Emma Jane Walker

Post-doc in the Ellis Lab at Imperial College 🧪 (she/her)

[Emma Jane Walker @ejlwalker]

1/ 🌟 We've added more results to our preprint‼️ TLDR: diatom in vivo assembly, RNP delivery via electroporation, and a new PEG transformation method... (1/10) https://t.co/clF603oELH

[Noot @nootlabs_]

1/ Here's an angle to LySE I couldn't show fully in my @NatureMicrobiol paper:
Combining my passion for DIY bio & directed evolution, LySE is extremely low-cost.
The workflow is just mixing phage lysates and cells.
All you need is a pipette & incubator. No epPCR or bioreactors!

[Tom Ellis @ProfTomEllis]

I asked Gemini to make an advert for hiring for a new postdoc to my lab. I gave it our recent group photo at Darwin's House and all the job details. It made some terrible ones, but I like this one best.

[Sophien Kamoun @KamounLab]

This is the culmination of >10 years of work by generations of students and postdocs. Many false starts. And we know that others have tried too.

Structural insights into the activate-and-release mechanism of NLR activation.

And we can engineer it too!

Kudos Team 🙏🔥

[Peter Ly @PeterLyLab]

Excited to share our latest paper, out today @CellCellPress. We found that large pieces of the human genome can transfer between cells upon direct contact, endowing recipient cells with heritable phenotypic changes. (1/7)

https://t.co/SbshGhofN0

[Satoshi Kawato 川戸 智 @KawatoSatoshi]

おかげさまで、gbdrawのGitHub starsが100個になりました。ありがとうございます

[Kenneth Loi @kenjmloi]

Excited to share our discovery of a new programmable RNA-guided DNA-targeting system hiding inside bacteriophages that predates CRISPR.

We call it VIPR (Viral Interference Programmable Repeat), and it uses an entirely new logic to find its targets.

Thread + link below.

[Karas Lab @KarasLab]

Newest paper from our lab lead by @Daniel_Nucifora. We show that the entire genome of A. laidlawii can be transferred directly into yeast by cell fusion. Cloning whole genomes in yeast is a key step toward building and engineering synthetic cells.
https://t.co/P1f4EtYYOg

[Ralf Reski 🇩🇪🇪🇺 @ReskiLab]

The smallest bacterial genome, further blurring the bacteria-organelle boundary!
Convergent extreme reductive evolution in ancient planthopper symbioses
https://t.co/GERbt5OUeR

[Karas Lab @KarasLab]

Excited that our latest diatom engineering research @SchulichMedDent was highlighted by CTV News London! Congrats @ejlwalker and all authors.
https://t.co/Bp5WfRTKux

[Kyle J. Lauersen @Kylelauersen]

Publication 📰 of @Malakabd93 's PhD final chapter. Investigating terpene synthase subcellular localization in Chlamydomonas🦠. Squalene k.d. does not affect plastid yields & @CellDEG bioreactor high density cultivation. W/ @s_overmans & @GordonWellman
https://t.co/qASDBdzOby

[Henry Lee @hhlee]

Most of biology is locked behind a single problem no one talks about — DNA delivery. You can’t edit a genome if you can’t get DNA into the cell.

We @CultivariumFRX built a self-driving DNA delivery workcell to change that.

[Tetsuhiro Harimoto @TetsuHarimoto]

I’ll be starting a lab as an Assistant Professor @CornellEng @Cornell_CBE in 2026!

We’ll combine synthetic biology and materials science to engineer microbes into living materials & therapies.

Recruiting PhD students & postdocs - please get in touch!

🔗https://t.co/XpDxeNzI0W

[Karas Lab @KarasLab]

Newest preprint from K-lab: Direct Genome Transfer from Acholeplasma laidlawii to Yeast. Congrats to @Daniel_Nucifora Tanveer Saini @SchulichMedDent Thank you for sponsoring this research @NSERC_CRSNG #synbio #GenomeTransfer #SynCell
https://t.co/jOV17jR2nh

[Karas Lab @KarasLab]

Newest preprint from K-lab: Resolving replication incompatibility between chloroplast and conjugative plasmids in E. coli. Congrats @ejlwalker and all authors. @SchulichMedDent Thank you for sponsoring this research @ARIA_research @NSERC_CRSNG https://t.co/60LzdDoXed

[Gregory Copenhaver @copenhaverlab]

The @UNC_Biology Biology Department is searching for a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Plant Molecular Biology. Chapel Hill is a wonderful place and Biology is an amazing group of people. To apply, see: https://t.co/whqt9UyO04

[NSERC / CRSNG @NSERC_CRSNG]

REMINDER 📢
Canada Postdoctoral Research Award program application deadline is:
🗓️ October 17

Instructions ▶️ https://t.co/dDzZMlI4qR

#CIHR #SSHRC 👀

[Oxford Biology @OxfordBiology]

🚨 We’re hiring! Oxford Biology is recruiting 3 new Associate Professors in:

🌱 Plant Sciences
🦉 Animal Behaviour
🔬 Molecular Cell Biology

Join us as we move into our new building with world-class research & teaching facilities.

Vacancies 👉 https://t.co/FEI1YO6ghz

[NSERC / CRSNG @NSERC_CRSNG]

🗞️
#NSERC RESEARCH STORY

Dr. Catie Ivy @usask is leading a research project that will examine the physiological effects of wildfire smoke intake on songbirds.

▶️ https://t.co/EVgkVharfQ

#NSERCsupport

[Support Our Science @SupportOurSci]

📢 Support Our Science has submitted recommendations to the federal pre-budget consultations.

Canada must invest in the next generation of researchers to secure our future in innovation, health, and economic resilience.

📄 Full recs: https://t.co/hfa182IDIw

[Edel Pérez-López @Edel_PLopez]

🚨 First preprint of the week is out!

After 4 years of fieldwork and nearly 200,000 leafhoppers processed in the lab, we’re thrilled to share: “Uncovering diversity and climatic drivers of leafhopper–parasitoid dynamics in Canada” 🌱

👏 Huge congrats to Jordanne Jacques for leading this as part of her Master’s, and to our amazing ULaval, AAFC, MAPAQ & partner team.

Highlights:
🪲 First Canadian detection of the corn leafhopper Dalbulus maidis
🪲 Climate-driven shifts in leafhopper abundance (82k+ captured in 2023–24)
🪲 First complete Gonatopus mitogenome from the New World + evidence of 3 lineages
🪲 Ancient DNA methods to sequence single, tiny wasps
🪲 Parasitoids hitting >20% parasitism in late summer → natural pest control potential

👉 Read here: https://t.co/tJM46eS6Zr

Merci @RqradQc & @NSERC_CRSNG/@LeafHopeCan for the support!