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🚨 theory/math devbio preprint alert!!! 🚨 Led by my v. talented PhD student, Daniel Muzatko, we’ve found some rather general and intriguing constraints on reaction-diffusion systems that allow them to self-organize developmental patterns: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Powerful article about a beautifully constructed project from @bethmorillo-hall.bsky.social, @taylorlabgroup.bsky.social et al. Excited to see this in action! 🧫👩🏻‍🔬

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Super excited to release a huge evolution project on the works for many years: Evolution experiments synchronized across climates to understand rapid adaptation Preprint: doi.org/10.1101/2025... All data available: www.grene-net.org/data #MOILAB @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social @hhmi.org 🧵👇

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Had a lot of fun sharing our research obsessions with @prakashlab.bsky.social and @livingphysics.org at @aria-research.bsky.social 's first ever Summit recently! Curious about Suraj Bramhavar's Nature Computes Better opportunity space? You can now watch our segment back... 😏 vimeo.com/1087951924

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Check out amazing MPhil plant science student @karenuchida.bsky.social and here lab week in 360° @slcuplants.bsky.social @cam.ac.uk youtu.be/l9-m_JlG6cE?...

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This wonderful team from Pakistan is raising to get to the iGEM Jamboree and only have a few days left. They are 75% of the way to their goal. Please share, and if you have the means please donate. Every penny counts! www.gofundme.com/f/help-team-...

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#Bacteria use weapons to outcompete rivals, but what happens if they're transferred? @prokaryota.bsky.social @jdpal.bsky.social &co show that HGT of toxin #plasmids is rare but recipients can thrive under relaxed nutrient competition, reshaping bacterial warfare @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/43vC3X7

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Register here: forms.gle/MC37w6yCib8C... These are the people teaching the SynBio4ALL Africa Plant Synthetic Biology Course. Different backgrounds. Shared goal. Starts May 28. Free and online.

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Amazing talk by @burtonlab.bsky.social! 3D printed acoustic levitators for studying airborne bacteria, and an investigation into the electrostatic attraction that helps parasitic nematodes jump onto their insect hosts. Interdisciplinary science is so cool www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHvu...

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This is an exciting project with capacity to do some really game changing science. Plus: I cannot recommend working with Colleen highly enough.

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We are hiring for a funded PhD in design of cross- and multi-species genetic circuits. #PhD #synbio #crossspecies #multispecies #biocomputing #circuits #pathways @inrae-france.bsky.social @parissaclay.bsky.social Details here: www.cellularcomputing.team/joinus/

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🧩 PhD Position – Origins of Darwinian Inheritance 🧩 This joint PhD project between the @rug.nl (Rampal Etienne & Martijn Egas) and @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social (Bram van Dijk) explores how simple prebiotic systems could evolve reliable information transfer. Apply here: shorturl.at/WgYMF

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Wow www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... A cellular entity retaining only its replicative core: Hidden archaeal lineage with an ultra-reduced genome

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I got hit by some rather sudden and extreme financial hardship so if anyone is in need of remote wetlab contract research, strictly BSL1, do let me know. Currently scrambling for gigs. Plant, Bacterial, Archaeal Non-model Bioeng Custom Lab Hardware Turn Key Genetic Design Please repost for reach 💚

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This is a great way to use Foldscopes and microscopy for a creative writing prompt! #Teachers - how do you encourage student #creativity with science tools?

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It's dandelion season — but there’s more than meets the eye... 👀 🔦 Under UV light they reveal a hidden bullseye🌸 Visit us at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show to see more flowers with hidden UV patterns #RHSChelsea #GreenSTEM #Dandelions #Pollinators #Bumblebees #Spring @cambridgeuni.bsky.social

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Join us in Cambridge this September for the 9th annual Plant #ComputationalBiology Workshop. Seminars and discussions will focus on 5 key themes: 1. #Mechanics 2. Pattern processes 3. #AI 4. Computer graphics 5. Concepts 🧳3 travel grants available REGISTER TODAY www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/computationa...

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Learn how Cas9-enrichment + @nanoporetech.com sequencing can more fully uncover biodiversity in complex environments via targeted metabarcoding in latest from lab! Led by the hugely talented Lucia Nikolaeva-Reynolds who started this as her final year undergraduate project! doi.org/10.1098/rsos...

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Join us Apr. 24th, 6pm @ Imperial Royal School of Mines 🦠 Microbial consortia for plastic upcycling Javier Molpeceres (CIB-CSIC) 🧑‍🔬‍🔬 OpenCloning: a credible Open Source alternative to SnapGene and Benchling that supports automation Dr. Manuel Lera Ramirez (UCL) events.humanitix.com/copy-of-lond...

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I'd like to share a little bit of happy lab news in these chaotic times: a new preprint, driven by the brilliant Qinhao Cao! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... We address a big challenge in synbio: If you give me a protein "X", how can I give you a version of X whose activity is controlled by a kinase?

