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Welcome Opentrons Flex to the Biofoundry! Looking forward to designing and creating protocols together! 🤖 🧬 🌱#automation
#engineeringbiology
@davideanne.bsky.social
@earlhaminst.bsky.social
3 months ago
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Earlham Institute
27 days ago
🆕 Earlham Institute joins with other leading UK research organisations to form new National Research Organisations (NRO) Group -
@nro-group.bsky.social
- advancing science for the benefit of people, communities, the economy, and national priorities.
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Making research matter: UK’s leading research organisations unite
A new alliance of 35 organisations dedicated to advancing science for the benefit of people, communities, the economy and national priorities.
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Sophien Kamoun
about 1 month ago
Rewriting the code of plant immunity- New approaches to engineering plant immunity can more broadly protect crops against pathogens and disease, once they get through regulatory hurdles.
@resurrectbio.bsky.social
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LDBT instead of DBTL: combining machine learning and rapid cell-free testing - Nature Communications
Synthetic biology is defined by Design-Build-Test-Learn cycles. Recent advances in machine learning are changing the landscape; thus, we propose that “Learning” can precede “Design”. Moreover, adoptin...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-65281-2
about 1 month ago
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Recent advances in AI-enabled automation of DNA assembly in biofoundries - PubMed
Biofoundries are transforming synthetic biology, with the DNA assembly workflow being critical for successful biofoundry operation. This review examines recent advances in automated DNA assembly strategies for biofoundry, focusing on three key perspectives. First, we discuss emerging platforms rangi …
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41205316/
about 2 months ago
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Carolina G
The Sainsbury Laboratory
about 2 months ago
Today is a big day as the Precision Breeding Act comes into force 🌱
@kamounlab.bsky.social
: “This is a milestone for UK science and innovation. We now have the regulatory framework to translate discovery into impact — improving crops, strengthening food security, and benefiting society” 🌿
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LDBT instead of DBTL: combining machine learning and rapid cell-free testing - Nature Communications
Synthetic biology is defined by Design-Build-Test-Learn cycles. Recent advances in machine learning are changing the landscape; thus, we propose that “Learning” can precede “Design”. Moreover, adoptin...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-65281-2
about 2 months ago
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2 months ago
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Strange things happened in the Opentrons Flex deck today in the biofoundry … 🎃
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We have a fully funded and exciting opportunity for a PhD project led by
@conradn.bsky.social
and the Biofoundry group to advance synthetic genomics
@earlhaminst.bsky.social
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2 months ago
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Carolina G
Earlham Institute
2 months ago
Yesterday we were delighted to welcome Prof Sir Ian Chapman, CEO of
@ukri.org
, with BBSRC colleagues to the Earlham Institute and
#NorwichResearchPark
to learn about our data-driven science to accelerate solutions for health, biodiversity, and food security.
#datascience
#engbio
#genomics
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Carolina G
Earlham Institute
3 months ago
💻🧬 Keen to learn about eukaryotic genome annotation? Registration is now open for our 2026 online
#genomeannotation
course, led by our core
#bioinformatics
team. ➡️
buff.ly/sonWCgT
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Genome Annotation Workshop 2026
Providing scientists with a comprehensive overview of eukaryotic genome annotation approaches.
https://buff.ly/4TSja35
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Welcome Opentrons Flex to the Biofoundry! Looking forward to designing and creating protocols together! 🤖 🧬 🌱#automation
#engineeringbiology
@davideanne.bsky.social
@earlhaminst.bsky.social
3 months ago
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Carolina G
Earlham Institute
3 months ago
📣 We're pleased to open applications for a new Group Leader in Artificial Intelligence (#AI) in Biology. Join our collaborative and inter-disciplinary research environment, exploring the natural world through the lens of
#genomics
. 🗓️ Applications close: 24 Oct ➡️
buff.ly/YRz3YLe
#machinelearning
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Group Leader: Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Biology
https://buff.ly/YRz3YLe
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Carolina G
Earlham Institute
4 months ago
We've just opened expressions of interest for a new one day workshop focusing on
#Biofoundries
,
#automation
, and
#engineeringbiology
in plant and microbial systems, covering: 🔃 applying automated workflows 🤖 robotic platforms and liquid handlers 🧫 high-throughput experimentation
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Automation and Engineering Biology for Plant & Microbial Systems
A one-day practical and theoretical workshop covering Biofoundries high throughput applications, DoE (design of experiments) and Engineering Biology pipelines.
https://buff.ly/0coaUkX
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Falk Hildebrand
4 months ago
Only 5 days left to apply for our Soil metagenomics position: estimating the impact microbiomes in restored agricultural sites can have on climate change (closing 19th Sep):
jobs.earlham.ac.uk/Details.asp?...
