Thomas Gorochowski
@chofski.bsky.social
Synthetic biologist, programmer of cells, and lover of all things visual. Wakes up in the morning to learn some of natures secrets and do a spot of fly fishing.
🚨Interested in the intersection of AI and Engineering Biology? 🤖🧬 If so, come join us in Bristol, UK from 15-16 Jan 2026 for the latest instalment of the "AI, Engineering Biology and Beyond" conference! It's going to be a "banger" and registration is open NOW! #synbio #ai aiebab.github.io
October 22, 2025 at 10:03 AM
🚨Interested in the intersection of AI and Engineering Biology? 🤖🧬 If so, come join us in Bristol, UK from 15-16 Jan 2026 for the latest instalment of the "AI, Engineering Biology and Beyond" conference! It's going to be a "banger" and registration is open NOW! #synbio #ai aiebab.github.io
Reposted by Thomas Gorochowski
Université Grenoble Alpes opens a full professorship in microbiology in 2026. The selected candidate will develop their research program on quantitative approaches in microbiology in the Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire de Physique. More info: liphy.univ-grenoble-alpes.fr/en/join-us/r...
Professorship (tenure) in 'Quantitative approaches in microbiology' (CNU Sections 64/65) | LIPhy - Université Grenoble Alpes
liphy.univ-grenoble-alpes.fr
October 7, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Université Grenoble Alpes opens a full professorship in microbiology in 2026. The selected candidate will develop their research program on quantitative approaches in microbiology in the Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire de Physique. More info: liphy.univ-grenoble-alpes.fr/en/join-us/r...
Reposted by Thomas Gorochowski
SHARK: a specialized host for assembling R6K plasmids https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.06.680659v1
October 7, 2025 at 4:11 AM
SHARK: a specialized host for assembling R6K plasmids https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.06.680659v1
Reposted by Thomas Gorochowski
SHARK: a specialized host for assembling R6K plasmids
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October 7, 2025 at 7:02 AM
SHARK: a specialized host for assembling R6K plasmids
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
🛠️New tool from the lab! #SHARK🦈: a new strain to support complex cloning of transient R6K expression plasmids – perfect for genome engineering. Work led by the talented Shivang Joshi and all strains and strain assembly tools enroute to Addgene. #synbio doi.org/10.1101/2025...
October 7, 2025 at 8:31 AM
🛠️New tool from the lab! #SHARK🦈: a new strain to support complex cloning of transient R6K expression plasmids – perfect for genome engineering. Work led by the talented Shivang Joshi and all strains and strain assembly tools enroute to Addgene. #synbio doi.org/10.1101/2025...
🥳Excited to share our latest collaborative work using whole-cell models and #AI to design genomes!🦠🧬 What a time to be alive! Project led by Ioana Gherman, with Kieren Sharma, Joshua Rees-Garbutt, Claire Grierson, Lucia Marucci, Wei Pang & Zahraa Abdallah #synbio authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...
September 24, 2025 at 5:25 PM
🥳Excited to share our latest collaborative work using whole-cell models and #AI to design genomes!🦠🧬 What a time to be alive! Project led by Ioana Gherman, with Kieren Sharma, Joshua Rees-Garbutt, Claire Grierson, Lucia Marucci, Wei Pang & Zahraa Abdallah #synbio authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...
Very excited to attend and speak at this years #UKOMAIN Multimodal AI workshop at the Barbican. Already learning a lot about emulators and generative models for novel materials.
September 16, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Very excited to attend and speak at this years #UKOMAIN Multimodal AI workshop at the Barbican. Already learning a lot about emulators and generative models for novel materials.
🚨I have a fully funded 4-year #PhD opportunity in my lab on 'Tuneable multi-input genetic logic circuits for designer probiotics'.🦠 We'll be throwing all the tech we have at this one to make reliable engineering of diverse microbes a reality. Applicants must be UK national...
September 3, 2025 at 9:00 AM
🚨I have a fully funded 4-year #PhD opportunity in my lab on 'Tuneable multi-input genetic logic circuits for designer probiotics'.🦠 We'll be throwing all the tech we have at this one to make reliable engineering of diverse microbes a reality. Applicants must be UK national...
Come and join us at a free complementary Japan-UK Engineering Biology meeting after the main ESSL conference (essl2025.org/). A few spaces left to some see some of the up and coming superstars of #synbio in the UK!
September 1, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Come and join us at a free complementary Japan-UK Engineering Biology meeting after the main ESSL conference (essl2025.org/). A few spaces left to some see some of the up and coming superstars of #synbio in the UK!
Standard day in Bristol... balloons!
