Building Better Bugs

[Building Better Bugs @Smanski_Lab]

@UMN_BMBB , Congrats to the BMBB faculty award winners last night. The awards arrived on my doorstep during the banquet, but at least that gave time for one last photo-op. The glass blower must have been inspired by all of the talk of mirror life this year.

[Building Better Bugs @Smanski_Lab]

Scientists have birthed a ‘super cannibal’ that never grows up. Could it be key to combating Australia’s cane toad menace? https://t.co/bcxXfGaorZ

[Building Better Bugs @Smanski_Lab]

I sat down for a break during my morning walk at #ICE2024Kyoto and this guy started croaking at me. How appropriate.

[Building Better Bugs @Smanski_Lab]

Great lineup of speakers for #ICBE25. Students and postdocs can still submit abstracts to be a part of it. https://t.co/wL1UOMmWRG

[Shen Lab @lab_shen]

We are excited to finally publish the unprecedented biosynthetic origins of enediyne natural products: iodinated polyynes! This transformative discovery is a huge milestone for these clinical antitumor antibiotics. @Kalkreuter @guichun98 @nchembio
https://t.co/oRDfTcKEkn

[Building Better Bugs @Smanski_Lab]

@nicolebuan @EngBioRC @ArchaeaPowerHr Thanks for the invite. It was a great workshop, and I am excited to come back this summer. Look what followed me home!

[Building Better Bugs @Smanski_Lab]

AmberBio is hiring: https://t.co/iDpCSnEpVf. I highly recommend looking into it if you want to work at a fast-moving startup with a creative and impactful technology. @themicrobeguy

[Building Better Bugs @Smanski_Lab]

@SynBioNaut and colleagues are taking the term 'toxic masculinity' literally.

Recombinant venom proteins in insect seminal fluid reduces female lifespan https://t.co/UdZjq03Tfx

[Building Better Bugs @Smanski_Lab]

@MoKhalilLab Thanks for the short course Mo. Adding these to the reading list

[Building Better Bugs @Smanski_Lab]

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

[Building Better Bugs @Smanski_Lab]

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

[Maciej Maselko @SynBioNaut]

Very excited to share our preprint demonstrating that animals can be engineered to bioremediate methylmercury! Amazing work by @Dr__Tepper
https://t.co/TXQaqWZ8SK

[Building Better Bugs @Smanski_Lab]

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

[Building Better Bugs @Smanski_Lab]

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

[Building Better Bugs @Smanski_Lab]

Thanks @themicrobeguy for a great seminar on engineered trans-splicing. Great our alumni crushing it @umncbs

[Building Better Bugs @Smanski_Lab]

@NikoMcCarty that the UCA genome contains a message (i.e. the message evolved on Earth to create a species that could decipher it). You can fill in the details. Apologies if this story already exists and I am unintentionally ripping it off. (4/4)

[Building Better Bugs @Smanski_Lab]

@NikoMcCarty (ii) come up with the optimal compiler algorithm for storing digital information in DNA so that a DNA-based message can be sent out into space. The climax at the end is they end up realizing ... (3/4)

[Building Better Bugs @Smanski_Lab]

@pivotbio @karsten Great to see a UMN alum team up with an innovative and potentially transformative company. Good luck @pivotbio

[Building Better Bugs @Smanski_Lab]

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

[Basem Al-Shayeb, Ph.D. 🧬 @themicrobeguy]

🚨 Today, we’re thrilled to share our study expanding the gene editing toolbox to enable virtually any kind of edit in gene transcripts at the order of thousands of bases. A thread 🧵👇(1/n)

https://t.co/zA4EyAVHFQ