This one-day workshop covers an introduction to Biofoundries and automation and the role they can play in engineering biology. We will include examples of research projects and experimental workflows using automation and bioengineering for plants and microbes. The workshop will consist of a mixture of lectures and practical sessions. We will walk you through designing, developing, validating, and applying automated workflows to research, robotic platforms, and high-throughput capabilities.
We will focus on the robotic platforms Opentrons and Hamilton liquid handlers. We will perform exercises on programming Opentrons and have practical demonstrations in the lab for automated bacterial transformation and colony picking.
There will be plenty of opportunities to ask questions throughout as well as dedicated wrap-up session at the end of the day.
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