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Register today for Synbio Symposium 5.0. The abstract submission deadline is April 15th, 2023. sites.events.concordia.ca/sites/synbio/e…

E. coli culture was left on bench for 5 days. They formed this fascinating structure.

We have added more plasmids to Addgene pSC5GGv1_Shble is a great plasmid to test conjugation to diverse fungi. It has resistance markers for Zeocin, and Nourseothricin antibiotics. addgene.org/188603/

Stunning E. coli biofilms

It was a great year at K-lab and we are ending it with preprint publication in collaboration with George C diCenzo . Congratulations to Jordyn Meaney (they/xe) and all authors !!! doi.org/10.1101/2023.1… Schulich WesternU Biochemistry

Newest preprint from our lab. Congratulations to Samir Hamadache and all the authors. Deletion of HindIIR and HindIIIR improves DNA transfer via electroporation to Haemophilus influenzae Rd biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Contribute to the cutting-edge of #SynBio! Canadian Journal of Microbiology seeks reviews, original articles, and opinion pieces on topics incl. synthetic networks, DNA synthesis, and diagnostics. 📅 November 15, 2024 🔗 ow.ly/AmRB50Sq9gT David Edgell Bogumil Karas Canadian Soc. Micro. SynBio Canada

🌐🔬 Working on groundbreaking research in #SynBio? Submit to Canadian Journal of Microbiology's special issue! We welcome papers on CRISPR technologies, ethical considerations, AI integration, and more. Make your mark in this innovative field: ow.ly/AmRB50Sq9gT David Edgell Bogumil Karas

Imagine bacteria mining cryptocurrencies. We moved a step closer by encoding a 2-bit MD5 cryptographic hash algorithm – a precursor of SH256 used for Bitcoin - across 66 E. coli strains. It required over 1 megabase of DNA, the size of a small genome. nature.com/articles/s4158…

By 2028, biologists were using "models of life" to simulate experiments on computers before testing them in the lab. By 2045, the models discovered effective drugs for aging and most other diseases. But nobody knew why they worked. This is how the MODELS OF LIFE came to pass.🔻

🌟 New preprint alert ‼️ Episome delivery to diatoms just got easier. We found that spheroplasting Phaeodactylum tricornutum cells before electroporation increases transformation efficiency > 200-fold... (1/6)

📅 1 MONTH to submit your papers to the Canadian Journal of Microbiology for the upcoming synthetic biology collection. How to submit: ow.ly/pP2x50Sqen3 Canadian Soc. Micro. 👩🏽‍🔬 Guest Editors: David Edgell, @bpingalls, Bogumil Karas, David H. Kwan, & Rebecca Shapiro

Our outreach program with high school students was a success today! It’s very good to see students interested in fantastic life forms, and sharing the grad school lifestyle 📚🧫🔬👩‍🔬 Karas Lab Biochemistry

A new Science Magazine article from 30+ leading international scientists including several J. Craig Venter Institute researchers, examines the potential dangers of building ‘mirror life’ — organisms composed entirely of mirror-image biological molecules.

CIFR (Clone–Integrate–Flip-out–Repeat): A toolset for iterative #genome and pathway #engineering of Gram-negative #bacteria—our latest contribution led by Filippo Federici & Francesco Luppino Nikel SEM Group DTU Biosustain #OpenAccess #SynBio sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

We have three openings in our lab starting as soon as April 1st : 1 Research Associate 1 Postdoctoral Fellow 1 PhD Student The team will work on a project that aims to create synthetic plant genomes. For more information, email: [email protected] with the title "Syntato"

What if crops could grow in poor soil, resist disease and carry more nutrients? At #SchulichMedDent, Karas Lab is building synthetic plant genomes to make that future possible, with support from the U.K.’s ARIA. schulich.uwo.ca/about/news-eve…