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We are excited to finally publish the unprecedented biosynthetic origins of enediyne natural products: iodinated polyynes! This transformative discovery is a huge milestone for these clinical antitumor antibiotics. @Kalkreuter @guichun98 @nchembio
nature.com/articles/s41589-0…
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If you cannot explain something in simple terms, you don't understand it.
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If you’re interested in working at the forefront of quantitative mammalian cell engineering, we’re hiring for all types of roles @AsimovBio
jobs.lever.co/asimov
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This cuttlefish isn’t fooling anybody
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UMN #startup @NovoClade recently won a $1 million Small Business Innovation Research Phase II grant from @NSF, which it will use to scale up production & conduct trials of an environmentally friendlier insect control technology. #techtransfer research.umn.edu/units/techc…
ALT NovoClade logo and Siba Das
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Women in academia have fallen behind with publications and grant funding during the COVID-19 pandemic and risk dropping out of the research workforce unless urgent action is taken by institutes and funders, a @NatureMedicine Comment article argues. go.nature.com/3t8L7in
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@VPRCramer, @umncbs Dean Valery Forbes, Mike Sadowsky, Andrea Backes, Amy Kircher, and Stephen Streng. This core team worked with over 150 individuals who actively collaborated to develop @TheBioMADE vision. I can’t wait to build a #BioMADEfuture with them and many more. [2/2]
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Thrilled to share our latest work using Engineered Genetic Incompatibility to generate multiple speciation events in D. melanogaster! Applications include transgene biocontainment, disease vector population replacement, and pest population control.
nature.com/articles/s41467-0…
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Figure one for my review on the origins and history of synthetic biology or whatever
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SEED 2020 (Synthetic Biology, Engineering, Evolution, and Design)
San Francisco, CA
June 22-25, 2020
Keynote speakers: Alice Ting, Toby Richardson, Kristala Jones Prather, Danielle Tullman-Ercek, and Mustafa Khammash
synbioconference.org/2020
Abstracts due: March 16
#SEED2020
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EBRC's Research Roadmap is out! More than 80 scientists and engineers worked together for over a year to develop a roadmap the field. Check it out at roadmap.ebrc.org
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Dimitri Perusse and Michael J. Smanski @Smanski_Lab report the stereoselective semi-synthesis of the neuroprotective natural product, serofendic acid as part of our #NaturalProducts collection, Edited by @GTsodikova - rsc.li/2ZbUayu
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Adam Sychla from @Smanski_Lab just recognized for his leadership in @Gene_Writers at #GWG19 #GWG2019. Congrats!
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KOLs keep saying germline editing is a red line not to be crossed. I asked families affected by devastating inherited diseases how they feel about that: statnews.com/2019/04/17/cris…
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My 2019 Top US Public Global Universities
Ranking based on the combination (Z score) of the numbers of faculty with 10K, 50K, and 100K citations
1.UC Berkeley
2 UC San Diego
3 U Washington
4 U Michigan
5 UCLA
6 Ohio State
7 U. North Car.
8 U Minnesota
9 U Wisconsin
10 UC Irvine
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Another great collaboration on platensimycin/platencin biosynthesis from the Shen and @hanzyduzit groups in @J_A_C_S! Cryptic and Stereospecific Hydroxylation, Oxidation, and Reduction in Platensimycin and Platencin Biosynthesis pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/jac…
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You missed:
1. This is too risky, there isn't enough supporting data.
2. Now it sounds like it's obvious and has no novelty.
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Great job by @syntoxguy advancing @Smanski_Lab startup @NovoClade !
Congrats to UMN's Siba Das/ @NovoClade, winner of the #Walleyetank startup pitch competition organized by @MayoInvents in the junior angler division! @syntoxguy #startups
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