Askar Kleefeldt

Synthetic biology + synthetic genomics + biosecurity | working on human + planetary health | prev PhD at Chin lab @MRC_LMB & @cambridge_uni

[Askar Kleefeldt @askarkleefeldt]

Writing a genome, quickly and at scale? 🧬

Incredibly excited to see this first part of my PhD work in the Chin lab out today @Nature: In a huge collaborative effort we developed continuous genome synthesis and methods to assemble megabase-scale human DNA. A🧵: 1/n

[Rongzhen Tian @RZTian_Alvin]

Excited to share - EcORep! Now you can simply electroporate a PCR product into E. coli and let the linear DNA replicate orthogonally in the cell. EcORep can be used to evolve proteins rapidly and continuously! https://t.co/jzIRnci3Jf

[Centre for the Study of Existential Risk @CSERCambridge]

Well done to @alexklein_, @g_dhaliwal1 & @askarkleefeldt for presenting their paper “Biosecurity-By-Design to Safeguard Emerging Bioeconomies” at a side event of the 2023 BWC Meeting of States Parties in Geneva last week!
#NextGenBiosecurity @ODA_Geneva

[Arnaud Schenk @Arnaudschenk]

Congratulations to ‘23 Polaris Fellows @askarkleefeldt and @g_dhaliwal1!

[Askar Kleefeldt @askarkleefeldt]

@arnaudschenk @g_dhaliwal1 Thanks Arnaud - @join_polaris was definitely the starting point for us to work on this together!

[Gurpreet Dhaliwal @g_dhaliwal1]

Very excited to see this out!! Had an incredible time working with @askarkleefeldt & @alexklein_ & super excited that we’ll be presenting our ideas on safeguarding emerging bioeconomies at the UN next week 🇺🇳🧬🌍

[Askar Kleefeldt @askarkleefeldt]

Direct link to our report 👇 11/11
https://t.co/1Z13GTTyGG

[Askar Kleefeldt @askarkleefeldt]

Very excited! Our policy piece on “Biosecurity-by-Design to Safeguard Emerging Bioeconomies” won this year’s Next Generation for Biosecurity Competition run by @NTI_WMD | bio! Have a look at the report – a great team effort with @g_dhaliwal1 and @alexklein_ 👇 1/n

[NTI @NTI_WMD]

🏆Winners of the 2023 Next Generation for Biosecurity Competition have been announced! #NextGenBiosecurity @nextgenghs, @iGEM, @GHS_Network, @SynBioAfrica, @80000Hours

Learn more 👇 https://t.co/NYAFQt3qw8

[Askar Kleefeldt @askarkleefeldt]

We’ll be in Geneva next week at the Biological Weapons Convention Working Group Meeting and Meeting of States Parties. Fetch us on Dec 8, 2023 where we’ll be presenting our work at NTI bio’s AI x Bio side event! 10/n

[Askar Kleefeldt @askarkleefeldt]

Great to see our work on mitochondrial RNA-seq in S. cerevisiae out!

Congrats and thank you to @Charlotte_CCK, @PascaleDL & team 🙌

[Sebastian Oehm @sebastian_oehm]

Recent reviews on synthetic genomics & protein engineering that I like 👇

[Scott Saunders @s_h_saunders]

Our 1st preprint!

We developed a genetic toolkit for E. coli that directly uses cheap DNA oligos to specify kb scale mutations. No PCR/cloning to delete genes!

The paper demonstrates benefits over λ Red & gets fancy w/ pooled mutant libraries. 1/15

https://t.co/8QvDOqliqo