Off to Shanghai with my colleague Esteban Martínez for joining the organizing team of the upcoming CSH-Asia Pseudomonas SynBio hands-on Course in Suzhou and running 2 weeks of intense science with a bunch of international students www.csh-asia.org?content/2645

What a nice way to come back to office and start the new academic year! Happy to share that the first article of mine and Güniz Özer Bergman’s PhDs has been published. doi.org/10.1016/j.ti... #synbio #microbialbiosensors #technologytransfer

We are hiring for a funded PhD in design of cross- and multi-species genetic circuits. #PhD #synbio #crossspecies #multispecies #biocomputing #circuits #pathways @inrae-france.bsky.social @parissaclay.bsky.social Details here: www.cellularcomputing.team/joinus/

✨ Over the coming weeks, get to know better the members of our society with our #EUSynBioMembers series! 🧬 This week we're introducing our Board members — who they are, what they do inside and outside the lab, and what drives their interest in #SynBio! 👉 linkedin.com/feed/update/...

🧬 Our own Catarina Almeida represented the next generation of #SynBio leaders at #Asilomar2025! Commemorating 50 years since the first meeting, this summit tackled biosafety, AI-driven biotech & SynBio ethics. 👉 Read more: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/... 📸GoodEye Photography

🧬🤖⁣ We've been featured in the European Biotechnology magazine in an article exploring the intersection of #AI and #SyntheticBiology! 👇 Want to read the full issue and engage in the conversation? Check it out here! www.linkedin.com/posts/eusynb... @gnevot.xyz

🌸 Spring is around the corner, and so is a colorful edition of our #newsletter, being released on Monday March 10th! This month’s theme will be #colours & #dyes and their applications #SyntheticBiology! 👉 Sign up now to get it straight to your inbox www.eusynbios.org/subscribe-ne...

El equipo de @marcguellc.bsky.social (MELIS-@upf.edu) desarrolla un kit para que la bacteria C. acnes produzca antioxidantes para combatir problemas cutáneos respondiendo a estrés oxidativo causado por la radiación UV. Los coautores son @gnevot.xyz y Javier Santos. ➕👇

✨ We are thrilled to introduce our 2025 Advisory Board after our bi-annual meeting!⁣ 🧬 We are grateful these leading #SynBio scientist are guiding and suppporting the #EUSynBioS mission. 👉 Want to know more? www.linkedin.com/feed/update/... #SyntheticBiology

@marcguellc.bsky.social's team at [email protected] has designed a kit of eleven genetic tools for C. acnes to secrete therapeutic compounds to combat skin problems. 📰It has been reported in @cp-cellsystems.bsky.social with @gnevot.xyz and Javier Santos as first co-authors. Read more👇 tuit.cat/Yc5dZ

Un estudi de @gnevot.xyz, Javier Santos i @marcguellc.bsky.social (MELIS-@upf.edu ) desenvolupa un conjunt d’eines genètiques que modifiquen el bacteri C. acnes per combatre problemes cutanis. ✅És un primer pas per desenvolupar cremes terapèutiques de llarga durada. ➕👇

@synbio4allafrica.bsky.social #PlantSynBio education project will enable local students to sequence a native plant species and gain hands-on research and data analysis skills. They’ve secured ~76% of their microgrant. Now they need our help to cross the finish line: experiment.com/projects/exp...

@synbio4allafrica.bsky.social 's new project tries to explore a new realm at the intersection of plant synbio and biodiversity. With this small grant, we aim to uncover a new plant genome with students attending the course!

Just spent three days at Asilomar reflecting on the stories we tell ourselves and the patterns we fall back into. On the thought terminating cliches of “public engagement” of science: open.substack.com/pub/oscillat...

Honored to be elected as a Fellow of the #American Academy of #Microbiology! This recognition reflects the incredible work of my past and present collaborators, students, and mentors. Deep gratitude to my nominators and the microbiology community for their support!🏆🌈

Molecular mechanisms at the heart of modern Synthetic Biology inspire stunning choreographies at Asilomar—an unforgettable after-dinner social event! 👏

Fantastic new tool published in @acs.org pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/... Huge, user-friendly repository of bio-produced chemicals with titre, yield & rate data by species. Searchable & browseable www.synbiohealth.cn/biotry/

#SyntheticBiology can transform industries and health, boost economies, and tackle societal challenges. Our new paper synthesises findings of over 60 experts who met regularly in 2023-24 to explore opportunities, challenges, and policy needs. 📄 Read here: oe.cd/5W1 #synbio #biotech #emergingtech

🚀 Join the #EUSynBioS Steering Committee! 🧬 Passionate about #SyntheticBiology? Based in #Europe? Help grow our community! We are opening new positions, check them out & apply here 👉 linkedin.com/feed/update/... #SynBio #ScienceCommunication #Policy

"Genes are... the easy part" @philipcball.bsky.social argues biologists need to embrace complexity from the start, rather than beginning with oversimplified "one gene, one trait" models +1 www.cell.com/cell-systems...

