If like me you've run hundreds of minipreps but never bothered to read up on why they extract plasmid but not chromosomal DNA, a recent tweet by @joel_rosenbaum finally motivated me to look it up. From Biennium and Doly 1979:
Facing New Heights!: Last week we took a team trip to neighboring canton Schwyz.
We were able to take a step back from the usual day-to-day business, reset, and nourish our team relationship. Now we are back and as fresh as a daisy! 🌼
#teambuilding#transparencyisinourdna
The fitness landscape of TEM-1 β-lactamase is stratified and inverted by sublethal concentrations of cefotaxime https://t.co/V1Rm14P0ey #biorxiv_evobio
The registration is now open for iDEC2022! https://t.co/nnDzUrQoN9
We invite all students from high-school to PhD to compete in the 3 directed evolution areas:
-Molecular⚛️
-Pathway🔁
-Genome🧬
Teams will present their solution at the iDEC2022 festival with great talks and prices
Our new paper on experimental evolution of reconstructed ancestral proteins: Historical contingency is the dominant factor in evolution of protein sequence variation, even under strong selection. Out today in @eLife. 1/
https://t.co/AiPd4Jga9s
Our complete landscape of antimicrobial peptides: https://t.co/uK1NY8h4AF work of @PsamClark with @curtisbdobson @Lynda_K_Harris plus Tom Jowitt and me in @CommsBio Thanks to @uom_bbsrc_dtp
not to mention @dbkell for setting up the collaboration!
I would like to invite all students to apply for the first International Directed Evolution Competition 2021! @iDEC2021 @EdinburghUni
Teams will compete in the tracks of molecular, pathway or genome directed evolution with a focus on methods or output.
https://t.co/tYgORvSLjY
Interested in directed evolution? Check out the @iDEC2021 comp for students (undergrad, masters, high school) to compete in teams on projects in 1/3 tracks: enhancing molecules, optimizing pathways or designing new strains.
PhD students & postdocs can sign on as advisors too!