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Years ago, I worked for a robotics company that got its start with funding from a small business grant from the Department of Defense. This was my first introduction to Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grants, which advance government research

I’m just back home from the Drosophila Research Conference in San Diego, thrilled that FlySorter was received so well at the meeting. Even though we’ve been around for a few years, this was our first appearance at the conference as

I’ve been several times to the annual Drosophila Research Conference put on by the Genetics Society of America. It’s a remarkable meeting, bringing together around 1500 fly researchers for talks, panels, and perhaps most importantly, ad hoc discussions about their

About a year ago, FlySorter took on a consulting project for the Klein Lab at the University of Miami, in Florida. Mason Klein uses Drosophila larvae to study biophysics and neuroscience, often with the same simple setup: a sheet of agar gel

A few years back I got connected to Perlstein Lab, a startup in the Bay Area developing drugs for so-called orphan diseases. When I was in San Francisco in May this year, I stopped by to chat about automation and

All sorts of changes are afoot at FlySorter. First, the physical one — I’ve moved back to Seattle after 15 months or so on the East Coast. Boston was a wonderful environment for the company, with a host of academic

I’m pretty sure I wouldn’t have believed it if 5 years ago you’d told me I’d start a business to build a machine to sort fruit flies. I’ve worked for more than 10 years in product design. I’ve come up with