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A team led by the Ajo-Franklin group’s very own Biki Kundu has uncovered the mechanism through which E. coli utilizes redox shuttles for extracellular respiration and growth, showcasing the unexpected versatility of microbial metabolism biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh…

Our October issue is live! nature.com/nchembio/volum… The cover depicts an engineered living material with controllable mechanical properties: Bacteria (orange) embedded in a hydrogel are programmed to control the expression of MtrC which regulates microbial respiration

So surreal to see my image on the cover of Nature Chemical Biology! Shoutout to Gina Partipilo and Austin Graham 🧪🏳️‍🌈 for leading a great project and all of the Keitz Lab members who made it possible. #sciart

We are excited to share our latest preprint, led by Matsuri Rojano & Trevor Simmons, in which we identify concentration dependent regulation of CsrA on a novel mRNA target and repurpose this interaction to build a genetic BANDPASS Filter. biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #WhatStartsHere

we got the cover! elated to finally see this in print – huge congrats to Gina Partipilo, artist extraordinaire COWBOY EUPHONIIUM SOLO IIII, and all the co-authors Keitz Lab Adrianne Rosales that made this work possible (1/3)

We thrilled to share our latest work in Nature Communications, led by Trevor Simmons, in which we rewired CsrA to build designer post-transcriptional genetic circuits. Our approach supports the idea of co-opting native networks for complex bacterial computation. doi.org/10.1038/s41467…

I'm thrilled that our work is now published in Nature Communications, where we repurposed the Csr Network to build post-transcriptional logic gates: doi.org/10.1038/s41467…

🧪 What I wish I'd known about lab notebooks in year 1: A thread about what has actually worked for me (learned the hard way...) 🧵

Our new paper from co-authors Gina Partipilo and Sarah Coleman (The Alper Lab) outlines the use of a linear mixed effects model for evaluating multi-input gene circuits! And Ismar Miniel Mahfoud made a web-based platform to run your own new genetic circuits! boolstats.fly.dev

Submitted my last manuscript of grad school and now I'm starting at the Turnbaugh group to study microbe/drug interactions in the gut at UCSF on Monday! What a great start to 2025! 🦠🔬

Happy to add another journal cover to my portfolio, but mostly excited for everyone to read about Gina Partipilo’s creative application of microfluidics for rapid screening of electroactive bacteria

PREPRINT OUT ✨ "hack" your microscope to work as a 3D printer! print micrometer sized features at cm scale. a method for easy and cheap microfabrication, with a focus on biological applications. THREAD ↓ biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

ICYMI: Keitz Lab on 'microdroplet encapsulation' and the ability to isolate or characterize bacteria with important roles in global metal cycling, wastewater treatment, or drug metabolism within the human gut...