Quentin Dudley

Assistant professor at UW-Madison @UWMadCBE working on plant and cell-free synthetic biology. Prev roadmapping a new biomanufacturing program for @Spec__Tech.

[Quentin Dudley @qmdudley]

Two exciting firsts for the Dudley lab

1) website is live https://t.co/y6S8mE3K1F

2) first wet lab protocol this week (a successful miniprep to isolate plasmid DNA from E. coli)

Thanks @PflegerLab for help with lab reagents, training, and space sharing

[Quentin Dudley @qmdudley]

Best perk of the summer conference season…science socks!

[Quentin Dudley @qmdudley]

Thrilled to be a part of a recently announced ARPA-E program to create aromatic polymer precursors in plants. First federal funding for the Dudley lab! https://t.co/ZURmscm6Mp

[Matthew Szarzanowicz @mattszarz]

I am pleased to announce new research from the Shih Lab (@LabShih) published today in Nature Biotechnology on improving Agrobacterium-mediated transformation via binary vector copy number engineering (https://t.co/nCUVQ2ym2p).

🧵A summary thread below🌿

[Tae Seok Moon @Moon_Synth_Bio]

#SynBYSS seminar with Prof Pablo Nikel @PabloINik, the chief editor of Current Opin. Biotechnology @ElsevierConnect at Technical Univ. of Denmark &
Prof. Quentin Dudley @qmdudley at Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison @UWMadison

The seminar video 👇

https://t.co/1y9Nl7lebb

[Quentin Dudley @qmdudley]

@Moon_Synth_Bio @PabloINik @ElsevierConnect @UWMadison Grateful for opportunity to present at the Synthetic Biology Young Speaker Seminar #SynBYSS hosted by @Moon_Synth_Bio and also chance to get to know senior presenter @PabloINik. Excited to contribute to this series and advance #PlantMetabolicEngineering

[Quentin Dudley @qmdudley]

Small joys of a new lab…the NEB order arrived today :)

[Tom Ellis @ProfTomEllis]

We're hiring! We're taking another big leap in using synthetic biology to engineer materials - this time for sustainable food and textiles. In the next few weeks, we've up to 4 postdoc positions opening up. I'd love to hear from anyone interested in joining us this year. Pls RT🔁

[Dr. Emily Petroff @ebpetroff]

Well, that's it. I've peaked in life having been cited in XKCD *and* making it into the alt text. Going to retire to nerd heaven now.

https://t.co/hTxwREVlSS

[Quentin Dudley @qmdudley]

Great postdoc opportunity in plant natural products! The Lichman lab is doing exciting work. From personal experience I can say a postdoc abroad in UK is worthwhile :)

[Lichman Lab @LichmanLab]

3 year post-doc position in plant alkaloid biosynthesis (gene discovery, enz characterisation, heterologous reconsitution etc) available! please apply here https://t.co/dwCE9B9V56 . please RT! 🧬⚗️🌿🎉

[Quentin Dudley @qmdudley]

Reflection that my enjoyment of cloning and DNA assembly is an adult manifestation of model railroading as a kid. Fun to make a layout for my children this year. #holidaytraditions

[Speculative Technologies @Spec__Tech]

What Speculative Technologies was up to in 2023:

[Nick Desnoyer @NickDesnoyer]

With a bit of synthetic biology and classical genetics, I transformed the unremarkable Arabidopsis flower into a beautiful pink rose 🌹🧬 with @bencives.

(A thread 🧵)

[Reid Van Lehn @VanLehnGroup]

The application deadline for admission to the Fall 2024 cohort of the PhD program in Chemical and Biological Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is December 1, 2023 (in two weeks!). Instructions on how to apply are below are at this link: https://t.co/FJ4phP8eCh

[Sebastian S. Cocioba🪄🌷 @ATinyGreenCell]

I have failed...but I couldn't be happier. A small thread on recent experiments 🧬🔀🧵 1/n

[Quentin Dudley @qmdudley]

Great way to take your technical idea into the world and get plugged into a third-way career direction in between academia and industry

[Speculative Technologies @Spec__Tech]

We’re excited to open the applications for the Brains Coordinated Research Accelerator!

This part-time program’s goal is to help people with ambitious research ideas refine them and find a place to execute on them in government organizations, nonprofits, and beyond.

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[Ben Reinhardt @Ben_Reinhardt]

New at the @Spec__Tech blog:

Why it's a mistake to extrapolate lessons from developing health technology for broader technology development.

[Sang Yup Lee @mbelmbel99]

A synthetic cell-free 36-enzyme reaction system for vitamin B12 production

https://t.co/q9s7arpZJm

[Biotech2k @Biotech2k1]

This is a super cool animation to give everyone an idea how small some of these things we talk about every day really are.

[Jennbrophy.bsky.social @jennbrophy7]

Hi science twitter (X?) 👋 we’re looking for a good method of differentiating btwn T-DNA integrated into plant cells vs. T-DNA in contaminating Agro cells when genotyping after floral dip. Anyone have a reliable method? Or a creative idea? 🙏 RT