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Bacteria programmed to respond to human DNA used for AI forensic facial reconstruction rdcu.be/dngWl #synbio #biotech @mit Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)deptofBE

A quick thread on our nature paper on Assembly Theory. nature.com/articles/s4158… 1/10 Assembly theory provides a new framework to understand selection and evolution that integrates physics and biology. It redefines objects not as particles but by their formation histories.

New #preprint drop from the Andreas Wagner lab: "Mobile DNA is replete with hotspots for the de novo emergence of gene regulation." biorxiv.org/content/10.110… A quick thread... (1/n)

From the distant past, to our lifetime and into the distant future. This chart from Our World in Data gives an overview of over 3 million years of technological change ⬇️

Why are we still publishing complicated descriptions of #DNA constructs when they can be fully sequenced? B Thuronyi (they/them) @[email protected] Erika Alden DeBenedictis & Jeffrey Barrick suggest that outdated #methods narratives should be replaced with DNA #sequence files in publications. plos.io/47Ahg4Z

Delighted to see my friend @ArangoEpifania's latest work published! It's truly inspiring to observe the dedication to advancing science alongside the commitment to community engagement. Efforts like these are at the core of a socially responsible science.

Always delighted to learn new things through Cecilia Padilla-Iglesias essays 😊

📢📢 Very excited to announce that the Evolutionary Microbiology group is moving to Institute of Evolutionary Biology (IBE) in September! We are looking for a postdoctoral resarcher and a lab manager (ibe.upf-csic.es/work-with-us/j…), come and join our team🧫🧪🔬💻! Please RT

Okay this is pretty cool. Voigt lab built a soil bacteria biosensor that produces a hyper-spectral molecule and showed that when put on sandpits they can be imaged from actual space…770 km away! 🤯. #SEED2024

Now in Nature Communications : Measuring the burden of hundreds of BioBricks defines an evolutionary limit on constructability in synthetic biology doi.org/10.1038/s41467…

Happy to share that our work "A combinatorially complete epistatic fitness landscape in an enzyme active site" by myself, Patrick Almhjell, Dr. Ella Watkins-Dulaney, Grace Liu, Nick Porter, Jason Yang, and Frances Arnold is now out in PNASNews! (1/15) pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

I'm very happy to see our 2022 iGEM Headquarters project on engineering a probiotic bacterium to tackle gut inflammation finally published in ACS Synthetic Bio! It was the result of an amazing collaborative effort between University of Zurich / UZH Science departments. pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

Interested in applying for a fellowship to do a PhD Université de Lausanne with my lab (bacterial synthetic biology) as a host? Send me a CV and a motivation letter till September 6th! unil.ch/ecoledoctorale…

I’m excited to announce that I’ll be defending my PhD next Wednesday (Oct 2nd)! If you're interested in molecular evolution and gene regulation and would like to join via Zoom, feel free to PM me for the link 😃

elifesciences.org/articles/98654… I'm super excited to announce that we have published the official "Version of Record" for our work on promoter emergence and evolution! A thread below for thsoe who want to know more:

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