DISCO: DNA Infrastructure for Storage and COmputation.

🧬💻We are hiring!
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The #DigNA webinar #5 "DNA: from solid-phase synthesis to large-scale libraries and microarrays" is now available!
🧬🎤Speakers:
Martin Jost co-founder and CSO at Kilobaser, and Mark Somoza, Associate Professor of Chemistry at the University of Vienna.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xTc...

#ScienceNight here at Maynooth University. The DISCO team were out in force, thanks to Prof Damien Woods, @abeereshra.bsky.social, @drkimreilly.bsky.social, Cai Wood, Brooklyn Igbojionu & Eoghan Ryan who helped on the night, & to Ashley Allen for 3D printed DNA and SDC mode Fun was had by all! 🧪🧬🤩

Huge Congratulations to Dr Cai Wood who graduated last week! We are thrilled to have you and Dr Josh Petrack joining the DISCO team as Post-doctoral researchers.

What a busy two weeks for DISCO!
🧬 We hosted Dr Florent Becker from Université d'Orléans on a research visit.
🎓🔦 SPUR students Eoghan Ryan and Daniel Drapeau presented posters
🧪🚀 Assistant Prof Abeer Eshra took part in the Maynooth Sparks 2025 panel discussion
🌐💡attended FSE "Research Connections"

Delighted to be in Prague for our #EUeic #DigNA portfolio meeting. We will meet fellow #DigNA projects and have a joint poster session and reception with the “New Trends in DNA-based Data Storage ” conference. For the rest of the week we will be attending DBDS2025 - exciting talks ahead🧬

MU scientist wins prestigious Dirks Molecular Programming Prize Maynooth University Research Fellow Dr Constantine Evans has been awarded the 2025 Robert Dirks Molecular Programming Prize, a prestigious global science award. Dr Evans is the first Irish university

HUGE congratulations to our TAPDANCE lab group member Dr Constantine Evans who is the 2025 recipient of the prestigious Dirks Prize 🧬👏 www.maynoothuniversity.ie/news-events/...

Flashback Friday! Thanks so much to @maynoothuniversity.ie Women and Girls in STEM club who recently visited our labs hosted by @abeereshra.bsky.social
We hope to see you again soon #WomenInSTEM

DigNA Portfolio | LinkedIn DigNA Portfolio | 157 followers on LinkedIn. A portfolio of projects funded under the 2022 EIC Pathfinder Challenge: DNA-based digital data storage | Current digital data storage technologies face sig...

DISCO is part of a portfolio of 9 #EUeic projects. We have a dedicated #DigNA LinkedIn and are running a series of free educational webinars to inform and communicate about DNA data storage. They are aimed at a general audience and offer a fascinating insight into this new technology.

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A busy week for the DISCO lab! We were delighted to welcome Prof. Andrew Turberfield for a visit and a fascinating talk at the Hamilton Institute Seminar; and then to welcome over 30 schoolgirls and parents from the @maynoothuniversity.ie girls in STEM afterschool club to tour the labs and meet us.

A photo of a person with the EU EIC logo and #EICSUMMIT25

We will be at the #EICSUMMIT25 in Brussels 2nd to 3rd April looking forward to meeting colleagues and hearing from Europe's #HorizonEU innovators and an intro from Commissioner Ekaterina Zaharieva #DigNA #DNADataStorage

Wishing a very happy #InternationalWomensDay to my @disco-eu.bsky.social #WomenInSTEM colleagues Dr Abeer Eshra @abeereshra.bsky.social Dr Tamara Aigner-Bognor and Dr Corina Boschert - its a pleasure to work with you on our @horizoneu.bsky.social #EUeic funded project on #DNADataStorage

DISCO coordinator Prof Damien Woods, postdoc @abeereshra.bsky.social and project manager @drkimreilly.bsky.social were delighted to be invited judges for the 2025 scifest.ie at Maynooth Post Primary. Well done to all students who participated - we were amazed at your curiosity and ingenuity! #STEM

Happening tomorrow! The 2nd #DigNA webinar - "Introduction to Error Correction and Coding for DNA Storage" with expert speakers Eitan Yaakobi (Technion) and Thomas Heinis (Imperial College). Participation is FREE but please register: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Thursday 27th February 2.00 CET

It was great to see our DISCO research presented by senior postdoc @abeereshra.bsky.social at the @mu-physics.bsky.social and Hamilton Institute joint Hamilton & Physics Research Morning 2025!

🧬Are you looking for a new role in 2025? We are recruiting for Senior and Junior Postdocs to work on DNA computation in dna.hamilton.ie – closing date is 23rd March 2025.

Roles are full time based at Maynooth University, Ireland. To read more and apply:

universityvacancies.com/maynooth-uni...

Foundations of Nanoscience

Abstract submission for FNANO is now open! They’re due Feb 1! Join us at molecular programming’s annual celebration of design, interfaces and applications (and also skiing) 🧬

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Wishing all of our colleagues, collaborators, followers (and of course our funders!) a very happy holiday season! 🎄🍷

As part of #ScienceWeek recently we were delighted to host secondary school students and teachers from Maynooth Post Primary for a tour of our labs to Learn about DNA Computation and DNA Robotics. Looking forward to seeing you again in 2025 for #ScienceWeek and #MathsWeek

We are hiring! Postdoc positions available - closing date is 23rd March 2025. my.corehr.com/pls/nuimrecr... Please see our website disco-tech.eu and read more about our research group here: dna.hamilton.ie

We are hiring! Technical Officer with expertise in lab techniques AFM, qPCR, polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis, as well as some experience with python code. Closing date 5th January. universityvacancies.com/maynooth-uni...

Are you interested in learning about the state of the art in DNA data storage? 👇

Throwback Tuesday! In October we officially launched our €4m EIC Pathfinder Challenge project, DNA Infrastructure for Storage and Computation (DISCO), in partnership with prgm.dev and www.tilibit.com
Read more about our project launch here: dna.hamilton.ie/2024-10-21-D...

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DISCO is one of 9 European Innovation Council (EIC) funded projects within the #DigNA portfolio which seeks to build a critical mass in the field of DNA data storage and computation.
A #DigNA webinar - State of the Art DNA Data Storage - will take place Thursday, 12 December 2024, 14:00 CET 👇

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