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Singer Instruments @singerinstruments.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

📣 We've achieved Disability Confident Level 3 Leader status! 🎉 Our MD Robbie explains: “Inclusion isn’t a box-checking exercise for us; it’s core to how we operate.. We hope to inspire other businesses across our region and industry to take the same journey.”

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Singer Instruments @singerinstruments.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

ANOTHER webinar?! 🤯 Yep... Hear us out - this one is a live, hands-on demo! 🧫 Join us to see how you can scale up your search for the next new drug. 📅 18th August 🕑 2pm BST | 3pm CEST | 9am EDT 🔗 Sign up for free here: tinyurl.com/rotor-demo

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High-Throughput Genetic Screening for Drug Targets with ROTOR+ | Demo

Register for this online ROTOR+ demo to discover how to scale up your forward & reverse genetic screens for novel drug targets.

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Singer Instruments @singerinstruments.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Your biology is complex enough. Your workflow shouldn't be. 🧫 Join our live ROTOR+ Demo to discover automated genetic screening, robust reproducibility and scalable workflows. 📅 18 Aug | 🎟️ Register : tinyurl.com/rotor-demo

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High-Throughput Genetic Screening for Drug Targets with ROTOR+ | Demo

Register for this online ROTOR+ demo to discover how to scale up your forward & reverse genetic screens for novel drug targets.

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Singer Instruments @singerinstruments.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

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

Webinar | Cracking the code on pathogen vulnerabilities
High-throughput screening strategies to uncover and exploit novel drug targets with Professors Carol Munro & Nils Johnsson.
11th August 2026 @ 2PM BST

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Singer Instruments @singerinstruments.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

🧫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.

A collage of agar plate images growing colonies. The colonies are highlighted with red

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Singer Instruments @singerinstruments.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

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

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Singer Instruments @singerinstruments.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

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

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Singer Instruments @singerinstruments.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

“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

Webinar on 11th August @2PM british summer time.
Cracking the code on pathogen vulnerabilities:
Learn how Profs. Carol Munro & nils johnsson use high-throughput screening to uncover & exploit novel drug targets.

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Singer Instruments @singerinstruments.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

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 🤖🌱

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Singer Instruments @singerinstruments.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

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

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Singer Instruments @singerinstruments.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

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

The video is of PAA's KX2 robot arm and the PIXL automated colony picker. It shows the KX2 placing a PlusPlate with resin agar/colonies and a 96 MWP into the PIXL. The word "Isolates colonies efficiently without damaging agar plates" appear as the PIXL picking hand comes down to touch each colony and mix it into the MWP wells.
Adjust for surface height variations on every pick also appears as the process repeats.
KX2 then places a lid on the MWP and removes the plate from the PIXL.

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Singer Instruments @singerinstruments.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

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

Two male scientists in lab coats and lab goggles use ROTOR to screen yeast in 1536 arrays

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Singer Instruments @singerinstruments.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

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🦠.

A short man with black floppy hair and glasses shakes hands with a taller blond man also in glasses. behind them is a personalised ROTOR high throughput screening robot. Both men are looking directly at the camera with soft smiles.

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Singer Instruments @singerinstruments.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

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

PIXL Max is at SLAS Europe 2026 Booth 404 with Festo
Automated Colony Picking
Image shows 6 pins picking 6 colonies, from a 96 array agar plate, simultaneously.

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Singer Instruments @singerinstruments.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

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.

A collage of 4 images. Image 1 - A gold framed certificate and a gold embossed (background silver) square trophy with rounded edges sit on a wooden windowsill. The certificate declares Singer Instruments as the winner of the somerset business awards employer of the year. Image 2 - Two men in black tie lean against the B in a Giant sculptural "S B A" set on green carpet with a spot light highlighting them. Image 3 - Three women smile at the selfie camera lit in a deep rose pink lite. They are each dressed to impress, with the center lady in a bright pink glittery dress with a greek style draped neckline. Image 4 - One of them women seen in image 2 holds the certificate in image 1 with a big smile on her face wearing a dark long sleeved dress.

