Assistant Professor in Chemical Engineering Department @ Texas A&M University Synthetic Biology Lab

College Station, TX
Joined April 2018
We are excited to share that our paper “RNAdegformer: accurate prediction of mRNA degradation at nucleotide resolution with deep learning” is now available on Briefings in Bioinformatics. It highlights our algorithm to predict mRNA degradation properties. doi.org/10.1093/bib/bbac581
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Excited to share that our review paper on chromoproteins has been published in Trends in Biotechnology! Congratulations to @babuxiang Fang Ba, who did an outstanding job leading this work!
Online now: Chromoproteins: visible tools for advancing synthetic biology dlvr.it/TPVXg3
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It was great experience working on this project with all the amazing co-authors! Exited to see it comes out!@MoKhalilLab @timlu
In a @MolSystBiol study: "engineered #microbiome communities can be used to endow #host #organisms with novel functions, such as the ability to utilize alternate #nutrient sources or to better fight #pathogenic #bacteria" @sunlab12 @MoKhalilLab @timlu 👇 embopress.org/doi/full/10.15…
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Gathering Chen lab lab alumni @sunlab12 @sarmazdehlab
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Great weather to end a great meeting with great colleagues #ICBE2023 @WilfredChen1 @sunlab12 @sarmazdehlab
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End of semester lab safety quiz before we head to holiday parties. Safety is always the most important topic in the lab.
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Deadline alert! Abstracts due tomorrow, Nov 30th! Come join @WilfredChen1, @omalleylab, @mikhailshapiro, @AjoFranklinLab, @drksolomon, @FrancoLabUCLA, @Demirer_GozdeS, @Laura_RiceU, @XueSherryGao, @sunlab12, @CarlDenard, @kunjapur and more at ICBE!
Submit your abstract for The 12th International Conference on Biomolecular Engineering. ICBE 2023 meets beautiful Santa Barbara, California at the turn of the new year on January 8-11, 2023! Submit your abstract today: bit.ly/3VrmZ8b
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Qing Sun Lab retweeted
The Spring 2023 admission application for the TAMU ChemE Ph.D. program is due on 10/1. We have multiple openings in the BioEngr focus, including synthetic and systems biology, metabolic engineering, natural product, microbial engineering, and biomechanics. Join us! Please RT.
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TAMU junior faculty @AIChE summer school. @ManishShetty88 @DjireGlaye @Xuejun Having fun learning how to better help our students. Thank the department for the support!
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New Spotlight from Youjun Zhang and Alisdair Fernie (@CPSBB2 @MPIMP_Potsdam) highlights research from @WilfredChen1 (@UDChBE) on modulating enzyme activity with synthetic CRISPR–Cas6 endonucleases: cell.com/trends/biotechnolog…
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An interesting summary of our paper by Alex Green nature.com/articles/s41589-0…
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I am happy to share our new work on using CRISPR Cas6 for dynamic protein assembly. Excellent work by Alex Mitkas. nature.com/articles/s41589-0…
Wilfred Chen Lab reunion at San Diego @ACS_BIOT although Chen is not in town. We miss having you in the party! @WilfredChen1
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Excited to share that we got the NIH $1.8M Stephen I. Katz Early Stage Investigator R01 to develop thermally stable mRNA vaccines. We are excited and grateful and are hiring PhD and postdocs. Please check out the grant details here tx.ag/VaccineStabilitySun
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Having a great time at San Diego @ACS @ACS_BIOT first in person conference of the year!
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I am going to give a talk at the SynBYSS community 2/10, 10 am central time. Zoom link is here. Please join us and see the recent progress from our lab!
2/10, 10 am US central, we will have #SynBYSS speakers: Prof. Mattheos Koffas @mkoffas @rpi, an editor-in-chief of Metabolic Engineering Communications @ElsevierBiotech & Prof. @QingSun15 @TAMU! Zoom link: wustl.zoom.us/j/93914082365?…
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Baizhen gave a great presentation talking about our recent Nature Communications paper on programming animal physiology through engineered bacteria. First national conference presentation from our group. Thank you @nathanguy14 @eric for such a good session! #AICHE2021 #Boston
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My student Baizhen Gao is going to give a talk at Synthetic Biology: Microbiome Engineering session at AIChE. Looking forward to this wonderful session! #AICHE2021 #Boston
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@AIChECAST10 Banquets are the best! Bonus is this 👇. Thanks AIChE CAST Division for the 2021 Young Researcher Award. Truly humbled!
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We are looking for two postdoctoral scholars to work on protein engineering and/or mammalian cell-pathogen interactions. Please send your CV and applications to [email protected] if you are interested! Please find the recruiting information here. qsunlab.com/positions/
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