Super excited that Ilenne's (Ilenne Del Valle) study using synthetic microbes in synthetic soils is up in BioRxiv (doi.org/10.1101/2022.0…). She finds that some soil properties have additive effects on cell signal bioavailability, while others have emergent properties!

Calling all Soil Ecologists! This is *the* meeting for growing your network and digging into *all* aspects of soil. Submit your abstracts today! #soil #DEI #scomm #sciart #Science #education tinyurl.com/3kfdndbn

"To better understand the compatibility of indicator gas reporting with environmental samples, we evaluated how matrix hydration affects the gas signal of an engineered microbe added to a sieved soil." By Silberg & colleagues Rice University University of York pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.10…

Artificial Soils Reveal Individual Factor Controls on Microbial Processes EIC Jack Gilbert by Ilenne Del Valle et al journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/ms…

Very excited to talk about building living electronics using synthetic biology and protein engineering at #SynBYSS this Thursday! #bioelectronics #synbio

Delighted to share our latest paper on the RENDR platform — an engineered ribozyme that can convert RNA signals into orthogonal protein outputs. Published in Nature Communications and led by Lauren Gambill, PhD, August Staubus, Kim Wai Mo, and @andrea_faint. Supported by U.S. National Science Foundation nature.com/articles/s4146…

So happy to share my first ever paper with the world, in which we looked at relationships between microbial sensor proteins and environmental conditions in the deep subsurface! Thank you so much to Emm, Joff Silberg Carrie Masiello and @ProfMaggie for all their ideas and support 😁

I went to Wynwood Art Walk and couldn’t resist painting a SSPB Rice University graffiti. Also a gas biosensor (on the right) too!

A big congrats to the students in the Chappell Lab, Joff Silberg, and Lauren Stadler labs for showing how to record info about DNA uptake in an undomesticated microbial community using a new form of synthetic memory doi.org/10.1101/2023.0…

I had a blast writing this feature about the history of living electronics and how they can be used to build healthier and more resilient infrastructure for a more sustainable future

Happy to be joining the IS-MPMI community for the first time! Are you interest in rhizosphere establishment and Synthetic Biology? Let’s chat at Poster p-254 #2023ISMPMI

🧬 Are you a grad student thinking about pursuing a postdoc? 📺 Attend EBRC’s panel to learn more about postdoc life and how to make the most it! 🔗 Register here: forms.gle/8hTieUmTZ47jU5…

Please RT: Interested in contributing to a roadmap for the field of living systems as sensors and actuators? On Aug 25-26, there will be a virtual workshop on this topic (2023synbioworkshop.rice.edu). To register, please fill out the following survey (2023synbioworkshop.rice.edu/survey/).

Check out our latest preprint showcasing the work of Andrea Garza E., which uses a CRISPR-Associated Transposon to activate genes in bacteria!' biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Registration for Gogec 2024 is now open! As always, participation is free 🤩🤩🤩 tally.so/r/wL7MDp

Dr. Ilenne Del Valle Ilenne Del Valle will be speaking at Gogec 2024 about ‘Developing Synthetic Biology Tools for Secure Ecosystem Engineering’

Excited to help grow the new Institute and create bridges to the Civil and Environmental Engineering community at Princeton University

We're hiring! For Fall 2025, Assistant/Associate Professor in the area of Microbe-Plant Interactions.

Andrea Garza Elizondo is giving a fantastic talk at #SynBYSS Andrea Garza E. Oak Ridge Lab

Ilenne Del Valle Kessra is giving an amazing talk at #SynBYSS Ilenne Del Valle