Thomas Gorochowski
@chofski.bsky.social
Synthetic biologist, programmer of cells, and lover of all things visual. Wakes up in the morning to learn some of natures secrets and do a spot of fly fishing.
🫣 Now for something a little different from the lab: a data-centric approach to building digital twins as a route to control of emergent population level behaviours in microbial swarms 🤔 If that means nothing to you, then just check out the video! doi.org/10.1098/rsif... #engbio #control
January 28, 2026 at 12:24 PM
🫣 Now for something a little different from the lab: a data-centric approach to building digital twins as a route to control of emergent population level behaviours in microbial swarms 🤔 If that means nothing to you, then just check out the video! doi.org/10.1098/rsif... #engbio #control
Cold and "nippy" 🥶 start to the #AIEBaB26 Hack-a-thon 💻. The students helping with the organisation have done an amazing job in pulling this all together. A big thank you to the @jgibristol.bsky.social and @aibio-uk.bsky.social for the support!
January 14, 2026 at 10:02 AM
Cold and "nippy" 🥶 start to the #AIEBaB26 Hack-a-thon 💻. The students helping with the organisation have done an amazing job in pulling this all together. A big thank you to the @jgibristol.bsky.social and @aibio-uk.bsky.social for the support!
If you work with R6K plasmids for transient DNA delivery, our latest SHARK strains might be of use! Work out at ACS Synthetic Biology led by Shivang Joshi and strains plus plasmids for their assembly will be available @addgene.bsky.social very soon! doi.org/10.1021/acss...
January 14, 2026 at 7:01 AM
If you work with R6K plasmids for transient DNA delivery, our latest SHARK strains might be of use! Work out at ACS Synthetic Biology led by Shivang Joshi and strains plus plasmids for their assembly will be available @addgene.bsky.social very soon! doi.org/10.1021/acss...
If you are looking to integrate your latest genetic creation into the genome of your favourite bug, you might find our latest review now out in OUP Synthetic Biology useful. 🧬⚒️ Work led by Riesa Rohmat with input from Thea Irvine and Shivang Joshi. #genome #synbio doi.org/10.1093/synb...
January 6, 2026 at 10:58 AM
If you are looking to integrate your latest genetic creation into the genome of your favourite bug, you might find our latest review now out in OUP Synthetic Biology useful. 🧬⚒️ Work led by Riesa Rohmat with input from Thea Irvine and Shivang Joshi. #genome #synbio doi.org/10.1093/synb...
🚨 Last call for the 'AI, Engineering Biology and Beyond' conference taking place in Bristol on the 15-16 January 2026. There is a limited capacity and some places are still left, but worth signing up soon before the 19th December deadline! Register at: aiebab.github.io
December 10, 2025 at 8:49 PM
🚨 Last call for the 'AI, Engineering Biology and Beyond' conference taking place in Bristol on the 15-16 January 2026. There is a limited capacity and some places are still left, but worth signing up soon before the 19th December deadline! Register at: aiebab.github.io
📕My review for Jane Calvert's latest book, 'A Place for Science and Technology Studies' is out in Interdisciplinary Science Reviews! I really enjoyed the stories and learnt so mcuh. Well worth a read if you are interested in the ways that that study of science works: doi.org/10.1177/0308...
December 10, 2025 at 1:27 PM
📕My review for Jane Calvert's latest book, 'A Place for Science and Technology Studies' is out in Interdisciplinary Science Reviews! I really enjoyed the stories and learnt so mcuh. Well worth a read if you are interested in the ways that that study of science works: doi.org/10.1177/0308...
