OAC on March 8 - High-Throughput, Automated Microbial Growth

[Tim Dobbs]

Hi all,

Open Auto Club will meet next on Friday, March 8 at 9am Pacific / 12pm Eastern / 17h UK / 1am Taiwan time. I apologize to those of you who were unable to join last time because of country lock-outs. It won't be an issue this time.

We'll hear from Zack Heins (formerly of The Khalil Lab at BU) about his work building eVOLVER, an open-source continuous bioreactor platform. I'm personally really excited about this - the original eVOLVER paper was one my original inspirations for how open-source automation could support cutting-edge microbiology. In addition to having a robust open-source community, you can also just buy one if you have more money than time and still want a microbioreactor array.

Zack's talk will be titled eVOLVER Continuous Culture Platform for High-Throughput, Automated Microbial Growth. Here's a little more from him:

The use of continuous culture techniques is recently experiencing a revival as the development of high throughput -omics techniques demands higher throughput methods for cell growth. The two most common technologies that serve this purpose are bioreactors, which are highly controllable but low-throughput, or batch cultures, which are high-throughput with limited control.  eVOLVER - an automated high-throughput continuous cell culture platform - was designed to facilitate this growing need, allowing for parallel continuous culture reactions with precisely controlled dynamic environmental conditions. Built with open-source software and hardware, eVOLVER provides experimental freedom to scientific researchers by being rapidly configurable to meet the specific needs of any given lab. In this talk, some examples of different uses of eVOLVER are highlighted to demonstrate the variety of ways cell growth automation can enable biological discoveries and insights.

Zoom link is here

Meeting ID: 870 6173 1743
Passcode: 628JRb

Collaborative notes are here

You'll also get a calendar invite.

Looking forward to seeing you all there!

❤️🤖,

Tim

[Tim Dobbs]

Hi all,

Reminder that we're meeting tomorrow. Looking forward to seeing you all!

New Thing - Read This: I want to try something different for intros this month. I want to provide everyone an opportunity to briefly share something about their work with an adaptation of a "Rose, Bud, Thorn" exercise. At the beginning of the meeting, we'll each take 30 seconds to share our name, where we are in the world, and one of the following:

• “Rose” - A project that is “blooming” for you and you’re excited about the results
• “Bud” - Some new work that you’re just starting to explore
• “Thorn” - Some difficulties you’re having in your work that maybe OAC could help with (or at least empathize with)

For example, I have a bud: I'm starting to play around with CodeSYS for real-time controllers, and I'm excited about spending more time with it.

So think about a Rose, Bud, or Thorn for yourself. The goal is to share more about our own work, understand each other's interests better, and create more opportunities for collaboration. And if it's a dud, we won't do it next time 😂

Zoom link is here

Meeting ID: 870 6173 1743
Passcode: 628JRb

Collaborative notes are here

Talk to you all soon!

Tim

[Tim Dobbs]

Hi all,

It was great to see you all yesterday, and thanks again to Zack for presenting. You can see his talk here: https://youtu.be/ipm3LZN-3yw

Looking forward to next time!

Tim