Christian Burks

biotech | start-ups | DNA apps: @DecideByDNA | genome engineering apps: @GenomeEngineer | science culture

[Sen. Cory Booker @SenBooker]

Thank you, Amanda Gorman, for sharing such powerful and inspiring words today. #InaugurationDay

[Christian Burks @scienega]

thanks to @TheChicks for the exit processional accompaniment

[Christian Burks @scienega]

The #NewMexicoBookCoop has selected @GaryWorthMoody (AKA, my brother-in-law) and his most recent poetry volume, The Burnings, for the 2020 "AZ-NM Book Award in Poetry - NM".

Available from the publisher (3: A Taos Press) and the usual suspects ...

https://t.co/90ZqXP8h4b

[Christian Burks @scienega]

Congrats to #HelenPetropoulos and #DennisMcCormac (@ArtSciFartSci) on their well-deserved and exciting new roles as Assoc VPs @OntarioGenomics!!

@TIFF_NET and fellow #TIFF20 acolytes should also celebrate the duo who put the OG in #vlog and #TIFFgenomics into the stream!!

[Ontario Genomics @ontariogenomics]

#TeamUpdates: We are excited to welcome new colleagues and announce some role changes at Ontario Genomics. As always, our whole team is here to support #Ontario’s thriving #genomics ecosystem. #GreatHappensTogether https://t.co/Mpghc8Z4T0

[Christian Burks @scienega]

#biodiversity #DNAbarcoding @UofGuelphNews @CreatedAtGuelph @CBG_UofG @OntarioGenomics @GenomeCanada @OntInnovation @UNBiodiversity @ChiefSciCan

[International Barcode of Life Consortium (iBOL) @iBOLConsortium]

Our Scientific Director, Prof. Paul Hebert has been awarded the international 2020 MIDORI Prize for Biodiversity: https://t.co/fkswAYmnV8

He plans to donate the USD 100,000 award to support biodiversity research in developing nations.

#Biodiversity2020

[Christian Burks @scienega]

@dplattsf More to the point, when will it be safe to come out from under the house?

[Christian Burks @scienega]

@JMaraganore and @JMaxLevin: #immigration key for US #biotech, quoting #RonaldReagan: "If we ever closed the door to new Americans, our leadership in the world would soon be lost."

https://t.co/Q6Q0q3M2DR

@LDTimmerman @TimmermanReport @Reagan_Library @IAmBiotech @ProjectLincoln

[Christian Burks @scienega]

The voice and words of @KafuiDzirasa

on the interior of a black academic in America ...

#BlackLivesMatter

@CellCellPress @ElsevierConnect @DukeU @DukeMedSchool @DukeMEDx

.

[Kafui Dzirasa, MD PhD @KafuiDzirasa]

My public statement. https://t.co/OJPwcBJ9av

[Christian Burks @scienega]

Improving crops with microbial communities, #BoostBiomes announces
#SeriesA financing and partnership with @Yara https://t.co/tPyIstyO4O @AgFunder #microbiome #VikingGlobal @ycombinator #FoodTech #AgTech @JamieBacher @FarhanMitha @WorldAgriTech #Kureha @DailyScan @AdamArkinLab

[Christian Burks @scienega]

The #TigerKing holds off any breach of @RudysBarbershop's perimeter by the ill-intentioned, the ill-groomed, or insolvency investors (created by @BaileeHiatt [Insta] and #Paint2Change).

https://t.co/IxgA2au7Fk

@_Katya_Long @SortisHoldings @FremontChamber #Seattle @SeattleTimes

[Tania Bubela @bubela_tania]

Our editorial on the need for a coordinated pandemic preparedness anti-viral drug discovery strategy based on open science - introducing @VIMIOpen @SFU_FHS

[Christian Burks @scienega]

#BioAlfa #biodiversity project aims to #DNAbarcode every species in #CostaRica ... #Colombia is considering, too https://t.co/FRAIhjpOgi @Jeremy_Hance @mongobay @Rhett_Butler @ACGuanacaste @GDFCF_org @CarlosAlvQ @CBG_UofG @UofG @UCEAP @Mailyn73052835 @Inst_Humboldt @CLopezCorrea

[Christian Burks @scienega]

North Beach, TX ... #coronavirus PSA from @TxDOT

Given the several alt etiologies out there (#SARSCoV2 arising from nefarious government labs in Manitoba, Maryland or Wuhan), surprising that there's been no significant extraterrestrial attribution of the virus and #COVID19.

[Christian Burks @scienega]

@NunavutBirder This would be a nice post on the FB group, The Sky Over Corona.

[Christian Burks @scienega]

@dplattsf Each time you tweet, I get the same companion advert ...

[Christian Burks @scienega]

Agile academic response @LSUVetMed to set up #PopUpPCR, #RiverRoadTestingLab, and 20-fold faster turnaround #COVID19 test to decompress regional hospital needs.

< 1 week from "go" to fed approval and production use.

@RC_EPI #StephaniaCormier #BeverlyOgden

#coronavirus @AEGallo

[Rebecca 🇺🇦❤️🤓 @RC_Epi]

Let me say I’m so very proud on my lab members who volunteered without reservation just to do the right thing.

[Christian Burks @scienega]

#LiquidBiopsy

[360Dx @360DxNews]

. @LABCORP will be the exclusive provider for @ResBioscience's lung cancer test although the Kirkland, Washington-based firm will also perform the assay as an LDT

https://t.co/i5BJfkzjTd

[Christian Burks @scienega]

#forensicDNA and genealogy used to free wrongly-convicted California man who had been in prison for 15 years https://t.co/tZSCCKJvwQ @NorCalInnocence @Innocence @VernPierson @SchubertForDA @guardian via @DailyScan

[AquaBounty @AquaBountyFarms]

A fishy campaign against salmon https://t.co/QiQN6KjwTb @aquabountytech @geneticliteracy @iambiotech @biotecanada

[Christian Burks @scienega]

@deepseadiverbnd @TheBasementNash @StuartMathis