 2.1.0),
     cli,
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ Imports:
     rlang (>= 1.0.0),
     shinyjs,
     stats,
-    teal.code (>= 0.5.0.9015),
+    teal.code (>= 0.5.0.9022),
     teal.logger (>= 0.3.0.9003),
     teal.reporter (>= 0.3.1.9023),
     teal.widgets (>= 0.4.0),
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ Suggests:
     ggplot2 (>= 3.4.0),
     knitr (>= 1.42),
     mirai (>= 1.1.1),
-    MultiAssayExperiment (>= 1.32.0),
+    MultiAssayExperiment,
     R6,
     renv (>= 1.0.11),
     rmarkdown (>= 2.23),
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ Config/Needs/verdepcheck: rstudio/shiny, insightsengineering/teal.data,
     rstudio/bslib, yihui/knitr, bioc::MultiAssayExperiment, r-lib/R6,
     rstudio/rmarkdown, tidyverse/rvest, rstudio/shinytest2,
     rstudio/shinyvalidate, r-lib/testthat, r-lib/withr,
-    yaml=vubiostat/r-yaml, rstudio/htmltools
+    yaml=vubiostat/r-yaml, rstudio/htmltools, bioc::matrixStats
 Config/Needs/website: insightsengineering/nesttemplate
 Encoding: UTF-8
 Language: en-US