My choice among New Biotechnology articles as the Editor-in-chief this month is contributed by Jan Maarten van Dijl et al. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... New Biotechnology (IF=4.9) is the official journal of European Federation of Biotechnology & Asian Federation of Biotechnology (AFOB)

#SynBYSS Thur 10 am Chicago time 180th, Nov 13 (Noon CT): Prof Marc Güell at UPF & Dr Justin Panich at Berkeley Lab @marcguellc.bsky.social @berkeleylab.lbl.gov 181st or 2nd, Nov 20: Dr Robert Barry at NIBIB, NIH & Dr Rebecca Wilkes at NREL Zoom link for the audience: us02web.zoom.us/j/88380504839

Senate votes to end shutdown as Chuck Schumer faces criticism "The Senate voted Monday night to pass a funding bill to end the longest government shutdown in U.S. history." www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

"Hamilton Smith obituary: molecular biologist who co-discovered precise molecular scissors for cutting DNA" by Craig Venter in Nature. Nature Portfolio. We recently lost another Nobel laureate who has worked in J. Craig Venter Institute. @jcvi.org @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Although it's the 9th day with 3h sleep/day in a row, I've been refreshed by colleagues, future leaders, Shakespeare & Harry Potter. See Alex et al. at U Warwick for 2d to discuss our NSF Global Center. I finished 2 reports to ONR & USDA by waking up at 2 am, so It's a huge breakfast time @jcvi.org

Shakespeare's birth place & his statue in Stratford-upon-Avon. It took 6h by 4 trains & 2 buses from Heathrow Airport. It is always challenging and takes time and effort to obtain creative inspiration and valuable things. I feel creativity!

"James Watson: DNA pioneer censured for offensive race remarks dies" I missed the news yesterday although I was in the UK where the USA-born scientist discovered DNA structure with other scientists, including Rosalind Franklin who couldn't share it for this discovery. news.sky.com/story/scient...

Royal Observatory Greenwich where the Prime Meridian divides Eastern & Western Hemisphere: a remnant of the glorious Great Britain. As a flower doesn't last forever, a kingdom doesn't. Our leaders not learning from history? Often, accelerating the falling. England, USA & then which nation? Martian?

Fantastic paper by XIAOJUN TIAN et al. in Cell by Cell Press. He met a Cell editor at the 1st #SynBYSS conference in Hawaii, encouraged by the editor. Congrats, a great accomplishment. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Love Actually, perfect movie to watch in the current situations: between USA & the world, the government & people, Boston & London, and now and Christmas. In London, arriving from Boston by red eye flight, to continue my 15 day seminar trip. See you all! m.youtube.com/shorts/X-PeH...

Dinner & Lunch with future #synbio leaders after visiting Peng Yin, Church, Silver at Harvard U. & Kris Prather, Jim Collins & Chris Voigt labs at Massachusetts Institute of Technology Thanks to these passionate and bright young researchers, our future is bright although the situation is dark now.

Having lunch with future #synbio leaders, who are also #SynBYSS rising star speakers, after visiting Wyss Institute at Harvard University

#SynBYSS webinar series welcomes Dr Michelle Muzzio, Editor-in-Chief of Chem Circularity by Cell Press & Prof Marjan De Mey at Ghent U as the 253rd & 254th pioneer speakers. Thanks! 499 speakers, including 245 rising stars, 6 Cell Press editors & 6 Nature Portfolio editors. @cellpress.bsky.social

Costas Maranas is giving an amazing talk, receiving an award. Congrats, Costas! AIChE - American Institute of Chemical Engineers

Honor to celebrate Greg Stephanopoulos' 75th birthday and the #aiche2025 session. Happy birthday to Greg, and thank you for your vision and leadership in Metabolic Engineering!

Jay Keasling is giving an amazing talk at #aiche2025 session celebrating Greg Stephanopoulos' 75th birthday AIChE - American Institute of Chemical Engineers @jbei.lbl.gov

Congrats, Mark Blenner, getting the AIChE - American Institute of Chemical Engineers Langer Prize!

