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We’re excited to share the latest updates, insights, and opportunities from across our LRIG community. From upcoming events to inspiring member stories, this Summer 2025 newsletter highlights what’s new and what’s next.

Check it out and stay connected with us!

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LRIG Global Newsletter - Summer 2025
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June 27, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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On April 17 eMolecules will be attending the MidWest @lrig.org 2025 Spring Conference, an event where science exchanges ideas in the discovery and application of new techniques and technologies in life science research. We’d love to meet you there!

👉 More info or to register via LRIGMidWest.org
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April 11, 2025 at 5:39 PM
International Lab Automation Day is June 21!

Automation is transforming science.

Celebrate the impact of lab automation by sharing your story.

labautomationday.lrig.org

This is how:
Post your lab setup
Share what automation has done for you
Use #LabAutomationDay to be featured in our news!
April 10, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/22/o...
#biobanking #biorepository #labautomation #lrig #agbio
Opinion | Why Did Elon Musk Go After Bunkers Full of Seeds? (Gift Article)
Gene banks are like a survivalist cache: our nation’s safeguard against all future challenges to growing the food we need.
www.nytimes.com
March 24, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Great article on Fungi Networks, including a video of a robotic system for monitoring the growth patterns

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/01/s...

#LRIG #LabAutomation #LaboratoryAutomation #LaboratoryRobotics #LabRobotics #LabRobot #Automation #Fungi
How Fungi Move Among Us (Gift Article)
Underground fungal networks are “living algorithms” that quietly help regulate Earth’s climate. Now scientists know what makes them so efficient.
www.nytimes.com
March 1, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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Learn how @arzeda.bsky.social leveraged technology from TeselaGen, Labcyte and @twistbioscience.com to accelerate their synthetic biology workflow and build a better DNA assembly line: teselagen.com/customer-sto... #biosky #synbio #biotech #bioeconomy #biotechnology
Customer stories - Teselagen
Learn how Arzeda leveraged technology from TeselaGen, Labcyte and Twist Bioscience to accelerate their synthetic biology workflow and build a better DNA
teselagen.com
February 18, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/16/s...
On a Mission to Heal Gila Monsters (Gift Article)
After years in Big Pharma, a chemist pivoted to help save the species that made Ozempic possible.
www.nytimes.com
February 18, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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Does anyone have experience with low-input high-throughput (96 well plate) RNAseq library preparation from plants (bonus points if it is with plant roots...)
February 3, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Drug Company to Share Revenues With Indigenous People Who Donated Their Genes

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/07/h...

#Biobanking #Biospecimen #Biorepository #Biobank #Biopreservation #SampleManagement
Drug Company to Share Revenues With Indigenous People Who Donated Their Genes (Gift Article)
Variant Bio, a small biotech company based in Seattle, is using genetic information from Indigenous people to develop drugs for obesity and diabetes.
www.nytimes.com
January 8, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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Our lab's latest manuscript led by Emily Zahn to develop a high-throughput approach for quantification of histone PTMs is out in MCP. Come read how you can use rapid and short 10 and even 5 min gradients and still get high quality data on the Sciex 7600 ZenoTOF.
www.mcponline.org/article/S153...
Development of a high-throughput platform for quantitation of histone modifications on a new QTOF instrument
Histone post-translational modifications (PTMs) regulate gene expression patterns through epigenetic mechanisms. The 5 histone proteins (H1, H2A, H2B, H3, and H4) are extensively modified, with over 75 distinct modification types spanning more than 200 sites. Despite strong advances in mass spectrometry-based approaches, identification and quantification of modified histone peptides remains challenging due to factors such as isobaric peptides, pseudo-isobaric PTMs, and low stoichiometry of certain marks.
www.mcponline.org
December 22, 2024 at 4:34 PM
An amazing, inspiring story about fighting FTD, #CRISPR, and a new cell line.

www.nytimes.com/2024/12/22/h...
A Woman With a Rare Gene Mutation Fights to Avoid Her Mother’s Fate (Gift Article)
A mutant gene is coming to steal Linde Jacobs’s mind. Can she find a way to stop it?
www.nytimes.com
December 22, 2024 at 7:57 PM

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL): Where are they now?
~ celebrating our colleague Cathy Seiler, among others ~
Where are they now? | Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Research is itself an educational activity. With the laws of science and nature for teachers, researchers conduct experiments to learn how life and the world work. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL)...
www.cshl.edu
December 13, 2024 at 1:36 AM
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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
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.
www.earlham.ac.uk
December 10, 2024 at 8:33 AM
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How Illumina’s Erin Imsand and her team helped develop MiSeq i100 Series reagents that can be stored at room temperature - both more sustainable and expanding where in the world sequencing can be done without a cold-chain
www.illumina.com/company/news...
Sustainable sequencing in the new MiSeq i100 Series
How Illumina’s Erin Imsand and her team helped develop reagents that can be stored at room temperature
www.illumina.com
December 6, 2024 at 11:50 PM
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A little profile of @atinygreencell.bsky.social's work creating plants you've never seen or smelled before

(and also trying to democratise science along the way)

www.wired.com/story/meet-t...
Meet the Plant Hacker Creating Flowers Never Seen (or Smelled) Before
Biotechnologist Sebastian Cocioba started hacking plants to put himself through college. Now, from his home lab on Long Island, he wants to bring the tools of genetic engineering to the masses.
www.wired.com
December 9, 2024 at 2:40 PM
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When you check on your cell culture after the weekend
December 1, 2024 at 12:26 PM
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An optimized CTAB method for genomic DNA extraction from green seaweeds (Ulvophyceae)

New in #AppsPlantSci by Hossen, Courtney, Bringloe, et al

bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #botany #Ulvophyceae #GreenSeaweed #DNAExtraction #iamabotanist
December 2, 2024 at 10:03 PM
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#LabAutomation community, any thoughts on the recent @benchling tech report? My biggest takeaway was the significant drop in investment sentiment from 2023 to 2024. Thoughts on why this is?
November 21, 2024 at 5:56 PM
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We’re excited and ready to engage with
Every scientist, chemist, researcher, lab manager, And R&D decision maker!

#ChemSky #MaterialsScience #LabDigitalization #LabAutomation
November 27, 2024 at 7:20 AM
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Any European Lab Automation enthusiasts in here? How do you see the market evolving?
#labautomation
November 27, 2024 at 4:35 AM
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High-throughput expansion microscopy enables scalable super-resolution imaging
High-throughput expansion microscopy enables scalable super-resolution imaging
A simple and accessible method for high-throughput super-resolution fluorescence microscopy that is compatible with commonly used staining practices, 96-well cell culture plates, and confocal…
elifesciences.org
November 27, 2024 at 11:00 AM
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