One more thing… 👀 In the next room, @ilan-theodoro.bsky.social ran a second demo: petascale microscopy of zebrafish from labs across Biohub, flown through live with a joystick. More on that one very soon. 🐟🔬

Huge thanks to the Biohub marketing, brand and events teams who made it real, among them Anna Ziskin, Erin Pierce, Stephanie Warner and designer Rebekah Atwell; and to Mary Pat Kasravi, Stephanie Gardea, Travis Bill and the 15|40 team who produced the demo hall.

Twenty stories in all: photosynthesis, RuBisCO, ATP synthase, the phage universe, CRISPR, ice-binding proteins, the three ways animals invented smell, and TnpB, the jumping-gene nuclease that the Cas12 gene editors grew out of. ✨

Visitors touch a story on the kiosk and the camera flies across the universe to it: the family lights up, a soap bubble wraps around it, its structure spins, and the facts appear. 🫧

Most of those sequences come not from organisms grown in a lab, but straight out of soil, seawater and guts. One cluster in four has no characterised member at all. That's the dark proteome, glowing behind me. 🌌

What you're looking at: each point is a family of proteins that ESM, a protein language model, reads as alike. Together they stand for 817 million proteins. 🧬

And the day itself: Biohub's AI × Bio Summit at the Old Mint in San Francisco put biologists, AI researchers, engineers and funders in one room. Congratulations to the Biohub team for the leadership in bringing this community together, for the benefit of all of us. 🙏

And thank you to Walter Reade, María Cruz and the whole @kaggle.com team for running it with us, and to every participant who spent these past months staring at zebrafish nuclei. 🐟💙

What's next: an in-person Cell Tracking Workshop at Biohub in Redwood City, Nov 30 to Dec 3, bringing the tracking and bioimaging community together, with our prize winners invited. Time to compare notes and chart where the field goes next! 🧬