Webinar | Cracking the code on pathogen vulnerabilities High-throughput screening strategies to uncover and exploit novel drug targets. 🗓️11th August 2026 @ 2PM (BST)/ 3PM (CEST) / 9AM (EDT) Secure your spot - spaces are limited! tinyurl.com/3jmswr25

🧫Calling the AI enthusiasts of the colony counting world🧫. Our AI colony detection algorithm is now available online at tinyurl.com/4r2t7dt6 and we’re offering free trials to a limited number of microbiologists🧪. So whether you use your phone, plate scanner or PIXL🤖, we want you. Sign up now.

Ready for up to £1 million worth of mid-range equipment funding from UKRI MRC?🪙 We can help you tackle the paperwork & scale your lab in 2026. Applications open on 13th August. Find out what automation you can secure for your research and if you’re eligible here: tinyurl.com/3xh89maw

Is having a job with purpose important to you? Do you prefer communicating science, topics like global sustainability and drug discovery to using a micropipette? Start your Scientific Marketing Specialist career in a Somerset national park, on the beach now: tinyurl.com/2jm35hsm

“Identify the target and obliterate the pathogen” is what every antifungal is designed to do. But how do you identify suitable target proteins and bring a novel therapy to market?🧪💊 Secure your spot at our webinar with Profs. Carol Munro & Nils Johnsson to find out. tinyurl.com/3jmswr25

An automation company’s biggest impact isn’t just lowering its own footprint - it’s supporting the scientists driving green breakthroughs. 🔬🌍 We're privileged to collaborate with labs engineering climate crops, fungal foods & more. See the small steps we're taking too: tinyurl.com/yr6637yw 🤖🌱

Antifungal resistance is rising, but finding a pathogen's genetic weakness is a massive bottleneck. 🧫 The Usher lab at @mrccmm.bsky.social uses ROTOR+ to screen entire fungal genomes at 1536-density in under an hour rather than days - accelerating drug target discovery. Read: tinyurl.com/ymkk6kxs

Speed up colony isolation, and the next bottleneck appears: the monotony of plate loading. 🧫 But teamwork makes the dream work! Singer & PAA have paired PIXL with a robotic arm to transfer PlusPlates & MWPs effortlessly. 🤖 What’s the greatest blocker to your experiments right now? #LabAutomation

Global crop reliance is rising, but toxic soil metals threaten food safety. 🌾 David Mendoza’s lab screens 2K+ plant factors in yeast to map nutrient transport. Their goal? Engineer crops that block toxins or clean polluted soil via bioremediation. 🧪 Read how they use HTS🤖: tinyurl.com/3ufabbsu

Calling all Singer users 👀 If you've ever picked colonies with 🧫PIXL, replicated plates with 🤖ROTOR, or imaged plates with 📸ColonyCam — our systems are now live on LabUnboxed for reviews. We would massively appreciate your honest feedback. Bonus points for weird and wonderful applications🦠.

Our fastest automated colony picker yet, PIXL Max, is coming to Festo’s booth at #SLASEurope2026🤖. Are you going? This is your chance to be one of the first to get hands on isolating: - 3000 colonies/hour - AI colony detection & analysis down to 0.2 mm Book a chat at booth 404: tinyurl.com/3wmuwczm

Singer Instruments are Somerset Business Awards 2026 Employer of the Year!! 🤖🎉Thank you to the other incredible finalists who were such strong competition. The biggest thank you of all goes to all or our colleagues who make SinCo such an inclusive, unique and supportive place to work.

Great Success for two of our scientists last week. 🧪Investigating how ROTOR+ can be used to scale-up Minimum Inhibitory Concentration (MIC) assays, reducing labour, carbon footprint and consumables costs. 🧫 Keep an eye out, new application notes and case studies will be dropping soon. 🤖 #ScienceSky

We're going to University of Birmingham with ROTOR+ to phenotype 100s of strains on agar for AST. What would normally take a day, done in under an hour. Come screen your own strain libraries or just have a nosey. 19/03 12 PM - 3 PM and 20/03 9 AM - 1 PM Secure your slot here: tinyurl.com/5cc2upn5

The invisible innovation behind your Friday night tipple. 🍷🍻 When you think of brewing, "high-tech research" isn't usually the first thought. But behind every drop is a massive microbiology effort. How do we keep our favorite tipples tasting great? A thread... 🧵

Studying protein-protein associations just got easier. Synthetic Physical Interaction is a unique method for high-throughput screening that bypasses the need for individual yeast constructs. Check out the full protocol by Guðjón Ólafsson & Peter Thorpe doi.org/10.1007/978-... #Genetics #ScienceSky

