#SynBio

📢Our latest paper "Towards an engineering theory of evolution" where we consider the interwoven nature of #evolution & #synbio is out now in @NatureComms! 🎉 Lots to think about in this one. 🧐@simcastle @PR0FG @BrisBioDesign @BristolBioSci

We are inviting proposals for AI BTO pitch days December 5-6. Our Biological Technologies Office will be offering same day awards up to $300K each! Apply today: #SynBio #Biotech #AI #Innovation #AIBTO

Excited to share our new @biorxivpreprint! Integrating DNA biophysics with classic #synbio to map how to improve transgenic systems by tailoring expression levels, variance, and transcriptional dynamics. TL;DR: Don’t build your systems to fail. Build beautiful dynamics! 🧵(1/n)

Supercoiling-mediated feedback rapidly couples and tunes transcription #biorxiv_synbio

Bad news ☹️: Our food system is far from perfect and highly unsustainable Good news 🙂: Engineering Biology and #synbio give us the tools to rethink food manufacturing ➡️ In our last review, @aliciagraham22 and I discuss the promise of microbial food

I am excited to share the pre-print of my postdoctoral work: Exploring the rules of chimeric antigen receptor phenotypic output using combinatorial signaling motif libraries and machine learning. #synbio #immunotherapy (1/7)

Do you like #synbio in non-model organisms? Or gut microbiomes and #bees? Check out our work building genetic tools for gut symbionts of honey bees.

So glad to see this out! Synthetic cells promoting the growth of new blood vessels inside the body! #synbio is awesome! build-a-cell!! @galchen111 @PNASNews

Nice! A protein from tropical berries, which is 3,000 times sweeter than sugar. The stability was improved using protein engineering, and produced on large quantities on yeast by the company Amai Proteins “So sweet, no spike” @NatureBiotech #synbio #engbio

Evaluation of 244,000 synthetic sequences reveals design principles to optimize translation in Escherichia coli #synbio

Highly efficient expression of circular RNA aptamers in cells using autocatalytic transcripts #biosensors #synbio

Interested in learning more about synthetic biology? This spring I'm piloting a YouTube series about #synbio aimed towards an undergraduate audience. You'll find it soon on the Kunjapur Lab Academy YT channel. Here's a teaser: #education #scicomm

Exploring our views on the potential of #phage for #microbial #SynBio #applications in non-#model #bacteria . #review #paper in @NatureComms: #microbiology #syntheticbiology #Pseudomonas #lactococcus @ERC_Research @DTUBiosustain & @leuvenresearch #biotech

It seems like sci-fi. They engineered bacteria to detect colon cancer. @ScienceMagazine #synbio

📢New preprint alert! "Massively parallel characterization of engineered transcript isoforms using @nanopore direct RNA sequencing." @SynBioScientist repurposes terminators as transcriptional valves to control the flow of RNA polymerase along DNA. #synbio

Please RT♻️! Are you interested in #synbio? Would you like to contribute to a #bioeconomy by #engineering #bacteria for #biotechnological applications? Then, join us at @LabNikel. We are looking for MSc students to perform theses/internships in our group! Description below 👇

Terraforming the planet: using engineered microbes might be the only feasible strategy to achieve a large-scale impact. Multiple scales are involved, and interdisciplinary efforts will be needed, from #synbio to ecology. See our paper with @vdlorenzo_CNB

A light- and calcium-gated transcription factor for imaging and manipulating activated neurons #neuroscience #synbio

🚨Article in @NatureChemistry w/ @PhilHolliger @ChrisJWan Using test tube evolution of synthetic nucleic acids we engineer artificial RNA-cutting oligo enzymes that cleave transcripts in cells w/single-nucleotide precision #synbio &

Thrilled to announce that our SNIP paper is live @CellCellPress! SNIP is a high-performance drug-regulated CAR platform that is optimized for the clinic--plans for a trial are already underway @StanfordMed. #CART #Immunotherapy #SynBio #Cancer. 1/

What will it take to make #synbio more predictable, scalable and useful? At the #iGEM2026 Grand Jamboree, iGEM #Technology is organizing sessions on the challenges and infrastructure shaping the next decade of #syntheticbiology.