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Andrea Garza E.

@andrea-garza-e.bsky.social
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synthetic micro-biologist 🔬🧬👩🏽‍🔬🇲🇽🏳️‍🌈 | postdoc at Oak Ridge Nat Lab | non-model bacteria, gene tools and editors, bioinformatics, and robots! | also, cats.

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Andrea Garza E. @andrea-garza-e.bsky.social · 20h
that's a good point, but if theres ever a way to record or stream, id be very interested!
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Andrea Garza E. @andrea-garza-e.bsky.social · 20h
Oh, I thought the seminar was hybrid / might be open to public through zoom/teams/etc
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Andrea Garza E. @andrea-garza-e.bsky.social · 21h
@environmicrobio.bsky.social are you able to share the TBI seminar link?
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Andrea Garza E. @andrea-garza-e.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Yellowstone thermophiles from this past week! Maybe one day I'll get to sample these guys, but for now, I'll admire the microbial mats.
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Andrea Garza E. @andrea-garza-e.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
thanks for the papers and the explanation!
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Andrea Garza E. @andrea-garza-e.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
That's pretty cool! How do you measure in situ growth? Do you have any paper reccs (or should I be on the lookout for a future pub?)
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Andrea Garza E. @andrea-garza-e.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Was just there! We asked where the Taq mushroom pool was, but its not accessible 😔 What/where were you sampling?
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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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Andrea Garza E. @andrea-garza-e.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
top text "reading bacterial genotypes be like", left image of complicated "no parking" signs, right image of woman squinting
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Andrea Garza E. @andrea-garza-e.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
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Andrea Garza E. @andrea-garza-e.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
not a syllabus but maybe helpful- @ebrc.org 's ML series ebrc.org/curriculum-m... and/or www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Curriculum Module: Synthetic Biology and Machine Learning | EBRC
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Andrea Garza E. @andrea-garza-e.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
This seems neat!
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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 · 11/06/2026
🇲🇽🇲🇽🇲🇽🎉✨
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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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Andrea Garza E. @andrea-garza-e.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
their spectra viewer tool lets you put in filters and lasers to represent what your instrument has, which is nice for checking if your settings will read your protein right also very nice for multi-protein experiments where you need to be able to separate colors!
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Andrea Garza E. @andrea-garza-e.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
you can look at your protein's spectrum on fpbase.org and try to maximize how much of your protein ex peak you can get without background? I would also try to go for as narrow a band as you can with your instrument
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FPbase: The Fluorescent Protein Database
FPbase is a free and open-source, community-editable database for fluorescent proteins and their properties.
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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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Andrea Garza E. @andrea-garza-e.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
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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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Vivek Mutalik @vivekmutalik.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
www.nature.com/articles/s41... #microsky
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Synthetic microbial co-cultures for modular bioelectronic sensing in diverse environments - Nature Biotechnology
Modular integration of bacterial strains expands the application range of whole-cell bioelectric sensors.
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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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Andrea Garza E. @andrea-garza-e.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
'if you can't be bothered to write it, why should i be bothered to read it' should be the response
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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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Andrea Garza E. @andrea-garza-e.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
centrifuge: balanced work/life:
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Andrea Garza E. @andrea-garza-e.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
companies when deciding how to send me 10 mL of an antibiotic
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a red box with arrows pointing up and the words " and then i 'll put that box inside of another box " on the bottom
ALT: a red box with arrows pointing up and the words " and then i 'll put that box inside of another box " on the bottom
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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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Zeynep Baharoglu @zeynepbaharoglu.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
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Multilayered regulation by RNA thermometers enables precise control of Cas9 expression in E. coli
Abstract. Cas9-based genome editing technologies can rapidly generate mutations to probe a diverse array of mutant genotypes. However, aberrant Cas9 nuclea
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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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Carrie A. Eckert (she/her/hers) @carrieaeckert.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
A new perspective/review article on the role of Synthetic Biology in realizing bio-based economy, shout out to @andrea-garza-e.bsky.social for the heavy lift! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Building an expanded bio-based economy through synthetic biology
The field of synthetic biology is essential to the continued development of a bio-based economy, creating mechanisms to supply carbon needed in the ec…
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Andrea Garza E. @andrea-garza-e.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
🙌 congratulations Carrie! Well deserved for all the work you do / have done for the SynBio group! 🎉🧬
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Andrea Garza E. @andrea-garza-e.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
oh, i read this recently i was wondering if it could be useful for some synbio purpose? persistence of a function encoded on the plasmid, alongside the rrna? 🤔
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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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Andrea Garza E. @andrea-garza-e.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
im unqualified can i apply
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Andrea Garza E. @andrea-garza-e.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
RNA RNA RNA !!!
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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
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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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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