Ashty Karim (@akarimlab) 's Twitter Profile
Ashty Karim

@akarimlab

Chemical Engineer | Synthetic Biologist | Assist. Professor | moved to LinkedIn linkedin.com/in/ashtykarim/

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Ashty Karim (@akarimlab) 's Twitter Profile Photo

How are we going to funnel excess carbon toward sustainable products? We’ve engineered a synthetic carbon assimilation pathway (ReForm) as a bio module coupled with electro/chem methods to upgrade several C1 substrates. Work with Michael C. Jewett on BioRxiv biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Kyle Swanson (@kylewswanson) 's Twitter Profile Photo

I'm excited to share our Nature Methods primer on language models for biological research. Elana Simon, James Zou, and I explain how to use language models, both natural language models and biological language models, to accelerate biological research. nature.com/articles/s4159…

Ashty Karim (@akarimlab) 's Twitter Profile Photo

And the move into the new lab space is complete! Said goodbye to the Texas office (a decade of early scientist memories) 🥹…huge shoutout to Michael C. Jewett —advisor turned friend and colleague—(and his group) who was there to help me move in 🤩 now time to get to work📚🧫🥼

And the move into the new lab space is complete! Said goodbye to the Texas office (a decade of early scientist memories) 🥹…huge shoutout to <a href="/MichaelCJewett/">Michael C. Jewett</a> —advisor turned friend and colleague—(and his group) who was there to help me move in 🤩 now time to get to work📚🧫🥼
Krishna Shrinivas (@shrinivaslab) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Come be a fellow at NSF-Simons NITMB if you are interested in math, theory, or bio (or any combination)! Great opportunity for independent research + supportive community + mentorship + pot. collaborations with folks across Northwestern The University of Chicago! nitmb.org/research/nitmb…

Ashty Karim (@akarimlab) 's Twitter Profile Photo

New work from the group applying cell-free protein engineering to develop metal binding sensors. We specifically modulate dynamic range and sensitivity of the PbrR transcription factor for lead detection at the legal limit. Check it out!

Jessica Stark (@jessicacstark) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Join us MIT Dept of BE! We are searching for a tenure-track faculty colleague at the interface of #immunology and #biologicalengineering. Happy to answer questions about the BE department and junior faculty life at MIT (both great). Please share widely! be.mit.edu/about/open-fac…

Join us <a href="/MITdeptofBE/">MIT Dept of BE</a>! We are searching for a tenure-track faculty colleague at the interface of #immunology and #biologicalengineering. Happy to answer questions about the BE department and junior faculty life at MIT (both great). Please share widely! be.mit.edu/about/open-fac…
Michael C. Jewett (@michaelcjewett) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Want to learn the newest innovations in #cellfree systems? Mark your calendar for the next Cell-Free Systems meeting to be held in Evanston Northwestern next summer on August 20-22, 2025 with co-chairs Kamat Lab Northwestern CSB Michael Köpke 🏭💨+🧬🦠=♻️⛽🧴🧵 LanzaTech Global More info to come...

Eshan | Better Bioeconomy ✉ (@biotecheshan) 's Twitter Profile Photo

💨 LanzaTech Global moves into the food arena with LanzaTech Nutritional Protein (LNP) set to reach commercial-scale production in 2028 '‘We ferment gases instead of sugars." $LNZA

💨 <a href="/LanzaTech/">LanzaTech Global</a>  moves into the food arena with LanzaTech Nutritional Protein (LNP) set to reach commercial-scale production in 2028

'‘We ferment gases instead of sugars."

$LNZA
Javin Oza (@ozalabcp) 's Twitter Profile Photo

DNA template is one of the most expensive and limiting components of #cellfree protein expression. Jian Li 's latest preprint helps address that problem. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Aristilde Lab @ Northwestern Engineering (@aristildelab) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Can wastewater bacteria provide solutions to the plastics problem? Just out today new Aristilde Lab @ Northwestern Engineering study unraveling how #wastewater Comamonas #bacteria break down PET #plastics into #nanoplastics and ultimately digestible #carbons. pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

Ashty Karim (@akarimlab) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Developing high-throughput biology workflows can be plagued by variability. We identify some key variables and strategies to get the most from high-throughput cell-free experiments. Check it out!

Ashty Karim (@akarimlab) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Awesome day celebrating each other and our progress as a Center! Northwestern CSB with a fantastic keynote from @delafuenteupenn on next-generation antimicrobials from ancient ancestral proteomes!

The Lucks Lab (@luckslab) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Preprint alert! Figuring out how to make 100s of cell-free biosensors on an Opentrons OT-2 robot. With Michael C. Jewett Ashty Karim and a whole lot of other folks! On bioRxiv now: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Ashty Karim (@akarimlab) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Looking for talent to head the research arm of Northwestern CSB ! If you are interested in shaping synthetic biology and you value creativity, impact, and great people, this is the opportunity for you. This is a fantastic job (I speak from experience!). Apply below!

Stanford Bioengineering (@bioe_stanford) 's Twitter Profile Photo

🎉 Congratulations to Michael C. Jewett for receiving the 2024 AIChE Food, Pharmaceutical, and Bioengineering Division Award at #AIChEAnnual American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE)! 🏆 This award honors outstanding contributions in chemical engineering within food, pharmaceuticals, and bioengineering.

Michael C. Jewett (@michaelcjewett) 's Twitter Profile Photo

What is needed to accelerate enzyme engineering using machine learning? #Data We develop a ML-guided platform that integrates DNA assembly, gene expression, and functional assays. ML models predict improved variants. Ashty Karim Northwestern CSB Nature Communications nature.com/articles/s4146…

Michael C. Jewett (@michaelcjewett) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Engineered enzymes can advance green chemistry. Unfortunately, engineering enzymes remains hard. In Nature Communications, we showed that AI-guided design coupled to cell-free systems can predict mutants as well as lab experiments. Ashty Karim engineering.stanford.edu/news/hunt-new-…

Biology+AI Daily (@biologyaidaily) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Accelerated enzyme engineering by machine-learning guided cell-free expression Nature Communications 1. This study presents a novel machine-learning (ML)-guided platform for enzyme engineering, integrating cell-free DNA assembly, expression, and functional assays. It significantly

Accelerated enzyme engineering by machine-learning guided cell-free expression <a href="/NatureComms/">Nature Communications</a> 

1. This study presents a novel machine-learning (ML)-guided platform for enzyme engineering, integrating cell-free DNA assembly, expression, and functional assays. It significantly
Ashty Karim (@akarimlab) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Out now our work to accelerate the development of biocatalysts completely outside of cells! Barely using twitter, and now engaging more frequently on LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/ashtykarim/