Deniz Şınar

Bioengineer PhD Student @ Stanford 🧬 B.S. BioE Cornell University ⌬👩🏻‍🔬🧫🧪⌬ synthetic & systems bio ⌬ she/her

[Deniz Şınar @ds_sci]

Congrats @PeterMaxAllen 👏👍🙌🍄🍄‍🟫

[Stanford Bio-X @StanfordBioX]

Introducing the 2025 Stanford Bio-X PhD Fellows! 🎉

Congratulations to our 20 new Bio-X Fellows, who have joined a community that extends far beyond campus! Program alumni are founders, faculty, and successful scientists all over the world.
https://t.co/m8qAxwQJMG

[iGEM Community @iGEMCommunity]

The 2024 SynBio Canvas Global BioArt Competition IS NOW LIVE!

Submitting your artwork for the competition by September 30 at 23:59 UTC!

https://t.co/9w51rb2jJf

[buzbarstow @buzbarstow]

How do you make the next generation synthetic biology chassis Vibrio natriegens even more engineerable, save a load of cash, go home by 5 o’clock, and maybe even evolve autotrophic metabolism, take a look here:

https://t.co/jTUw2j3nlN

David Specht’s paper (with TJ Sheppard, Finn Kennedy, Sijin Li, and Greeshma Gadikota) on integrating the tfoX natural competence regulator into the genome of the ultra-fast growing microbe Vibrio natriegens, and how it enables zero-capital molecular biology is up on @PNASNexus .

I love this paper for at least 5 reasons:

1. First, this is a ground up piece of work. David came up with these ideas on his own, and I got to support them.

2. This could enable very low cost synthetic biology. The more we can reduce our operating costs, the less time we have to spend raising cash, which leaves us with more time to think deeply, and do high-risk, high- reward science. I can’t stress how important I think this is.

3. Speed and prevention of burnout. Vibrio natriegens is incredibly fast growing, which means that it forms colonies inside of a 9 to 5 workday. I view this as insanely important for preventing burnout of students. Again, it creates time to think creatively and do important risky things rather than baby-sitting bacteria (see our work on evolving REE biosorption by Vibrio natriegens a couple of months ago).

4. Finally, it could let us take full advantage of extracellular electron uptake (EEU) for electromicrobial production (EMP; basically microbes that directly eat electricity and make stuff from CO2). In 2020 we predicted that the upper limit efficiency of EEU based EMP could far exceed that of photosynthesis (we’ve since built on those predictions), and in 2021 we published the discovery of the genes that code for the EEU pathway in Shewanella oneidensis. But, there is no microbe that is highly engineerable that contains EEU and CO2-fixation. But, thanks to recent discoveries by @electromicRowe, we think that V. natriegens contains the EEU machinery. We envision using natural competence to integrate CO2 fixation into V. natriegens, and swapping out the native EEU machinery for systems from other electroactive organisms.

5. Finally: how this was funded! This was supported by a Cornell Energy Systems Institute postdoc to David (co-advised by Greeshma), by ARPA-E OPEN award, and by a very fast Cornell 2030 Project Fast Grant, and by a gift from Mary Fernando-Conrad and Tony Conrad.

@ARPAE, @Cornell, @CornellEng, @CornellCALS, @AtkinsonCenter.

[iGEM Community @iGEMCommunity]

Empowering the Synthetic Biology Ecosystem

The people behind iGEM Community share their visions behind some of the intiatives they have undertaken in 2023 and how they plan on supporting the synbio community in 2024

https://t.co/bsn511z40Z

#iGEM2023

[iGEM Community @iGEMCommunity]

@cizolnier @ds_sci @Larissa01517524 Panel on SynBio education and BioArt workshop at the 2023 iGEM Grand Jamboree led by members of the synthetic biology community

Accessing the Future: Synthetic Biology Education & Community

iGEM BioArts Lab: Information & Ideation Workshop

https://t.co/PMBIUAiYLx

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[iGEM Community @iGEMCommunity]

The iGEM Community is a hub for synthetic biology. It brings our diverse global community together to build and support the synthetic biology ecosystem.

