DISCO: DNA Infrastructure for Storage and COmputation.
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Funded by the European Innovation Council PATHFINDER Challenge on DNA-based digital data storage, DISCO aims to address the significant (and growing) gap between data generation and global storage capacity. Read more: https://disco-tech.eu/
The #DigNA webinar #5 "DNA: from solid-phase synthesis to large-scale libraries and microarrays" is now available! 🧬🎤Speakers: Martin Jost co-founder and CSO at Kilobaser, and Mark Somoza, Associate Professor of Chemistry at the University of Vienna. www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xTc...
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#ScienceNight here at Maynooth University. The DISCO team were out in force, thanks to Prof Damien Woods, @abeereshra.bsky.social, @drkimreilly.bsky.social, Cai Wood, Brooklyn Igbojionu & Eoghan Ryan who helped on the night, & to Ashley Allen for 3D printed DNA and SDC mode Fun was had by all! 🧪🧬🤩
Huge Congratulations to Dr Cai Wood who graduated last week! We are thrilled to have you and Dr Josh Petrack joining the DISCO team as Post-doctoral researchers.
What a busy two weeks for DISCO! 🧬 We hosted Dr Florent Becker from Université d'Orléans on a research visit. 🎓🔦 SPUR students Eoghan Ryan and Daniel Drapeau presented posters 🧪🚀 Assistant Prof Abeer Eshra took part in the Maynooth Sparks 2025 panel discussion 🌐💡attended FSE "Research Connections"
HUGE congratulations to our TAPDANCE lab group member Dr Constantine Evans who is the 2025 recipient of the prestigious Dirks Prize 🧬👏 www.maynoothuniversity.ie/news-events/...
MU scientist wins prestigious Dirks Molecular Programming Prize
Maynooth University Research Fellow Dr Constantine Evans has been awarded the 2025 Robert Dirks Molecular Programming Prize, a prestigious global science award. Dr Evans is the first Irish university
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Flashback Friday! Thanks so much to @maynoothuniversity.ie Women and Girls in STEM club who recently visited our labs hosted by @abeereshra.bsky.social We hope to see you again soon #WomenInSTEM
DISCO is part of a portfolio of 9 #EUeic projects. We have a dedicated #DigNA LinkedIn and are running a series of free educational webinars to inform and communicate about DNA data storage. They are aimed at a general audience and offer a fascinating insight into this new technology. 🧬👇
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DigNA Portfolio | 157 followers on LinkedIn. A portfolio of projects funded under the 2022 EIC Pathfinder Challenge: DNA-based digital data storage | Current digital data storage technologies face sig...
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A busy week for the DISCO lab! We were delighted to welcome Prof. Andrew Turberfield for a visit and a fascinating talk at the Hamilton Institute Seminar; and then to welcome over 30 schoolgirls and parents from the @maynoothuniversity.ie girls in STEM afterschool club to tour the labs and meet us.
We will be at the #EICSUMMIT25 in Brussels 2nd to 3rd April looking forward to meeting colleagues and hearing from Europe's #HorizonEU innovators and an intro from Commissioner Ekaterina Zaharieva #DigNA #DNADataStorage
Wishing a very happy #InternationalWomensDay to my @disco-eu.bsky.social #WomenInSTEM colleagues Dr Abeer Eshra @abeereshra.bsky.social Dr Tamara Aigner-Bognor and Dr Corina Boschert - its a pleasure to work with you on our @horizoneu.bsky.social #EUeic funded project on #DNADataStorage
DISCO coordinator Prof Damien Woods, postdoc @abeereshra.bsky.social and project manager @drkimreilly.bsky.social were delighted to be invited judges for the 2025 scifest.ie at Maynooth Post Primary. Well done to all students who participated - we were amazed at your curiosity and ingenuity! #STEM
Happening tomorrow! The 2nd #DigNA webinar - "Introduction to Error Correction and Coding for DNA Storage" with expert speakers Eitan Yaakobi (Technion) and Thomas Heinis (Imperial College). Participation is FREE but please register: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi... Thursday 27th February 2.00 CET
It was great to see our DISCO research presented by senior postdoc @abeereshra.bsky.social at the @mu-physics.bsky.social and Hamilton Institute joint Hamilton & Physics Research Morning 2025!
🧬Are you looking for a new role in 2025? We are recruiting for Senior and Junior Postdocs to work on DNA computation in dna.hamilton.ie – closing date is 23rd March 2025. Roles are full time based at Maynooth University, Ireland. To read more and apply: universityvacancies.com/maynooth-uni...
Post-Doctoral Researcher / Senior Post-Doctoral Researcher (Molecular/DNA Computing; 24-Month Specified Purpose Contract), Hamilton Institute & Department of Computer Science, Maynooth University | Un...
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Abstract submission for FNANO is now open! They’re due Feb 1! Join us at molecular programming’s annual celebration of design, interfaces and applications (and also skiing) 🧬 www.fnano.org
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Wishing all of our colleagues, collaborators, followers (and of course our funders!) a very happy holiday season! 🎄🍷
As part of #ScienceWeek recently we were delighted to host secondary school students and teachers from Maynooth Post Primary for a tour of our labs to Learn about DNA Computation and DNA Robotics. Looking forward to seeing you again in 2025 for #ScienceWeek and #MathsWeek
We are hiring! Postdoc positions available - closing date is 23rd March 2025. my.corehr.com/pls/nuimrecr... Please see our website disco-tech.eu and read more about our research group here: dna.hamilton.ie
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We are hiring! Technical Officer with expertise in lab techniques AFM, qPCR, polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis, as well as some experience with python code. Closing date 5th January. universityvacancies.com/maynooth-uni...
Are you interested in learning about the state of the art in DNA data storage? 👇
Throwback Tuesday! In October we officially launched our €4m EIC Pathfinder Challenge project, DNA Infrastructure for Storage and Computation (DISCO), in partnership with prgm.dev and www.tilibit.com Read more about our project launch here: dna.hamilton.ie/2024-10-21-D...
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