Erika Alden DeBenedictis

Can we build a platform that makes microbial phenotyping scalable, reproducible, & useful for ML? Align’s Shantal Al Habib is sharing how @ #ASMicrobe: 🧪 Automated Microbial Phenotyping: An Open, Scalable Approach to Data Collection 🗓️ 6/20 | 9:45–10 AM 🔗…

We’re excited to partner with The Align Foundation to launch a first-of-its-kind microbial phenotyping dataset, linking 1,000 ATCC-authenticated strains to growth across 1,000 cultivation conditions. Learn more: ow.ly/JTqr50WbArO

Excited to share this press release about Align's collaboration with ATCC to gather large-scale microbial data! businesswire.com/news/home/2025…

ever since I was a little girl I always dreamed of spending all day in one of these

A Data Guided Approach To Building An ML Ready Protein Expression Dataset A new project aims to create an openly available and extensible experimental platform and standardized data ontology for collecting soluble recombinant protein expression data across organisms. The…

It's actually wild that protein engineering is this global!! Looking at the registrants, damn, this is gonna be fascinating!!! 🍿👀😃

“Mars is galactic gardening for beginners” Astera Resident @EdwinKite is building a modern research agenda for terraforming Mars. Read the full Q&A here: asterainstitute.substack.com/p/a-night-sky-…

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 ⬇️

Excited to announce that I’m starting a new position as a senior fellow @FutureHouseSF. I’ll be working on applying AI agents to metagenomic workflows. Very grateful for the opportunity to learn and explore my scientific interests. Please reach out if you’d like to collaborate!

Introducing Biomemex An AI wet-lab copilot Automatically track your experiments + catch mistakes No more ‘did i aspirate that well’ or ‘why is my cell line contaminated’ Built under 24h with @ahadj0, Will, and Crystal

This is exactly our pitch for Pioneer Labs - pioneer-labs.org. We've got some writing up on the challenges, including growing organisms in a mars-simulation media of our own design and fun data-driven evolution tools. See pioneerlabs.substack.com

Catch Kasia Baranowski @ #AIxBIO25 (6/24) sharing how Align is building open datasets, scalable assays & transparent benchmarking to support protein function prediction + a look at our 2025 #ProteinEngineering Tournament (🔗 more about that here: hubs.la/Q03sMvnt0) #MLBio…

This is really cool. I’m interested to see whether Basecamp can get this sort of revenue sharing model to work. A lot of the value of AI is driven by the people creating the underlying data!