Come see our new high-speed🤖 automated colony picker in action online next Tuesday at 2PM GMT. Isolate and analyse the #microbiome at 3000 colonies/hour and AI colony detection & analysis. 🧪🧫 Spaces are filling up fast: tinyurl.com/28atthuk

Manual isolation is the bottleneck in #NaturalProducts discovery. How do you turn 1000s of #Microbiome samples 🧫 into insights without losing months of lab time? Join our webinar on March 10th at 2PM GMT to see the PIXL Max in action. 🏃‍♀️‍➡️ Register Here: tinyurl.com/28atthuk

Lindsay J Hall, James Chong and Abi Sparks delivered a stellar webinar last week on the Dark Matter of the Microbiome: How culturing the unculturable can help us solve real world problems. If you missed it - don't worry it's still available on-demand. shorturl.at/mepmz

Last Chance to join the microbiome webinar - It’s tomorrow @ 2PM! Register for one of the last spots here: tinyurl.com/2rr53m8j Lindsay Hall & @jameschong.bsky.social present key insights on tackling the unique challenges of human #microbiome research. 🧫🧪

It’s a struggle to find reliable Anaerobic Chamber x Colony Picker combos. 🧫 Every PIXL is compact enough to fit into a range of anaerobic chambers🤖. Join Profs. Lindsay Hall and James Chong next week to discover how they scale up their #microbiome research. 🧪 Register here: tinyurl.com/2rr53m8j

What’s hiding in the "Dark Matter" of your samples? 🔍 Cultivation bottlenecks are the biggest hurdle in microbiome research.🤖🧫 In 7 days, Profs. Lindsay Hall and James Chong show us how to break through. 📍 24 Feb, 2PM GMT Register here: tinyurl.com/xr58eb28 #Microbiome #Research🧪

Prof. James Chong studies #microbiome communities in human waste, filtering the essential species from the coasters. With his 60 5L anaerobic digestion systems and a PIXL Dark🤖, James automates his characterisation🧫. The goal is to form a renewable stable source of biogas fuel🧪.

Our BizDev Manager, had a great time this week at the Somerset Sustainable Futures event hosted by Somerset EBP. He meet students and teachers from local schools, to promote green education, sustainability, and careers. We take our Responsibility to science seriously and wish others to do the same.

The volume of baby poop in Prof. Lindsay Hall’s freezers is incredible. 💩 Lindsay is highly regarded in human microbiome research and a leader in the infant gut #microbiome space. She and Prof. @jameschong.bsky.social will be delivering you key insights on how to culture the unculturable.

Our mission is powered by the brilliant women on our team. 🧪 Today, we’re celebrating their contributions to science while advocating for the pay, recognition, and career equity they deserve. We couldn't do it without them! #WomenInScienceDay #WomenInSTEM

What’s hiding in the "Dark Matter" of the #microbiome? We’re hosting research experts Prof. Lindsay Hall & Prof. James Chong to dive into: 🧫 Overcoming cultivation hurdles 🦠 New insights from human waste samples 🧪 Research strategies from the experts Register here: tinyurl.com/xr58eb28 #LabLife

High-throughput synthetic genomics comes to the Earlham Institute! 🧬 Prof. Patrick Cai shared updates on the Sc2.0 project to rewrite the yeast genome from scratch. An outstanding example of using automation like the PIXL in synthetic biology. #ALife #MicroSky #SynBio

Who wants to struggle with ImageJ thresholds? Simple tools fall short on irregular or filamentous morphologies. Automatically detect, quantify and isolate a diverse array of colonies with PIXL Max AI colony detection & morphological classification - perfect for the #microbiome. No need to optimise.

We're a finalist for the Somerset Business Awards 2026 Employer of the Year! Thank you to everyone a who's worked so hard this year and especially to those who spoke to the judges about what life is like as a certified NERD 🤖. #SBA2026 #Somerset #Business

Project Manager Ayo and Scientist Emmy recently participated in the Castle School's mock interview session. The experience provided students with a realistic taste of professional life through targeted questions on teamwork and resilience. #STEM #Outreach #Education

Join the nation's biggest mental health conversation. Talking helps reduce stigma and can make people feel comfortable enough to seek help when they need it. MIND is encouraging us to brave the big conversations, the ones that still feel unspoken. Let someone know they're heard this #TimeToTalkDay.