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Singer Instruments @singerinstruments.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

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

Young scientist in a labcoat and goggles points at a computer screen attached to high-throughput screening robot ROTOR+. Behind her stands another slightly older scientist in another labcoat.

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Singer Instruments @singerinstruments.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

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

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Singer Instruments @singerinstruments.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

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... 🧵

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The second chap has short brown hair and a scruffy but short beard. He is wearing a lilac polo and is staring lovingly at either the pint or the chap drinking it. Who knows?

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Singer Instruments @singerinstruments.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

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

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Rewiring the Budding Yeast Proteome using Synthetic Physical Interactions

Artificially tethering two proteins or protein fragments together is a powerful method to query molecular mechanisms. However, this approach typically relies upon a prior understanding of which two pr...

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Singer Instruments @singerinstruments.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

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

Webinar 2 pm Tuesday - navigating microbial diversity with PIXL Max. Accelerating your path from natural sample to microbial insight with faster automated colony picking.

tick marks on each: anaerobic chamber compatible, 3000 colonies / hour, bacteria, fungi, algae, AI colony detection & morphological classification. Images show the exterior of the picker (a white box with silver trim and a black door, the whie has cartoon images of colonies with different morphologies). image below shows a red picking head picking 6 colonies simultaneously from an agar plate to go into the target bays containing a 96 multi-well plate and a 96 deep well plate.

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Singer Instruments @singerinstruments.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

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

Webinar: 2PM 10th March 2026. Accelerating your path from natural sample to microbial insight. Ticks in front of: Anaerobic Chamber compatible, 3000 colonies/hour, bacteria, fungi, algae, AI colony detection & morphological classification. Images show PIXL Max colony picker & it's picking head isolating 3 colonies from a red plate simultaneously

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Singer Instruments @singerinstruments.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

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

Screenshot of a webinar call containing two women and a man. The first woman is enlarged - this is lindsay hall with ginger hair in a classic long bob with bangs sitting in front of a white background. The second woman is abi sparks - wearing Singer instruments branded clothing and sitting in front of a branded background that includes the colony picker PIXL. James chong is sat in the third window in his office filled with large green plants and plenty of windows.

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Singer Instruments @singerinstruments.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

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. 🧫🧪

Webinar | The Dark Matter of the Microbiome. 2 PM February 24th 2026. With Professors Lindsay Hall & James Chong. How culturing the unculturable can help us solve real world problems. One poo at a time.

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Singer Instruments @singerinstruments.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

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

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Singer Instruments @singerinstruments.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

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🧪

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Singer Instruments @singerinstruments.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

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🧪.

Professor James Chong, University of York.
Expert at transforming anaerobic waste into renewable resources.
Join our webinar to learn:
How to overcome cultivation bottlenecks
Techniques for uncovering new insights
The latest updates on James' Research
The Dark Matter of the Microbiome
How culturing the unculturable can help us solve real world problems.

2PM February 24th 2026
with Profs. Lindsay Hall & James Chong

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Singer Instruments @singerinstruments.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

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.

An adult Man and Woman stand behind a table watching as three older girls play with felt tip pens and spinners to create beautiful patterns.

A girl and a boy with brown hair in dark blazers sit facing away from the camera looking at a box labelled ColonyCam and a monitor with an image taken with ColonyCam showing. Beyond that are two banners on Science and STEM careers in microbiology.

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Singer Instruments @singerinstruments.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

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.

Prof. Lindsay Hall, University of Birmingham. Expert at uncovering the secrets of the infant gut microbiome. Join our webinar to learn:
How to overcome cultivation bottlenecks
Techniques for uncovering new insights
The latest updates on Lindsay's Research.
The Dark Matter of the Microbiome
How culturing the unculturable can help us solve real world problems.

