(image credits, of course, to Brady Cress)

Scientists found a way to make editing bacterial DNA as easy as writing with a better pen. Leo Song @Amanda_T_Alker Rubin Lab Cress Lab @Deutschbauer_Lab @doudna_lab Brady Cress Ben Rubin Institute for Geographic Information Science UC Berkeley biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

🚨 New preprint alert! I am excited to present a collaboration between the Doudna Lab and Zev Bryant lab, with co-first authors Noor Al-Sayyad and Kevin Wasko and me. Curious about what drives high-efficiency genome editing by Cas9? Let’s dive in!👇🧵biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Meet The Shielded Plasmid🛡️🧬 Our new nature paper reveals how plasmids outsmart bacterial defenses during conjugation. It's all about being in the right place at the right time! The positioning of anti-defense genes boosts transfer efficiency🧵(1/7) nature.com/articles/s4158…

Check out Brady Cress great SynBYSS talk about microbiome editing and more! Cress Lab

Recent work from the lab from Laura Chacon Laura Chacon Machado describing a family of Tn7-like transposons that evolved to target CRISPR repeats being presented at #cshlTE24 and now on bioRxiv biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Captain Aureispira - a bacterial pirate ship🦜🏴‍☠️🪝- boarded Science Magazine. Check out the manuscript here: science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… and have a look on our extended thread below ⬇️We provide new insights on bacterial predation from molecules ⚛️to ocean samples 🌊

shouting out an organization near and dear to my heart: iGEM at Berkeley! we're crowdfunding this month to help fulfill our mission to break down barriers to undergrad synbio research-- learn more about how you can support us here ⬇️ crowdfund.berkeley.edu/project/43580/…

Bacterial inoculation manipulates the coral epigenome biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #biorxiv_molbio

The Rubin Lab had an amazing time at Inside Institute for Geographic Information Science Climate 2024 earlier this month! 🌎✨ Big shoutout to @Amanda_T_Alker, Jigyasa Arora, and Bingliang for their fantastic posters!

My group (HessLab.com) is recruiting a new Junior Specialist to support our ongoing efforts in understanding and editing the rumen microbiome towards lower methane production. Please apply here before Dec 1st 2024 recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF06793

Excited to share my PhD work!🎉 By characterizing and comparing the cells at the aboral end of the planula larva in 3 cnidarian species, we identified shared molecular features and propose a model for settlement regulation in cnidarians 🪼🪸. Clytia group LBDV tinyurl.com/37z2ma2f

“Engineering microbiomes to enhance macroalgal health, biomass yield, and carbon sequestration” Please check our perspective paper published in the journal of Green Carbon, sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

🚨New del Campo Lab Preprint: A Single-cell Atlas of Coral Bleaching! 🪸🦠🔥. We show the microbial ecology of coral bleaching from the gene expression of host and symbiont cells to the shifts in the bacterial and protist communities within the holobiont! researchsquare.com/article/rs-539…

Biotechnologists are increasingly working to engineer microbes and then release them into the "real-world" to clean up pollution, etc. A major demonstration of this was published yesterday, in a study showing that bacteria can be engineered to detect TNT explosives in soil. ***

There she goes! The URI Graduate School of Oceanography vessel RV Endeavor came to BIOS | Arizona State University to cover the absence of our vessel (she is at shipyard). My team joined the Bermuda Atlantic Time-Series Study (BATS 🦇) crew for our last cruise of our #NSFfunded grant on the role of #rhizaria in the oligotrophic ocean-more pictures to come!

We are excited to announce the winners of the 2024 #AgarArt Contest! Congratulations to Jeeyoung Lee, our overall winner, for her piece titled, "Petri Dish Jazz Club." You can learn about the other winners on our website: asm.org/Events/ASM-Aga…

Microbial interactions lead to ecosystem function nature.com/articles/s4157…