Fırat Güder’s Post

With great excitement, I would like to share our most recent work which was published in Advanced Science (Wiley) (link to the article below).   In this work, we have developed a technology, which we call PASTEL*, to accelerate phenotyping of plants to create new robust plant varieties and study plant immunity. Our new method combines state of the art genetic techniques, engineering and machine intelligence methods to accelerate phenotpying that would typically take weeks to months to complete. With our approach such experiments can now be performed in about a day.     I thank everyone involved in the making of this work. In particular, I would like to thank, my PhD student Alex Collins who has done nearly all of the experiments. I would also like to thank Hasan Kurt who worked closely with Alex toward the end of the project to score the winning goal 😊 The rest of the team, Yasin Cotur, PhD, Phil Coatsworth, Atharv Naik and Matti Kaisti made vital contributions to the realization of the idea transforming it into a useful technology. Last but not least, without our incredible collaborators Prof Tolga Bozkurt and Cian Duggan, we probably would not even have this idea at the first place.   You can access the article here: https://lnkd.in/dTsg_eJ4 *PASTEL: Parallel Automated Spectroscopy Tool for Electrolyte Leakage #plant #science #engineering #AI

HURRY AND SIGN UP! We are hosting a 1-day conference focusing on Food and Water Safety to be held in London on May 9th, 2024 (for more info, see the posters below). We only have 25 spaces for external attendees. Please sign up using this link if interested in attending: https://lnkd.in/d6JrThYk

With BlakBear, we are trying to tackle one of the biggest problems in the current food system: waste! Check out this video where our technology detects when the product is truly spoiled (not fit for consumption) which can be several days past the printed expiry date. This way, we can safely consume the product while the same product would be binned if solely relied on the printed use-by date.

I am currently at the University of Sydney, School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering USYD on a visiting appointment. I will be a giving a talk on our research next week. Looking forward to sharing our research with the community here and discussing our findings. It is a public lecture hence open (and free) to everyone. If you happen to be in Sydney (I know it is a long shot), please feel free to join us 😊

Our collaborative review article on “Ammonia detection: A pathway towards potential point-of-care diagnostics” is out in Biosensors & Bioelectronics (Elsevier). I would like to thank my coauthors Ronil Rath, Jack Herrington, Muhammad Adeel, Professor Fariba Dehghani and Syamak Farajikhah. Syamak has done a phenomenal job leading this effort. #disease #diagnostics

We have been developing a series of technologies for digitizing Lateral Flow Assays. Visual (non-digital) Lateral Flow Assays were extensively used as take-home tests over the recent COVID pandemic. The potential of Lateral Flow Assays is much bigger however which can be unleased a digital version. Just out in Biosensors & Bioelectronics (Elsevier), we share our most recent work (https://lnkd.in/dJ4_eh8U) on the development of two (one material and one electronics) technologies to realize digital LFAs: i) a solution-based method for creating metal electrodes in nitrocellulose membranes needed for electrochemical sensing ii) a batteryless, wireless and verstatile potentiostat for performing a variety of electrochemical measurement methods. As a proof-of-concept, we have applied our technologies for the detection of Maize Mosaic Virus, an agricultural pathogen. I would like to thank my group for their hard work and effort: Laura Gonzalez-Macia, PhD, Yunpeng Li, Kaijia Zhang, Estefania Nunez-Bajo, Giandrin Barandun, Yasin Cotur, PhD, Tarek Asfour, Selin Olenik, Phil Coatsworth and Jack Herrington. It has been a long journey but been very rewarding. #digital #diagnostics #health #agriculture

It was a great pleasure to share our research and activities to deliver societal impact through innovation (BlakBear unhindr AniML SPYRAS GripAble) at King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST) in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. I would like to thank my collaborator Professor Fahad Alshabouna for hosting me. I think during this trip, we laid down the foundations for some important future initiatives. #Innovation #translation #impact

Thank you Science Magazine for highlighting our work.

Another gem from my group 💎 With great pleasure, I would like the share our latest work, out today in Science Magazine Advances 🚀 This work is also featured on the cover of the journal with a masterpiece of art as shown in the picture. (Link to the article is below). After conceiving this idea nearly 7 years ago and continuously working on it with many students and co-workers, only now it has come to a point that is worth sharing with everyone. In this study, we developed a technology called TETRIS which is a modular sensing platform for measuring the chemical environment around the roots of a whole plant in real-time primarily aimed toward phenotyping and accelerating the development of more robust plant varieties to improve agriculture. For this extraordinary work, I would like thank, first and foremost, by former PhD student Dr Phil Coatsworth and my amazing collaborators Professors Tolga Osman Bozkurt and Dai-Yin Chao. I would also like to thank my former PhD student Yasin Cotur, PhD, current PhD students Selin Olenik and Alex Collins, my colleagues Tarek Asfour, Dr Laura Gonzalez-Macia, PhD and the most junior members of my team Atharv Naik and ZIHAO ZHOU. The artwork was created by Phil and Zihao which is a cyanotype print showing a plant with sensors. Link to the article (open access): https://lnkd.in/dpzngvB3 Department of Bioengineering, Imperial College London #sensors #plantscience #agriculture #food #yummy