AmberBio is hiring: amber.bio/careers. I highly recommend looking into it if you want to work at a fast-moving startup with a creative and impactful technology. Basem Al-Shayeb, Ph.D. 🧬

Looking for a postdoc? We are currently hiring plant synthetic biologist to work on an exciting and collaborative DoE project.

Great work by Tepper, Maselko, et al. Fish that break down methylmercury!

Trick or treaters aren't letting me leave the building to go teach.

Minnesota is dressing up like Christmas for Halloween. I think I have seen this movie.

Thanks Basem Al-Shayeb, Ph.D. 🧬 for a great seminar on engineered trans-splicing. Great our alumni crushing it UMN CBS

Putting this on the summer reading list. Looks exciting Basem.

At high ratios of male-to-female, (i.e., ratios that are expected for many mosquito biocontrol approaches), the females are pestered to the point where they no longer blood-feed, improving the performance of the biocontrol in an interesting and unexpected way!

If you cannot explain something in simple terms, you don't understand it.

Nature's idea of an April Fools joke

I especially liked his blog on mouse models [nikomccarty.com/everything-wro…]. Making model organisms more predictive of the thing they are supposed to be modeling is a worthwhile goal of near-future Synthetic Biology (Engineering Biology?, what are we saying now?).

See Szu-Yi Campbell (nee Hsu)'s work on applying Design of Experiments to metabolic pathway engineering in Metabolic Engineering. Interesting and unexpected impact on colony morphology (Jihaeng Li) and simulations to extend results (Adam Sychla) authors.elsevier.com/a/1gilT3vNLuLd…

If you’re interested in working at the forefront of quantitative mammalian cell engineering, we’re hiring for all types of roles Asimov

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TIL, Scientists have estimated the total biomass potentially present in the oceans of Enceladus, a moon of Saturn, based on biogeochemical modeling. The answer is ~10,000 kg, or 'half of the mass of carbon in a typical baleen whale'. #absoluteUnits doi.org/10.3847/PSJ/ac…

This cuttlefish isn’t fooling anybody

The hydrophobic vs hydrophilic residues in ribbon structures are only visible after a sticky snowstorm. BTI UMN CBS

New report in Frontiers in Insect Science from Nate Feltman describing sequencing of >10,000 flies to identify target sites for CRISPR-mediated genetic biocontrol. Special thanks to our collaborators in the Hutchison Lab UMN Entomology Dept and funders MN Invasive Terrestrial Plants & Pests Center. frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…