Update: now Samantha Morris is on board too! Please 🔁! #MASSIV will be held in Vancouver from January 19-22, 2026. massivconference.com Abstract deadline: Nov 14

Please 🔁! #MASSIV will be held in Vancouver from January 19-22, 2026. 4-day meeting on #synbio x #tissueengineering. Some trainee-focused events. >50 talks (10 from abstracts), posters, panel & publishing insights sessions. www.massivconference.com Abstract deadline: Nov 14

Please 🔁! #MASSIV will be held in Vancouver from January 19-22, 2026. 4-day meeting on #synbio x #tissueengineering. Some trainee-focused events. >50 talks (10 from abstracts), posters, panel & publishing insights sessions. www.massivconference.com Abstract deadline: Nov 14

Please RP! A 4-day synbio and tissue engineering conference #MASSIV to transform biology and medicine together. Couldn't list all amazing speakers, so please check out this 👉https://www.massivconference.com/ Poster due is Nov 7, but will be extended. With @stemcellnetwork.ca and JST.

I am excited to be the co-chair of #ISSCR2026 with Fiona Doetsch (mostly helping Fiona) and welcome the stem cell community in Montreal! Register to join us in Montréal, Canada on 8-11 July 2026! www.isscr2026.org

I am excited to be the co-chair of hashtag#ISSCR2026 with Fiona Doetsch (mostly helping Fiona) and welcome the stem cell community in Montreal! Register to join us in Montréal, Canada on 8-11 July 2026! www.isscr2026.org

Identification of conserved RNA regulatory switches in living cells using RNA secondary structure ensemble mapping and covariation analysis go.nature.com/4lLtIX8

Photos from a life sciences roundtable on June 4 with BC Premier David Eby @davidebybc.bsky.social at #CanadaPavilion of #Expo2025Osaka. Manu Madhav, Gail Murphy, and I joined from UBC. @sbmeubc.bsky.social

#ISSCR2026 @isscr.org plenary and invited speakers have revealed! Please plan to submit an abstract and join us in Montreal! www.isscr2026.org/speakers

CAGT was fun! Thanks @carldeboer.bsky.social @sudpinglay.bsky.social and the de Boer lab for organizing! Folks from Seattle, Oregon, and other places. Great community. Arman gave a usual super talk, and Sanchit and Dayag won poster prizes☺️

The latest work from my lab, Phage Disco, a method @ellie-rand.bsky.social developed for targeted discovery of bacteriophages based on the bacterial receptor, defense system, or other component they interact with, is now live in mSystems journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

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+Humbled by how beautifully this animated version of this week’s @nature.com cover captures two major themes of our paper – mycorrhizal fungi and the ‘wave nature of life’.

A multi-kingdom genetic barcoding system for precise clone isolation - @nzmyachie.bsky.social go.nature.com/4ksLOMD

CloneSelect published in Nature Biotechnology @natbiotech.nature.com. This retrospective clone isolation method using CRISPR base editors is a powerful tool in broad biology. A history of Soh in the Yachie lab. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Please plan to join us in Montréal🇨🇦 Excited to co-chair the program committee of #ISSCR2026 with @doetschlab.bsky.social. We have reorganized the concurrent themes. An exciting lineup of invited speakers will be announced soon.

Spring 2025 in UBC

I’m excited to share that we will be hosting Justin English @sbmeubc.bsky.social this Friday! Many cool synthetic biology and high-throughput screening stories are happening in his lab. His talk will be at the Life Science Institute building LSC 1002 from 11 am. Please come join us!

Poster submission is open now!👋 We are organizing the 54th Naito Conference on Genome Editing. Gorgeous speakers, including Feng Zhang, Patrick Hsu, @leopoldparts.bsky.social, Silvana Konermann, Mike Bassik, Ailong Ke, Wenning Qin, Henry Kim, Caixia Gao, Pietro Genovese, and Virginijus Siksnys.

Special thanks to @nzmyachie.bsky.social and Brett Kiyota for this great collab! Preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

My research aims to make so much synthetic gene regulatory data that we no longer need to train models on genomic sequences (elaborated on here www.nature.com/articles/s41...), but we still lack the needed synthetic data. hashFrag is the stopgap needed to enable genome-training without leakage.

New (and hotly anticipated - at least by me) preprint from my group describing a better way to partition training data for genomic-trained models to solve the long-neglected problem of homology-based data leakage. Thread from first author @muntakimrafi.bsky.social 👇

We often perceive objects as units defined by the object that encompasses them. A topology question: does the plasma membrane of a cell enclose the cytoplasm and organelles, or does it encompass everything else, including Earth, while excluding the cytoplasmic region as its environment?

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Congrats, Dayag! Dayag won the most prestigious postdoctoral fellowship in Canada. I feel truly fortunate to have this guy in the lab, making significant impacts on our science. nrc.canada.ca/en/stories/n...

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