End of year Science Bonanza is always something I look forward to, not only for hearing about what the team has been up to all year, but also for the amazing food everyone brings. Christmas has started proper now 🎅
December 9, 2025 at 7:44 PM
End of year Science Bonanza is always something I look forward to, not only for hearing about what the team has been up to all year, but also for the amazing food everyone brings. Christmas has started proper now 🎅
The initial lineup of keynotes and spotlight talks is finalised, with 10 contributed talks still up for grabs! Come join us in Bristol on 15-16 Jan 2026 for AI, Engineering Biology and Beyond to shape the future of these fields🤖🧬🦠Register now at: aiebab.github.io
November 20, 2025 at 9:52 AM
The initial lineup of keynotes and spotlight talks is finalised, with 10 contributed talks still up for grabs! Come join us in Bristol on 15-16 Jan 2026 for AI, Engineering Biology and Beyond to shape the future of these fields🤖🧬🦠Register now at: aiebab.github.io
🚨Interested in the intersection of AI and Engineering Biology? 🤖🧬 If so, come join us in Bristol, UK from 15-16 Jan 2026 for the latest instalment of the "AI, Engineering Biology and Beyond" conference! It's going to be a "banger" and registration is open NOW! #synbio #ai aiebab.github.io
October 22, 2025 at 10:03 AM
🚨Interested in the intersection of AI and Engineering Biology? 🤖🧬 If so, come join us in Bristol, UK from 15-16 Jan 2026 for the latest instalment of the "AI, Engineering Biology and Beyond" conference! It's going to be a "banger" and registration is open NOW! #synbio #ai aiebab.github.io
🛠️New tool from the lab! #SHARK🦈: a new strain to support complex cloning of transient R6K expression plasmids – perfect for genome engineering. Work led by the talented Shivang Joshi and all strains and strain assembly tools enroute to Addgene. #synbio doi.org/10.1101/2025...
October 7, 2025 at 8:31 AM
🛠️New tool from the lab! #SHARK🦈: a new strain to support complex cloning of transient R6K expression plasmids – perfect for genome engineering. Work led by the talented Shivang Joshi and all strains and strain assembly tools enroute to Addgene. #synbio doi.org/10.1101/2025...
🥳Excited to share our latest collaborative work using whole-cell models and #AI to design genomes!🦠🧬 What a time to be alive! Project led by Ioana Gherman, with Kieren Sharma, Joshua Rees-Garbutt, Claire Grierson, Lucia Marucci, Wei Pang & Zahraa Abdallah #synbio authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...
September 24, 2025 at 5:25 PM
🥳Excited to share our latest collaborative work using whole-cell models and #AI to design genomes!🦠🧬 What a time to be alive! Project led by Ioana Gherman, with Kieren Sharma, Joshua Rees-Garbutt, Claire Grierson, Lucia Marucci, Wei Pang & Zahraa Abdallah #synbio authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...
Very excited to attend and speak at this years #UKOMAIN Multimodal AI workshop at the Barbican. Already learning a lot about emulators and generative models for novel materials.
September 16, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Very excited to attend and speak at this years #UKOMAIN Multimodal AI workshop at the Barbican. Already learning a lot about emulators and generative models for novel materials.
🚨I have a fully funded 4-year #PhD opportunity in my lab on 'Tuneable multi-input genetic logic circuits for designer probiotics'.🦠 We'll be throwing all the tech we have at this one to make reliable engineering of diverse microbes a reality. Applicants must be UK national...
September 3, 2025 at 9:00 AM
🚨I have a fully funded 4-year #PhD opportunity in my lab on 'Tuneable multi-input genetic logic circuits for designer probiotics'.🦠 We'll be throwing all the tech we have at this one to make reliable engineering of diverse microbes a reality. Applicants must be UK national...
Come and join us at a free complementary Japan-UK Engineering Biology meeting after the main ESSL conference (essl2025.org/). A few spaces left to some see some of the up and coming superstars of #synbio in the UK!
September 1, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Come and join us at a free complementary Japan-UK Engineering Biology meeting after the main ESSL conference (essl2025.org/). A few spaces left to some see some of the up and coming superstars of #synbio in the UK!
Standard day in Bristol... balloons!
August 12, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Standard day in Bristol... balloons!
