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Congratulations Allen!

🧬 Are you currently applying to graduate school/considering offers, or thinking about grad school in the future? 📺 Attend our panel to help you decide which program and lab to join! 🔗 Register here: forms.gle/8hTieUmTZ47jU5…

Three years of PhD paying off! We just published a route for the synthetic reduction of formate. Thank you to our collaborators from SYBORG, Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Bar-Even Lab, Gonzalez Research Group, @festo_global, ITMC Aachen and MPI CEC! nature.com/articles/s4146…

How can we capture CO2 with microbes and make products from pollution? Synthetic biology is a powerful new tool for protecting our planet. Sounds like science fiction, right? Well here are 15 companies doing just this...

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#SynBYSS seminar talks with Prof. Pamela Silver at Harvard Medical School Harvard Medical School & Dr. Seung Hwan Lee Seung Hwan (Allen) Lee at Massachusetts Institute of Technology Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) The talk video link is below: youtu.be/6V-A6Tjv21g?si… via YouTube

Sobering talk from Gregory Stephanopoulos Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) on the current outlook and actions needed for the green transition youtube.com/watch?v=bVjPQ3… 🌎 #urgency

A team led by the Ajo-Franklin group’s very own Biki Kundu has uncovered the mechanism through which E. coli utilizes redox shuttles for extracellular respiration and growth, showcasing the unexpected versatility of microbial metabolism biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh…

Excited to announce two upcoming events from EBRC's student and postdoc association! First, next Thursday Sept 26 @ 2:30 pm PT / 5:30 pm ET we're hosting a workshop to help with writing graduate fellowship applications! Register here: forms.gle/PGbdyYxo2mS7vn…

The following Tuesday, Oct 1st @ 12:00 pm PT / 3:00 pm ET, we have a great panel lined up to discuss faculty applications and the academic job market! Register here: forms.gle/ymXeVtseAF5ZT8…… ♻ Please RT and share with trainees in your labs and depts!

Reminder about next Tuesday's panel on faculty applications with Tullman-Ercek Lab Kevin Solomon (drksolomon.bsky.social) Nils Nika Shakiba and Josh Atkinson! Register here! forms.gle/ymXeVtseAF5ZT8…

Interested in careers in academia and want to learn more about the teaching side of things? EBRC has assembled a great panel to talk about teaching practices and pedagogies, and how to write strong teaching statements for faculty jobs! Register here: forms.gle/4wcMMLj61BccAN…

My friends and colleagues are visiting J. Craig Venter Institute to give talks at a mini-symposium! Thanks, all! J. Craig Venter Institute Sara Molinari Seung Hwan (Allen) Lee @NielsenLabASU

Paper alert! 🎉 Excited to share this collaboration from my PhD time @wethebarevenlab and SYBORG! We built a new bridge in central metabolism, connecting acetyl-CoA and pyruvate via a novel, engineered pathway. For some personal highlights, come along 🧵 nature.com/articles/s4146…

We are hiring! If you (or someone you know) is looking for a PostDoc position focused on Clostridial genetics with broad applications, please check out our position: tinyurl.com/r65jwwcz Come and join us in the vibrant science town of Boston!

Interactive and interesting panel session at #SynBYSS, discussing the future and roadmap of #synbio Thanks to Ron Weiss, Emily Aurand, Kevin Solomon, Leopold Green, Seung Hwan Lee, and Duhan Toparlak Kevin Solomon (drksolomon.bsky.social) Seung Hwan (Allen) Lee Ö. Duhan Toparlak

🚨3 positions to join my lab Links to apply below 👇👇👇👇👇 1) a group leader position for 4 years: lnkd.in/esxz6Y57 2) a postdoc position: lnkd.in/esWmd5QU 3) a PhD student position: lnkd.in/ehtgVEJ9 Imperial College London Bioengineering Bezos Centre for Sustainable Protein

Just out in ACS SynBio, our work developing a biosensor for hydrogen sulfide, a molecule with links to IBD whose volatility and reactivity make quantifying it difficult. pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…. Ultimately we hope this could be used as a non-invasive early diagnostic

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