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The Laboratory Robotics Interest Group (LRIG) is the largest dues-free not-for-profit special interest group focused on laboratory automation. Visit us at www.lrig.org #LRIG #LabAutomation #LaboratoryAutomation #LaboratoryRobotics #LabRobotics

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LRIG.org @lrig.org · 14/09/2026
The Sept. 2026 LRIG Global Newsletter is live! AI + lab hardware, Model Hardware Standard, upcoming LRIG events, and new chapter activity in NJ, Hudson Valley & Great Basin. Read it here: mailchi.mp/lrig.org/lri... #LRIG #LabAutomation
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LRIG Global Newsletter - September 2026
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LRIG.org @lrig.org · 17/11/2025
The LRIG Global Newsletter — November 2025 Edition Is Live! mailchi.mp/lrig/lrig-gl... Our newsletter connects and inspires the lab automation community: • A deep dive into “The Art of Laboratory Automation in the Age of AI” • Member & Volunteer Spotlights • Upcoming Events Across LRIG Chapters
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LRIG.org @lrig.org · 27/06/2025
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...
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LRIG Global Newsletter - Summer 2025
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eMolecules @emolecules.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
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
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LRIG.org @lrig.org · 10/04/2025
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!
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LRIG.org @lrig.org · 24/03/2025
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
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Opinion | Why Did Elon Musk Go After Bunkers Full of Seeds? (Gift Article)
Gene banks are like a survivalist cache: our nation’s safeguard against all future challenges to growing the food we need.
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LRIG.org @lrig.org · 01/03/2025
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
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How Fungi Move Among Us (Gift Article)
Underground fungal networks are “living algorithms” that quietly help regulate Earth’s climate. Now scientists know what makes them so efficient.
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TeselaGen Biotechnology @teselagen.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
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
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Customer stories - Teselagen
Learn how Arzeda leveraged technology from TeselaGen, Labcyte and Twist Bioscience to accelerate their synthetic biology workflow and build a better DNA
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LRIG.org @lrig.org · 18/02/2025
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...
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On a Mission to Heal Gila Monsters (Gift Article)
After years in Big Pharma, a chemist pivoted to help save the species that made Ozempic possible.
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Brady Lab @bradylabs.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
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...)
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LRIG.org @lrig.org · 08/01/2025
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
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Drug Company to Share Revenues With Indigenous People Who Donated Their Genes (Gift Article)
Variant Bio, a small biotech company based in Seattle, is using genetic information from Indigenous people to develop drugs for obesity and diabetes.
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Ben Garcia @garcialabms.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
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...
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Development of a high-throughput platform for quantitation of histone modifications on a new QTOF instrument
Histone post-translational modifications (PTMs) regulate gene expression patterns through epigenetic mechanisms. The 5 histone proteins (H1, H2A, H2B, H3, and H4) are extensively modified, with over 75 distinct modification types spanning more than 200 sites. Despite strong advances in mass spectrometry-based approaches, identification and quantification of modified histone peptides remains challenging due to factors such as isobaric peptides, pseudo-isobaric PTMs, and low stoichiometry of certain marks.
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LRIG.org @lrig.org · 22/12/2024
An amazing, inspiring story about fighting FTD, #CRISPR, and a new cell line. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/22/h...
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A Woman With a Rare Gene Mutation Fights to Avoid Her Mother’s Fate (Gift Article)
A mutant gene is coming to steal Linde Jacobs’s mind. Can she find a way to stop it?
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LRIG.org @lrig.org · 13/12/2024
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL): Where are they now? ~ celebrating our colleague Cathy Seiler, among others ~
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Where are they now? | Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Research is itself an educational activity. With the laws of science and nature for teachers, researchers conduct experiments to learn how life and the world work. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL)...
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Earlham Institute @earlhaminst.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
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
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Using new technology to explore the tiniest of worlds
Complex microbiomes are everywhere. Our skin, our guts, soil, pond water. All are home to tiny life forms, interacting with each other and going about their business.
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Kahlil Lawless @synthesisconduit.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
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...
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Sustainable sequencing in the new MiSeq i100 Series
How Illumina’s Erin Imsand and her team helped develop reagents that can be stored at room temperature
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Matt Reynolds @mattreynolds.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
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...
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Meet the Plant Hacker Creating Flowers Never Seen (or Smelled) Before
Biotechnologist Sebastian Cocioba started hacking plants to put himself through college. Now, from his home lab on Long Island, he wants to bring the tools of genetic engineering to the masses.
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Albert Vilella, PhD. @albertvilella.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
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.
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Oded Rechavi @odedrechavi.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
When you check on your cell culture after the weekend
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Botanical Society of America @botsocamerica.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
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
Phase contrast microscopy image showing the chloroplast morphology of siphonous green algae.
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Bob Gantzer @bob-gantzer.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
#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?