August 12, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Standard day in Bristol... balloons!
Reading some wonderful old Russian mathematics on automata theory and love this comment that just popped up! Coming from the rural countryside of Somerset, I'm not sure the people quite match this analysis! 🤠
August 7, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Reading some wonderful old Russian mathematics on automata theory and love this comment that just popped up! Coming from the rural countryside of Somerset, I'm not sure the people quite match this analysis! 🤠
I've become obsessed by the idea of "design" in all aspects of synthetic biology. How do we discover good bio-design? How will it make me feel? Does it even matter? This awesome post by iA is the first that resonates in terms of how we might get there... ia.net/topics/maker...
Maker’s Knowledge
Giambattista Vico's Design of Philosophy
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July 22, 2025 at 9:16 PM
I've become obsessed by the idea of "design" in all aspects of synthetic biology. How do we discover good bio-design? How will it make me feel? Does it even matter? This awesome post by iA is the first that resonates in terms of how we might get there... ia.net/topics/maker...
Although I've now taken a back seat, it is great to see the growing adoption of SBOL Visual in the synthetic and engineering biology literature and even more awesome to see so many current and visiting students to my lab on the author list😍 Roll on 2035! arxiv.org/abs/2507.04601
July 8, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Although I've now taken a back seat, it is great to see the growing adoption of SBOL Visual in the synthetic and engineering biology literature and even more awesome to see so many current and visiting students to my lab on the author list😍 Roll on 2035! arxiv.org/abs/2507.04601
What to agument your favourite protein with new functionalities? 🛠️ We've got a #biodesign workflow to help with that! In work led by @georgiehs.bsky.social we present SIMPLIFE that blends biophyscial and #ML models to extend biology in useful ways. #synbio doi.org/10.1101/2025...
June 23, 2025 at 8:43 AM
What to agument your favourite protein with new functionalities? 🛠️ We've got a #biodesign workflow to help with that! In work led by @georgiehs.bsky.social we present SIMPLIFE that blends biophyscial and #ML models to extend biology in useful ways. #synbio doi.org/10.1101/2025...
What to learn a bit about some of the topics explored at the Japan-UK Synthetic Biology Conference earlier this year? Then, check out our meeting report now out in ACS Synthetic Biology. Big thanks to all the authors and Patrick Cai and Masato Kanemaki for organising! #synbio doi.org/10.1021/acss...
The Japan-UK Synthetic Biology Conference, Spring 2025: Strengthening Global Links to Engineer Biology
Both Japan and the UK have recognized the growing importance of synthetic and engineering biology for transforming life science research and transitioning toward a sustainable biobased economy. Such a...
doi.org
June 20, 2025 at 8:05 AM
What to learn a bit about some of the topics explored at the Japan-UK Synthetic Biology Conference earlier this year? Then, check out our meeting report now out in ACS Synthetic Biology. Big thanks to all the authors and Patrick Cai and Masato Kanemaki for organising! #synbio doi.org/10.1021/acss...
Great to see this report out from the UK Government Office for Science on 'Mirror Life'. Was nice to contribute to the discussions and thoughts on this topic with other UK colleagues. #synbio www.gov.uk/government/p...
Mirror life
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June 12, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Great to see this report out from the UK Government Office for Science on 'Mirror Life'. Was nice to contribute to the discussions and thoughts on this topic with other UK colleagues. #synbio www.gov.uk/government/p...
Some days I’m reminded of why working in research can be so exciting. Imaging DNA at the sub-nanometre scale on this beast! High-speed scanning #AFM for the win.
June 4, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Some days I’m reminded of why working in research can be so exciting. Imaging DNA at the sub-nanometre scale on this beast! High-speed scanning #AFM for the win.
Reposted by Thomas Gorochowski
🚨Anyone want a job?🚨
We have two #postdocs up for grabs! 🧪
- cell developmental biology/#evodevo/#neuroevodevo
- bioinformatics and molecular biology
Both working on brain evolution in Heliconiini butterflies
Details below! Please repost 🙏 1/n
We have two #postdocs up for grabs! 🧪
- cell developmental biology/#evodevo/#neuroevodevo
- bioinformatics and molecular biology
Both working on brain evolution in Heliconiini butterflies
Details below! Please repost 🙏 1/n
June 4, 2025 at 9:51 AM
🚨Anyone want a job?🚨
We have two #postdocs up for grabs! 🧪
- cell developmental biology/#evodevo/#neuroevodevo
- bioinformatics and molecular biology
Both working on brain evolution in Heliconiini butterflies
Details below! Please repost 🙏 1/n
We have two #postdocs up for grabs! 🧪
- cell developmental biology/#evodevo/#neuroevodevo
- bioinformatics and molecular biology
Both working on brain evolution in Heliconiini butterflies
Details below! Please repost 🙏 1/n
For those of you interested in the convergence of AI and Engineering Biology, keep the 15–16 Jan 2026 free. Next “AI, Engineering Biology and Beyond” #AIEBaB will be in Bristol, UK! Organisation currently underway and more info to follow soon!
