Already on holiday or still packing? Either way, you'll want to keep this on your radar. New #ComplexityThought essay dropping soon: “A Tangled Nature”: #complexity, #evolution and the tangled web we live in. Bookmark it: manlius.substack.com/p/a-tangled-... No spoilers, just anticipation.

🕒 NEW VIDEO 🕒 How can a cell know the time? Let's explore the beautiful 24-hour cycle produced by #KaiC proteins in the cyanobacteria S. Elongatus. Rendered in #blender3d with @bradyajohnston.bsky.social's brilliant Molecular Nodes add-on. #biology

Top-level talks yesterday at the Generative AI for Biology workshop organised by the UK’s Gen AI Hub. A lot of ideas and interesting applications! @genaihub.bsky.social

💬 "We want to foster an entrepreneurial spirit that helps everyone recognise the translational potential of their work, and I’m excited to be working alongside Fiona as we progress along that journey.” The Earlham Institute secures its first Entrepreneur in Residence award from @royalsociety.org.

Entrepreneur in residence to drive innovation at the Earlham Institute

The Earlham Institute has secured its first Entrepreneur in Residence award from the Royal Society.

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First @chorylab.bsky.social blog post! chorylab.substack.com/p/new-year-n...

New Year, New Lab: Automating Your Lab Life with Zapier 🎉

Freezers fail. Robots tantrum. Automation saves the day.

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Chory Lab @ Duke@chorylab.bsky.social · 2y ago

We’ve launched our new blog to share insights, tools, and stories from our lab life. Our first post is live: “New Year, New Lab: Automating Your Lab Life with Zapier.” Learn how we use automation to manage the chaos and focus on science. 🥼🤖 Check it out here 👉 chorylab.substack.com

Mini-Christmas project: a 3d-printed conveyor belt

10 minutes ago I am excited to share a perspective on the much-needed topic of hashtag#safety for hashtag#selfdrivinglaboratories. As the field progresses, understanding the challenges and gaps in building safe setups will be crucial for scaling up this technology! doi.org/10.26434/che...

Steering towards safe self-driving laboratories

The past decade has witnessed remarkable advancements in autonomous systems, such as automobiles that are evolving from traditional vehicles to ones capable of navigating complex environments without ...

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Commercially available tiny microscope from the openUC2 team led by Benedict Diederich - a collaboration with Seeed studio. Open design, motorised focus stacking and extensible through the UC2 cage interface. www.seeedstudio.com/XIAO-Microsc...

What happens when the Communications team gets let loose in the lab? Group Leader Dr @sarah-guiziou.bsky.social invited us along to her lab for a festive #STEM #engagement activity - "painting" with bacteria. A great method for introducing #microbiology and #synbio to young audiences. 🦠🧫🖌️🎄

We're hiring! Are you a #metabolomics scientist interested in working with #EU colleagues to analyse and model metabolomic data? We are looking for an enthusiastic and knowledgeable individual to join the #BiACEM project: www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...

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In our new article, we catch up with PhD researcher @yashbancil.bsky.social about his work developing high-throughput #singlecell #microbial workflows for unravelling the genomic and functional complexities of complex #microbiomes. 🦠🧪 www.earlham.ac.uk/articles/usi... @atrandi.bsky.social

Using new technology to explore the tiniest of worlds

Complex microbiomes are everywhere. Our skin, our guts, soil, pond water. All are home to tiny life forms, interacting with each other and going about their business.

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Why you should buy a Bambu A1 Mini even though you "don’t need one": it will crank out simple but time consuming parts like this all day every day quickly and with perfect precision so you aren’t tying up bigger more capable printers.

Feel like this paper slipped under the radar on ‘the other platform’ so giving it another airing here. Phage can significantly remodel the bacteriome in faecal samples - yet another confounder 🙄 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Dynamic nature of viral and bacterial communities in human faeces

Bacteriophages are a major component of the gut microbiome and are believed to play a role in establishment and stabilization of microbial communities…

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Proto-animation showing ions arriving to detector, spectrum, TIC and XIC. Feedback welcome!

🔺🔺🔺RED TRIANGLE ALERT 🔺🔺🔺 Ever wonder how #TADs compare across the tree of life?Look no further & read our Review!!! Find out what genes & 3D chromatin can & can't do in Bacteria! Archeae! Yeast! Plants! Animals! SMCs & RNA-Pol are the only thing they have in common www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Evolution and function of chromatin domains across the tree of life - Nature Structural & Molecular Biology

Szalay et al. discuss cross-kingdom similarities and differences in 3D chromatin folding in relation to gene regulation, including in bacteria, archaea, mammals and plants. This comparison reveals cer...

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When you are a robotic arm and need to find another job after the PhD

Latest #CDlab paper: Synchronization of E. coli Bacteria Moving in Coupled Microwells: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.... E. coli bacteria swim in sync in weakly coupled neighboring microcavities! Great work led by @AleksandreJapa from from Farbod Alijani's lab, to which I also contributed

🤖 our new blog post, "a Markov chain-based patrol strategy for a surveillance robot", explaining how to design an efficient and unpredictable patrol schedule for a surveillance robot. includes Julia code to minimize the mean hitting time of the Markov chain. simonensemble.github.io/pluto_nbs/MC...

First snow ❄️ in Norfolk

one of my labmates is a genius, behold her tiny arabidopsis farm made from a 96-well plate and pcr strip lids 🤩😆

In Cambridge for the day

I posted a while back about @cumsille.bsky.social ‘s lovely GenoVi software, but it really is great and makes lovely publication quality figures- recommend 5*s - GenoVi, an open-source automated circular genome visualizer for bacteria and archaea journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...

GenoVi, an open-source automated circular genome visualizer for bacteria and archaea

Author summary Genome visualization tools can inspect genomic features in a DNA sequence, delivering a visual aid to quickly understand genome architecture and function. Circular representations frequ...

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'Tis the season ... of UK research fellowship interviews! Here are some tips & tricks to help you prepare - featuring a list of 100(!) common Q&A questions elisagranato.com/how-to-apply...

How to apply for a (UK) postdoc fellowship - Elisa Granato

How to apply for a (UK) postdoc fellowship Disclaimer: this guide was written based on my experience applying for (and being awarded) a BBSRC Discovery Fellowship in 2020/2021. Some of this might appl...

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The annual Royal Society of Chemistry Chemical Biology and Bioorganic Group Forum will be in Bristol next year (18th Feb)! Talks spots are open to new group leaders and postdocs - so get your abstracts in by 8th December! Please share 🙏 🧪 #chemsky www.rsc.org/events/detai...

Risk-averse optimization of genetic circuits under uncertainty https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.11.13.623219v1

Risk-averse optimization of genetic circuits under uncertainty https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.11.13.623219v1

Synthetic biology aims to engineer biological systems with specified functions. This requires naviga

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What are #theory and concepts in #biology? Come to our EMBL Heidelberg symposium (edition II) next May to find out more! Featuring such exciting topics as active matter, information processing, learning and computation, Physics of morphogenesis and much more! www.embl.org/about/info/c...

Teleoperating the robot to stack cups was challenging but I'm getting better (4x speed video)