A picture is worth 1536 Plaque Assays

Today, we submitted a paper - this pre-print - in which we worked to modernize the 100-year-old gold standard in our field: the plaque assay. A picture is worth 1536 plaque assays. While we used a robot, we also tried a dirt-cheap 3D-printed alternative which works wonders at 384-density. I really believe this pre-print has the potentially to be the largest impact I will make on my field, with labs all over the world taking this up.

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.06.20.599855v1