June 1, 2025 at 12:48 PM
For those of you interested in the convergence of AI and Engineering Biology, keep the 15–16 Jan 2026 free. Next “AI, Engineering Biology and Beyond” #AIEBaB will be in Bristol, UK! Organisation currently underway and more info to follow soon!
Recombinases your thing? In the latest from my lab, Veronica Greco shows how @nanopore sequencing + automated liquid handling provides the perfect platform for characterising these systems at scale! Awesome collaboration with @jennbrophy.bsky.social @sarah-guiziou.bsky.social doi.org/10.1101/2025...
May 29, 2025 at 6:49 AM
Recombinases your thing? In the latest from my lab, Veronica Greco shows how @nanopore sequencing + automated liquid handling provides the perfect platform for characterising these systems at scale! Awesome collaboration with @jennbrophy.bsky.social @sarah-guiziou.bsky.social doi.org/10.1101/2025...
Had an awesome time at #IEEE #ASYNC2025 this year in the beautiful Portland OR. Such a vibrant and open community. Thanks to the organisers. Hopefully this is the start of some new intersections between asynchronous circuits and engineered biology!
May 15, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Had an awesome time at #IEEE #ASYNC2025 this year in the beautiful Portland OR. Such a vibrant and open community. Thanks to the organisers. Hopefully this is the start of some new intersections between asynchronous circuits and engineered biology!
Loving the latest Pace Layers journal from the @longnow.org This article hit home to me on the small bits of reflection we all can do to better appreciate our place in this world. Worth a read. longnow.org/ideas/deep-t...
Deep Time Underground
Finland’s nuclear waste experts have, for decades, quietly envisioned distant future ecosystems. Exploring their thinking anthropologically can expand our awareness of time.
longnow.org
May 3, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Loving the latest Pace Layers journal from the @longnow.org This article hit home to me on the small bits of reflection we all can do to better appreciate our place in this world. Worth a read. longnow.org/ideas/deep-t...
Awesome visit to @royalsociety.org to see some of the treasures in their collection, followed up by a fun session with some of the Imperial #synbio "crew" feat. @proftomellis.bsky.social @ceronifranci.bsky.social Ouldridge Lab. Highlights were Micrographia and the TODO list of the early fellowship!
April 25, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Awesome visit to @royalsociety.org to see some of the treasures in their collection, followed up by a fun session with some of the Imperial #synbio "crew" feat. @proftomellis.bsky.social @ceronifranci.bsky.social Ouldridge Lab. Highlights were Micrographia and the TODO list of the early fellowship!
Learn how Cas9-enrichment + @nanoporetech.com sequencing can more fully uncover biodiversity in complex environments via targeted metabarcoding in latest from lab! Led by the hugely talented Lucia Nikolaeva-Reynolds who started this as her final year undergraduate project! doi.org/10.1098/rsos...
April 23, 2025 at 6:51 AM
Learn how Cas9-enrichment + @nanoporetech.com sequencing can more fully uncover biodiversity in complex environments via targeted metabarcoding in latest from lab! Led by the hugely talented Lucia Nikolaeva-Reynolds who started this as her final year undergraduate project! doi.org/10.1098/rsos...
Reposted by Thomas Gorochowski
Interested in a #postdoc in #originsoflife research? Are you a geek who loves #RNA, #RNAseq and tinkering, with a background in #biochemistry, #chemistry or #biophysics? Join #bubblelife! Apply now by email (CV + a short motivation letter)!
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From RNA-peptide coevolution to cellular life at heated air bubbles | BubbleLife | Projekt | Fact Sheet | HORIZON | CORDIS | European Commission
"The origin of life on Earth is one of humanity's profound mysteries that lacks scientific answers. We aim to answer this fundamental question by performing pioneering experiments starting from the Da...
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April 9, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Interested in a #postdoc in #originsoflife research? Are you a geek who loves #RNA, #RNAseq and tinkering, with a background in #biochemistry, #chemistry or #biophysics? Join #bubblelife! Apply now by email (CV + a short motivation letter)!
cordis.europa.eu/project/id/1...
cordis.europa.eu/project/id/1...