New in #PhilTransB - a theme issue exploring one of science’s deepest questions: how life can emerge from non-living matter. Edited by @ricardsole.bsky.social and colleagues. Read: buff.ly/7iz4tGu

How dit life originate in our planet? How can we create it in the lab?Our @royalsocietypublishing.org Theme Issue "Origins of Life: the possible and the actual", coedited with @sfiscience.bsky.social C Kempes and Susan Stepney is out! royalsocietypublishing.org/toc/rstb/202... @manlius.bsky.social

Pleased to share that our review on 'Reconstituting alternative life using the test-bed of cell-free systems' is now out in the Phil Trans B special issue on ‘Origins of life: the possible and the actual’. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

Four leading researchers on bacterial computing in the @femsmicro.org Workshop on the the topic during the Congress—quite amazing talks by @angelgm.bsky.social, Yolanda Schaerli, Manish Kushwaha & Samgram Bagh. Do bacteria compute? Can we make them to compute wth our logic or do they have their own?

#FEMS2025 kicks off in just 2 days 🚀✨ Now is the perfect time to explore the FEMS MICRO app and start building your personalised onsite agenda 📅✅ Flag your favourite sessions ⭐️, identify must-see speakers 🎤, and plan your day 🗺️ to make the most of every moment ⏳ buff.ly/nN0DaPL

Next in Lab's conference agenda: FEMS @femsmicro.org! @vdlorenzo.bsky.social and myself are running a session on bacterial computation. Talks by @yschaerli.bsky.social, @manishmicrobe.bsky.social, Sangram Bagh & organisers. Very looking forward to it! #biocomputation #synbio

Two days of excellent discussions with @ceronifranci.bsky.social and Luca Ciandrini. So great to have them visit.

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/

On the way back from Abhinav's thesis defense. It's been great to follow this project from start. Congrats to the new doctor, and to his supervisor @manishmicrobe.bsky.social The main paper from the thesis (so far...) 👇

Very happy to share our newly published work! We engineered phages for intercellular communication in multicellular consortia and integrated it with CRISPR-based gene regulation for biocomputing. Congratulations to @astrikusuma.bsky.social @dmf-unil.bsky.social @fbm-unil.bsky.social rdcu.be/ehORO

Keep an eye out for the Special Sessions of the European Academy of Microbiology this July at FEMS2025 fems-microbiology.org/eam-sessions... ! Do not miss the one on bacterial computation, featuring top experts @angelgm.bsky.social, Manish Kushwaha, Yolanda Schaerli, and Sangram Bagh!

This is a great review on using nanopores to sequence proteins. Out today. It covers how nanopores work, why they haven't historically been able to sequence individual proteins, and how researchers are adapting them to solve those problems. Clear writing throughout.

Experimental evolution of evolvability | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

🚀 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

Massive upgrade to our preprint "Reprogramming genetic circuits using space": mathematical modeling, time-based experiments, new functions, more supplementary material... We're thrilled about this work and hope you enjoy it! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

1/ Hello BlueSky world -- my first post is about a new study from the lab, just published in @nchembio.bsky.social. We demonstrate how population-level gene regulation can be dynamically controlled and amplified using programmable gene transfer. Link to paper: doi.org/10.1038/s415...

How can we model the emergent complexity of microbial ecosystems? How do you do the maths & predict their dynamics, from the gut & the soil to the biosphere? Here's a great review paper in @natureecoevo.bsky.social. @vmaull.bsky.social @saramitri.bsky.social nature.com/articles/s41...

Our latest work on Biocomputation in Bacterial Consortia is out in Nucleic Acids Research 😀. In a process we term "intercellular CRISPRi", filamentous phages transmit DNA messages from sender to receiver cells to regulate gene expression by CRISPR interference. doi.org/10.1093/nar/...