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Engineering Biology Research Consortium @ebrc.org · 24/08/2026

Join EBRC’s Sr. Dir. of Roadmapping & Education, Emily Aurand, and other experts for a 2-part webinar series ahead of #CBDCOP17, exploring SynBio's potential for biodiversity conservation and gene drive risk assessment. Learn more and register here: lnkd.in/p/gkJPDcVs

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Webinars : Synbio for conservation | Outreach Network for Gene Drive Research

SAVE THE DATE: How can synthetic biology support #biodiversity conservation? 🌱 Ahead of #CBDCOP17, join our two-part webinar series co-hosted with GeneConvene Global Collaborative to explore #synbio...

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Andrea Garza E. @andrea-garza-e.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

today during lunch i am sharing memes

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Josh Atkinson @electromicrobe.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Excited to share the first research paper from my group. This work started when I was a visiting postdoc at the @cemau.bsky.social and was a great collaboration with @kartiksaiyer.bsky.social developing artificial sediment matrices that support the growth of freshwater cable bacteria.

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Victor de Lorenzo (CNB, Madrid) @vdlorenzo.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Check out this Symposium at Rice Univ this Sept 18 www.bakerinstitute.org/event/synthe.... Much of the conversation will go into environmental applications of Synthetic Biology 👇

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Andrea Garza E. @andrea-garza-e.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Very grateful for the opportunity to present at the 10 year anniversary @ebrc.org annual meeting!

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Andrea Garza E. @andrea-garza-e.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

happy pride month ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

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Andrea Garza E. @andrea-garza-e.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

this one has motion detector and volume stuck at max

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bioRxiv Synthetic Biology @biorxiv-synthbio.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

High-throughput engineering of ligand-activated splicing ribozyme through domain insertion www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…

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Ross D. Jones, PhD @jonesr18.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Our next @bioctrl.bsky.social Seminar is Tuesday (May 26th) at 8am PT / 11am ET / 5pm CET! Kshitij Rai from UW and Ronan O'Connell from Baylor University will present Join us online: mit.zoom.us/j/9432532792...

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Zach LaTurner @micronaut.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

The paper on my Ph.D. work is fully online! We used a ribozyme that barcodes 16S rRNA to track the transduction range of phage P1 in a synthetic community and real wastewater communities, while diving deeper into the unique range conferred by P1s two tail fibers. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Cross-order detection of bacteriophage transduction in microbial communities using RNA barcoding - Nature Communications

Bacteriophages are the most abundant life form on earth and can be applied to eliminate or engineer bacteria. Here, authors demonstrate RNA barcoding as a high throughput tool to measure bacteriophage...

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Andrea Garza E. @andrea-garza-e.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

today's enemies are adhesion and cohesion because my media is more sticky than water and so the liquid handling script i wrote, and successfully tested (with water), failed (with media. to my great disappointment)

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Andrea Garza E. @andrea-garza-e.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

went into the lab to do a midiprep eluted into the wrong column 👌

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Addgene @addgene.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Plasmids evolved in the wild. 🧬 This lab created a modular, synthetic ORI to improve their use in the lab. Our new post is by the depositor of SynORI:

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A Modular, Synthetic Origin of Replication

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Engineering Biology Research Consortium @ebrc.org · 08/04/2026

How can better crops be engineered? Join @cvoiniciuc.bsky.social with Kristen Van Gelder (Agriculture & Agri-Food Canada) & Vance Whitaker (@ufresearch.bsky.social) on April 9 @ 2 PM ET for a Reddit AMA to talk about new growing strategies for fruits & vegetables. www.reddit.com/r/askscience/

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AskScience: Got Questions? Get Answers.

Ask a science question, get a science answer.

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Engineering Biology Research Consortium @ebrc.org · 09/03/2026

🎉EBRC In Translation podcast series hits 10,000 downloads! In the newest episode, Will Grubbe & Talia Jacobson chat with MIT’s Jim Collins on new antibiotics, diagnostics, and AI-driven discoveries in SynBio. 🎧 Catch the episode & full series: ebrcintranslation.buzzsprout.com

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EBRC In Translation

EBRC In Translation is a podcast working to bring you conversations with leaders in the world of Engineering Biology. The show is the official podcast of the Engineering Biology Research Consortium St...

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Andrea Garza E. @andrea-garza-e.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

the september issue of vogue is out!!

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Natalie Cooper @nhcooper123.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Excited to launch the new improved Reproducible Code guide from @britishecologicalsociety.org @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social FREE online here! www.britishecologicalsociety.org//wp-content/... Amazing work by some very talented ECRs. We hope it’s useful!

Book cover for Reproducible Code guide. The cover has a red background with a large yellow-bodied black-headed stag beetle.

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Engineering Biology Research Consortium @ebrc.org · 21/11/2025

🚨Just announced! The NSF-NIST Bioeconomy Standards Scholar-in-Residence Initiative offers researchers the opportunity to spend time at a NIST lab developing expertise in standards development for AI-ready data, workflows, machine readable code, calibration objects, and more. tinyurl.com/44cuz94u

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NSF-NIST Scholars in Residence

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Andrea Garza E. @andrea-garza-e.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

opinion: we should be saying upstrand and downstrand instead of upstream and downstream 🧬

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C&EN (Chemical & Engineering News) @cenmag.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

As #Halloween approaches, adults stalk the aisles of stores, looking for their favorite gummy candy. Chemists can tweak many ingredients in search of the best bounce or bite, but one of the largest differentiators is the molecule that creates the gel: cen.acs.org/food/food-in... #chemsky 🧪

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Andrea Garza E. @andrea-garza-e.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

procrastinating on writing the reviewer response + needed some art for the office walls = "organizing the freezer" acrylic on canvas 😂

a painting of two cardboard boxes holding microtubes

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Engineering Biology Research Consortium @ebrc.org · 18/09/2025

Explore plant synthetic biology with Stanford’s Jenn Brophy @jennbrophy.bsky.social on EBRC In Translation. We discuss engineering genetic circuits in plants & microbes, lab sustainability, fostering the next gen of synthetic biologists, and championing diversity in science! tinyurl.com/473b4dky

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EBRC In Translation

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Arren J. Liu @arrenliu.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

The next @ebrc.org panel hosted by the Student and Postdoc Association is Sept 25! Re-post/share! 🧬 Are you a grad student thinking about pursuing a postdoc? 📺 Attend our panel to learn more about postdoc life and how to make the most of it! 🔗 Register here: forms.gle/FQLTRcP8wR2h...

