⁦Emma Jane Walker⁩ gave a great lecture about use of bacterial conjugation in SynBio applications ⁦Biochemistry⁩ ⁦Schulich WesternU⁩

Daniel Nucifora evolved a superior Acholeplasma laidlawii strain that can be easily transformed using electroporation. Now available ATCC This strain will form a platform for creating next-generation synthetic cells Schulich WesternU Western University

NIN—at the heart of NItrogen-fixing Nodule symbiosis frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…

Light-sensitive short hypocotyl genes confer symbiotic nodule identity in the legume Medicago truncatula: Current Biology cell.com/current-biolog… Very happy to let you all know that our paper on the LSH genes as nodule organ identity regulators is now out!

#GCAggie Dr. Sangeeta Dhaubhadel is a London, ON research scientist who studies host-pathogen interactions of crops, like soybeans and peas – and how they fight off root rot diseases. 🫛 Learn more: ow.ly/VuYj50QGHoN #26DaysOfWomen #WomenInScience

Looking to hire an amazing grad student for an NSERC-funded project to investigate cell wall stress response in Listeria monocytogenes. If you have any leads, pls send them my way!

अरे यार , यस्तै त हो ज़िन्दगी । दुई दिनको घाम-छाया । अन्त्यमा हामी सबै बन्ने भनेको - कथा त हो । केही प्रियजनले सम्झन्छन , बाकी जगतले बिेर्सन्छ । अहिले पनि उनीहरुले ( अर्थात् बाकी जगतले ) सम्झेका कहा पो हुन र ! उनीहरुको आआफ्नै मनको सही / ग़लत प्रक्षेपणलाई नै ताली, गाली वा

A nitrogen-fixing organelle, or “nitroplast,” has been identified in a marine alga. This discovery sheds light on the evolutionary transition from endosymbiont to organelle. Learn more this week in Science: scim.ag/6yX

The final version of our newest publication. First steps towards creating designer nitrogen-fixing organelles. Congrats to Jordyn Meaney (they/xe) George C diCenzo and all authors! cdnsciencepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

Due to new funding and that we have been very busy, I haven't been able to share the full description of the new positions opening in EdeLab this 2024 fall and 2025 winter, but here a sneak peak! These will be focus on clubroot or leafhoppers. More next week! Please share!

Congrats to trainees @THamilton26 Ben Joris Tyler Browne and collaborators Bogumil Karas @gbgloor Rodrigue Lab for their paper being selected as one of the Top 25 ACS papers for World Micrbiome Day! pubs.acs.org/page/vi/world-…

📣 Aug #EditorsChoice (2 of 2!) of Canadian Journal of Microbiology 🔬 Identifying functional multi-host shuttle plasmids to advance synthetic biology applications in Mesorhizobium and Bradyrhizobium | Meaney et al 🔗ow.ly/poie50SOm2B Jordyn Meaney (they/xe) @KarasLab@George_diCenzo kari dunfield

🚀 Breakthrough in #DiatomDNA delivery! Check out our newest preprint. Congrats to Emma Jane Walker Mark Pampuch Garvin Tran. Thank you, NSERC / CRSNG and taxpayers, for sponsoring this. Schulich WesternU Biochemistry doi.org/10.1101/2024.1…

🌟 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)

DEC 03: School purpose vehicles are CANCELLED for the day in the City of London, Middlesex County and Red Zone. Routes in Elgin and Oxford County will start on schedule. Visit mybigyellowbus.ca for a list of cancelled routes. Thames Valley DSB London District Catholic School Board

Congratulations, Bogumil. Well deserved🎊🎊

Here is our newest preprint "Engineering Conjugative Plasmids for Inducible Horizontal DNA Transfer". Congratulations to Tahani Jaafar and all the authors. Biochemistry Schulich WesternU Western University doi.org/10.1101/2025.0…

Our newest preprint. Congrats Emma Jane Walker and all authors in collaboration Thomas Mock 🔹 Fast electroporation & PEG methods 🔹Delivery of large episomes 🔹 DNA-free Cas9 editing 🔹 In vivo DNA assembly. #SynBio #Diatoms #CRISPR doi.org/10.1101/2024.1…

Excited to share that our lab is part of the @ARIA_uk Programmable Plants initiative! Western University Schulich WesternU Biochemistry