Happy to announce that the 1st of September I became an Assistant Professor of Biomanufacturing! With this step, I am starting my Tenure Track within the Bioprocess Engineering chair group at Wageningen University & Research in the Netherlands. 👨🏻‍🏫🧬🏭

The predatory bacteria B. bacteriovorus HD100 shows potential for biotechnological applications as living antibiotics in agriculture 🚜and medicine 🏥. Salgado et al present a set of new tools for predator domestication. Read more doi.org/10.1111/1751-7…

📢We are hiring! We have a 4-year PhD position to offer (Spanish FPI fellowship). If you want to pursue a PhD in #syntheticbiology please contact me. Candidate background is open: can be computational or experimental. Topic: distributed computation & synthetic consortia.

🦠 Exploring #Cooperation in microbes: A SourjikLab research team reveals the evolutionary mechanisms of microbial mutualism using a synthetic mixed community. mpi-marburg.mpg.de/1426200/2024-0…

Probably one of the most boring and misanthropic stances is to say "I suffered so you should too". I get a lot of joy from helping folks solve problems that took me ages when I was in their shoes. We progress as a species when we learn from one another. Share your knowledge. 💚

Another talk from the Nikel SEM Group on #Pseudomonas2024. Filippo Federici presents a novel toolset he developed for iterative genome engineering of Pseudomonas, wonderful job! (stay tuned for the published work) PseudomonasConference Microbiology Society

The #Pseudomonas24 Conference has come to an end after a week of amazing science & tons of discussions & ideas for fresh experiments & collaborations in a friendly & pleasant atmosphere. Credit goes to the local & international organizing teams led by the one & only Pablo Iván Nikel @pabnik.bsky.social 👏

Yesterday I finally had the chance to invite the team for a BBQ again! I am deeply grateful to be able to work with this amazing team! Thank you Adán Ramírez Rojas Mar_07 Timon Lindeboom Angélica Millán and the X account free members!

This week is almost over same as our annual MBL lab retreat: a very special mix of science, thought-provoking debates, as well as sport activities, hiking in nature (this time in Moravian Karst), and chats about life that always remind me how great are the people I work with.

Pornhub is deleting videos with 'sleep/sleeping' in the title and now sends a warning message about how the content is illegal/nonconsensual when people search for sleeping videos Thank you to Gisele Pelicot and every woman who's fought to make this world a safer place for women

Thank you Novo Nordisk Foundation Science Cluster for organizing such an amazing conference on CO2 conversion and fixation and for visualizing my talk. love it.

Preprint alert🚨! We introduce CodonTransformer, a multispecies codon optimizer using context-aware neural networks: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…. A user-friendly Google Colab interface for codon optimization: twtr.to/A9c3v, feedback is appreciated!

Monday: size exclusion purification of a yellow protein Tuesday: the first yellow crystals start to appear 🤩 It's rare that experiments are immediately working out, so that is definitely a reason to celebrate! 🥳

Lennart Schada von Borzyskowski Congrats 👏 hope it is a flavoprotein 😉