Join our panel with our Ambassadors and Project Heads followed by a networking activity at the #GrandJamboree

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[buzbarstow @buzbarstow]

Just how much do you have to engineer a microbe to improve rare earth separation? Not much according to our latest theory paper by Carter Anderson, Sean Medin, and the Fall 2022 BEE 5280 class:
https://t.co/9AsFLH6RJd
@Cornell, @cornellcals, @CornellEng, @AtkinsonCenter.

[Deniz Şınar @ds_sci]

Thank you for the highlight! 🧬💚 Looking forward to the @iGEM Jamboree in Nov!

[iGEM Community @iGEMCommunity]

Cheers to our Ambassadors of the Month!

The iGEM Ambassadors are the voice of synthetic biology in their region and together, they're catalyzing the future of synthetic biology all around the world.

https://t.co/9wlBWqtayZ

[Deniz Şınar @ds_sci]

😁💚🧬

[iGEM Community @iGEMCommunity]

Celebrating our iGEM Ambassadors of the Month!

Their continuous efforts in promoting synthetic biology, creating new iGEM teams, and providing support to them is truly commendable. Together, they're catalyzing the future of synthetic biology all around the world.

#iGEM2023

[iGEM Community @iGEMCommunity]

As The BioaArt Hub gets ready to build a platform to encourage collaborations between professionals from diverse backgrounds converging to express through arts, they want your opinion on what makes a good collaboration.

Share your opinion here:
https://t.co/QrpllQGR8a

#BioArts

[Deniz Şınar @ds_sci]

Incredibly thankful for my journey in the Barstow Lab at Cornell 🧬 It’s been an honor to be mentored by such brilliant minds. Excited for what the future holds!! @buzbarstow @CornellEng

[Deniz Şınar @ds_sci]

Thank you #CommackScienceResearch for the opportunity to speak a few weeks ago! It was lovely to be back and so inspiring to see the current students’ research 🧬🔬💻😄 congrats to all the CHS research students!

[Jeanette Collette @JeanetteCollet1]

Last night, we celebrated Science Research Night 2023, where we honored our seniors with the support of alumni. Thank you, alum Deniz Sinar, for a wonderful presentation #iGEM #SyntheticBiology #CommackScienceResearch
@CommackSchools

[Commack Schools @CommackSchools]

On Wednesday night CHS celebrated our #ScienceResearch students and wished them good luck on their next chapter. Thank you to Research Coordinator Janette Collette, Deniz S for her keynote speech, and all of the alumni who came to celebrate! #CommackSchools #STEM

[LanzaTech Global @LanzaTech]

Today we are proud to announce that we have successfully engineered specialized biocatalysts to directly produce ethylene — the most widely used petrochemical in the world — from CO2 in a continuous process.

https://t.co/E7IqzrFQHr

[iGEM Community @iGEMCommunity]

synbio

[Deniz Şınar @ds_sci]

The audience was NOT part of #YeastGang #BuiltWithBiology #RATC @Ginkgo @SynBio1

[Deniz Şınar @ds_sci]

@iGEMCommunity @BuiltWithBio @iGEMdesign @iGEM @iGEMEPIC 27 🤔🧪🧬

[Janet Standeven @jastandeven]

Cornell iGEM speaking on Collatrix their project to distribute proteins in hydrogels. Investigating binding for grafting mammalian tissues. @iGEM

[Cornell Duffield College of Engineering @CornellEng]

Professor Buz Barstow and his team are identifying multiple sites in the genome of G. oxydans to further increase its bioleaching efficiency. Their work could make the mining of Rare Earth Elements a much cleaner process.

https://t.co/oWxhr6qx0t

[iGEM @iGEM]

Congratulations to iGEM 2020 Competition Overgraduate Grand Prize Winner: @iGEM_Leiden !!

#iGEM2020 #GiantJamboree