Are you eligible for the NSERC Postdoctoral Fellowships (PDF) program and interested in joining Karas lab? If yes, please send your CV to [email protected] Details & eligibility: www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/Students-Etu...

Another bid day in K-lab. Congrats Jack Huang on successfully defending Master thesis and getting into Medical School at University of Toronto! 🎉

Excited to share that our lab is part of the @ARIA_uk Programmable Plants initiative! @ @westernu.bsky.social @schulichmeddent.bsky.social

Fantastic Synthetic Biology postdoc opportunity!

Check out this Symbiogenesis Seminar Series, an online event focused on symbiogenesis.

Our newest preprint. Congrats to Emma Walker and all authors in collaboration @thomasmock.bsky.social 🔹 Fast electroporation & PEG methods 🔹Delivery of large episomes 🔹 DNA-free Cas9 editing 🔹 In vivo DNA assembly. #SynBio #Diatoms #CRISPR doi.org/10.1101/2024...

Happy First Day of Spring 🌸🌻🌺

Our new review just out @theplantjournal.bsky.social led by Yixuan Li and in collaboration with @karaslab.bsky.social Genetic engineering in diatoms: advances and prospects doi.org/10.1111/tpj....

I am looking for a few team members to join our lab at Western University for an exciting new project focused on creating enhanced plant chloroplast genomes. I am looking to hire: 2 Postdoctoral Fellows 1 PhD Student Additional information is posted here: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Changes to MSc, PhD and postdoc funding programs from 🇨🇦 tri councils. Harmonization across councils, more awards, and new eligibility for international PhD and postdoc applicants!

Newest preprint from our lab. Congratulations to all authors!