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Cultivarium
Making the world's diverse microorganisms accessible
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Established
2021
Location
Watertown, MA
About Cultivarium
Cultivarium is a bioengineering firm that helps pioneering labs harness the extraordinary power of the biological universe in record time.
Capability targets
Microbial Cultivation at Scale
A predictive and standardized high-throughput culturing platform for reproducibly growing diverse and difficult-to-culture microbes in the lab. This allows laboratory study of these microbes and accelerates their use in basic science and industrial applications.
Cross-species Genetic Toolkit
Robotic systems to discover and optimize recombinant DNA delivery methods with a library of molecular parts (promoters, replicons, transposons, resistance markers) that can be combinatorially screened in a single experiment. This enables genetic engineering of non-model microbes in weeks rather than years.
Microbe Information Hub
A digital resource that indexes experimentally actionable information (i.e. strain availability, images, protocols, and molecular parts) for 170,000+ bacteria, fungi, archaea, and protists into one accessible portal. This platform accelerates the engineering of non-model organisms by aggregating both information from disparate databases and practical experimental techniques into actionable insights.
AI-Driven Discovery
Integration of foundation models with robotic lab infrastructure to synthesize published knowledge, assist hypothesis generation, and automate laboratory experimentation. This capability searches a large experimental parameter space to discover and improve enabling methods with high reproducibility and throughput.
Leadership team
Scientific Advisory Board
Supported by
Wellcome Trust
Eric and Wendy Schmidt
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