Ricardo Valencia Albornoz

Already on holiday or still packing?

Either way, you'll want to keep this on your radar.
New #ComplexityThought essay dropping soon:

“A Tangled Nature”: #complexity, #evolution and the tangled web we live in.

Bookmark it: manlius.substack.com/p/a-tangled-...
No spoilers, just anticipation.

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How can a cell know the time? Let's explore the beautiful 24-hour cycle produced by #KaiC proteins in the cyanobacteria S. Elongatus. Rendered in #blender3d with @bradyajohnston.bsky.social's brilliant Molecular Nodes add-on. #biology

Top-level talks yesterday at the Generative AI for Biology workshop organised by the UK’s Gen AI Hub. A lot of ideas and interesting applications! @genaihub.bsky.social

So pretty!

Entrepreneur in residence to drive innovation at the Earlham Institute The Earlham Institute has secured its first Entrepreneur in Residence award from the Royal Society.

💬 "We want to foster an entrepreneurial spirit that helps everyone recognise the translational potential of their work, and I’m excited to be working alongside Fiona as we progress along that journey.”

The Earlham Institute secures its first Entrepreneur in Residence award from @royalsociety.org.

First @chorylab.bsky.social blog post!
chorylab.substack.com/p/new-year-n...

Not too many, the body are 4 pieces, 2 cilindres to do the roll and the connectors + wheel (11 pieces). The belt is a funny one, it has 21 pieces per section and it uses 4 sections. The joints are nicely printed in my Bambu A1 mini, so it becomes flexible immediately after printing.

Mini-Christmas project: a 3d-printed conveyor belt

Steering towards safe self-driving laboratories The past decade has witnessed remarkable advancements in autonomous systems, such as automobiles that are evolving from traditional vehicles to ones capable of navigating complex environments without ...

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I am excited to share a perspective on the much-needed topic of hashtag#safety for hashtag#selfdrivinglaboratories. As the field progresses, understanding the challenges and gaps in building safe setups will be crucial for scaling up this technology!

doi.org/10.26434/che...

Commercially available tiny microscope from the openUC2 team led by Benedict Diederich - a collaboration with Seeed studio. Open design, motorised focus stacking and extensible through the UC2 cage interface.
www.seeedstudio.com/XIAO-Microsc...

Group Leader Dr Sarah Guiziou

Cultured bacteria in agar plate drawn in the shape of an E

Cultured bacteria in agar plate fluoresced under UV light in the outline of a christmas tree.

Cultured bacteria in agar plate fluoresced under UV light in the outline of a bauble decoration.

What happens when the Communications team gets let loose in the lab? Group Leader Dr @sarah-guiziou.bsky.social invited us along to her lab for a festive #STEM #engagement activity - "painting" with bacteria. A great method for introducing #microbiology and #synbio to young audiences. 🦠🧫🖌️🎄

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We're hiring! Are you a #metabolomics scientist interested in working with #EU colleagues to analyse and model metabolomic data? We are looking for an enthusiastic and knowledgeable individual to join the #BiACEM project: www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...

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.

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

Why you should buy a Bambu A1 Mini even though you "don’t need one": it will crank out simple but time consuming parts like this all day every day quickly and with perfect precision so you aren’t tying up bigger more capable printers.

Dynamic nature of viral and bacterial communities in human faeces Bacteriophages are a major component of the gut microbiome and are believed to play a role in establishment and stabilization of microbial communities…

Feel like this paper slipped under the radar on ‘the other platform’ so giving it another airing here. Phage can significantly remodel the bacteriome in faecal samples - yet another confounder 🙄 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Proto-animation showing ions arriving to detector, spectrum, TIC and XIC. Feedback welcome!

Evolution and function of chromatin domains across the tree of life - Nature Structural & Molecular Biology Szalay et al. discuss cross-kingdom similarities and differences in 3D chromatin folding in relation to gene regulation, including in bacteria, archaea, mammals and plants. This comparison reveals cer...

🔺🔺🔺RED TRIANGLE ALERT 🔺🔺🔺
Ever wonder how #TADs compare across the tree of life?Look no further & read our Review!!!

Find out what genes & 3D chromatin can & can't do in Bacteria! Archeae! Yeast! Plants! Animals!

SMCs & RNA-Pol are the only thing they have in common
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

When you are a robotic arm and need to find another job after the PhD

Latest #CDlab paper: Synchronization of E. coli Bacteria Moving in Coupled Microwells: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

E. coli bacteria swim in sync in weakly coupled neighboring microcavities!

Great work led by @AleksandreJapa from from Farbod Alijani's lab, to which I also contributed

🤖 our new blog post, "a Markov chain-based patrol strategy for a surveillance robot", explaining how to design an efficient and unpredictable patrol schedule for a surveillance robot. includes Julia code to minimize the mean hitting time of the Markov chain.

simonensemble.github.io/pluto_nbs/MC...

First snow ❄️ in Norfolk

The known ecosystem, like the people I see in SLAS, makes me wonder: do they have the power (opinion on budget power) to promote more automation in the company? If not, they should. It can be very focused automation, e.g. 2 cart module, but they need to start somewhere.

Companies should stop thinking having even one person thinking in automation and looking for options as a sunken cost. The previous observation says that startup people are smart people, but overloaded, so searching of automation tech gets down in the priority list (both brain and budget, if ever)

I agree with Jake. When I watched this post on the other site, I was surprised by the number of people not knowing about Gingko’s magnetotraction system for plate movement (i knew this from Will Serber earlier this year in Denmark)

rows of tiny seedlings only millimeters tall

one of my labmates is a genius, behold her tiny arabidopsis farm made from a 96-well plate and pcr strip lids 🤩😆

In Cambridge for the day

GenoVi, an open-source automated circular genome visualizer for bacteria and archaea Author summary Genome visualization tools can inspect genomic features in a DNA sequence, delivering a visual aid to quickly understand genome architecture and function. Circular representations frequ...

I posted a while back about @cumsille.bsky.social ‘s lovely GenoVi software, but it really is great and makes lovely publication quality figures- recommend 5*s - GenoVi, an open-source automated circular genome visualizer for bacteria and archaea journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...

How to apply for a (UK) postdoc fellowship - Elisa Granato How to apply for a (UK) postdoc fellowship Disclaimer: this guide was written based on my experience applying for (and being awarded) a BBSRC Discovery Fellowship in 2020/2021. Some of this might appl...

'Tis the season ... of UK research fellowship interviews! Here are some tips & tricks to help you prepare - featuring a list of 100(!) common Q&A questions elisagranato.com/how-to-apply...