We've spent the last month designing some small quality-of-life upgrades for your Pioreactors. The first is an approach to sterile sampling into the Pioreactor:

We're excited to announce that Pioreactor will be attending the 74th Annual Conference of the Canadian Society of Microbiologists (CSM 2025), taking place from June 17–20 at Université de Montréal.

During the conference, we'll be hosting a hands-on workshop titled "Automating Growth Experiments: From Petri Dish to Pioreactor". This 30-minute session will demonstrate how our Pioreactor platform simplifies microbial growth experiments, enhancing throughput, reproducibility, and real-time data analysis. In addition to our workshop, we'll be available throughout the conference to showcase our latest hardware, including the Pioreactor 20ml and 40ml models.

We look forward to engaging with the microbiology community at CSM 2025. Stay tuned for more updates as we approach the conference dates. We can't wait to meet you in Montreal!

This new and improved iteration of the Pioreactor comes with a taller vial design to accommodate double the amount of culture than the previous Pioreactor 20ml. We've also made some improvements versus the Pioreactor 20ml, including:

Last summer, we released experiment profiles as a way to headless-ly control your Pioreactor from a file. We described them as "scripts (like a movie script) that you can write to automate activities in your Pioreactor cluster." Initially, the actions you could run were simple: start, stop, pause, resume, & update jobs. You couldn't pull in live data into profiles to make dynamic decisions, or repeat actions.

With the software release 24.1.25, and the next upcoming release, experiment profiles changes from just a "movie script" to a "live-action, audience participating, theatrical performance"!