Greg Medlock
@gregmedlock.bsky.social
VP Technology @ Vedanta Biosciences. Interested in repairing+controlling the human microbiome.
ICME abstracts are due this Wednesday, Aug 5! Please consider submitting your work.
Greg Medlock@gregmedlock.bsky.social · 2mo agoI'm excited to help organize #ICME2026 - join us to explore the latest advances in Microbiome Engineering! Our call for abstract is open and we are seeking sponsors. Please share, and reach out to me to learn more!
In May, Vijeta and I had our wedding in Cambridge Commons with hundreds of you all. In June, her grandfather suddenly passed away. In July, her papa was diagnosed with stage IV cancer and a brain tumor. He is 58. He was at our wedding, already symptomatic, and none of us knew.
SPRIND seeks feedback on a potential "engineering microbial consortia" challenge. Submit by Aug 3 to help identify ways microbial consortia can be leveraged for industrial production + how novel cross-cutting tech (e.g., industrial + health) could advance this field. www.sprind.org/engineering-...
SPRIND | Engineering Microbial Consortia
Engineering Microbial Consortia - Request for Information
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I'm excited to help organize #ICME2026 - join us to explore the latest advances in Microbiome Engineering! Our call for abstract is open and we are seeking sponsors. Please share, and reach out to me to learn more!
“entire 2026 budget” doing some heavy journalistic lifting here. As a large public co, 2026 budgets were probably more or less final pre-Opus 4.5 (maybe even pre-4.1). Very curious what the actual $$ was!
Dare Obasanjo@carnage4life.bsky.social · 2mo agoUber's COO recently voiced an uncomfortable truth that many in the tech industry are yet to admit. He said while Uber's engineers are consuming massive amounts of AI tokens, it is incredibly difficult to prove that this spending actually benefits the end user or improves the product proportionally
Major vulnerability (hardcoded password, instant access if you know IP address) found in common eppendorf fermentation controller… www.cisa.gov/news-events/...
Eppendorf BioFlo 320 | CISA
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Our Call for Abstracts for ICME 2026 is now open—please share and consider submitting your work!
Our Call for Abstracts for ICME 2026 is now open—please share and consider submitting your work!
Just released an update of Medusa, a Python package for managing ensembles of genome-scale metabolic models (github.com/opencobra/Me...) This release incorporates improvements by Jeroen Gilis from Chalmers University, including speeding up ensemble generation from a set of SBML files >10X
GitHub - opencobra/Medusa: Analysis of ensembles of metabolic network reconstructions
Analysis of ensembles of metabolic network reconstructions - opencobra/Medusa
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Michael, this reads as downright conspiratorial. Have you interacted in any way with NSF staff working on this? There’s extensive oversight. No/minimal human subject work is even likely to be funded. There is independent merit-based review. Where are you getting your info?
Managing microbial interactions in environmental biotechnology: can we scale interaction principles? @cp-trendsmicrobiol.bsky.social Review by @wenyugu.bsky.social (EPFL), Xiang-Yi Li Richter, and Dave Johnson at @eawag.bsky.social www.cell.com/trends/micro...
Managing microbial interactions in environmental biotechnology: can we scale interaction principles?
Microbial interactions hold vast potential for improving sustainability, including waste upcycling, greenhouse gas mitigation, contaminant bioremediation, and host performance. However, attempts to ma...
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The 2025 annual report from @carb-x.bsky.social is available. Check it out to see the critical impact CARB-X is having on development of antimicrobials and preventatives. carb-x.org/about/annual...
Annual Reports - Carb-X
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Save the date - join the 9th International Conference on Microbiome Engineering! 📍Durham, NC 🗓️ Dec 1-3, 2026 Are you obsessed with controlling microbiomes? Want to learn all the ways accomplishing this goal benefits society? This is the meeting for you! www.aiche.org/sbe/conferen...
