Been hearing some horrifying chatter about dealing with the new #NIH common form and #ScienCV system, so I put together a short video with some tricks for mitigating some of those pain points.
Hope it helps? 🧪
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Check out the ASU News story highlighting our Cell paper, Using nature’s playbook to keep engineered cells on script news.asu.edu/20251110-sci...
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Excited to share our new Cell paper!
Liquid–liquid phase separation (LLPS) provides a powerful way to stabilize synthetic gene circuits by buffering growth-mediated dilution—adding a spatial layer of control beyond network design.
Grateful to all collaborators! www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
We’re Hiring Professor (all ranks) in Synthetic Biology and AI-Enabled Biodesign at the School of Biological and Health Systems Engineering, Arizona State University.📍 Tempe, Arizona
Apply here: apply.interfolio.com/175856
Our new NAR paper is out! We turned a recombinase-based negative feedback circuit into a combined feedback+feedforward controller with one promoter flip—tunable resource decoupling achieved. Congrats to our 3rd-year PhD student 🎉 academic.oup.com/nar/article/...
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🆕 Another preprint!
CRISPRi-linked multi-module negative feedback loops to combat winner-take-all dynamics from resource competition in gene circuits.
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#SynBio #CRISPRi #GeneCircuits #ResourceCompetition
🚨 New preprint!
We present Re-NF-FF-Controller—a compact strategy that integrates negative feedback and feedforward control via a single promoter flip to optimally decouple resource competition.
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#SynBio #GeneCircuits #ResourceCompetition
Latest report from a highly credible source. An SRO issuing study section guidance to not address the Diversity Plan or include it in the impact score for a mechanism that required the plan to be included.
If you’ve been directly impacted by a pause or cancellation of an NIH study session, we @forbes.com would like to talk to you
#UCLA QCbio qcb.ucla.edu is looking for a new director! recruit.apo.ucla.edu/JPF10007 Please share
Exciting post doc opportunity: we are seeking a post doc to work with us and @ProfTomEllis on large DNA engineering in mammalian cells funded by @ChanZuckerberg.
Come and join us at @ImperialChemEng!
Apply at the link below:
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Our new work demonstrated the idea of using a supplementary repressive link to enhance the synthetic gene circuit stability under growth feedback.
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Open position for a molecular biologist in a brand new sequencing lab at Achilles Therapeutics, a London-based biotech SME working on cancer immune therapies. If interested please get in touch! 👇
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Light-driven synchronization of optogenetic clocks www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.10....
Our Holobiont Research centre has 2 bioengineering postdoc places on offer, inc. a synthetic biology one in my group. Interested in engineering microbes to live within native communities and sense and record inputs? Then this job could be for you👇
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A three-node Turing gene circuit forms periodic spatial patterns in bacteria www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.10....