AI-Powered Science at Scale. Coupling cutting-edge agentic AI frameworks with wet-lab-based protocol. Building empathy for the data.
Berkeley, CA
Joined April 2025
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BioKEA retweeted
Truth be told, @DrShellyJ brings a surgeon’s precision to plankton flow cytometry at @BioKEAAI.
BioKEA retweeted
We’re excited to announce that @BioKEAAI has joined the Claude Startups program. Anthropic's support will help us advance our work in AI-powered lab automation, genomics, and open-source tools to make biodiversity discovery faster, more affordable, and more accessible.
BioKEA retweeted
Science should be open and accessible, not expensive and exclusive. At @BioKEAAI, we're building low-cost tools to lower barriers to discovery, like this custom-built incubator for under $100. Open designs forthcoming.
Less friction, less gatekeeping, more science.
BioKEA retweeted
At BioKEA, we’re scaling up lab automation for high-throughput biodiversity discovery. Next up: AprilTag fiducial markers to guide our robots using visual feedback.
Small markers, big ambitions. We’re just getting started!
We’re thrilled about this project and to work with @chr1sa. BugPicker is one of our first efforts to lower cost barriers to global-scale biological discovery. Paired with imaging and DNA sequencing, our goal is to catalog the biodiversity we’ve missed.
In my new hobby of cosplaying a scientist, I've been helping out @BioKEAAI in Berkeley to lower the cost of DNA barcoding insects (to catalog California's biodiversity) by orders of magnitude with the use of AI and automation.
We realized that an open source @OpuloInc pick-and-place machine (meant for electronics) could also pick up insects and put them in 96-well plates for sequencing at superhuman speed. Meet BugPicker!
youtu.be/2GnavqCMnYY?si=DuqJ…
BioKEA retweeted
@DrShellyJ and I have mapped out the next phase for @BioKEAAI on our kid’s art easel. Obviously big things coming down the pipe.
BioKEA retweeted
Printing overnight at @BioKEAAI. Pretty close to having everything ready for tomorrow’s build of an insect size-fractionation device. Open-source plans used and most parts designed w/o support legs, but had to use support to manage a hinge. Slightly less than ideal, but no biggie
BioKEA retweeted
Some teaser shots ahead of next week's reveal of how to turn an off-the-shelf electronics pick-and-place machine (the @OpuloInc Lumen V4) into a high-throughput "bugpicker" that picks up tiny insects and puts them into 96-well plates for DNA sequencing, 1000xing the pace of DNA barcoding of species.
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BioKEA retweeted
We are 3D printing sample sorting component pieces this weekend at @BioKEAAI . Goal is to develop further our front-end physical separation capabilities to size-fractionate the insects and other critters. Printing all weekend! Batch one of n. Already need to buy more filament!
BioKEA retweeted
You (both) spoke. We listened. Today @BioKEAAI will be streaming with semi-enhanced production values. Feedback such as, “oh look, men working from distance” were highly considered and so today we’ll feature more up close robotics and 3D printing. (1/2)
BioKEA retweeted
Yesterday marked the end of our first week’s effort changing the @OpuloInc pick and place into an insect sorting robot. We’ve open sourced and shared our work at github.com/BioKEA/BugPicker (in progress). Stay tuned next week for more 🐜 action that leverages BioKEA’s new 3D printer
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Yesterday was an amazing experience at @AnthropicAI Code with Claude. It's impossible not to feel the excitement in the community.
Today I'm thrilled to be presenting on the Founder's stage at Code with Claude: Extended! (1/2)
BioKEA retweeted
Code with Claude, our developer conference, returns next week.
Whether you're just getting started with Claude Code or you've been building for a while, there's a session for you.
Register for the livestream: claude.com/code-with-claude
Two milestones for our founder @seanjungbluth: a CwC talk on domain experts in the age of AI, and his appointment as a Claude Community Ambassador (SF Bay) — a role he'll use to build community for science and tech more broadly.
claude.com/code-with-claude/…
@AnthropicAI @claudeai
BioKEA retweeted
Our developer conference Code with Claude returns this spring, this time in San Francisco, London, and Tokyo.
Join us for a full day of workshops, demos, and 1:1 office hours with teams behind Claude.
Register to watch from anywhere or apply to attend: claude.com/code-with-claude
I’m pleased to share that BioKEA secured $25K from the Google for Startups Cloud Program. These credits advance our pursuit of large-scale GPUs for AI bioinformatics. #BioKEA #GoogleCloud -SJ
Another late announcement: stopped by LBNL’s LEEP Demo Day last Wed @ Berkeley Commons (berkeleycommons.com). Demoed BioKEA’s 1st product, Agentis, built entirely outside the lab, and showed how we are challenging existing publication models. Great event! -SJ