Mattheos Koffas is giving an amazing talk at the session celebrating Greg Stephanopoulos' 75th birthday at AIChE - American Institute of Chemical Engineers ##aiche2025

Brian Davison, the next president of AIChE - American Institute of Chemical Engineers is giving a fantastic talk at the session celebrating Greg Stephanopoulos' 75th birthday.

#aiche2025 session for celebrating Prof. Greg Stephanopoulos' 75th birthday. AIChE - American Institute of Chemical Engineers Congrats and thank you, Greg! Thank Mattheos Koffas for organizing the great sessions!

My 15-day trip started with red eye flight. Attending #aiche2025 & #synbioUK & visiting BU, MIT, 2 Cell Press & 2 Nature Portfolio editors, Imperial College, U. Warwick & Queen Mary U. London. After submitting 2 proposals & 1 paper, it's time to enjoy my trip! See you soon! @biochemsoc.bsky.social

#SynBYSS seminar with Prof. Christopher Dupont at J. Craig Venter Institute & Dr. Michael Cory at Harvard Medical School @jcvi.org @harvardmed.bsky.social The talk video link is below: www.youtube.com/watch?v=s59g...

#SynBYSS seminar, Thur 10 am Chicago time 179th, Oct 30: Prof Chris Dupont @jcvi.org & Dr Michael Cory @harvard.edu 180th, Nov 13 (note "Noon" CT): Prof Marc Güell at UPF & Dr Justin Panich @berkeleylab.lbl.gov @marcguellc.bsky.social Zoom link for the audience: us02web.zoom.us/j/88380504839

Prof. Hamilton Smith at J. Craig Venter Institute, a Nobel laureate for discovering type II restriction enzymes, passed away last night. @jcvi.org @nobelprize.bsky.social A huge loss in Science, but his legacy will be remembered. www.jcvi.org/about/hamilt...

An event honoring late Prof. Clyde Hutchison at J. Craig Venter Institute @jcvi.org

#SynBYSS webinar series welcomes Prof. Juliane Nguyen at U. North Carolina, Chapel Hill as the 252nd pioneer speaker, thanks! Our series has continued for ~50 months since Aug 26, 2021 with 496 speakers, including 244 rising star speakers! Thank speakers & audience for making our success together.

Active learning or computational algorithms can accelerate drug discovery. In Science. @science.org Active learning framework leveraging transcriptomics identifies modulators of disease phenotypes | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

#SynBYSS seminar with Dr. Tanja Woyke, a Deputy Director of User programs at DOE Joint Genome Institute & Prof. Archana Anand at San Francisco State University @jgi.doe.gov @departmentofenergy.bsky.social @sfsu.bsky.social The talk video link is below: www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVY2...

#SynBYSS seminar, Thur 10 am US Chicago time 178th, Oct 23: Dr Tanja Woyke at U.S. DOE JGI & Prof Archana Anand at SFSU. @jgi.doe.gov 179th, Oct 30: Prof Chris Dupont at JCVI & Dr Michael Cory at Harvard Medical @jcvi.org @harvard.edu Zoom link for the audience: us02web.zoom.us/j/88380504839

Interesting paper by Prof. Marjan De Mey et al. in New Biotechnology, the official journal of European Federation of Biotechnology & Asian Federation of Biotechnology (AFOB) @elsevierconnect.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Dr. George Chao at the George Church lab of Harvard Medical School is giving a talk at J. Craig Venter Institute @jcvi.org @harvard.edu

Having an opportunity is something like catching sunset moments or getting freshly baked croissant. It repeats, but is short. It often requires passive waiting or active seeking. We can bake our opportunity. Sunset happens everywhere, though I've the privilege to see a pretty one if I wish. 1/n

Interesting work on engineered living materials in Science Advances. Bacterially grown living materials with resistant and on-demand functionality | Science Advances @science.org @proftomellis.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

#SynBYSS seminar with Dr. Tammy Collins, a program officer at Burroughs Wellcome Fund, and Elena Musteata at Rice University @bwfund.bsky.social The talk video link is below (recorded on March 6, 2025, but released now in response to the speakers' request): www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSzJ...

