# Cultivarium

> Cultivarium is an applied research lab industrializing the study and engineering of our living world — building tools, media, and protocols that make non-model organisms, across the entire tree of life, accessible to study and engineer.

Cultivarium develops growth profiles, DNA-delivery protocols, and molecular tools for organisms that are difficult or impossible to culture and engineer in the lab, and releases the data, methods, and software openly to the scientific community. Its scope spans the full tree of life — bacteria, archaea, fungi, plants, invertebrates, and vertebrates.

## Tools
- DNA Delivery — electroporation methods for delivering DNA into non-model organisms
- POSSUM Toolkit — plasmid libraries to identify functional plasmids
- MACKEREL Toolkit — libraries to identify functional promoter-RBS elements
- MicrobeMod (https://github.com/cultivarium/microbemod) — methylation calling from bacterial genomes
- GenomeSPOT (https://github.com/cultivarium/genomespot) — predict growth conditions from amino-acid composition
- Organism Portal (https://portal.cultivarium.org) — data, methods, and community knowledge for a target organism

## Sites
- Blog: https://blog.cultivarium.org
- Radio: https://radio.cultivarium.org
- PRISM: https://prism.cultivarium.org
- Fungal biology program: https://fungi.cultivarium.org
- Portal: https://portal.cultivarium.org

## Locations
- Headquarters: Watertown, Massachusetts, USA
- UK laboratory: London (opening Fall 2026)

## Careers
Cultivarium is hiring scientists and engineers: https://www.cultivarium.org/careers
Contact: info@cultivarium.org

## Full brief
Expanded detail for language models: https://www.cultivarium.org/llms-full.txt