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Tim Craggs - Exciting CEO

@craggs_lab

PI @sheffielduni, Single-molecules, #FRET, #openScience, #openMicroscopy, #founder and #CEO @EI_Science “collision of science and religion”

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Numbers tell a story. 👇 In 2025: → 100+ questions answered on smFRET and FCS → 2 biophysics conferences attended → 100+ curious minds met → 2 instruments installed This is just the beginning. 🚀 We are committed to lowering the barriers to the adoption of smFRET.

Numbers tell a story. 👇
 
In 2025:
→ 100+ questions answered on smFRET and FCS
→ 2 biophysics conferences attended
→ 100+ curious minds met
→ 2 instruments installed
 
This is just the beginning. 🚀
 
We are committed to lowering the barriers to the adoption of smFRET.
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The most exciting biophysics meetup this month is happening in the UK! Physics of Life | Harrogate | 24th-27th March Exciting Instruments will be there 😊 If you like talking single-molecule biophysics, then don’t forget to pass by booth 18 to meet Tim Craggs - Exciting CEO and Mahmoud Abdelhamid

The most exciting biophysics meetup this month is happening in the UK!
 
Physics of Life | Harrogate | 24th-27th March

<a href="/EI_science/">Exciting Instruments</a> will be there 😊

If you like talking single-molecule biophysics,

then don’t forget to pass by booth 18 

to meet <a href="/Craggs_Lab/">Tim Craggs - Exciting CEO</a> and <a href="/DrM_Abdelhamid/">Mahmoud Abdelhamid</a>
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Who do you think is FASTER: Tim Tim Craggs - Exciting CEO setting up the booth by himself OR Mahmoud Abdelhamid setting up a smFRET experiment on EI-FLEX? 👇 Let us know in the comments! 👇 PS. If you’re at the Physics of Life conference in Harrogate, come over to the Exciting booth 18 and

Who do you think is FASTER:

Tim <a href="/Craggs_Lab/">Tim Craggs - Exciting CEO</a> setting up the booth by himself

OR

<a href="/DrM_Abdelhamid/">Mahmoud Abdelhamid</a> setting up a smFRET experiment on EI-FLEX?

👇 Let us know in the comments! 👇 

PS. If you’re at the Physics of Life conference in Harrogate, come over to the Exciting booth 18 and
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Do you know what FLEX stands for? The Exciting team named the new benchtop smFRET instrument “FLEX” because of its key capability: 💡FLuorescence EXcitation Today, the EI-FLEX is exciting more than molecules. It is enlightening a new generation of life scientists with

Do you know what FLEX stands for?

The Exciting team named the new benchtop smFRET instrument “FLEX” because of its key capability:

 💡FLuorescence EXcitation

 Today, the EI-FLEX is exciting more than molecules.

 It is enlightening a new generation of life scientists with
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Sheffield is an exciting place to be, especially if you're into tech and innovation. Startups, universities, incubators, accelerators, research centres - you name it. AND, Exciting Instruments! (Our instruments are developed and manufactured here.) Would you like to join

Sheffield is an exciting place to be,

especially if you're into tech and innovation.

Startups, universities, incubators, accelerators, research centres - you name it.

AND, Exciting Instruments!

(Our instruments are developed and manufactured here.) 

Would you like to join
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Are you in the mood for: - Some nice single-molecule data - Technical discussions on smFRET - Or, what’s coming next to better support the users? You can get it all by watching the replay of the latest webinar, hosted by Tim Craggs - Exciting CEO with guests Hermia Kung and Steve Quinn.

Are you in the mood for:
- Some nice single-molecule data
- Technical discussions on smFRET 
- Or, what’s coming next to better support the users?

You can get it all by watching the replay of the latest webinar, hosted by <a href="/Craggs_Lab/">Tim Craggs - Exciting CEO</a> with guests Hermia Kung and <a href="/Steve_Quinn_Lab/">Steve Quinn</a>.
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Incredible. This video is a 2nd yr undergrad doing complex smFRET! Amazing talent. Plus - how easy and reliable the EI-Flex has proven to be since arriving. I can not speak more highly of Hermia, Exciting Instruments, & Generation Research youtube.com/watch?v=9eq-EE… BioImagingUK

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In 2016, Tim had a problem: He needed an instrument he couldn’t afford. So, he built one! This is how the big idea was born: → To democratise the smFRET method and make it accessible to as many labs as possible. In 2025, Exciting Instrument is speeding up (exciting

In 2016, Tim had a problem:

He needed an instrument he couldn’t afford.

So, he built one!

This is how the big idea was born:

→ To democratise the smFRET method and make it accessible to as many labs as possible.

In 2025, Exciting Instrument is speeding up (exciting
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Single-molecule researchers - do you ever feel in need of more connections, more conversations, more support and more exchanging of ideas? We wanted to create a space to facilitate all of this and more! A place for asking questions, sharing knowledge, discussing research, having

Single-molecule researchers - do you ever feel in need of more connections, more conversations, more support and more exchanging of ideas?

We wanted to create a space to facilitate all of this and more! A place for asking questions, sharing knowledge, discussing research, having
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The QS World University Rankings 2026 have just been released and we’ve placed 92nd in the World Top 100! Huge thanks to everyone in the The University of Sheffield community for this achievement; from staff and students to alumni, supporters and friends around the world! #QSWUR2026

The QS World University Rankings 2026 have just been released and we’ve placed 92nd in the World Top 100! Huge thanks to everyone in the <a href="/sheffielduni/">The University of Sheffield</a> community for this achievement; from staff and students to alumni, supporters and friends around the world!

#QSWUR2026
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🙌 So last Thursday we did something extremely EXCITING - we launched our brilliant new office and lab facility here at Pennine Five // Iconic Sheffield Offices in the heart of Sheffield and right in the middle of the Innovation Spine. This exciting chapter in our growth has

🙌 So last Thursday we did something extremely EXCITING - we launched our brilliant new office and lab facility here at Pennine Five // Iconic Sheffield Offices in the heart of Sheffield and right in the middle of the Innovation Spine.

This exciting chapter in our growth has
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This looks great! New analysis methods for diffusion-based single-molecule experiments - like what you do on the Exciting Instruments FLEX. 👀Time to get my reading glasses out! 👀

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New preprint alert! 🚨👇 I'm delighted to share the latest research from Jemma Betts in our group: ‘A new protein-dependent riboswitch stimulates ribosomal frameshifting’. Huge congratulations to Jemma for the first manuscript of her PhD! ✨ biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

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🙌 We're still on a high from celebrating the grand opening of our combined office and lab space here at Pennine Five // P5 a couple of weeks ago. It's brilliant to be neighbours with fellow innovators FourJaw Manufacturing Analytics and Phlux Technology, as we sit perfectly placed in the middle of

🙌 We're still on a high from celebrating the grand opening of our combined office and lab space here at <a href="/penninefive/">Pennine Five // P5</a> a couple of weeks ago.

It's brilliant to be neighbours with fellow innovators <a href="/FourJawMA/">FourJaw Manufacturing Analytics</a> and Phlux Technology, as we sit perfectly placed in the middle of
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Ever struggled with low PNK efficiency on a structured piece of RNA? Sarah solved this problem by using a DNA scaffold to make the 5' end more accessible, improving the efficiency of end labelling. This enabled us to make smFRET measurements on the SARS-CoV-2 pseudoknot 🧬🔴🟢