Devon Stork
@StorkDevon
Co-founder at Pioneer Labs, SAB at Tenza, Molecular Biology. I edit microbial genomes and take lots of notes. All views my own, He/Him.
Heads up: terraforming Mars isn’t just sci-fi, it’s a real possibility that’s possible with today’s technology. Mars could be green in MY lifetime. 🚀 🌼 What’s stopping us? We need a lot more real research into how to do it right. Don’t nuke Mars! 👇
Align is going to figure out how to properly predict bioprocess engineering. This proposal is heavy on boring technical details, but biotech is at the point where we need to figure out all of those details to make products efficiently at scale.
🚀 New proposal from Align! The experimental platform aims to standardize #microbial #phenotyping & support predictive modeling. :🦠 Capturing data across 1k strains & 1k conditions; using BacterAI; generating high-quality datasets for ML @jensen_lab buff.ly/3rO55fA
We're hiring for an automation engineer! We have a crazy cool high-throughput horizontal-gene transfer technique working, and now we gotta automate every part of it. jobs.ashbyhq.com/astera/8e7ad55…
What are we building? Follow along with our open science updates and read about our first target microbe for Mars.
By this time next year, either: 🏆 we'll have engineered PETase enzymes actually work industrially & recycle plastic ... or we'll know that AI-for-proteins is still a bit underbaked 😜 Excited to see what happens!!!! 😬 Spread the word ⬇️
1/4 🚀 Announcing the 2025 Protein Engineering Tournament. This year’s challenge: design PETase enzymes, which degrade the type of plastic in bottles. Can AI-guided protein design help solve the climate crisis? Let’s find out! ⬇️ #AIforBiology #ClimateTech #ProteinEngineering…
If we're really going to Mars than there is a huge commercial industry for biotech in space exploration. Are we actually going?
Can we do BETTER than evolution with the help of AI? It starts with data. 🧬 🔢 👇link
With bioinformatics, we’re now measuring the fitnesses of millions of DNA fragments! This gets us data on whole genomes and is the first step toward big data for modeling genotype -> phenotype with AI/ML for microbial evolution. Link in comments. 🧬 + 🔢 = 📈 -> 🤖?
Today, we are launching the first publicly available AI Scientist, via the FutureHouse Platform. Our AI Scientist agents can perform a wide variety of scientific tasks better than humans. By chaining them together, we've already started to discover new biology really fast. With…
Just got volume 2 from @AsimovPress, including my article "Why Nothing Can Grow on Mars." All encoded in DNA too! Chock-full of great pieces.
The mission gets the spotlight, but operations keep the lights on. We’re excited to share the Nonprofit Operations Playbook by Impact Ops, which covers everything from fiscal sponsorship to HR systems so you can focus on your impact.
Our second book is now available for pre-order. 🎉 Embracing the book's technology theme, we did something special: We encoded the entire book into DNA & packaged it into stainless steel capsules, where it will live for tens of thousands of years. 1,000 copies were made... 🧵
🎄 @Align_Bio is hiring! Join The Align Foundation as the Chief of Staff or Open Science Admin and help make life science reproducible, scalable, shareable. 📍 Remote-friendly roles 🗓 Apply now, aiming to hire by Feb 2025 📧 Email cover letter + resume to [email protected]
FutureHouse is launching an independent postdoctoral fellowship program for exceptional researchers who want to apply our automated science tools to specific problems in biology and biochemistry, in collaboration with world-leading academic labs. --$125,000 annual stipend.…
Ever wonder how we’ll unlock Mars as a living world? 🌏 In our substack post, Pioneer Labs breaks down the 'red planet recipe'—the chemistry of mars soil — for growing life on another world. 🚀 Dive into the science! 🌱
Check out 🏆A Biologist’s Guide to Mars Dirt, where we present a receipt for soluble Mars Regolith Media (sMRM) that best simulates what you’d get if you added water to Mars dirt. Will anything grow in this media? Stay tuned! 💧+ 🪨 → 🌱 ? open.substack.com/pub/pioneerlab…
The next Alphafold2 will be a predictive model of protein expression. I think it's possible, and @Align_Bio is going for it! 🧬 Every single protein engineering project I have ever worked on at one point or another ran into expression issues. 😠 It can't come soon enough! 🙏
🚀 News from Align! Today, we're sharing our proposal for building a predictive model of protein expression. Check it out here! ➡️ buff.ly/3OqtPZf ⬅️ 🌍✨#ProteinExpression #Bioengineering #Collaboration #MachineLearning #DataScience #AlignToInnovate
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