Tim Craggs - Exciting CEO
@Craggs_Lab
PI @sheffielduni, Single-molecules, #FRET, #openScience, #openMicroscopy, #founder and #CEO @EI_Science “collision of science and religion”
Build your own smfBox - everything you need to build and run accurate and dynamic smFRET experiments - cheaply! #openAccess #openSource #openMicroscopy Paper here: rdcu.be/b9Prx And a great intro video here from the master of microscopy nightmares @DrLachie. Enjoy!
🙌 So last Thursday we did something extremely EXCITING - we launched our brilliant new office and lab facility here at Pennine Five // Iconic Sheffield Offices in the heart of Sheffield and right in the middle of the Innovation Spine. This exciting chapter in our growth has…
Incredible. This video is a 2nd yr undergrad doing complex smFRET! Amazing talent. Plus - how easy and reliable the EI-Flex has proven to be since arriving. I can not speak more highly of Hermia, @EI_science, & Generation Research youtube.com/watch?v=9eq-EE… @BioImagingUK…
Don’t miss our latest Exciting Seminar!!!
🚨 Exciting Seminar coming up! We will be talking about → Unravelling the FLEXibility of DNA hairpins and novel RNA systems with @Craggs_Lab, Hermia Kung and @Steve_Quinn_Lab from @UniofYork ⏰ 11th March 2025 | 5 PM BST (12 PM ET) 🔥 Bonus: A roundtable discussion…
🚨 Exciting Seminar coming up! We will be talking about → Unravelling the FLEXibility of DNA hairpins and novel RNA systems with @Craggs_Lab, Hermia Kung and @Steve_Quinn_Lab from @UniofYork ⏰ 11th March 2025 | 5 PM BST (12 PM ET) 🔥 Bonus: A roundtable discussion…
🙌 We're still on a high from celebrating the grand opening of our combined office and lab space here at @penninefive a couple of weeks ago. It's brilliant to be neighbours with fellow innovators @FourJawMA and Phlux Technology, as we sit perfectly placed in the middle of…
New preprint alert! 🚨👇 I'm delighted to share the latest research from @JemmaBetts in our group: ‘A new protein-dependent riboswitch stimulates ribosomal frameshifting’. Huge congratulations to Jemma for the first manuscript of her PhD! ✨ biorxiv.org/content/10.110…
Great opportunity to work with a super-nice PI, on an exciting project and at the excellent UCL School of Pharmacy! @School_Pharmacy @UCLLifeSciences
I'm looking for a postdoc to work on development of phosphoestamers against oncogenic protein-protein interactions. Potential new modality! ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/re…
This looks great! New analysis methods for diffusion-based single-molecule experiments - like what you do on the @EI_science FLEX. 👀Time to get my reading glasses out! 👀
A new and simple model-free method to analyze smFRET experiments. Protein dynamics from nano- to milliseconds without the nasty diffusion decays in standard FCS experiments - kudos to the great Ivan Terterov! Have a look! nature.com/articles/s4146…
The QS World University Rankings 2026 have just been released and we’ve placed 92nd in the World Top 100! Huge thanks to everyone in the @sheffielduni community for this achievement; from staff and students to alumni, supporters and friends around the world! #QSWUR2026
Single-molecule researchers - do you ever feel in need of more connections, more conversations, more support and more exchanging of ideas? We wanted to create a space to facilitate all of this and more! A place for asking questions, sharing knowledge, discussing research, having…
Great opportunity to discuss your research objectives and experiment design with a true expert in smFRET and FC(C)S!
Will we see you at the @institutpasteur for #MOSBRI2025? Our Senior Application Scientist Mahmoud will be attending and is looking to connect with other attendees to discuss single molecules, spectroscopy and more! You can book a meeting with him here > meetings-eu1.hubspot.com/mabdelhamid/ma……
In 2016, Tim had a problem: He needed an instrument he couldn’t afford. So, he built one! This is how the big idea was born: → To democratise the smFRET method and make it accessible to as many labs as possible. In 2025, Exciting Instrument is speeding up (exciting…
Are you in the mood for: - Some nice single-molecule data - Technical discussions on smFRET - Or, what’s coming next to better support the users? You can get it all by watching the replay of the latest webinar, hosted by @Craggs_Lab with guests Hermia Kung and @Steve_Quinn_Lab.…
Such a pleasure to work with @HannonGroup on this!
Delighted to see this accepted in @angew_chem. Pt metallo-cage binds very strongly to DNA 4-way junctions. Congratulations to @samdettmer99 and Hugo. Great to work with @Craggs_Lab @sheffielduni , Joe Beames @UoBChemistry Richard Napier @uniofwarwick doi.org/10.1002/anie.2…
Sheffield is an exciting place to be, especially if you're into tech and innovation. Startups, universities, incubators, accelerators, research centres - you name it. AND, Exciting Instruments! (Our instruments are developed and manufactured here.) Would you like to join…
Do you know what FLEX stands for? The Exciting team named the new benchtop smFRET instrument “FLEX” because of its key capability: 💡FLuorescence EXcitation Today, the EI-FLEX is exciting more than molecules. It is enlightening a new generation of life scientists with…
Who do you think is FASTER: Tim @Craggs_Lab setting up the booth by himself OR @DrM_Abdelhamid setting up a smFRET experiment on EI-FLEX? 👇 Let us know in the comments! 👇 PS. If you’re at the Physics of Life conference in Harrogate, come over to the Exciting booth 18 and…
The most exciting biophysics meetup this month is happening in the UK! Physics of Life | Harrogate | 24th-27th March @EI_science will be there 😊 If you like talking single-molecule biophysics, then don’t forget to pass by booth 18 to meet @Craggs_Lab and @DrM_Abdelhamid
Numbers tell a story. 👇 In 2025: → 100+ questions answered on smFRET and FCS → 2 biophysics conferences attended → 100+ curious minds met → 2 instruments installed This is just the beginning. 🚀 We are committed to lowering the barriers to the adoption of smFRET.
Our trip to #BPS2025 wasn’t a straight line. UK → LA took us 7.5 days. No, we didn’t take the ferry across the Atlantic! What we did was install 2 EI-FLEX instruments on the way! Stop 1: @RockefellerUniv, @Steve_Bonilla Lab Stop 2: @IowaBiochem, @Maria_Spies Lab Check out…