Need to finely tune protein expression under iptg control? Use the newly published light-controlled lac operon in Nature Chemical Biology! Congratulations to Makoto Lalwani for such a cool piece of work! nature.com/articles/s4158…

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These events are lively and interactive (even online!). If you are interested in the physics of life, please join in the fun, and help spread the word. #physics #evolution #condensates #learning

Ever wonder about those little spots you see inside cells if you look through a microscope? The last decade has overturned a century of thinking. Join us to explore The Revolution in Cell Biology The Graduate Center @GC_Presents. For a general audience (!). bit.ly/Nov5Cells

The Cortez siblings are fundraising for Extra Life! Please help us in reaching our goal of 500 dollars for Extra Life, giving to the Cook Children’s Medical Center in Fort Worth. Any donation is amazing, but just as amazing is sharing this website around! extra-life.org/index.cfm?fuse…

It has been too long since I’ve done this, but here are some great pandemic-related pieces from the last month or so, from people whose work I respect. If you’ve liked my work, perhaps you’ll also like the work that I like.

Molecular Biology at Princeton University invites applications for Director of the Mass Spectrometry Facility. This facility provides services in protein identification, protein post-translational modification characterization, proteomic analyses. #Proteomics, #massspec , #LC-MS

Dang, Princeton University. 🌸

Sharing our latest on optogenetics for metabolic engineering. Overcoming light penetration limitations with OptoAmps lets you ditch the 2-phase fermentation and choose your own, like these light controlled 3-phase fermentations. Makoto Lalwani Evan Zhao pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

Congratulations to Shannon Hoffman for her clear explanation of biofuels in this 3-min video!

Congratulations to Therese C. Kichuk, MP/PHD student in molecular biology, for winning the Graduate Student Impact Award! See the winning #PRD21 video at mediacentral.princeton.edu/media/Portrait…

Please help me spread around this postdoc opportunity in my lab. --Thank you!

Bounding tiny 'bears'! We found how walking #waterbears coordinate their 8 legs! Meticulous theory + analysis from Jasmine Nirody , and painstaking experiments from Lisset Duran (+ highschooler Deborah Johnston!). Jasmine Nirody 's summary tweet below. Journal paper: pnas.org/content/118/35…

Are you looking for a postdoctoral fellowship in experimental or theoretical biological physics, or know someone who is? Come join the amazingly collaborative community at Princeton! Applications are due on Oct 1.

Our paper is out in PNASNews (w/ Andy Guess, C. Tarnita): Using a model & Twitter data, we show that polarized news coverage can lead people to unwittingly sort their social networks along political lines, even w/o knowing their friends' politics! 1/🧵⬇️ pnas.org/content/118/50…

My first publication with the amazing Avalos Lab at PrincetonU! See how we used a biosensor to tap into yeast metabolism and redirect it to make more biofuels! nature.com/articles/s4146…

Our paper on isobutanol/isopentanol biosensor in yeast is finally out: nature.com/articles/s4146…. No longer screening in the dark for strains to produce these biofuels. Kudos to Yanfei Zhang Jeremy D. Cortez, Sarah Hammer, Cesar Lopez, Sergio Garcia-Echauri for their awesome work.

we’ll be randomly selecting 1 person to give 2 reserved front row seats, for the drag show this saturday. start retweeting besties!! we’ll be selecting the winner tuesday at 7

Climbed a mountain this morning, and learned what it may be like to be a protein on a double helix EMBL #EMBOChemBio #doublehelixramp

Steven Bodine, from The Muir Lab, repping Princeton University with me EMBL Great talk on solving the puzzle of quorum sensing! #EMBOChemBio