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Plasmids are commonly view as burdensome. But maybe this burden can be advantageous? Check out this new review paper from the lab that investigates this further!! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/bi…

Join us tomorrow, 11/22 from 3-4PM in Wilkinson 021 as we hear from our next guest speaker, Dr. KC Huang, Professor of Bioengineering, Microbiology, and Immunology at Stanford University. Dr. Huang will be discussing "Predicting the assembly of the gut microbiome."

Let’s reflect on 2024 with our new EDITORIAL: A year of microbiology nature.com/articles/s4156…

Join us this Friday, 12/6 from 3-4PM in Wilkinson 021 as we hear from guest speaker, Dr. Jim Pfaendtner, Dean of Engineering at NC State University. He will be discussing "Using biomimetic polymers to understand and control sequence/structure/function relationships in biomineralization."

Announcement of a new scholarship program for Turkish students seeking internships in the US! (currently accepting donations) In early 2025, BTF (bridgetoturkiye.org) will be opening a new scholarship program to support research scholars (anyone prior to PhD) with their

First paper of our lab today nature by Nussi! We provide a real-time movie on how #transcription and #translation cooperate using multi-color #single-molecule FM: we find long-range #ribosome-#polymerase communication mediated by #RNA looping! EMBL doi.org/10.1038/s41586…

Great school one collective behavior in memory of Alma Dal Co next Sept in Venice. Terrific lineup of speakers almadalcoschool.github.io Application deadline Feb 2025, travel grants available!

This one is quite interesting. biorxiv.org/content/10.110… It turns out that even a single microbe inside a host (C. elegans) is not governed by simple logistic growth, but the population exhibits bistability. With Nic Vega lab

Linking spatial drug heterogeneity to microbial growth dynamics in theory and experiment biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

please spread the word about this theoretical population biology workshop in chicago in june! should be really fun nitmb.org/modeling-and-t…

1/ Excited to share our latest work, just published in Nature Chemical Biology! We demonstrate how population-level gene regulation can be dynamically controlled and amplified using programmable gene transfer. Duke Center for Quantitative Biodesign Duke Biomedical Engineering Link to paper: doi.org/10.1038/s41589…

Join us this Friday, 3/7, from 3-4 PM in Wilkinson 021 to hear from our next guest speaker, Dr. Rodrigo Reyes! He'll discuss "Single-Molecule Tracking of DNA-Binding Proteins: Insights into Cellular Function and Genome Maintenance." Learn more here: biodesign.duke.edu/2025/02/27/cqb…

1/ What's the worst enemy of a plasmid? Another plasmid! Our new study demonstrates synthetic plasmids engineered as "Trojan horses" to eliminate plasmids encoding antibiotic resistance. Duke Center for Quantitative Biodesign Duke Biomedical Engineering science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Join our interdisciplinary team developing computational approaches to understand and engineer biomolecular condensates. We’re looking for a postdoc—please apply or share with interested persons! 👩🏽‍💻💧🧬 puwebp.princeton.edu/AcadHire/apply…

Excited to share our latest work on unraveling the role of a key metabolic pathway in human gut microbiome assembly and health-relevant metabolites—powered by machine learning! Led by the talented Yiyi Liu sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Excited to share Nathaniel Blalock and sri preprint teaching protein language models to generate beyond what evolution has explored. They introduce Reinforcement Learning with eXperimental Feedback (RLXF) to steer generation toward enhanced and non-natural functions.