Natanya Villegas

Biology PhD candidate optimizing gene synthesis technologies in the Plesa lab at the University of Oregon Knight Campus. SJSU Spartan and UO duck! 🦆

[Calin Plesa @calinplesa]

Let's talk about how close we are to a cell-free mirror image central dogma in a tube, aka Mirror-PURE! This topic has been getting a lot of attention due to the recent @ScienceMagazine letter (https://t.co/JXwiFvLnuU) outlining the threats posed by mirror life. 1/n

[Natanya Villegas @TrieneToScience]

@kdc509 Sometimes it is better to cut your own hair 😂

[Knight Campus @UOKnightCampus]

Representing @uoregon Knight Campus Department of Bioengineering at #BMES2024! We're here to share insights, connect with colleagues, and showcase innovative research. It’s inspiring to see so much talent and dedication gathered together. #KnightCampus #Bioengineering

[Frydman Lab @FrydmanLab]

1. Check out our MS just out! Amazing Mauricio Aguilar developed a new ML pipeline that identifies ribosome pausing sites as an Anomaly Detection problem to overcome spurious signals that arise when analyzing RiboSeq data. https://t.co/Or8syfc6n6

[Natanya Villegas @TrieneToScience]

I'm honored to receive this award and am grateful for all of the support from @OregonBio. This experience, as well as the pitch coaching, has helped me to become a better science communicator.

[Calin Plesa @calinplesa]

Congratulations @TrieneToScience for winning the people’s choice award at the Oregon Bio Innovation Showcase today!!

[Calin Plesa @calinplesa]

Our @UOKnightCampus @iGEM team this year is developing methods to fight enterohemorrhagic E. coli (EHEC). They just launched a @uoregon DuckFunder fundraiser to send more team members to the final competition jamboree in France: https://t.co/gUZKQpI16S

[PlesaLab @PlesaLab]

Interested in antibody generation and expression of human proteins in bacteria? If you're at @ProteinSociety tonight check out poster 75 at Bayshore Grand Ballroom D with @MuggleInSynbio to hear about expressing the human proteome in E. coli. @UOKnightCampus

[Natanya Villegas @TrieneToScience]

This is an incredibly moving story!

[Knight Campus @UOKnightCampus]

Powerful 1st-person piece by Knight Campus Dept of Bioengineering Asst Prof Parisa Hosseinzadeh on her long road to recovery following a brain hemorrhage in Nov. 2022. We are so inspired by your strength & determination Parisa and are happy to see you growing stronger every day

[PlesaLab @PlesaLab]

At @ProteinSociety tonight check out poster 73 with @AlkynesOfSci to hear about our efforts to deorphanize sensor histidine kinases en masse & poster 117 with @TrieneToScience to hear about BAR-CAT, our approach to scalable enrichment of assembled gene libraries. @UOKnightCampus

[Natanya Villegas @TrieneToScience]

@granex @americanaging What a well-deserved award! 👏

[Patrick Phillips @granex]

We are leading a new initiative in Synthetic Biology and Aging and are recruiting multiple postdocs and research assistants/technicians to join us! Details and application links here. Please RT. #longevity https://t.co/T6dYYM9f7K

[Natanya Villegas @TrieneToScience]

I think authenticity is important for good research and mentorship!

[Joy A. Franco, PhD @engineering_joy]

When I was in undergrad & volunteering for girls in engineering outreach events a friend told me: “Don’t be afraid to be your feminine self. It’s good for them to see that example.” Since then I’ve felt free to dress how I want & am so grateful for it.

[Natanya Villegas @TrieneToScience]

Tune in for this great panel line-up!

[Ross D. Jones, PhD @jonesr18]

The next @EngBioRC SPA panel is Feb 5th! Please RT/share!

���� Are you an undergraduate or Master’s student and applying to graduate school or thinking about it?

📺 Attend our panel to prepare for the interview process!

🔗 Register here: https://t.co/1qsuCVWzBw

[Natanya Villegas @TrieneToScience]

Looks like it's time to explore a new era in genome engineering!

[Patrick Hsu @pdhsu]

Just shared at @KeystoneSymp a new @ArcInstitute discovery of the bridge RNA recombinase mechanism: a new class of natural RNA-guided systems that retains the key property of programmability from RNAi and CRISPR while enabling large-scale genome design beyond RNA and DNA cuts

[Calin Plesa @calinplesa]

Story time! Introducing the first of several new flavors of DropSynth #genesynthesis we have been working on, cooked up by @AlkynesOfSci and Sam Hinton. TLDR: We show multiple gene variants assembled per barcoded droplet and 1 kbp lengths. 1/n
https://t.co/8n8qiQA1ik

[Natanya Villegas @TrieneToScience]

Congratulations @PlesaLab ! First lab pre-print is out today. https://t.co/URvvzXl40R

[Natanya Villegas @TrieneToScience]

Wonderful job!

[Andrew Holston @AlkynesOfSci]

It was a pleasure to give a talk!

[Natanya Villegas @TrieneToScience]

A well deserved award for @PlesaLab @calinplesa !

[Knight Campus @UOKnightCampus]

Congratulations to Assistant Professor Calin Plesa who was named the 2023-24 Clark Honors College (@uohonors) Outstanding Senior Thesis Advisor! Plesa was nominated by former Knight Campus Undergraduate Scholars (KCUS) fellow Carmen Resnick.

[David Frey @David_Frey_]

Going to the #NDiSTEM conference today? Come by our booth to learn more about opportunities in our Bioengineering PhD and Masters Graduate Internship Program ! (Cool swag included 😉) @UO_KCGradIntern @UOKnightCampus

[Knight Campus @UOKnightCampus]

Roughly half the world's population is infected with H. pylori, a leading cause of stomach cancer. A group of UO undergraduates are working on a probiotic they hope could be a gamechanger. The iGEM team is raising funds to take their project to Paris: https://t.co/p49wmAeiaD