Life is tough & research life is tougher, especially nowadays. We may feel like free falling everyday with no parachute but sometimes feel peace or excitement when a review process ends up paper acceptance or proposal selection. It's the joyful hiatus that makes us keep going. Let's endure together!

Call for papers from Critical Insights in Biotechnology where I serve as a senior editor think.taylorandfrancis.com/article_coll... think.taylorandfrancis.com/article_coll... think.taylorandfrancis.com/article_coll... think.taylorandfrancis.com/article_coll... @tandfresearch.bsky.social

#SynBYSS seminar with Dr. Pablo Rabinowicz at U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Biological and Environmental Research (BER) & Prof. George Jiaozhi Lu at Rice University The talk video link is below: www.youtube.com/watch?v=onZq...

I am volunteering for MIT outreach to help explain the institute for prospective students who want to get in. @mitpress.bsky.social

#BMES has amazing panelists, discussing the future of Biomedical Engineering. Biomedical Engineering Society

#SynBYSS welcomes Lars Friberg at Vinnova as the 251st pioneer speaker, thanks! The community grows to have 494 speakers: 1 Nobel Laureate, 26 National Academy Members, 45 funding directors, 20 Editors-in-chief, 11 Nature/Cell journal editors, and 243 rising stars! @jcvi.org @vinnova.bsky.social

This is why I am proud of being an alum of Massachusetts Institute of Technology and optimistic about the future of the United States. The New York Times @mitpress.bsky.social @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

Maria Corina Machado Nobel Peace Prize 2025 “for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy” which is what we need nowadays www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace...

#SynBYSS webinar with Prof. Leonardo Rios at University College London & Prof. Gita Naseri at Humboldt University of Berlin @ucl.ac.uk @humboldtuni.bsky.social The talk video link is below: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrvK...

The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2025 is awarded to the Hungarian author László Krasznahorkai, “for his compelling and visionary oeuvre that, in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art”. www.nobelprize.org/prizes/liter...

This is my first participation in Biomedical Engineering Society despite my almost 30 years of experience in research. #BMES2025 begins!

#SynBYSS Thur 10 am USA CT 176th, Oct 9: Prof Leonardo Rios at UCL & Prof Gita Naseri at Humboldt U. of Berlin, Germany @ucl.ac.uk @gitanaseri.bsky.social 177th, Oct 14 (Note Tue, 10am): Dr Pablo Rabinowicz at DOE BER & Prof George Lu at Rice U Zoom for audience: us02web.zoom.us/j/88380504839

Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2025 to Susumu Kitagawa Kyoto University, Japan Richard Robson University of Melbourne, Australia Omar M. Yaghi University of California, Berkeley, USA “for the development of metal–organic frameworks” www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemi...

Call for papers Yeast Synthetic Biology – Rodrigo Ledesma-Amaro think.taylorandfrancis.com/article_coll... Emerging Biotechnological approaches to Waste Valorisation – Elia Tomás Pejó think.taylorandfrancis.com/article_coll... Due: Dec 31, No fee if submitted by it @tandfresearch.bsky.social

Nobel Prize in Physics 2025 to John Clarke UC Berkeley Michel H. Devoret Yale University John M. Martinis UC Santa Barbara “for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling and energy quantisation in an electric circuit” www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physi...

6 October 2025 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine to: Mary E. Brunkow Institute for Systems Biology, Seattle, USA Fred Ramsdell Sonoma Biotherapeutics, San Francisco, USA Shimon Sakaguchi Osaka University, Osaka, Japan www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medic...