We’re excited to share the latest updates, insights, and opportunities from across our LRIG community. From upcoming events to inspiring member stories, this Summer 2025 newsletter highlights what’s new and what’s next. Check it out and stay connected with us! mailchi.mp/lrig/welcome...

On April 17 eMolecules will be attending the MidWest @lrig.org 2025 Spring Conference, an event where science exchanges ideas in the discovery and application of new techniques and technologies in life science research. We’d love to meet you there! 👉 More info or to register via LRIGMidWest.org

International Lab Automation Day is June 21! Automation is transforming science. Celebrate the impact of lab automation by sharing your story. labautomationday.lrig.org This is how: Post your lab setup Share what automation has done for you Use #LabAutomationDay to be featured in our news!

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/22/o... #biobanking #biorepository #labautomation #lrig #agbio

Great article on Fungi Networks, including a video of a robotic system for monitoring the growth patterns www.nytimes.com/2025/03/01/s... #LRIG #LabAutomation #LaboratoryAutomation #LaboratoryRobotics #LabRobotics #LabRobot #Automation #Fungi

Learn how @arzeda.bsky.social leveraged technology from TeselaGen, Labcyte and @twistbioscience.com to accelerate their synthetic biology workflow and build a better DNA assembly line: teselagen.com/customer-sto... #biosky #synbio #biotech #bioeconomy #biotechnology

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/16/s...

Does anyone have experience with low-input high-throughput (96 well plate) RNAseq library preparation from plants (bonus points if it is with plant roots...)

Drug Company to Share Revenues With Indigenous People Who Donated Their Genes Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/07/h... #Biobanking #Biospecimen #Biorepository #Biobank #Biopreservation #SampleManagement

Our lab's latest manuscript led by Emily Zahn to develop a high-throughput approach for quantification of histone PTMs is out in MCP. Come read how you can use rapid and short 10 and even 5 min gradients and still get high quality data on the Sciex 7600 ZenoTOF. www.mcponline.org/article/S153...

An amazing, inspiring story about fighting FTD, #CRISPR, and a new cell line. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/22/h...

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL): Where are they now? ~ celebrating our colleague Cathy Seiler, among others ~

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

How Illumina’s Erin Imsand and her team helped develop MiSeq i100 Series reagents that can be stored at room temperature - both more sustainable and expanding where in the world sequencing can be done without a cold-chain www.illumina.com/company/news...

A little profile of @atinygreencell.bsky.social's work creating plants you've never seen or smelled before (and also trying to democratise science along the way) www.wired.com/story/meet-t...

The company is one of the players in the newly shaped #techbio sector, or what it's been referred to as "self-driving labs" setups. A lot of high-throughput phenotyping, a powerful AI-enabled image analysis system (partnership with Nvidia $NVDA), and a small molecule drug discovery platform.

When you check on your cell culture after the weekend

An optimized CTAB method for genomic DNA extraction from green seaweeds (Ulvophyceae) New in #AppsPlantSci by Hossen, Courtney, Bringloe, et al bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #botany #Ulvophyceae #GreenSeaweed #DNAExtraction #iamabotanist

#LabAutomation community, any thoughts on the recent @benchling tech report? My biggest takeaway was the significant drop in investment sentiment from 2023 to 2024. Thoughts on why this is?

We’re excited and ready to engage with Every scientist, chemist, researcher, lab manager, And R&D decision maker! #ChemSky #MaterialsScience #LabDigitalization #LabAutomation

Comparing the effectiveness of different DNA extraction methods in MX‐80 bentonite enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #jcampubs

Any European Lab Automation enthusiasts in here? How do you see the market evolving? #labautomation

High-throughput expansion microscopy enables scalable super-resolution imaging

Hydrolysates from soy/peanut sidestreams can support cell culture www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Hydrolysates from animal feed pellets support cell culture www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Congrats to our 2024 research grant program cohort, who will explore how starting materials ranging from crops, sidestreams, microbes, and micro/macro algae can support cellular nutrition for #cultivatedmeat production. gfi.org/blog/buildin...

