Ismar Miniel Mahfoud

Cell/mol/synthetic/micro biologist and designer. Living materials, pattern formation, pretty colors and alchemy(cloning). Ph.D. Candidate @keitzlab @utaustin

[Ismar Miniel Mahfoud @IsmarButSerious]

Happy to add another journal cover to my portfolio, but mostly excited for everyone to read about @GinaPartipilo’s creative application of microfluidics for rapid screening of electroactive bacteria

[AppEnvMicro journal @AppEnvMicro]

⚡️An electrifying start to the New Year! Check out the January issue of AEM, featuring a dynamic cover by artist Ismar Miniel. @TexasCHE and @ut_caee researchers describe the use of microdroplet emulsion sorting to identify new electroactive bacteria⚡️

https://t.co/ibvazbOnYg

[Ismar Miniel Mahfoud @IsmarButSerious]

@GinaPartipilo @KeitzLab @LabAlper Thanks, Gina! Amazing job on the paper, so impressed with you and Emily’s work!

[bioRxiv Synthetic Biology @bioRxiv_synbio]

A Linear Mixed Effects Model for Evaluating Synthetic Gene Circuits https://t.co/0UbVXvD0B8 #biorxiv_synbio

[Contreras Group at UT @Contreras_Lab]

We thrilled to share our latest work in @NatureComms, led by @TrevorRSimmons, in which we rewired CsrA to build designer post-transcriptional genetic circuits. Our approach supports the idea of co-opting native networks for complex bacterial computation. https://t.co/qSC2WkxF9u

[Contreras Group at UT @Contreras_Lab]

We are excited to share our latest preprint, led by @matsuri_rojano & @TrevorRSimmons, in which we identify concentration dependent regulation of CsrA on a novel mRNA target and repurpose this interaction to build a genetic BANDPASS Filter. https://t.co/j2wGfAI4nK #WhatStartsHere

[Ismar Miniel Mahfoud @IsmarButSerious]

So surreal to see my image on the cover of Nature Chemical Biology! Shoutout to @GinaPartipilo and @austinjgraham for leading a great project and all of the @KeitzLab members who made it possible. #sciart

[Nature Chemical Biology @nchembio]

Our October issue is live!

https://t.co/P07qf59pPG

The cover depicts an engineered living material with controllable mechanical properties: Bacteria (orange) embedded in a hydrogel are programmed to control the expression of MtrC which regulates microbial respiration

[Gina Partipilo @GinaPartipilo]

So excited to see our Point of View in eLife come out today! https://t.co/JRkP5TNyd7

[Verena Resch @luminous_lab]

Today's render stays with the #Olympic2024 theme and is featuring precious metals: a RNA duplex containing C-Au-C base pair.

Structure: pdb 7EDU
Rendered with @Blender

#sciart #gold

[Verena Resch @luminous_lab]

Speed-run through styling a protein in @Blender

It contains quite a bit of trial and error, but this is how designing works for me. I have a vision in mind, but the final outcome is often quite different 😅

#sciart #render

[Brady Johnston @bradyajohnston]

I forgot to mention also - you can install from within Blender. No more need to download anything externall. Download and update from within Blender 4.2

[Brady Johnston @bradyajohnston]

I have been working like absolute crazy over the past two months for this - #MolecularNodes 4.2 is now released for #b3d 4.2

A huge number of new features - which I will cover some here.

- Selections using @mdanalysis selection language are updated live.

[Olivier Borkowski @O_Borkowski]

Colony pattern development of a synthetic bistable switch
https://t.co/FUWwTGqYb9

[Ismar Miniel Mahfoud @IsmarButSerious]

Very excited for #SEED2024 next week! Come find me at poster 104 during Tuesday’s poster session!

[Olivier Borkowski @O_Borkowski]

Investigation of artificial cells containing the Par system for bacterial plasmid segregation and inheritance mimicry
https://t.co/OLisFIL7eV

[Oded Rechavi @OdedRechavi]

When you come to split cells in the lab during a weekend

[ACS Synthetic Bio @ACSSynBio]

Our #WeekendReading suggestion for you today is this Review article:

Advances of Bacterial Biomaterials for Disease Therapy ➡️ https://t.co/td0iBB0oWP

Thanks to Lin Zhai, Laiying Fu, Wei Wei, and Diwei Zheng for their insightful work!

#biomaterials #metabolicengineering

[Brady Johnston @bradyajohnston]

Just released a new #MolecularNodes version. A bunch of bug fixes, but two new features after multiple requests in some recent workshops.

- Panel to download from the #AlphaFold database
- Quickly change styles by right clicking

#b3d #GeometryNodes

[Keitz Lab @KeitzLab]

In this work, we investigate EET as a modulator of engineered living materials and use bacterial logic to actuate changes the abiotic environment.

[Keitz Lab @KeitzLab]

We're so excited to see @AustinJGraham and @GinaPartipilo 's work published!
Transcriptional regulation of living materials via extracellular electron transfer.
https://t.co/IiW6FHgHxt