We are excited to share our new preprint, led by Justin Peruzzi, demonstrating that we can recapitulate bacterial two component systems (an important signal transduction pathway in bacteria) in synthetic membranes! tinyurl.com/mr2h4r8s 1/6

SEED 2023 in LA 🌴 is going to be amazing! Check out the latest roster of speakers (and more coming soon)! Abstracts due March 13. synbioconference.org/2023 P.S. The venue is across from Universal Studios 😀

Thrilled that our paper, led by Yifan Dai, was selected as a cover article for Nature Chemical Biology. A shout-out to my wonderful collaborators, Tosh Chilkoti & Rohit V. Pappu

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In this newly published Review, Chilkoti et al discuss the applications and design considerations of synthetic biomolecular condensates to regulate cellular functions as a new paradigm for synthetic biology. Duke University nature.com/articles/s4422…

Professor Seu Sim and her team of scientists have synthesized a material that brings researchers one step closer to medical devices that can reconfigure themselves to match a body’s chemical needs in real time. Click the link in the bio to read more! ps.uci.edu/news/2888

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Texas bills banning diversity programs to protect white privilege will damage the state's economy trib.al/hFsrshx

Texas folks: Join us 5/3. The TX Senate has now passed SB16, 17 & 18- all attacks on higher ed, the teaching of race & gender, DEI & tenure. These bills will now go to the House. We NEED you all to come to the capitol in Austin (or virtually) to voice our collective outrage 1/4

This just in: new work from the lab (led by star postbac Mehrose) in Nature Communications. We found an evolutionary tradeoff in acquiring a new plasmid! Clones that take longer to adapt can achieve faster recovery growth. Read on for why you should care!! 1/N nature.com/articles/s4146…

NEW PAPER led by Grace Vezeau! We rationally engineered synthetic riboswitches to carry out sense & respond for human biomarker proteins [mCRP and IL32-gamma] that indicate disease or infection. 16-fold activation without trial-and-error! nature.com/articles/s4146…

I'm thrilled to announce that I will be joining as an Assistant Professor at the Center for Mechanisms of Evolution at Arizona State University starting Jan 2024, studying evolution at the molecular level! Check out my new website for details! pyjiang.github.io

Look who I found at #seed2023! The OGs from the Cornell The Lucks Lab! Cameron Glasscock Takahashi Lab

My first PHD student Hari just presented his work at SEED! So proud of him! 🥹

A data-driven, transcriptome-wide approach to rank perturbation-inducible genes nature.com/articles/s4146… #BiotechNatureComms

My last night in the lab at Caltech before heading back to TX. It’s us burning the late night oil again at 1am, just like the old Cornell days. Wouldn’t have it any other way!! Yan Zhang

Very excited to share our preprint "Computational design of sequence-specific DNA-binding proteins"! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

It’s been a few days but I’m thrilled to share that our first journal paper from the silicon-cell communication effort is finally in press! This was a project we started during COVID shutdown when I was at caltech, collaborating with Prof. Azita Emami. ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10253…

It is my greatest honor to be part of the SPIKE team that receives this prestigious grant! As part of the team effort, my lab will apply layered controls to improve the robustness and safety of living bacterial cancer therapeutics!

Thrilled to welcome two first-year Ph.D. students, Adetomiwa and Yeonhwee, to our team! Honored to serve as your thesis advisor. Here's to the exciting journey ahead! 🎓✨