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Let's go horns🤘🏾 #hookem

The mid-Atlantic #synbio community has gotten so strong, in part to efforts like #MASBN, sponsored by U.S. National Science Foundation. It won’t be long until this region is a Boston or Bay Area synbio hub. Thanks to Aditya Kunjapur and the rest of the organizing team for a fantastic conference.

Beyond excited to announce our deal with Novo Nordisk! Proud of our team who made this possible. The market and molecular complexity of biologics are both growing. Cell engineering tech needs to keep pace to support production of next-gen biologics at global scale.

So honored to join this esteemed cohort. Thanks for mentorship from my advisors Dr. Michelle A. O'Malley, Kris Prather MIT ChemE Dept, and hard work from students such as Kok Zhi Lee Ethan Hillman Casey Hooker Brett Graver Ross Klauer Akash Jagdish Vaidya and Mruthula Rammohan that made this possible

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…

See here for an exciting development in genome engineering for genetic code expansion and for understanding the pliability of components involved in protein translational termination - from the Isaacs Lab nature.com/articles/s4158…

Hmm how will university budget models make this work, especially if it is going into effect for current grants next week?

Congrats Xiaojing Gao !!

Out Now! Engineered orthogonal and obligate bacterial commensalism mediated by a non-standard amino acid bit.ly/4lWI4nY #Microbiology #GeneticEngineering #SyntheticBiology

We've got a growing number of folks Univ. of Delaware aspiring to be like Jake Becraft - especially in areas like synthetic biology and drug delivery. It was inspiring to hear his remarks and host him today. Also a nice throwback to MIT. Thank you Jake Becraft ! #synbio #entrepreneurship

If you're curious how the first 5 amino acids of newly generated protein N-termini can affect protein stability in E. coli, then check out our latest preprint We find new patterns of exceptions to the usual N-end rule Kudos to Sunny Sen & co-authors biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Trump Has Cut Science Funding to Its Lowest Level in Decades nytimes.com/interactive/20… ^ Useful info in this article about the level of funding of various NSF directorates/programs relative to the 10Y avg by this time of year

New lab photo from our annual banquet #synbio

Thank you to the colleagues who created an environment for success, the mentors who shared their wisdom and inspired me (Kris Prather, george church, Wilfred Chen ), & the amazing students I've had the honor of working with over the last 6.5Y #tenure

I'll begin sabbatical next week as an Otto Mønsted Visiting Professor at Denmark Technical University hosted by Pablo Iván Nikel @pabnik.bsky.social. I'm looking forward to the ME16 & Biotrans meetings & other opportunities to connect with European colleagues this fall

I'm honored and delighted to be hosted by Pablo Iván Nikel @pabnik.bsky.social DTU Biosustain through the end of the year Looking forward to meeting folks in the region and exchanging ideas #sabbatical #synbio #biocatalysis #geneticcodeexpansion #metabolicengineering

I'm enjoying the start of the International Metabolic Engineering 16 #ME16 meeting in Copenhagen this week Thanks to the organizers for providing a chance to share our work Thanks to my students for taking these pics Looking forward to meeting other attendees American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE)

Congrats on completing your PhD Kiseok (Keith) Lee | kiseokmicro.bsky.social ! And welcome to our lab - very excited to work with you