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Amazing work from Farren Isaacs team at Yale - reducing E.coli's genetic code down to only using a single stop codon. A 62 codon GRO with lots of potential for applications. nature.com/articles/s4158…

I genetically engineered the amazing Arabidopsis to mimic the striking patterns of my Tradescantia zebrina🧬🌱 From concept to creation, here's the story behind transforming this plant into a living work of art! (1/7) 🧵"

We have three openings in our lab starting as soon as April 1st : 1 Research Associate 1 Postdoctoral Fellow 1 PhD Student The team will work on a project that aims to create synthetic plant genomes. For more information, email: [email protected] with the title "Syntato"

If you are Western University Biochemistry, come to see Daniel's talk. Daniel Nucifora #syntheticcells #syntheticbiology

Impressive technical work on organism genome engineering in their preprint, but at a time when NIH is getting razed I’m not sure many will be happy to see Colossal amounts of $$$$ going to making some mice furry. Anyway… looking forward to all the memes. theguardian.com/science/2025/m…

Here is our newest preprint "Engineering Conjugative Plasmids for Inducible Horizontal DNA Transfer". Congratulations to Tahani Jaafar and all the authors. Biochemistry Schulich WesternU Western University doi.org/10.1101/2025.0…

I am looking for a few team members to join our lab at Western University for an exciting new project focused on creating enhanced plant chloroplast genomes. I am looking to hire: 2 Postdoctoral Fellows 1 PhD Student Additional information: docs.google.com/document/d/1hb…

Our new review just out The Plant Journal led by Yixuan Li and in collaboration with Karas Lab UEA School of Environmental Sciences Genetic engineering in #diatoms: advances and prospects onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/tp…

We built a microfluidic pipeline to make custom giant vesicles with tunable membrane compositions adjusted “on the fly” + developed DNA sensors to read their surface potential. Huge thanks to Marcus Fletcher for leading the charge. Out now in ACS Nano pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

The first batch of postdoc openings are now online, and will be closed next week. So please put in a good application soon if you are interested! Please RT. jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetail?… [4 postdocs] jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetail?… [1 postdoc]

Our newest preprint. Congrats Emma Jane Walker and all authors in collaboration Thomas Mock 🔹 Fast electroporation & PEG methods 🔹Delivery of large episomes 🔹 DNA-free Cas9 editing 🔹 In vivo DNA assembly. #SynBio #Diatoms #CRISPR doi.org/10.1101/2024.1…

1/ 🌟 We've added more results to our preprint‼️ TLDR: diatom in vivo assembly, RNP delivery via electroporation, and a new PEG transformation method... (1/10) biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Together with Liyam Chitayat and Lorenzo Magni, I co-organized the inaugural edition of the Symbiogenesis Seminar Series, an online event focused on symbiogenesis.

Fantastic Synthetic Biology postdoc opportunity

Check it out! It includes a joint paper from our lab and the Karas Lab #diatoms #plants #algae #Engineering

Another great seminar is starting now. Here is the link: stanford.zoom.us/j/99189904989?…

New paper out - we show how synthetic cells can be dried, stored & reactivated at the point of use. This helps overcome a key barrier to their use outside the lab, bringing SynCells a step closer to real-world applications. Well done to Ignacio Gispert! pubs.rsc.org/en/content/art…

The nine teams we’re funding in Synthetic Plants are paving the way for more productive, resilient, and sustainable plants.🌱 Discover how they'll deliver growth in agriculture for the UK + beyond: link.aria.org.uk/sp-c-x

What if crops could grow in poor soil, resist disease and carry more nutrients? At #SchulichMedDent, Karas Lab is building synthetic plant genomes to make that future possible, with support from the U.K.’s ARIA. schulich.uwo.ca/about/news-eve…

Today, my postdoc Ryan Cochrane has been awarded the University of Manchester’s Bicentenary Fellowship and will soon be starting his own lab. He is the eighth independent PI to emerge from my lab in the past seven years. Proud PI moment.