Does anyone have strong opinions on what the best/most sensitive low volume spectrophotometer is? Looking to quantify low concentrations of fluorescently labelled protein, not just DNA etc #biochem #biophys #singlemolecule

New collaboration announced between Oxford Nanopore and UK Biobank to create world-first ‘epigenetic map’. MicrobesNG is proud to be a a Nanopore Certified Service provider, and offers end-end support through from DNA extraction to sequencing and analysis. www.gov.uk/government/n...

Hi! I'm Oliver, I'm a PhD student studying Bioinformatics. I have ADHD & autism, ankylosing spondylitis, essential tremor. They played a role in my decision to switch from wet lab microbiology to genomics! Even with a mild tremor pipetting for PCR is very hard 😂

High-Throughput Tear Proteomics via In-Capillary Digestion for Biomarker Discovery www.mdpi.com/1422-00... --- #proteomics #prot-paper

Awesome profile of the work out of Stanford by Manu Prakash. Very fortunate to have had him at our last meetup for what was an incredible talk. Hardware & science needs to about enable all, not just some.

Optimization of a disposable pipette tips extraction (DPX) for the analysis of psychoactive substances in sweat specimens using Design of Experiments #JAT #MassSpec academic.oup.com/jat/advance-...

not a cell phone in sight just people living in the moment #MicroSky #IDSky

raise your hand if you did mouth pipetting in your lifetime 🙋 (in high school chemistry, pipetting textile dyes, some of us dyed their tongues bright orange)

This years pipette light sphere! An annual craft tradition at our lab (invented by Tayan Rogers outsidethequadrat.weebly.com) Made from expired pipette tips (or 🧪)

The human proteomic revolution proceeds with high-throughput assessment, AI analytics, correlation with health and disease, drug interactions, biomarkers www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

The Small Molecule Digital Chemistry group at Novo Nordisk is looking for a Senior Scientist in the computational chemistry team. Join a young, dynamic team of drug discovery scientists working with an in silico first mindset to advance pharmaceutical programs! *Closing date Nov 30th #chemjob

A very creative piece! New tools to look at cooperation through new lens

I created a lab automation starter pack as more people start to move over. If you don't see yourself here and would like to be added, please reply to this! go.bsky.app/8dc9qbB

Are you a social media manager running an account for an organization or high-profile individual? Or do you own a website and want a simpler username? On Bluesky, you can verify your account by setting your website as your username. We just refreshed our how-to guide:

Started a second AI Science Connect pack. Let's keep building the community. It's been really amazing to see the great AI for science conversations over the past week. Please self nominate, or send me others who should be added! Pack 2: go.bsky.app/GnFTUM6 Pack 1 (full): go.bsky.app/JeFdryY

“It’s very friendly,” said @elisabethbik.bsky.social of Bluesky, where her followers already number over 20,000. “Maybe a little bit too friendly." Thoughtful piece by @katiepalmer.bsky.social for @statnews.bsky.social on a trend many of us are part of. www.statnews.com/2024/11/21/b...

My interest: pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...

expanding the PLR resource library (PLR-RL) today

SPECIAL ISSUE! This month Genome Research publishes a diverse collection of research and review articles in a special issue highlighting advances in long-read sequencing applications in biology and medicine. Full issue links here: tinyurl.com/Genome-Res-3....

I'll be on this panel tonight talking about lab automation and AI. 🤖 lu.ma/ifj60r0y?tk=...

Here's a comparison of various chemical biology objects from gold nanoparticles to small molecule drugs, made with Blender.

I am ***absurdly*** excited to announce the launch of a new funding opportunity through Experiment dot com!!! You have one month to pitch something wonderful in the realm of plant biology/biotech research and education. $10,000 max grant. PLEASE RE-POST + SHARE!!! 1/3 experiment.com/programs/pla...

There’s a new Practical Cheminformatics post, “Some Thoughts on Dataset Splitting,” (with code and a robot cartoon) at practicalcheminformatics.blogspot.com/2024/11/some... .