The most expensive lab instrument🤖? The one gathering dust because only the retired tech knew the “dark art” of using it. We build tech that you can actually use. You can master 90% of PIXL Max’s functionality in under 10 minutes! Watch the full video here: tinyurl.com/95jbjekv #microbiology 🧪

#Microbiome legends Prof. Lindsay Hall & James Chong are diving deep into their gut microbiome research strategies. We’ll be tackling cultivation bottlenecks and investigating techniques to scale #Microbiology insights from human waste. 💩🧫 Join us here: tinyurl.com/xr58eb28

Colony detection is easy when you have eyes - but computers have algorithms that look for patterns 🧫. Microbiology almost never fits a perfect pattern. PIXL Max AI colony detection 🤖, with its high definition camera, can isolate colonies down to 0.2 mm and classify their morphology! #MicroSky

Speed doesn’t matter, unless you’re the bottleneck in a high-throughput lab🤖. We’ve spent the last year quietly slaving away to please the speed queens with the PIXL Max at 3000 colonies/hour🦠🧫. Of course we added a few side quests as well - what else is new? #MicroSky #LabAutomation #SciSky

It's been <1 week of PIXL Max, and WOW! Published twice - thanks Lab Manager & the Microbiologist 700+ emails - our inbox is buzzing 🧫 1000s LinkedIn impressions - we see you watching 🤖 1 big celebratory pub sesh - essential to any Singer launch. 🍻 Watch PIXL Max speed along: tinyurl.com/2ewtpff3

My plate didn’t grow? Now I have to do it all over again…AGAIN! 98% transfer efficiency sounds great, but 99.78% is even better when you’re picking the entire 🧪CLiP 2 mutant library🦠 (71, 700 colonies). It’s the difference between 1434 missed colonies, and only 148 missed. 🤖

Pick any colony at 98% transfer efficiency 🤖 - but only with these specific pins at £££/pin. Absolutely NOT! One Pinpoint Picking Technology to rule them all. Bacteriophage, Aspergillus, Chlamydomonas, and so many different types of fungi all with one sterile picking filament!🦠🧪🧫

Introducing PIXL Max🤖: our fastest automated colony picker yet with AI powered detection and analysis of microbes and zones of inhibition and super hi-res optics to detect the tiniest details of your colony morphologies.

New year new me - that’s what we all say. Looking forward to a VERY exciting 2026! What could possibly be around the corner - Can you find the hint in our recent posts? #MicroSky #LabAutomation #Microbiology 🧪🤖🧫🧬

We designed our colony picker PIXL in collaboration with SynCTI and a few other synthetic biologists buddies. Our scientist friends needed to prioritise efficiency and precision to help them decode complex biology through colony isolation at their lab bench. #SyntheticBiology #Microbiology 🤖🧪🧫

Our CEO, Harry Singer is visiting the Houses of Parliament today on an important mission: consulting on the proposed changes to UK immigration policy. These changes could mean that the UK economy loses highly skilled workers to other countries with more flexible immigration policies. #STEM

Exmoor is a world renowned hub for #biotech and engineering companies. As such we feel responsible for inspiring the next generation of scientists and engineers. We loved building spaghetti towers, extracting strawberry DNA and hosting mock interviews in 2025. What’s your favourite #STEM activity? 🧪

Our automated colony picker, PIXL, has isolated an estimated 60 million colonies across 100+ labs in 2025! Anthony Borneman of the AWRI uses it to explore adaptive evolution, traditional breeding and the microbiome of Australia’s vineyards. #Yeast #Research #MicroSky #MicrobiomeSky 🧫🧪🤖

Dr Jane Usher and her student Catrin study antifungal drug resistance in fungal pathogens like Candida glabrata 🧫🧪. With Synthetic Genetic Array screening on ROTOR+🤖, they identified new therapies and targets. Here’s the paper: journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/... #Yeast #MicroSky #WomenInScience

“Big data are nice, but the problem is that we don’t know what most of the genes do. You can’t predict physiology based on genomes alone.” #MicrobiomeSky legend Prof. Willem M. de Vos spoke to us about some of the challenges of research today. 🧪 www.singerinstruments.com/resource/cha...

#HiSciSky We’re not the interesting story: scientists are. We want to celebrate your breakthroughs, shout about STEM and occasionally post a robot🤖. If you want us to shout about your #Microbiology research - tag us in your post. 🧪

#HiSciSky 🧪 We’ve watched the scientific community move to BlueSky in droves - so we thought we’d join you. We’re a team of engineers, scientists and other nerds obsessed with making precise, reliable & easy-to-use lab automation 🤖.

We’re going to the Somerset Sustainable Futures event in 1 month! The Somerset Education and Business Partnership are building a platform for Somerset youth to explore green careers and local businesses (including us) working towards a sustainable future. #STEM #Somerset