2PM February 24th 2026
with Profs. Lindsay Hall & James Chong

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Singer Instruments @singerinstruments.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

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

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Singer Instruments @singerinstruments.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

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

Image of the PIXL colony picker hovering over a plate of colonies. below is the following text: Webinar | The Dark Matter of the microbiome. 2pm February 24th 2026 with Professors Lindsay Hall and James Chong. How culturing the unculturable can help us solve real world problems. One poo at a time. bottom right is a QR code.

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Singer Instruments @singerinstruments.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

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

Patrick Cai stands in a casual suit on stage giving a seminar talk. behind him is a presentation on the intersecting emerging technologies including an image of the PIXL colony picker that he uses for automating the Sc2.0 project.

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Singer Instruments @singerinstruments.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

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.

Half the image is a closeup of filamentous colonies outline in green (in detail) and circular colonies outlined in purple. On the right is a white legend stating All features (red tick) 12, Circular (purple tick) 5 colony cluster 0, filamentous shape (green tick) 7, irregular 0, punctate 0.

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Singer Instruments @singerinstruments.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

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

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Singer Instruments @singerinstruments.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

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

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Singer Instruments @singerinstruments.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

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.

We can talk about who won the Traitors But can we talk about life on a therapy waiting list? Brave the big talk. Image of a black bob wig with solid bangs on a bright pink background.

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Singer Instruments @singerinstruments.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

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 🧪

Why should robots be simple video thumbnail. An interview with Harry Singer - CEO of Singer Instruments.

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Singer Instruments @singerinstruments.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

#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

Webinar: The Dark matter of the Microbiome. 2 pm February 24th 2026. Profs. James Chong & Lindsay Hall will be speaking on How culturing the unculturable can help us solve real world problems. One poo at a time.

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Singer Instruments @singerinstruments.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

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

An image of a petri dish containing colonies, captured on PIXL Max. Thousands of colonies on the image have been recognised by the AI colony detection algorithm

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Singer Instruments @singerinstruments.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

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

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Singer Instruments @singerinstruments.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

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

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Automated Colony Picking with PIXL Max

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Singer Instruments @singerinstruments.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

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. 🤖

6 agar SBS format PlusPlates containing arrays of 384 Chlamydomonas colonies each. These were created by automated colony picker PIXL. Some of the colonies have grown to about 1 mm diameter, others have not grown.

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Singer Instruments @singerinstruments.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

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!🦠🧪🧫

PIXL Max, precision colony picker, uses 3/6 of it's picking heads to isolate from a dense and diverse agar plate.

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Singer Instruments @singerinstruments.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

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.

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Singer Instruments @singerinstruments.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

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 🧪🤖🧫🧬

"New product, Coming soon, January 2026"

In the background is a highly zoomed image which clearly contains a petri dish growing green streaked colonies on black agar. Behind, partially in frame, are a deep well plate and a 96 multi-well plate.
The top third of the image is taken up by a motion-blurred red section with two black "tubes"? hanging beneath going out of frame.

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Singer Instruments @singerinstruments.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

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 🤖🧪🧫

Two women in Burgandy lab coats stand at a lab bench with computer screens in front of them and a PIXL (Automated colony picker) in between. The PIXL is glowing blue for fluorescence detection.

There is a quote " PIXL is trustworthy, sturdy and gets the job done reliably and fast" from the Australian Human Microbiome Biobank.

Kevin roy stands in front of an integrated PIXL set up with a robot arm and plate hotel.

A robot arm waits in front of the automatic door to pick up a plate from PIXL, the automatic colony picker. The pinning head is currently picking a colony from the source bay.

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Singer Instruments @singerinstruments.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

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

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Singer Instruments @singerinstruments.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

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? 🧪

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Singer Instruments @singerinstruments.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

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 🧫🧪🤖

"Using the PIXL, we picked tens of thousands of colonies - it would be impossible to do that by hand - and we ended up discovering hundreds of different yeast species from around Australia."
Dr Anthony Borneman - Research Manager at the AWRI.

Photo shows Anthony, with lab glasses, stood in a lab with green cabinets and very full shelves but clear benchtops.

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Singer Instruments @singerinstruments.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

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

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Singer Instruments @singerinstruments.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

“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...

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