FT Wong🧫🦠🤯

Molecular Engineer. She/They

[FT Wong🧫🦠🤯 @FTWong5]

🌱 Hot off the press! 🧬🔬 Our research uncovers new PET-degrading enzymes from rare actinoBs, tackling PET and BHET at 45-50°C. 🌡️ combined with a 2x activity surge via protein engineering♻️ #SustainableSolutions #EnzymesForTheWin @leptonsnquarks
https://t.co/3TqxuJeiAk

[FT Wong🧫🦠🤯 @FTWong5]

Thrilled to share that our study on upregulating armeniaspirols in its native producer is now published! Despite facing engineering challenges and lockdown, Elena and Yiwee's hard work and dedication finally paid off. @leptonsnquarks 🥂
https://t.co/0dE0REXstJ

[FT Wong🧫🦠🤯 @FTWong5]

Congratulations to my fave person! @CharkoudianLou! 🥳👏 You've worked hard and your success is totally well deserved! Here's to many more achievements in the future. 🎉🎉

[ACS WCC @AcsWcc]

The recipients of ACS WCC's 2023 Rising Star Awards were announced last week in the February 13, 2023 issue of C&EN. The award recognizes exceptional early to mid-career women chemists. Recipients will present their work during the WCC symposium at ACS Spring 2023.

[Hugh Kearns @ithinkwellHugh]

Shiny new project.
Do you have the time?
No: --> Don't do it.
Yes: --> No you don't.

[FT Wong🧫🦠🤯 @FTWong5]

https://t.co/mhRWzDBHHT
#biosynthesis #engineer #naturalproducts #antibiotics

[FT Wong🧫🦠🤯 @FTWong5]

Nature provides unique molecular scaffolds but production remains a challenge. Our new study examines ways to upregulate armeniaspirols, potent polyketide antibiotics. Here we achieved 97-fold increase in production with increased diversity of analogs! @leptonsnquarks

[Sang Yup Lee @mbelmbel99]

https://t.co/IieMsZ4GZZ

[FT Wong🧫🦠🤯 @FTWong5]

Excited to share our work with the Singapore Natural Organism Library- a generalized approach to activate/perturb/upregulation native strains 🎉🎉 With @leptonsnquarks Dillon Tay, Tan Lee Ling, Elena Heng, Nadiah Zulkarnain Lokanand Koduru and many more https://t.co/jAZ23MVBQ0

[FT Wong🧫🦠🤯 @FTWong5]

@lab_shen @UFScripps Too cool! Congrats!

[Carl Nasman @CarlNasman]

“It’s just summer.” 🙄 https://t.co/f03z18cMTX

[FT Wong🧫🦠🤯 @FTWong5]

Congrats on the launch of @FrontiersIn Natural Products. Proud to be able to participate as a review editor 🦠🦠🦠 https://t.co/i4whR3nYwS

[FT Wong🧫🦠🤯 @FTWong5]

@_RodolfoOcampo You have written the story of my life. Fantastic 🤣

[FT Wong🧫🦠🤯 @FTWong5]

@CharkoudianLou Congrats!!!

[Ronen Segev @ronen_segev]

I am excited to share a new study led by Shachar Givon & @MatanSamina w/ Ohad Ben Shahar: Goldfish can learn to navigate a small robotic vehicle on land. We trained goldfish to drive a wheeled platform that reacts to the fish’s movement (https://t.co/ZR59Hu9sib).

[FT Wong🧫🦠🤯 @FTWong5]

Congrats to Chu-Young Kim and Irimpan Mathews! On solving atomic resolution of a full length PKS module in action 😲😲 This is so awesome!

https://t.co/Dht9GwLHLh

[FT Wong🧫🦠🤯 @FTWong5]

See our new work on Cas12j in Streptomyces! We will follow up with more results soon!
https://t.co/rtC8EFE8VG

[DTU Biosustain @DTUBiosustain]

Happy Halloween!

[Tom Ellis @ProfTomEllis]

Mega virtual synthetic biology conference - 18 days, 3 hrs per day from Dec 1st to Dec 18th. It's going to be like an online synbio advent calendar of talks from all the big names.
https://t.co/Ex9Ny2uQ9d

[FT Wong🧫🦠🤯 @FTWong5]

@cathleencrudden

[FT Wong🧫🦠🤯 @FTWong5]

This is awesome.