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Uncountable Inc. @uncountable-inc.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
We’re excited and ready to engage with Every scientist, chemist, researcher, lab manager, And R&D decision maker! #ChemSky #MaterialsScience #LabDigitalization #LabAutomation
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Cameron Thrash @jcamthrash.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Comparing the effectiveness of different DNA extraction methods in MX‐80 bentonite enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #jcampubs
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Comparing the effectiveness of different DNA extraction methods in MX‐80 bentonite
We conducted an inter-laboratory comparison of two slightly modified DNA extraction methods on sterilized Wyoming MX-80 bentonite, amended with two defined mock communities. The choice between the tw...
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Cornelia @csthauer.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Any European Lab Automation enthusiasts in here? How do you see the market evolving? #labautomation
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Javier del Campo @fonamental.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
High-throughput expansion microscopy enables scalable super-resolution imaging
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High-throughput expansion microscopy enables scalable super-resolution imaging
A simple and accessible method for high-throughput super-resolution fluorescence microscopy that is compatible with commonly used staining practices, 96-well cell culture plates, and confocal…
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Elliot Swartz @elliotswartz.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Hydrolysates from soy/peanut sidestreams can support cell culture www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Low-cost protein extracts and hydrolysates from plant-based agro-industrial waste: Inputs of interest for cultured meat
The main challenge in large-scale cultured meat production is replacing fetal bovine serum (FBS), an expensive, animal-derived component in the cell c…
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Elliot Swartz @elliotswartz.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Hydrolysates from animal feed pellets support cell culture www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Plant-based hydrolysates as building blocks for cellular agriculture
Cellular agriculture, an emerging technology, aims to produce animal-based products such as meat through scalable tissue culture methods. Traditional …
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Elliot Swartz @elliotswartz.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
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...
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Ali Twelvetrees @dozenoaks.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
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
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MicrobesNG @microbesng.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
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...
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Landmark genetics partnership to probe causes of cancer and dementia
Oxford Nanopore’s breakthrough genetic sequencing tech to analyse 50,000 samples from UK Biobank, to create a world-first ‘epigenetic map’.
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Oliver Levine @oliverlevine.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
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 😂
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PastelBio @pastelbio.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
High-Throughput Tear Proteomics via In-Capillary Digestion for Biomarker Discovery www.mdpi.com/1422-00... --- #proteomics #prot-paper
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Luis Villa @lvilla.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
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.
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LRIG.org @lrig.org · 26/11/2024
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BioMassSpec @realbiomassspec.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
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-...
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Optimization of a disposable pipette tips extraction (DPX) for the analysis of psychoactive substances in sweat specimens using Design of Experiments
ABSTRACT. Novel psychoactive substances (NPS) continue to emerge in the marketplace and are often found as substances in traditional illicit drug materials
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ᐯIᑕTOᖇ ᑎIᘔET, ᗰᗪ @nizet.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
not a cell phone in sight just people living in the moment #MicroSky #IDSky
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Achille Broggi🧪👨🏼‍🔬🔬 @achillebro.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
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)
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Peter N. Dudley @conservation.bio · 22/11/2024
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 🧪)
Glowing sphere made for plastic test tubes
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
The human proteomic revolution proceeds with high-throughput assessment, AI analytics, correlation with health and disease, drug interactions, biomarkers www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
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Srijit Seal 🇺🇸🇬🇧🇩🇪🇯🇵🇮🇳 @srijitseal.com · 22/11/2024
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
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Senior Scientist - Computational Chemistry
Senior Scientist - Computational Chemistry
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Violeta Calleja Solanas @violetacalleja.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
A very creative piece! New tools to look at cooperation through new lens
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marielle @marielle.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
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
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Bluesky @bsky.app · 21/11/2024
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:
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How to verify your Bluesky account - Bluesky
Here's how to verify your Bluesky account by setting your website as your username.
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Ben Blaiszik @benblaiszik.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
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
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Jonathan Wosen @jonathanwosen.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
“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...
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Bluesky is the new destination for X/Twitter’s health and science community. Here's why
#MedTwitter is migrating en masse from X to Bluesky, suddenly making it an essential hub for scientific discourse. Here's why.
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Ian Foster @ianfoster42.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
My interest: pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
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Towards a modular architecture for science factories
Advances in robotic automation, high-performance computing (HPC), and artificial intelligence (AI) encourage us to conceive of science factories: large, general-purpose computation- and AI-enabled sel...
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PyLabRobot @pylabrobot.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
expanding the PLR resource library (PLR-RL) today
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Genome Research @genomeresearch.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
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....
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Luis Villa @lvilla.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
I'll be on this panel tonight talking about lab automation and AI. 🤖 lu.ma/ifj60r0y?tk=...
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AI x Bio: Perspective from those building on the front lines · Luma
"AI x Bio: Perspectives from Those Building on the Front Lines" is an event focused on the transformative role of AI within tech bio. Attendees will hear from…
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Andrew White 🐦‍⬛ @andrew.diffuse.one · 18/11/2024
Here's a comparison of various chemical biology objects from gold nanoparticles to small molecule drugs, made with Blender.
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