Yonatan Chemla

Human Frontiers Postdoctoral Fellow - Voigt Lab, MIT

[Yonatan Chemla @yonchem]

I’m honored to share that I’ve been selected as a recipient of the 2026 Zuckerman Postdoctoral Award in recognition of my postdoctoral research. None of this happens alone. I’m deeply grateful to my advisors, mentors, and collaborators for their support and guidance.

[Yonatan Chemla @yonchem]

Five years in the making it is finally out!

[Christopher Voigt @Geneticdesigner]

Plant and soil microbe engineering is a rapidly growing field. This "review" was written as a comprehensive guide to their genetic engineering, from the idiosyncrasies of promoter design to whole genome synthesis.
https://t.co/bm2wZhcCfv

[Christopher Voigt @Geneticdesigner]

Plant and soil microbe engineering is a rapidly growing field. This "review" was written as a comprehensive guide to their genetic engineering, from the idiosyncrasies of promoter design to whole genome synthesis.
https://t.co/bm2wZhcCfv

[Nature Biotechnology @NatureBiotech]

Programmable promoter editing for precise control of transgene expression https://t.co/6jC9QnVgzn

[Yonatan Chemla @yonchem]

@omenndarlingbio It was an honor to meet the fantastic faculty and students of the Institute- you are building something great. Thank you for the invitation and award!

[Omenn-Darling Bioengineering Institute @omenndarlingbio]

🤩🤩🤩🤩

[Omenn-Darling Bioengineering Institute @omenndarlingbio]

Next we have @yonchem of @MIT on “Tracking Engineered Microbiomes with Hyperspectral Receptors Across Time and From Space” 🦠

[Logan Thrasher Collins @LoganTCollins]

I put 119 of (some of) my favorite papers I've read over the years on my Substack! (Titles, links, many with commentary, images). Enjoy! Link: https://t.co/fX3Jjbgf7v

[Tae Seok Moon @Moon_Synth_Bio]

This is important work in synthetic biology. Great work by Francesca Ceroni, Tom Ellis, Katie Galloway et al. in Trends in Biotechnology!
@ceronifranci @ProfTomEllis
@GallowayLabMIT
https://t.co/QWkQbjR1zO

[Christopher Voigt @Geneticdesigner]

The bacteria are watching. https://t.co/vVivHJPind

[Christopher Voigt @Geneticdesigner]

Great job!

[MIT School of Engineering @MITEngineering]

In a new @NatureBiotech paper, a team of researchers, led by @MITdeptofBE Professor Christopher Voigt, has engineered bacteria to emit signals that can be detected up to 90 meters away. These bacteria could help farmers monitor their crops.

https://t.co/QP5csRYBWB

[Nature Biotechnology @NatureBiotech]

@Geneticdesigner @MITdeptofBE @MITChemE @MITEECS @yonchem @itai_levin Environmental monitoring from the air with hyperspectral reporters #NBTNV https://t.co/laurYL4CJV

[Itai Levin @itai_levin]

Nice article about our work designing hyperspectral reporter systems out in @NatureBiotech today!
"Imagine a world in which agricultural fields self-report their nutrient status, forest ecosystems signal early warnings of pathogen outbreaks, or engineered bacteria detect landmines and pollution with centimeter spatial precision in real time."
@yonchem, @Geneticdesigner, @cwcoley, @FanYueyang

[Michael Koeris @mkoeris]

We were excited to find this work from the @DARPA side. Obviously many use cases!

Well done @Geneticdesigner @MITdeptofBE 👏👏👏👏

More to come here…

[Christopher Voigt @Geneticdesigner]

MIT engineers engineered bacteria to produce hyperspectral signals that can be detected as far as 90 meters away. Their work could lead to the development of ba…

Source: MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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[Tae Seok Moon @Moon_Synth_Bio]

Finally, this paper is out!
Cool paper by Chris Voigt, Yonatan Chemla et al.
@Geneticdesigner @yonchem @NatureBiotech
https://t.co/JpScD6idmk

[Itai Levin @itai_levin]

Going in, I did not imagine that my PhD would involve UAVs…
Very happy to see this work out!

[Christopher Voigt @Geneticdesigner]

Seeing what bacteria see from a flying UAV 👁️
https://t.co/qMeBuYFDRv

#synbio #biotech @itai_levin @yonchem

[Nature Biotechnology @NatureBiotech]

Hyperspectral reporters for long-distance and wide-area detection of gene expression in living bacteria - @Geneticdesigner https://t.co/btcg3FUu6t