@KSechkar

Research Fellow at @UCL. All opinions are my own, but the risk you take by reading them is yours Other soc. media: https://xitter.cf/t.co/e3kbxbX7md

 London, UK
Joined March 2021
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Our preprint on sponge RNAs is finally out! This is an immense body of work led by @ScottBStacey1 showcasing many possible (amazing) applications of this newest tool for bacterial RNA circuits (link in next tweet) 1/10
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The first @london_synbio event of the season is taking place THIS WEEK already But it's not yet too late to sign up and come for wet and dry lab insights alike, plus finding new people in the London SynBio community. Use this link: events.humanitix.com/lsn-15o…

London SynBio Network 15th Oct 2026

🧬 15th Oct. 2026 LSN Meetup 2x20 min talks followed by networking Speakers: Armin M Zand (Oxford / ETH Zurich), Vicente Trelles Fernandez (Oxford)

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Kirill Sechkar@KSechkarOct 2
If you're a Londoner working in Engineering Biology, there's only one place to be on 15 Oct, because the new season of @london_synbio events starts at UCL! Come for everything that's great about SynBio: theory, hardware, wet lab experiments, and of course networking w/ free food
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If you're a Londoner working in Engineering Biology, there's only one place to be on 15 Oct, because the new season of @london_synbio events starts at UCL! Come for everything that's great about SynBio: theory, hardware, wet lab experiments, and of course networking w/ free food
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Register here: events.humanitix.com/lsn-15o…

London SynBio Network 15th Oct 2026

🧬 15th Oct. 2026 LSN Meetup 2x20 min talks followed by networking Speakers: Armin M Zand (Oxford / ETH Zurich), Vicente Trelles Fernandez (Oxford)

events.humanitix.com
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Kirill Sechkar@KSechkarOct 2
If you're a Londoner working in Engineering Biology, there's only one place to be on 15 Oct, because the new season of @london_synbio events starts at UCL! Come for everything that's great about SynBio: theory, hardware, wet lab experiments, and of course networking w/ free food
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For those who prefer to get their news from the Morning Press:
Kirill Sechkar@KSechkarSep 22
Last week, I attended the Biocontrol Conference in Oxford! Coming together as a Control x EngBio community was absolutely fantastic - thanks so much to the organisers @jblugagne and @christian_cuba You can catch up by reading my humorous SKETCH, linked in the next tweet
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Last week, I attended the Biocontrol Conference in Oxford! Coming together as a Control x EngBio community was absolutely fantastic - thanks so much to the organisers @jblugagne and @christian_cuba You can catch up by reading my humorous SKETCH, linked in the next tweet
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Exclusive report from Biological Control Systems 2026 available at: ksechkar.substack.com/p/sket…
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Last week, I had the pleasure of attending the London Mathematical Biology Conference! This does not mean only one thing, but among other things it does mean that if you missed it, you now can read my (unserious) SKETCH of the event instead [See next tweet in thread for the link]
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Olivier Borkowski@O_BorkowskiJun 10
Generative design of synthetic gene circuits for functional and evolutionary properties doi.org/10.1038/s41540-026-0…
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Looks like there is a new sponge thread in town, now by the key driving force behind the project himself:
Scott Stacey@ScottBStacey1May 27
Very excited to share that our preprint on synthetic bacterial sponge RNAs is now out. This paper is for you if you’re interested in RNA synthetic biology, quantitative gene circuit characterisation, resource competition, or post-transcriptional regulation. (1/11)
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…but the full story about Hfq competition turned out to be much weirder than just that! A preprint on that will hopefully be published soon, but for now I will leave you with this cliffhanger. Stay tuned! 9/10
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Besides @ScottBStacey1 and yours truly, @antonis_papach , @Harrison_Steel and Marco Corrao have all made vital contributions to the project! Working alongside such brilliant people amazed me on the daily 10/10
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