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Macrophages passing through the FACS gate you set for lymphocytes like

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I am thrilled to share the first manuscript from the Wiles lab! We present "Phollow", an in vivo phage-tagging approach that enables direct observation of phage outbreaks with single-virion resolution by live imaging. Here some highlights 👇 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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PhD opportunity in Plant photobiology with Dr Toledo-Ortiz in Wageningen 🌱☀️🌱 www.wur.nl/nl/vacature/... #PlantSciJobs #photobiology

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Although the technology to enable this is quite obviously insanely complex and has decades of development, the objective and outcome is impressively elegant and easy to understand. Definitely one of my favourite papers in recent memory

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Ever wondered how much DNA is in your chocolate Easter eggs?! 🧪🧬🥚 (Neither had I until this morning. 😅) Here are some #DIYNAFLUOR measurements of DNA extracted from Easter eggs (and one bunny) that I have since consumed. Happy Easter Everyone!

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1 hour lab-in-tube assay for TB! "point-of-care single-tube assay...to attain single-nucleotide specificity and high sensitivity within 1 hour of sample application, without a conventional DNA isolation procedure" www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Bingo for spring - springo! Tick off your nature walk finds on our spotter sheet. And substitutions are fine & dandy - eg a snail shell for a sea shell - Gorse for Bluebells if you're not near woodland. Just see what you can see...

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For anyone interested in plasmids: Sign up for the mailing list of @plasmidsociety.bsky.social Seven more sessions this year and talks are temporarily recorded! Great talks by Maho Tokuda and @celiasouque.bsky.social yesterday! On classification of plasmids and F plasmid evo success. 🧪

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🚨 PhD project alert: Engineering a soil bacteria to sense and record soil health. 🦠 🪴 🥼 🧑‍💻 🌍 Fully funded PhD studenship in my group, open for international students. @earlhaminst.bsky.social Please share widely! Deadline: 14th of May www.earlham.ac.uk/studentship/...

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Very happy to share our newly published work! We engineered phages for intercellular communication in multicellular consortia and integrated it with CRISPR-based gene regulation for biocomputing. Congratulations to @astrikusuma.bsky.social @dmf-unil.bsky.social @fbm-unil.bsky.social rdcu.be/ehORO

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Join us 19th-21st May at the Saracens Head Pub 📍for @pintofscience.uk 2025! Our volunteers have got some fantastic speakers from the @uniofbath.bsky.social lined up! ✨🪐♾️🥩 pintofscience.co.uk/events/bath #Pint25 #Atoms2galaxies

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🕰️ 🦠How do circadian clocks maintain robustness in changing environments? #GreenMotherMachine helped uncover how a simple circadian clock network demonstrates advanced noise-filtering capabilities to maintain accuracy in dynamic natural environments doi.org/10.1038/s414... in @natcomms.nature.com

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Watch the space: Job adverts will be live soon. We are looking for enthusiastic and motivated researchers to join our team working at the intersection on synthetic biology and functional genomics. For informal inquiries feel free to reach out by email to [email protected]. Please repost!

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Semi-automated workflow for high-throughput Agrobacterium-mediated plant transformation. Summary of our efforts to accelerate plant transgenics with the @earlhaminst.bsky.social Biofoundry. Now published in @theplantjournal.bsky.social. #PlantScience #Synbio onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Amazing acronym "We develop a computational approach termed Simple Algorithm for Very Efficient Multiplexing of Oxford Nanopore Experiments for You (SAVEMONEY) that guides researchers to mix multiple plasmids and subsequently computationally de-mixes the resultant sequences."

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Is the genome just a bag of genes? A new paper in Science now reports that for two thirds of an organisms' genes the position along the chromosome is actually very tightly constrained! Amazing work from my favorite night scientist Martin Lercher and his team! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Really nice, accessible talk by @mfgrp.bsky.social summarising exciting the findings of his team's paper: youtu.be/HLufwfPaRPA

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And a 3 year tech position is also now live. Synthetic biology project funded by the Advanced Research + Innovation Agency (ARIA). Please apply / RP! www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/51027/ @camplantsci.bsky.social

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🚨We have a fully funded open PhD position in bacterial synthetic biology available in our lab (www.yschaerli.com) in beautiful Lausanne, Switzerland @dmf-unil.bsky.social @fbm-unil.bsky.social @unil.bsky.social If you are passionate about #SynBio and #GeneCircuits, apply here: tinyurl.com/mry2xwa5

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Hi Friends, I wanted to share a crowdfunder for this amazing Pakistani iGEM team looking to raise for their entrance fee expenses. Please share, and if you have the means to do so even a little donation would help. Let's get these biologists to the jamboree! www.gofundme.com/f/help-team-...

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A great opportunity to hear about the research happening at the six UKRI #EngineeringBiology Mission Hubs. Register to attend 👉 www.ukri.org/events/engin... @ukri.org

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Lungfish xkcd.com/3064

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We are advertising a new postdoctoral position in my group. 3 years of funding to work on a moonshot synthetic biology project funded by the Advanced Research + Innovation Agency (ARIA). Please apply and please RP! www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/50801/ @camplantsci.bsky.social

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Africa meets Bioinnovation! Join us for a powerful #SynBio4ALL webinar w/ Sebastian Cocioba — a DIY bio legend making science open for all! Apr 25 | 7PM EAT / 4PM UTC Register: forms.gle/sywSgHdzMMCcdV… Get Zoom + calendar link instantly! @atinygreencell.bsky.social

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Wow! "These plasmids transmit ... more efficiently than the ancestral AMR plasmid, driving AMR extinction... effectively acting as an intrinsic defence against AMR plasmids." " ...within-host plasmid evolution could be exploited to limit the spread of AMR in natural populations of bacteria"

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