DISCO: DNA based Infrastructure for Storage and COmputation.
@disco-eu.bsky.social
Funded by the European Innovation Council PATHFINDER Challenge on DNA-based digital data storage, DISCO aims to address the significant (and growing) gap between data generation and global storage capacity. Read more: https://disco-tech.eu/
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Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are those of the author only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or European Innovation Council & SMEs Executive Agency (EISMEA). Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.
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.
November 7, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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"
🧬 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"
November 7, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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"
🧬 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🧬
June 1, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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/...
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
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May 9, 2025 at 10:18 AM
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
We hope to see you again soon #WomenInSTEM
April 25, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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
We hope to see you again soon #WomenInSTEM
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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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...
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April 25, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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.
April 14, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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.
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
April 1, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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
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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
March 8, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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
March 7, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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
Thursday 27th February 2.00 CET
February 26, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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
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!
January 23, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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...
Roles are full time based at Maynooth University, Ireland. To read more and apply:
universityvacancies.com/maynooth-uni...
Post-Doctoral Researcher / Senior Post-Doctoral Researcher (Molecular/DNA Computing; 24-Month Specified Purpose Contract), Hamilton Institute & Department of Computer Science, Maynooth University | Un...
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January 8, 2025 at 1:56 PM
🧬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...
Roles are full time based at Maynooth University, Ireland. To read more and apply:
universityvacancies.com/maynooth-uni...
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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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Foundations of Nanoscience
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January 7, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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) 🧬
www.fnano.org
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Wishing all of our colleagues, collaborators, followers (and of course our funders!) a very happy holiday season! 🎄🍷
December 24, 2024 at 4:35 PM
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
December 20, 2024 at 12:18 PM
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
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December 20, 2024 at 12:11 PM
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...
December 16, 2024 at 10:02 AM
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? 👇
December 10, 2024 at 11:39 AM
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...
Read more about our project launch here: dna.hamilton.ie/2024-10-21-D...
December 10, 2024 at 11:34 AM
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...
Read more about our project launch here: dna.hamilton.ie/2024-10-21-D...
Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are those of the author only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or European Innovation Council & SMEs Executive Agency (EISMEA). Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.
December 10, 2024 at 11:04 AM
Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are those of the author only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or European Innovation Council & SMEs Executive Agency (EISMEA). Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.
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 👇
A #DigNA webinar - State of the Art DNA Data Storage - will take place Thursday, 12 December 2024, 14:00 CET 👇
December 9, 2024 at 2:57 PM
Hello Bluesky!
December 9, 2024 at 2:46 PM
Hello Bluesky!