Thomas Gorochowski

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.

[Thomas Gorochowski @chofski]

@ATinyGreenCell No feeling like it!

[Thomas Gorochowski @chofski]

🤯 It is like being in a fairy tale. I cannot stop smiling and taking photos!

[Thomas Gorochowski @chofski]

@ceronifranci @ProfTomEllis So many super stars in one place!

[Thomas Gorochowski @chofski]

My teaching this year clashes with @BiochemSoc SynBioUK 2026 😥 Fear not though, The Biocompute Lab is in strong attendance with posters on (P037) biometrology📏, (P064) genome editing tools🛠️ and (P012) optogenetics💡 and a talk on tunable gene expression at 14:45 today 🎸!

[Thomas Gorochowski @chofski]

Soon.... 😍 https://t.co/ryq97uZX6p

[Niko McCarty. @NikoMcCarty]

The new goal at @AsimovPress is to publish exceptional, technical, long-form reporting on biotechnology; the types of stories that no outlet is doing.

We are allocating most of our budget toward paying great journalists and also artists who can bring these stories to life. The long-term aim is to win a Pulitzer for biotechnology reporting. This also means we'll be publishing less often, because these stories can take 3-6 months to produce.

We'll publish non-reported essays on occasion, but only if they have a thesis that is super compelling and, ideally, could *only* be written by a particular person. (e.g. We have a piece coming up about lead testing, written by a person who is developing those kits.)

Please email [email protected] if you have a big story that you are itching to write; especially if other outlets aren't willing to give you the time or funds to do it properly.

[Thomas Gorochowski @chofski]

A big thanks to @BBSRC, @EPSRC, @royalsociety and others for funding and support. This is the second of numerous strains (SHARK was our first https://t.co/l4YDdz8RRG) we are looking to release soon to help accelerate all sorts of synthetic and engineering biology!

[Thomas Gorochowski @chofski]

🚨New work on estabishing design rules for compact CRISPR-based genetic circuitry using Cas12m🧬
Work led by the hugely creative @JoShiv04. My fav bit is a 2-input, 2-output circuit able to regulate two metabolic pathways using only 730 bp of genetic code!
https://t.co/yziEaMIWT6

[Gareth Tyson @Gareth_Tyson]

After recently moving to the University of Oxford, I am currently recruiting PhD students in the broad areas of web systems, social computing and Internet measurements. If you know of anybody, please let them know to reach out (deadline 2nd December)!

[Howard Salis @hsalis]

After the labs IPO, there will be many multi-millionaires looking for their next gig.

May I suggest a millionaire - scientist buddy system...

We already have nice labs and plenty of cool, world-changing projects.

All we need is a match-making service. ;)

[Thomas Gorochowski @chofski]

The perfect quote doesn’t exist… oh wait…

[Chris Mason @mason_lab]

"Design is the beauty of turning constraints into advantages" - Aza Raskin

[Thomas Gorochowski @chofski]

@Michielstock It’s a great read! Made me think a lot about where my lab spends time.

[Israel Fernandez @IsraelF96135088]

Today is an emotional day for me. Together with Prof. John McCutcheon lab @ASU we have visualized by cryoEM what looks like a very funky ribosome from an insect endosymbiont.
We believe there are important evolutionary implications.
Here the pre-print:

https://t.co/H5qZ9CUGib

[Nima Dehghani @neurovium]

What the resolution of a neuron model does to the computation? 👇
https://t.co/q1gIDsTTz1
We show how higher-order neural interactions can appear pairwise under coarse-graining, concealing the underlying computation. Dendritic nonlinearities and their spatial organization matter for computational capacity, challenging whether point-neuron networks and scalar weights provide a sufficient abstraction for NeuroAI.
ps. Thanks to Tyler @tylerxhobbs, my writing now fashions the infamous "Fidenza"!

[Niko McCarty. @NikoMcCarty]

If you’d like to buy the @AsimovPress book in the UK or Europe, please contact Ivy! 👇

[Thomas Gorochowski @chofski]

@ivvvvyl @ProfTomEllis @NikoMcCarty @AsimovPress You deserve a medal! Next pint on me :)

[Ivy Li @ivvvvyl]

Hi! @NikoMcCarty has offered to ship a very large amount of @AsimovPress ’ newest book, Making the Modern Laboratory, to Imperial in South Kensington, London, UK, where I’m offering to help distribute copies of their book. 🧬📚

Link to book: https://t.co/MjXdz9qzhS

[Jennbrophy.bsky.social @jennbrophy7]

@kunjapur We engineer both plants and bacteria to establish non-standard amino acids as a new molecular language for programming plant-microbe interactions. This work contributes to the growing toolkit for precision agriculture and we hope it accelerates the path to a sustainable future!

[Munehiro Asally 浅利 宗弘 @Munelectro]

⚡️Fully funded PhD opportunity @WarwickLifeSci @uniofwarwick ! We are looking for a talented PhD student to explore bacterial bioelectricity using live-cell imaging and quantitative biology. 🗓️Deadline: 23 Nov 2026 https://t.co/hHsDFLoh9s #bioelectricity #PhD #PhysicsOfLife

[Thomas Gorochowski @chofski]

@zhang_isaruihan Yes!!!