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Earlham Institute
https://jobs.earlham.ac.uk/Details.asp?vacancyID=20596
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Hybrid AI in synthetic biology: next era in agriculture
Synthetic biology holds great potential to transform agriculture, yet its progress is constrained by the complexity of multigenomic, multitrait, and multi-environment data. Desirable traits often aris...
https://www.cell.com/trends/plant-science/fulltext/S1360-1385(25)00237-7?dgcid=raven_jbs_aip_email
4 months ago
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#EarlhamBiofoundry
Retreat, apart from modular DNA assemblies, we now also master origami modular assemblies 😎
#standarisation
#engineeringbiology
@earlhaminst.bsky.social
@davideanne.bsky.social
#teamwork
@MelissaSalmon @EricaHawkins
#Biofoundries
#Automation
6 months ago
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showing off our new protocol with the Opentrons 👏🏼🤖
@earlhaminst.bsky.social
6 months ago
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Carolina G
Earlham Institute
6 months ago
Two of our students - Rosie and Archie - shared their experience working with our Technical Genomics and Earlham Biofoundry Groups, developing their skills and gaining practical training in
#genomics
and
#laboratory
#automation
. 🧬 🔗
buff.ly/KF08OL9
@drkarimgharbi.bsky.social
@cgrandel.bsky.social
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Developing the next generation of technical specialists with T-Levels
The Earlham Institute T-Level industry placement programme inspires the next generation of young people pursuing careers in science.
https://www.earlham.ac.uk/articles/developing-next-generation-technical-specialists-t-levels
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Carolina G
Earlham Institute
6 months ago
🧬 Are you looking to establish and lead an internationally recognised programme of innovative research in
#engineeringbiology
? ⚙️ Join our Research Faculty as a new Group Leader:
buff.ly/7uI1FQL
#EngBio
#Biotech
#SynBio
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Group Leader - Engineering Biology
https://buff.ly/7uI1FQL
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Shaping the future of synthetic genomics | News | Wellcome
Synthetic genomics has the potential to revolutionise industries from healthcare to agriculture. As this research field develops, we must ensure there is meaningful dialogue around its ethics and regu...
https://wellcome.org/news/explained-potential-synthetic-genomics-improve-health
6 months ago
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Carolina G
Frank Menke
6 months ago
Dear
#Proteomics
community, my team at
@thesainsburylab.bsky.social
is looking to automate digestions and enrichment workflows using'off the shelf' solutions (consumables and robotics) compatible with Proteomics workflows. Have you already implemented
#automation
, please reply
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Carolina G
Earlham Institute
6 months ago
If you want to gain skills and experience in
#plantsciences
and
#bioengineering
take a look at our 12-month
#Internship
in the Earlham
#Biofoundry
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John Innes Foundation Internship in Plant Science
https://buff.ly/2QeFfAU
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We are looking for an intern to join the Biofoundry team!
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7 months ago
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Carolina G
Earlham Institute
7 months ago
🆕 Scientists at the Earlham Institute,
@uommib.bsky.social
, and
@johninnescentre.bsky.social
are partnering to develop
#synthetic
plant chromosome technologies, to rapidly design and deliver beneficial traits to crops, as part of a new £8.5m
@aria-research.bsky.social
project. ➡️
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Scientists look to biotechnology to improve crop resilience and nutritional value
A new project - funded by a £8.5M grant from the UK Government’s Advanced Research and Invention Agency (ARIA) - will leverage advances in engineering biology to establish synthetic plant chromosome (...
https://buff.ly/n80muy0
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Carolina G
Alper Akay
10 months ago
This PhD position is a collaboration between Gwen le Gall UEA MED and Carolina Grandellis
@earlhaminst.bsky.social
bioFoundry. If you are interested in microbiology, animal development and high-throughput methods please apply. Email for questions.
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Alper Akay
10 months ago
We are advertising for a PhD position to study bacterial metabolites in C. elegans, funded by the MRC Microbes, Microbiomes and Bioinformatics training programme
@uniofeastanglia.bsky.social
@biouea.bsky.social
. Open to UK and international students.
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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Uncovering bacterial metabolites that can attenuate vitamin B12 deficiency (AKAY_U25MMB) at University of East Anglia on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Uncovering bacterial metabolites that can attenuate vitamin B12 deficiency (AKAY_U25MMB) at University of East Anglia, listed on FindAPhD.com
https://www.findaphd.com/phds/project/uncovering-bacterial-metabolites-that-can-attenuate-vitamin-b12-deficiency-akay-u25mmb/?p183530
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Carolina G
Earlham Institute
11 months ago
Another great couple of days at
#NorwichScienceFestival
, huge thanks to everyone who joined us and our colleagues volunteering their time on the stand.
@theforumnorwich.bsky.social
@uniofeastanglia.bsky.social
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