Preprint alert🚨Systematic #engineering of synthetic serine cycles in #Pseudomonas putida uncovers emergent topologies for #methanol assimilation · @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social led by Òscar Puiggené #SynBio #Methylotrophy #CircularEconomy www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Sequence clustering confounds AlphaFold2 | Nature https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08267-2

A quick reminder: if CheckM reports an assembly as <100% complete and >0% contaminated, that doesn't necessarily mean it's incomplete or contaminated. Here are RefSeq's CheckM results for a genome I'm confident is 100% complete and 0% contaminated.

Which universities have the most retracted articles - and the highest retraction rates? For @nature.com, here's a first-of-its-kind analysis of retractions by institutions. Full details in the story. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Excited to see this projecte developing so greatly! We published an interview with Javier Santos a couple of years ago about the #skindev kick-off ellipse.prbb.org/skindev-a-sy... and are very proud and happy to see how far it's gone! Congrats @gnevot.xyz and all those involved!

We're also excited about C. acnes!!! 🎉

C. acnes is the most abundant bacterium on human skin. But what if we could make it the smarterst? 🦠✨ In our new @cellpress.bsky.social #CellSystems study, we programmed C. acnes to actively protect the skin for therapeutic applications! 🛡️ authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

Are you based in Europe and interested in #SciCom and #SynBio? At @eusynbios.org we are looking for you to join our team!

🚨 Join us as an Instagram Content Creator! Passionate about #SyntheticBiology and/or #ScienceCommunication? Join us to help grow our online community! Interested? 👇 Check our website for full details and how to apply! eusynbios.org/instagram-co... #ContentCreator #Instagram

A priviledge to work with this amazing team!

My own opinion is that it's good to signal (through words and/or actions) the virtues that you value; that's one of the most important parts of maintaining a healthy community.

Considering starting a spin-off based on your #synbio discoveries? 💡 The EU-funded SYNBEE project supports #entrepreneurship by helping synthetic biology professionals turn their ideas into impactful solutions across Europe. Learn more 👇

Not only environmental bioremediation but also health and agriculture are here at play. Thus, the importance of bringing this discussions back.

In one year, I genetically engineered the boring Arabidopsis into a beautiful ornamental flower 🧬🌹 Here is how and why I gave this model organism a visual upgrade 🧵(1/7)

Before I write my own analysis script, does anyone in #tbsky have a tool for pathway analysis for Mtb genes?

Open-ended molecular recording of sequential cellular events into DNA doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Synbio across environmental scales! By @ricardsole.bsky.social et al. doi.org/10.1021/acss...

I miss the possibility to follow back everyone following me in 🦋 these days. So many cool scientists 😱

New paper from the lab out in Cell Systems. “Spatiotemporal dynamics during niche remodeling by super-colonizing microbiota in the mammalian gut” www.cell.com/cell-systems...

Thrilled to share the pAblo·pCasso toolset for unconstrained cytidine/adenine-base editing in #bacteria led by Ekaterina Kozaeva w/Zach Nielsen & Manu Nieto-Domínguez @LabNikel @DTUBiosustain @NAR_Open #SynBio #OpenAccess #CRISPR academic.oup.com/nar/advance-...

Recognizing burnout as simultaneously a societal, workplace-specific, and individual problem “reminds me of the idea of sociology as a form of ‘un-gaslighting’: it helps you understand that if your problems are the result of structural forces, then you’re not the only one dealing with them.”

The strain on scientific publishing 📄: We've got issues. Scientists overwhelmed, editors overworked, constant special issue invites, mass article retractions, journal delistings… JUST WHAT IS GOING ON!? See: arxiv.org/abs/2309.15884 A 🧵1/n #AcademicChatter #PublishOrPerish #PhDAdvice #PhDChat

Happy to join the team to push fwd the #bugsigdb initiative, a community-led db by Levi Waldron, Curtis Huttenhower & Nicola Segata bugsigdb.org/Main_Page *starting w/ the outreachy project www.outreachy.org/apply/projec... where interns will curate published microbial signatures #MicrobiomeSky