Megan McSweeney
@meganmcsweeney.bsky.social
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Synthetic biologist and biomolecular engineer. Postdoc @ Stanford BioE 🌲 PhD from Georgia Tech 🐝
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Megan McSweeney
Engineering Biology Research Consortium
3 months ago
Explore plant synthetic biology with Stanford’s Jenn Brophy
@jennbrophy.bsky.social
on EBRC In Translation. We discuss engineering genetic circuits in plants & microbes, lab sustainability, fostering the next gen of synthetic biologists, and championing diversity in science!
tinyurl.com/473b4dky
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EBRC In Translation
EBRC In Translation is a podcast working to bring you conversations with leaders in the world of Engineering Biology. The show is the official podcast of the Engineering Biology Research Consortium St...
https://tinyurl.com/473b4dky
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Arren J. Liu
3 months ago
The next
@ebrc.org
panel hosted by the Student and Postdoc Association is Sept 25! Re-post/share! 🧬 Are you a grad student thinking about pursuing a postdoc? 📺 Attend our panel to learn more about postdoc life and how to make the most of it! 🔗 Register here:
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Dr. Karmella Haynes
4 months ago
A recent AJC article covered how Georgia lawmakers want all public university syllabi to be made public, in line with a movement to keep classrooms free from what has been labeled as “woke.” I’ll save everyone the trouble; I am glad to share my syllabus openly.
www.ajc.com/education/20...
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Georgia's college faculty worry public syllabus rule could lead to harassment
The policy to make course syllabuses public is being partially implemented this semester. By next fall, every class offered by USG schools must have its syllabus online.
https://www.ajc.com/education/2025/08/georgia-professors-fear-harassment-as-usg-requires-course-syllabus-made-public/
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Megan McSweeney
bioRxiv Synthetic Biology
5 months ago
A scalable cell-free manufacturing platform for two-step bioproduction of immunogenic conjugate vaccines
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.05.668792v1
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Megan McSweeney
Olivier Borkowski
5 months ago
How many plasmids can bacteria carry? A synthetic biology perspective
doi.org/10.1098/rsob...
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How many plasmids can bacteria carry? A synthetic biology perspective | Open Biology
Plasmids are pinnacle tools in synthetic biology and other biotechnological applications. They serve as the simplest approach to introduce recombinant DNA, which is then transcribed into RNA that func...
https://doi.org/10.1098/rsob.240378
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My first year participating in Bike to Work Day 🚴🏼♀️☀️ thanks
@stanford.edu
for the energizer stations
7 months ago
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Super cool CFPS engineering and scale-up to express and purify highly active T7 RNAP. Congrats to
@rochelleaw.bsky.social
and the rest of the team!
doi.org/10.1002/bit....
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Scalable Cell‐Free Production of Active T7 RNA Polymerase
The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic highlighted the urgent need for biomanufacturing paradigms that are robust and fast. Here, we demonstrate the rapid process development and scalable cell-free production of T7...
https://doi.org/10.1002/bit.28993
8 months ago
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Megan McSweeney
Georgia Tech College of Engineering
10 months ago
With a simple, flexible, no-equipment-needed platform, Georgia Tech chemical engineers in
@stygroupgt.bsky.social
are creating a new way to test for disease at home or in places where medical resources are limited.
b.gatech.edu/3XwFWsB
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Megan McSweeney
Stand Up for Science!
10 months ago
WHERE WILL YOU BE ON MARCH 7TH!? Head to
www.standupforscience2025.org/local-event-information/
or the link in our bio to find your closest event—or add one if you're hosting one!
#standupforscience2025
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I’m so happy that the major focus of my PhD is out! Very proud of what we accomplished here, and excited for the potential this tech has to enhance future point-of-care protein diagnostics.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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A modular cell-free protein biosensor platform using split T7 RNA polymerase
A split polymerase is used to develop a plug-and-play cell-free biosensor platform for point-of-care protein detection.
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.ado6280
10 months ago
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Megan McSweeney
Styczynski Research Group
10 months ago
Excited to share our work in Science Advances! TLISA is a plug-and-play cell-free protein biosensor system developed by
@meganmcsweeney.bsky.social
. We hope this technology is a stepping stone to expand protein detection at the point-of-care!
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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A modular cell-free protein biosensor platform using split T7 RNA polymerase
A split polymerase is used to develop a plug-and-play cell-free biosensor platform for point-of-care protein detection.
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.ado6280
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Tom Ellis
11 months ago
Amazing work from Farren Isaacs team at Yale - reducing E.coli's genetic code down to only using a single stop codon. A 62 codon GRO with lots of potential for applications.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Engineering a genomically recoded organism with one stop codon - Nature
Ochre, a strain of Escherichia coli engineered to have a single stop codon, enables reassignment of four codons for non-degenerate functions, such as incorporation of non-standard amino acids into pro...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08501-x
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Be sure to check out the next EBRC SPA panel this Jan 28th 💻 Share with anyone looking for tips on grad school interviews and choosing a lab
add a skeleton here at some point
11 months ago
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Megan McSweeney
Stanford Department of Bioengineering
about 1 year ago
View from the top—literally! A classic Hoover Tower sighting from the Shriram Center of Bioengineering & Chemical Engineering.
#iconic
#Stanford
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