It was a productive week of visits to #ETH, Leibniz Institute for New Materials, and #Paris. Met wonderful researchers in the field of synthetic biology and living materials. Energized with exciting new ideas! #synbio #UCDavisBME #UCDavis #ELM24

Starting an exciting collaboration to build "Living Pharmacy"! Will be great to incorporate our new synthetic-cell technology for treating inflammatory diseases. #UCDavis #synbio #ARPAH newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/may…

Love this 3-D printed plaque from UC Davis BME that they give to their speakers! Thanks Tan Lab for the invite. It was such a pleasure to learn about the innovative research from all the faculty and students. I had a lot of great discussions and came back with new ideas.

It was great having you at UC Davis! Fantastic talk.

Phil has been a great mentor during my postdoc and beyond!

Glad to be recognized with the UC Davis's Lab Safety Award! buff.ly/3C3pUOV It reflects the effort we spent ensuring that all procedures were followed meticulously, and every piece of equipment was handled with care. #UCDavisBME #safety #awards

Cyborg Cells at #BMES2024! Visit the talk by Luis if you are interested in the application of synthetic biology in regenerative medicine. #UCDavisBME #synbio

buff.ly/4eaJ3w1 Our perspective and vision for tackling extracellular vesicle heterogeneity! Hope the article will be useful to the drug delivery and EV community. #synbio #UCDavis

Excited to speak at the 2024 NIH Synbio Meeting, Nov 20-22! The meeting also includes useful sessions for early career researchers or PIs. #synbio #NIH buff.ly/40Orkr8

Attending the #SynBYSS conference buff.ly/3ZJRdYi. Excited to meet with friends and colleagues, and to present our new work on Cyborg Cells. #synbio #biomedical #UCDavis

Thrilled to kick off 2025 at #CMBE (San Diego), presenting our lab’s latest work on ‘cyborg mammalian cells’ as therapeutics. These modified cells show unique phenotypes that enable new biotech applications. Feeling energized by the visionary ideas shared among CMBE pioneers.

Attending the “The Spirit of Asilomar and the Future of Biotechnology” - 50th anniversary of the 1975 international meeting on recombinant DNA molecules. Looking forward to discussing the resilience of global biodefence + health security. #biotech #synbio #health

"Promoted" to Full Professor, effective July 1, 2025! Super grateful for all the support and recognition. And thankful for the great work of all current and prior lab members. We are excited to continue pushing the boundaries of #synbio at #ucdavis

Glad to serve as the Track Chair (with Prof Aylin Acun) for the BMES 2025 Annual Meeting on "Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering". Looking forward to covering cutting-edge research in the field. Abstract submission is now open. Please also volunteer as abstract reviewers! #BMES

Cell-free+ML+robot for synthesizing nanovesicles with membrane proteins. rdcu.be/elvaD 1) first dataset with more than 20000 cell-free experiments. 2) synthesis of hard-to-produce membrane proteins. 3) insights into cell-free membrane-protein synthesis. #synbio #biotech

Aggie Square just opened! davisenterprise.com/news/ucd-offic… Glad to see our Cyborg-Cell as an artwork in the building :) #ucdavis #synbio #sacramento

From lab research to life‑saving drugs: blocking VEGF took years, exactly why steady #science and #NIH funding matters. Today, those discoveries shrink tumors and power biomanufacturing jobs. See the story below, from #drugdiscoverynews.

We had a wonderful Extracellular Vesicle (EV) team meeting (Seker, Carney, Wang, and my labs) at #UCDavis. Great to learn about new ways to modify and synthesize EVs, experimental models for testing EVs, and applications of EVs.

wellcome.org/news/researche… A project with profound impact on society. Also see our published Asilomar Statement regarding the engineering of human chromosomes, drafted by #paulfreemont, #patrickcai, #robertsmith, me, and many participants at the meeting. repository.rice.edu/server/api/cor…

Back in #NTU (Singapore) and #NUS (Singapore) after my graduation >20 years ago, to talk about my lab research on synthetic vesicles and cells. Join us if you are in Singapore! #synbio #BME