Reading some wonderful old Russian mathematics on automata theory and love this comment that just popped up! Coming from the rural countryside of Somerset, I'm not sure the people quite match this analysis! 🤠
August 7, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Reading some wonderful old Russian mathematics on automata theory and love this comment that just popped up! Coming from the rural countryside of Somerset, I'm not sure the people quite match this analysis! 🤠
Although I've now taken a back seat, it is great to see the growing adoption of SBOL Visual in the synthetic and engineering biology literature and even more awesome to see so many current and visiting students to my lab on the author list😍 Roll on 2035! arxiv.org/abs/2507.04601
July 8, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Although I've now taken a back seat, it is great to see the growing adoption of SBOL Visual in the synthetic and engineering biology literature and even more awesome to see so many current and visiting students to my lab on the author list😍 Roll on 2035! arxiv.org/abs/2507.04601
What to agument your favourite protein with new functionalities? 🛠️ We've got a #biodesign workflow to help with that! In work led by @georgiehs.bsky.social we present SIMPLIFE that blends biophyscial and #ML models to extend biology in useful ways. #synbio doi.org/10.1101/2025...
June 23, 2025 at 8:43 AM
What to agument your favourite protein with new functionalities? 🛠️ We've got a #biodesign workflow to help with that! In work led by @georgiehs.bsky.social we present SIMPLIFE that blends biophyscial and #ML models to extend biology in useful ways. #synbio doi.org/10.1101/2025...
Some days I’m reminded of why working in research can be so exciting. Imaging DNA at the sub-nanometre scale on this beast! High-speed scanning #AFM for the win.
June 4, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Some days I’m reminded of why working in research can be so exciting. Imaging DNA at the sub-nanometre scale on this beast! High-speed scanning #AFM for the win.
Recombinases your thing? In the latest from my lab, Veronica Greco shows how @nanopore sequencing + automated liquid handling provides the perfect platform for characterising these systems at scale! Awesome collaboration with @jennbrophy.bsky.social @sarah-guiziou.bsky.social doi.org/10.1101/2025...
May 29, 2025 at 6:49 AM
Recombinases your thing? In the latest from my lab, Veronica Greco shows how @nanopore sequencing + automated liquid handling provides the perfect platform for characterising these systems at scale! Awesome collaboration with @jennbrophy.bsky.social @sarah-guiziou.bsky.social doi.org/10.1101/2025...
Had an awesome time at #IEEE #ASYNC2025 this year in the beautiful Portland OR. Such a vibrant and open community. Thanks to the organisers. Hopefully this is the start of some new intersections between asynchronous circuits and engineered biology!
May 15, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Had an awesome time at #IEEE #ASYNC2025 this year in the beautiful Portland OR. Such a vibrant and open community. Thanks to the organisers. Hopefully this is the start of some new intersections between asynchronous circuits and engineered biology!
Awesome visit to @royalsociety.org to see some of the treasures in their collection, followed up by a fun session with some of the Imperial #synbio "crew" feat. @proftomellis.bsky.social @ceronifranci.bsky.social Ouldridge Lab. Highlights were Micrographia and the TODO list of the early fellowship!
April 25, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Awesome visit to @royalsociety.org to see some of the treasures in their collection, followed up by a fun session with some of the Imperial #synbio "crew" feat. @proftomellis.bsky.social @ceronifranci.bsky.social Ouldridge Lab. Highlights were Micrographia and the TODO list of the early fellowship!
Learn how Cas9-enrichment + @nanoporetech.com sequencing can more fully uncover biodiversity in complex environments via targeted metabarcoding in latest from lab! Led by the hugely talented Lucia Nikolaeva-Reynolds who started this as her final year undergraduate project! doi.org/10.1098/rsos...
April 23, 2025 at 6:51 AM
Learn how Cas9-enrichment + @nanoporetech.com sequencing can more fully uncover biodiversity in complex environments via targeted metabarcoding in latest from lab! Led by the hugely talented Lucia Nikolaeva-Reynolds who started this as her final year undergraduate project! doi.org/10.1098/rsos...
Looking for a PhD? I have a fully funded one for UK nationals on engineering gene circuits in probiotic microbes. Will bring together a lot of existing stands of #synbio research in my group and push towards some exciting applications! Start date Sept 2025. Email me if interested! Pls RT
March 28, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Looking for a PhD? I have a fully funded one for UK nationals on engineering gene circuits in probiotic microbes. Will bring together a lot of existing stands of #synbio research in my group and push towards some exciting applications! Start date Sept 2025. Email me if interested! Pls RT