Blog – Lennart Justen

Strategies for effective pathogen-agnostic biosurveillance in the United States

The emergence of novel pathogens, whether through natural spillover events, accidental releases, or deliberate actions, remains a significant global health concern. Early…

Trendlines in AIxBio evals

An analysis of model performance on biology benchmarks

Exploring Blood-Based Biosurveillance, Part 2: Sampling Strategies within the US Blood Supply

Cross-post from the NAO blog.

Harmon Bhasin, Lennart Justen

EC2 Runtime Alerts to Reduce AWS Costs

Managing compute resources in an academic lab or small organization can be challenging, especially when multiple people are running jobs and responsibility for cost…

Exploring Blood-Based Biosurveillance, Part 1: Blood as a Sample Type

Cross-post from the NAO blog

Harmon Bhasin, Lennart Justen

Optimizing costs for unused EC2 instances on AWS

I have a few old EC2 instances that I’m no longer using. These idle instances still incur monthly charges due to their attached EBS storage, which is substantially more…

New preprint: Indoor air sampling for viral nucleic acids

Cross-post from the NAO blog

Lennart Justen, Simon Grimm, Will Bradshaw

Integrating the Opentrons heating module into PyLabRobot

I’ve been working to better integrate the Temperature Model from Opentrons into PyLabRobot. The temperature module sits on the deck of the Opentrons and can keep reagents at…

Ten-fold serial dilution on an Opentrons

Today I spent around three hours in the Media Lab space and managed to set up a workflow for performing serial dilutions on the Opentrons robot. I chose to work on serial…