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bioRxiv Synthetic Biology @biorxiv-synthbio.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Establishing an RNA sensor with high sensitivity and dynamic range utilizing a signal amplifier platform www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…

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Chenxin Li, PhD @chenxinli2.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

My most successful outreach effort by far is the "Friends Don't Let Friends Made Bad Graphs" repository. It has 6.8 bookmarks on GitHub. That's just people with a GitHub account, not counting those who have used it but don't have a GitHub account. github.com/cxli233/Frie...

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GitHub - cxli233/FriendsDontLetFriends: Friends don't let friends make certain types of data visualization - What are they and why are they bad.

Friends don't let friends make certain types of data visualization - What are they and why are they bad. - GitHub - cxli233/FriendsDontLetFriends: Friends don't let friends make certain ty...

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Engineering Biology Research Consortium @ebrc.org · 26/06/2025

Don't miss this opportunity from @nasonline.org! The Biotechnology Regulatory Fellowship Program provides hands-on professional development and skill-building to address future regulatory challenges posed by novel biotechnology products. Learn more and apply: biotechfellows.nationalacademies.org

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National Academy of Sciences

<p>Biotechnology Regularory Fellowship engage fellows in developing the evidence basis needed to meet future regulatory challenges.</p>

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Josh Atkinson @electromicrobe.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

We're hiring! Do you have experience engineering yeast and using CRISPR? Jose Avalos and I are hiring a joint postdoc to work on an exciting fast-paced DARPA project with a great team at Neochromosome, Fermeate, and @joepeterslab.bsky.social puwebp.princeton.edu/AcadHire/app...

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Andrea Garza E. @andrea-garza-e.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

Happy pride month! ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🩷

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Jon Freeman @freemanjb.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

🚨 A new rule would let career scientists like NSF/NIH program officers be replaced by political appointees Already 14,000+ public comments, deadline is Friday 📣 Comments can be short. Courts consider them—and scientists with NSF/NIH experience are especially impactful Speak up! shorturl.at/WKuBj

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Sternberg Lab @sternberglab.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

1/10 Today in @science.org in collaboration with the Liu group we report the development of a laboratory-evolved CRISPR-associated transposase (evoCAST) that supports therapeutically relevant levels of RNA-programmable gene insertion in human cells. drive.google.com/file/d/1I-Ub...

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Lisa Fazio @lkfazio.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Thanks to scienceimpacts.org for mapping the impacts of cutting NIH indirect costs & making it easy for local news to focus on the impacts to their community Thanks to @sciencehomecoming.bsky.social for helping researchers write op-eds for their hometown newspapers about the impacts on science 4/

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SCIMaP - Impacts of Federal Cuts to Science and Medical Research

Developed by an interdisciplinary research team, this website shows how funding cuts reduce economic activity and employment nationwide

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Zach LaTurner @micronaut.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Very excited to share a manuscript at the heart of my PhD! We added an RNA-memory device (RAM) to phage P1 to identify transduction hosts in synthetic and wastewater microbial communities in high throughput. Also, I am on the post-doc market, so please reach out if interested! 1/6 t.ly/a8k9O

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Cross-order detection of bacteriophage transduction in communities using ribosomal RNA barcoding

Bacteriophages (phages) facilitate gene transfer and microbial evolution in all ecosystems and have applications as tools for engineering microbiomes and as antimicrobials. Historic efforts to map pha...

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Andrea Garza E. @andrea-garza-e.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Some Gboard emoji combinations I'll be using to express my feelings in the lab, a thread

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Henrik Toft Simonsen @htsbiotechmoss.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

‪Do you like #Plant #Synthetic #Biology - and do you want to learn more? Then have a look at www.eventbrite.com/e/plant-synt... We are hosting this short training event to bring you up-to-date on the latest things in Plant #SynBio and also with practical training !!!

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Carrie A. Eckert (she/her/hers) @carrieaeckert.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

If you are (or would like to become) a member of the Society for Industrial Microbiology and Biotechnology, I would appreciate your vote for me in the Board of Directors election! Also consider @drksolomon.bsky.social as well!More info here: www.simbhq.org/2025/02/27/2...

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Nature Biotechnology @natbiotech.nature.com · 19/03/2025

Rice research team creates universal RNA barcoding system for tracking gene transfer in bacteria #NBTintheNews via @riceuniversity.bsky.social news.rice.edu/news/2025/ri...

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 17/03/2025

Lungfish xkcd.com/3064

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Styczynski Research Group @stygroupgt.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Excited to share our work in Science Advances! TLISA is a plug-and-play cell-free protein biosensor system developed by @meganmcsweeney.bsky.social. We hope this technology is a stepping stone to expand protein detection at the point-of-care! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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A modular cell-free protein biosensor platform using split T7 RNA polymerase

A split polymerase is used to develop a plug-and-play cell-free biosensor platform for point-of-care protein detection.

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