
Official lab news from the Plesa Lab at @UOKnightCampus
Eugene, OR
Joined May 2019
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We just preprinted DropSynth-Gold where we replaced PCA with Golden Gate Assembly (GGA) inside emulsion droplets, extending multiplexed gene synthesis to ~3 kb constructs assembled from up to 12 fragments while preserving the scalability of DropSynth. 1/n
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New lab preprint: if ML struggles with extrapolation, let's expand the diversity of training data with gene synth, DNA shuffling, and ML gen.... also lots of #FluorescentProteins #ProteinEngineering #MachineLearning #SyntheticBiology 1/n
High Diversity Gene Libraries Facilitate Machine Learning Guided Exploration of Fluorescent Protein Sequence Space biorxiv.org/content/10.64898… #biorxiv_synbio
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Need long-read sequencing? We’ve just completed the first ever run on @uoregon GC3F core’s new @PacBio Revio instrument! Perfect for amplicons too long for Illumina, and with Kinnex prep, you can get >10x more data. Great pricing, no queue, try it out. gc3f.uoregon.edu/pacbio-sequ…
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Congratulations @TrieneToScience for winning the people’s choice award at the Oregon Bio Innovation Showcase today!!
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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
A brain haemorrhage late in pregnancy upended Parisa Hosseinzadeh’s life — and her tenure clock.
Thanks to supportive physicians, family and colleagues, she’s restarting her academic career. go.nature.com/3LCnFUl
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Christmas came early in @PlesaLab with the latest Degenerate DropSynth preprint and the fun was doubled up by lovely Secret Santas in the lab and the Impact & Innovation Award in the annual celebration at @UOKnightCampus 🎉🎁
Signing off 2023 slowly with style 😎
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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
biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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The Department of Bioengineering Seminar Series continued today with Biochemistry PhD student Andrew Holston (Plesa Lab) and #KnightCampusBioe PhD student Sam Lester (Guldberg Lab) who gave talks in the Beetham Seminar Room. The seminar series is held most Mondays.
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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: brnw.ch/21wCypS
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Carmen, Yuki, and I representing @PlesaLab from @UOKnightCampus at #VariantEffect23 ! It's been a pleasure to see the amazing research and to share our work.
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When you hit the desk on a weekend to spot an art by the #LOTR geek, and instantly know it’s none other than your PI ! @PlesaLab
How many of you have items named in the lab?
#research #sciencetwitter #academiclife
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A perfect getaway for a lab retreat on a sunny weekend.
More to follow soon!
@PlesaLab @sweetcheekswine
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Happy upcoming winter break! #sciencegreetings @BioRender
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Replying to @ATinyGreenCell @ChenxinLi2
posted this when I saw how much q5 we've been buying
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First in-person conference after pandemic and that too with cool mates. We had awesome poster presentations by @AlkynesOfSci and @TrieneToScience. Can’t be more thankful to @OregonState for the cozy experience! Just missing a group picture of @PlesaLab !
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The @UOregon_iGEM team of undergrads based in the #KnightCampus @PlesaLab has a new vision for #concussiondiagnosis. Read more about their efforts to measure #biomarkers or proteins to reveal brain injuries and upcoming trip to Paris for the #igemjamboree fal.cn/3rxtd
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.@uoregon undergrads that are part of the @UOregon_iGEM team are working to develop a concussion biosensor
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Congrats to @TrieneToScience, rising 4th year Biology PhD candidate in the @PlesaLab, who recently presented a poster (a CRISPR-based method to select gene assemblies; synthesized using DropSynth) at the Genome Engineering: CRISPR Frontiers conference at @CSHL in New York!

































