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Hey! Do you want to engineer root microbes really efficiently? Using a vector toolkit that is surprisingly easy to use? Check out John van Schaik, Zidan Li, and John Cheadle's recent preprint! biorxiv.org/content/10.110… We also find a highly transformable, DNA-demethylating root bug!

Excited to see our paper go online today in Communications Biology on the development of peptide inhibitors for treating Clostridoides difficile infection. Nathan Crook Deniz Durmusoglu Nature Portfolio nature.com/articles/s4200…

Hello! A good friend of mine Abdulkerim Eroglu has an open postdoc position focusing on the impacts of carotenoids on gut health! Take a look! jobs.ncsu.edu/postings/188110

NCSU CBE is hiring! The colleagues are supportive, the students are motivated, the facilities are excellent - what more could you want?

Phenomenal work from John van Schaik Engineering the Maize Root Microbiome: A Rapid MoClo Toolkit and Identification of Potential Bacterial Chassis for Studying Plant–Microbe Interactions | ACS Synthetic Biology pubs.acs.org/doi/epdf/10.10… Zidan Li Nathan Crook

A spinout led by two awesome former members of my group is hiring! Looking for a probiotic engineer to make animal agriculture more sustainable! jobs.polymer.co/hoofprint-biom…

Many microplastics are located in the ocean, so my talented student, Tianyu Li, decided to engineer a microbe that tolerates ocean-level salt to break down PET microplastics! We love this microbe because under ideal conditions, it replicates in <10 mins! aiche.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…

A lot of papers introduce a genetic toolkit for a single organism. My student John van Schaik was like "nah I'm going to make one for 5". Introducing the Maize Root Microbiome Toolkit (MRMTK)! With critical assist by John Cheadle and Zidan Li. pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

Having trouble with transforming your favorite bacteria with valuable genetic cargo? Try IMPRINT🙌🏻! A sophisticated TXTL-based pipeline developed by Justin Vento Beisel Lab Fun and long-lasting collaboration between Nathan Crook Beisel Lab members! Grateful to be part of it☺️

One year ago I was waist deep in diapers and decided that I didn't have time to apply for a NIH DP2 award. My wife said "go for it anyway", so I wrote up an idea Deniz Durmusoglu and Carly Catella had been piloting. Today it was funded! Thank you to my family and my students😊

If you are on the faculty job market, check this out! WashU is a great place to be. pathology.wustl.edu/wp-content/upl…

Hello! On March 22 I'm giving a seminar at the hybrid Biotech Seminar Series by DTU Biotech Lifelong Learning and NC State BTEC. It's free and online! Check out the nice advertisement they made: linkedin.com/posts/dtu-biot…

The Crook Lab is hiring a postdoc in the broad area of gas capture by enzymes! Part of a wonderful collaboration funded by the Novo Nordisk Foundation (biocat.ncsu.edu) Please forward to those who might be interested! jobs.ncsu.edu/postings/200343

IMPRINT is now out🎉 Molecular Cell Extremely grateful to be part of this exciting collaboration! Beisel Lab Nathan Crook @barquistlab With this sophisticated method, you can also overcome the barriers to DNA transformation to a variety of bacteria🦠 🧬 doi.org/10.1016/j.molc…

Cool article by McMillen lab using inducible recombinases and the ade1 marker to record events in the gut using probiotic yeast! doi.org/10.3389/fsybi.…

A postdoc position is available in the lab of my amazing colleague, Dr. Abdulkerim Eroglu!  The position focuses on the impacts of dietary phytochemicals on gut biology (both host and bacterial). Please send to anyone who might be interested. jobs.ncsu.edu/postings/206806

Are you researching enzymatic C/N capture? Just interested? NCSU is hosting a Biocatalyst Interactions with Gases (BIG) Research Symposium at NC State University from May 14-16! If you want more info, fill out the following survey! forms.gle/DKqaw2EHiikxHF…

Are you an international student interested in doing a PhD in Chemical Engineering at NC State? If so, we are holding a Zoom session on Thursday, October 24 at 3pm Eastern Time: Join Zoom Meeting ncsu.zoom.us/j/95312066622?… Meeting ID: 953 1206 6622 Passcode: 986934

I want to give a shoutout to Ethan Gates for writing an epic review article on all the currently known mechanisms of plastic biodegradation. If you want to break down some plastic, give it a look! doi.org/10.1093/femsre…

Awesome article by Rebeck, Wallace, Prusa, and others from the Dantas Lab GD showing S. boulardii can be engineered to treat colon cancer in mice! A super hard problem and inspiring for those working on engineered probiotics. doi.org/10.1016/j.chem…