About AstroBiota
AstroBiota is an independent research initiative exploring how living systems remember, stabilize, and transform over time.
Much of modern biology and technology assumes that systems can be optimized without consequence — that behavior can be reset, corrected, or scaled without accumulating cost. In practice, this assumption repeatedly fails.
Biological systems operate differently. They carry history. Their present behavior reflects prior exposure, stress, and recovery. AstroBiota studies how this history can be shaped deliberately — not by altering DNA, but by conditioning the environments and processes organisms pass through.
Our work focuses on highly wild biological systems that resist standard domestication. By engaging with organisms at the edge of controllability, we aim to develop methods that reduce variance, increase stability, and reveal what real biological domestication requires.
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AstroBiota maintains an independent Conservation–Observation–Operation Program focused on some of the most difficult symbiotic systems known, including lichens and proto-lichen morphologies.
This program exists to culture, observe, and sustain long-lived symbiotic states that are rarely accessible to industry or laboratory work. These systems function as both conservation targets and experimental references — allowing us to study how highly wild partnerships stabilize, reorganize, and retain history over extended time horizons.
Proto-lichen systems are cultivated not as products, but as long-horizon symbiotic substrates: living systems that test the limits of domestication, memory, and behavioral stability. Insights from this work inform our broader process development while contributing to the preservation of fragile biological lineages.
Hi, I’m Hiram — a drug delivery and biotech engineer. I work on methods for conditioning wild biological systems into stable, repeatable forms, using some of the most resistant organisms available to understand what real domestication requires.