9th International Conference on Microbiome Engineering
This conference brings together scientists across the quickly growing field of microbiome engineering. The conference integrates synthetic biology, systems biology, microbial ecology, and bioinformati...
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Re. Nature today - full story to follow. (hat tip to @rowanwalrath.bsky.social) x.com/pitdesi/stat...
Happy to finally share these results: Cross-feeding enables robust coexistence between four bacterial species www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... With @saramitri.bsky.social @lambdapp.bsky.social @dan1elmachado.bsky.social @lhtxra.bsky.social Eric Ulrich, Alisson Gillon & Sam Testa #microsky
The Anthropic team does lots of helpful posting to X, but unfortunately has not prioritized bluesky cross-posting (makes sense, X algo loves everything AI) @j4ck.xyz made this tool to mirror those accounts, and takes community requests. Boris @bcherny-x.bsky.social Thariq @trq212-x.bsky.social
jack@j4ck.xyz · 4mo agoI’m glad it’s useful, I’ve been trying to bridge useful Twitter accounts here for this very reason! There’s a list I made of all bots here → bluesky-mirrors.vercel.app
Trying to reduce my use of social media with algorithmic feeds, and found this very nice bot today. So much of Anthropic’s dev and media teams just post to X as a sole outlet. 2nd best is subscribing to new release notes for Claude code on github.
Anthropic {bot}@anthropicbot.bsky.social · 4mo agoIntroducing Claude Opus 4.7, our most capable Opus model yet. It handles long-running tasks with more rigor, follows instructions more precisely, and verifies its own outputs before reporting back. You can hand off your hardest work with less supervision.
@ec.europa.eu DG HERA announced a €30 million investment managed by KfW, Germany’s Development Bank, to CARB-X and @gardp.bsky.social to strengthen the global response to AMR. CARB-X will fund early antibacterial research, while GARDP will advance clinical development. #IDSky 🧪 🔗 bit.ly/4v5K81M
Vedanta Biosciences Announces the Phase 3 RESTORATiVE303 Study of VE303 for the Prevention of Recurrent C. difficile Infection Will Continue as Planned Following Protocol-Specified Interim Analysis
This is wild, we eat so much yeast
Manuel Kleiner@manuelkleiner.bsky.social · 4mo agoI thought it was quite mind boggling to see that around 10% of the protein in a standard yeast based bread is actually yeast protein! Here our #metaproteomics analysis of microbial protein in fermented foods pubs.rsc.org/en/Content/A... Congratulations to first authors Laura Winkler and Ayesha Awan
C. difficile is a terrible condition. Seems like it shouldn't have to be this hard to try to treat a child with a bad case of it. www.statnews.com/2026/03/23/c...
Her son needed a fecal transplant for a fearsome C. diff infection. Getting one required a tortuous journey
Her son needed a fecal transplant for a fearsome C. diff infection. Getting one required a tortuous journey.
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If you're a senior PhD student or recent graduate interested in doing work at the intersection of AI and microbial genomics and/or microbiomes, please feel free to reach out to discuss the possibility of applying together for an MIT Novo Nordisk Fellowship engineering.mit.edu/novo-nordisk
Novo Nordisk Fellowship
Potential areas of focus for postdoctoral fellows participating in the MIT-Novo Nordisk Postdoc Program include, but are not limited to, the following: Your complete application should include: In the...
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This is your cue to try Claude if you’ve been holding out still…
We're looking to sponsor applications to the new NSF PRFB who are interested in using AI to tackle microbiology's "Great Plate Count Anomaly" Details below. Please share. #microsky #postdoc #AI #microbiology open.substack.com/pub/carinila...
We're Looking to Sponsor Postdoc Fellows in AI-Driven Microbial Cultivation
NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellowships in Biology
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CARB-X is opening a new funding round soon—sign up for their newsletter (link in replies) to get the announcement. CARB-X is one of few organizations making meaningful progress ensuring access to new antimicrobial drugs and supporting preventatives/diagnostics.
