I’m a mentor to the high school KhanLab-BayArea @iGEM. They made #engineeredlivingmaterials with advice from me @kelsey DeFrates @jingjieyeo.bsky.social @cheveran.bsky.social The team earned a Gold Medal and were nominated for a special award. Thanks to @NSF for supporting this broader impact.

Cement, brick, and metal use are responsible for more than half of the carbon dioxide emissions from the construction sector, and the sector’s carbon footprint could exceed the annual carbon budget, according to an analysis in Communications Earth & Environment. go.nature.com/4op0VZR 🧪

Congrats to University of California, San Francisco Health Innovations Via Engineering professor Kyle Cromer on receiving the #NIH New Innovator award! After @kelseyhcollins.bsky.social last year #engineers @UCSf are on a roll. lnkd.in/guas9HWN

I've been following the field of biosensors for nearly 2 decades. This may well turn out to be the most important advance yet erictopol.substack.com/p/biosensors...

I'm pleased to participate in the @exploratorium.bsky.social and SHPE Engineering Day, Saturday Sept. 27. Gissell Jimenez from my lab will also be doing a demonstration of her working looking at how cells deep inside a material get their nutrients. www.exploratorium.edu/visit/calend...

Please repost! We have an open rank, tenure-line faculty position in biomechanics in the School of Kinesiology at the University of Michigan Ann Arbor. At U-M we have great colleagues, exceptional resources, and biomechanics can be found all across the campus. #BiomechSky

Another #UCSF Orthopaedics Research Retreat on a perfect day at the #presidio so lucky to have such an amazing team

Congrats to Natasha hunt for passing her qualifying exam!

Commensal taxa in gut microbiota limit antibiotic resistance during extended oral antibiotic use https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.13.670183v1

Pleased to release this preprint with @elcyphert-phd.bsky.social and many others. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Some journals are claiming that you need to pay big $$ for gold open access to comply with NIH's new public access policy. FYI that is total bs. You can comply by depositing the Accepted Manuscript into PubMed Central on the Date of Publication without embargo. Pass it on.

I wonder how many more microbial produced molecules regulate disease throughout the body, especially in musculoskeletal tissues.

The Xue lab at UC Irvine is looking for a staff scientist to support our work investigating how microbes interact and evolve in the gut microbiome! Open to a wide range of previous experience levels, see ad for more. recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF09601

Engineered Living Materials will change the world. Want to be in the room where it happened? Submit your abstract to the meeting today (due July 22). www.linkedin.com/posts/marimi...

Where did you take your @asbmr.bsky.social swag this summer?

We're hiring for 2 postdocs to work in our lab in London on the newly announced Wellcome Trust SynHG project. If you know people looking to work on big-scale ambitious science like this, please RT and share this with them. Apply by 7/20, interviews in Aug. imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...

I’m proud of Natasha Hunt who presented her work at the Benioff Center for Microbiome Medicine Annual Retreat

Great talk by Cater Wilder at the UC wide bioengineering meeting

Great talk by Cater Wilder at the UC wide bioengineering meeting

What a great story about @cheveran.bsky.social and her team! www.cnn.com/2025/04/30/s...

Another PhD from the Hernandez Research Group! Congrats Dr. Chongshan Cleo Liu

Hernandez Research Group party this year featured tacos and a close look at a Cybertruck

Want to do a #postdoc? Did you know more faculty jobs go to people who postdoc in slightly different subject area? doi.org/10.1073/pnas... Are you an expert in #microbiome OR #osteoarthritis? How'd you like to join me and @kelseyhcollins.bsky.social as we figure out how the two are connected?

Physical mechanisms that enable bacteria to traverse channels half their width https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.07.642077v1

Wow what a great visit to Washington University in St Louis. Thank you #MuscloskeletalResearchCenter students and postdocs for the invite! Thanks @settonlab.bsky.social for the engineering school tour. @mcalinden-lab.bsky.social @simonytanglab.bsky.social

Congrats to Samuel Stephen who was just awarded a UC Postdoctoral Fellowship! I was lucky to recruit Sam to the lab last year. He's got big plans to revolutionize bone

In the future engineers will use cells, proteins and DNA the way they currently use gears and circuits. This April we start this effort in the US with a workshop of scientists and engineers using biology to make materials for buildings and commercial devices. synbio.rice.edu/2025-elm-wor...

2025 lab retreat this year included discussion of “Outlive” by Peter Attia, and sea lions on the rainiest day of the year in San Francisco

Love this!! 🙌🏻 Depts with upcoming searches, don’t miss these amazing future PIs!

Mitochondria are just the gut bacteria of cells.

Really a great thread detailing how you deal with unexpected findings! Great work @jboerckel.bsky.social @amilangscience.bsky.social

Congrats @thehopefulscie1.bsky.social - great way to wrap up the year! Don’t miss this high value study profiling systemic metabolomic changes with OA and weight loss from the IDEA trial - great insights into OA as a systemic metabolic disease, with important insight on sex differences 👏🏻

An interesting article about the Ivory Tower

People sometimes make fun of science that sounds stupid and random. Meanwhile, a study of lizard saliva turned into a peptide medication, which was turned into a diabetes medication, which was turned into a GLP1 weight loss drug, that just became the first therapy every approved for … sleep apnea

Really an outstanding paper

🚨 We’re Hiring! 🚨 Join the Molinari Lab @UMD_BioE as a Postdoctoral Associate or Staff Scientist and help shape the future of engineered living materials! 💡🔬 📅 Apply today by sending your CV and cover letter at [email protected] #syntheticbiology #ELMs

When the earthquake 230miles away fouls up your force displacement curve

How do you cell living cells into rigid materials? Tomorrow im speaking on Engineered Living Materials at #F24MRS in a session w @meyerroc.bsky.social @saramol.bsky.social and others stop by or we can chat after @materials-mrs.bsky.social

Molinari Lab @UMDBIOE is looking for graduate students! Find out more about our exciting research on Engineered Living Materials 🧫 at molinari.umd.edu Apply here to the BIOE PhD Program bioe.umd.edu/graduate and mention your interest in the lab in your statement! 👩🏻‍🔬

Interesting and promising! 👉 At a time when synthetic #plastic has polluted nearly every corner of the globe and appeared in food and in the human body, Northeastern researchers have developed a plastic that dissolves in #water 🧪 #plasticpollution #plasticwaste www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The 2024-2025 BME TT Faculty jobs list has 122 positions. #FacultySearch #BME #BMEJobsList Add a job: forms.gle/HPzAKkS1x44t... Jobs list: ericaprattlab.com/bme_jobs_list/

I’m a scientist who studies #musculoskeletal disease. Musculoskeletal diseases are among the most common of the #chronicdisease in the US. Chronic disease accounts for 90% of health care costs in the US. 1/1 www.cdc.gov/chronic-dise...