Postdoc at @wyssinstitute, PhD in Biological Engineering from @MITdeptofBE, Synthetic biology / Living materials
Boston, MA
Joined December 2019
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Our review (@timlu & Zhong lab) on designing living materials using synthetic biology is out! We covered recent advances & prospects and summarized #synbio tools for programming smart living materials with various functionalities.
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nature.com/articles/s41578-0…
Leibniz INM is a wonderful place for living materials research. I've visited them twice and am very impressed by their focus on ELM and how supportive the PIs are!
We're looking to fill 4 new PhD positions in the field of Engineered Living Materials in the labs of Prof. Aranzazu del Campo, Prof. Tobias Kraus, @GroupSyn and @ShrikrishnanS
Apply here for this exciting opportunity - short.sg/j/43393108
#PhDposition #phdlife #academicjob
This work from Marcus is one of the most elegant I have seen!
Happy to share that our work engineering cellulose-producing bacteria to grow light-induced patterns and make melanin to grow black leather-like materials is now published OA in @NatureBiotech > Study led by the amazing Marcus Walker @Marcus_waal nature.com/articles/s41587-0…
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New preprint: Cyanobacteria isolated from marine volcanic seeps display rapid sinking and robust, high density growth. Thanks to U Palermo and Two Frontiers Project, we got unique samples from Vulcano, Italy, where CO2 bubbles into the shallow ocean, 24-7! biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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We reprogrammed some bacteria, stuck them in a gel and shone light. YOU WON'T BELIEVE WHAT HAPPENED NEXT!
If that clickbait worked, click this link to check out our latest work on bacterial gels for regeneration -
doi.org/10.1002/adfm.2022126…
@Vrunvrun3 @priya_dhakane @AdvSciNews
Amazing black cellulose materials by @Marcus_waal!
In our work on engineered living materials, a question we ask ourselves is ‘How can we use synthetic biology to make materials more sustainable?’ In our new preprint, Marcus Walker @Marcus_waal answers this with ‘Bacterial Black Sheep’.
How? Read on… 🧵⬇️
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Excited to share our newest paper in Nature Biotech on robotic AI-enabled microbial culturomics! Congrats to @YimingHuang8, @raviusheth and all coauthors. 1/4 nature.com/articles/s41587-0…
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Insightful paper @CellSystemsCP by @oventurelli2 @harriswangnyc @LedesmaAmaro @ajfedorec et al.
What is the key challenge in engineering microbiomes?
cell.com/cell-systems/fullte…
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Oligo Recombineering (DIvERGE pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pna…) - based bacteriophage engineering enables functional metagenomics in diverse pathogens
- @NatureMicrobiol
nature.com/articles/s41564-0… – at Massachusetts, USA
ALT Characterization of antibiotic resistomes by reprogrammed bacteriophage-enabled functional metagenomics in clinical strains
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At the limit, bioengineering is a medium for atomically precise, infinitely scalable technology. This has significant potential for accomplishing climate goals: we’re building Homeworld to encourage the development and ambition of the climate biotech community.
More coming soon!
We're very excited to share our efforts to support climate biotech! Our first blog post is a short introduction with more coming soon 💚 homeworld.bio/news/introduci…
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A recent wave of mycelium innovations has brought attention to the hidden world of mushrooms and molds. Read our work to see how #SynBio can help unlock the Magic in Mycelium!
led by @ZijayTang & Charles Jo from labs of @MoKhalilLab @dsegre @geochurch
sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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ChatGPT for biology? Excited to share our work on LLMs for protein design out today @NatureBiotech
nature.com/articles/s41587-0…
+ Proud to publicly announce @ProfluentBio with a $9M seed round to tackle meaningful challenges in biology with AI. Join us!
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Meet 𝐋𝐢𝐥𝐚 - an Automated Scientist built by the Amyris crew to do E.coli and Yeast metabolic engineering by DBTL cycles. Lila has made 100s of biosynthesis strains. Perhaps she is going to make your PhD students feel a bit sad
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The final version of my undergrad research in the @NogalesLab is published! We used CryoEM to solve the structure of the NuA4 histone acetyltransferase complex to 3.1Å. Love the beautiful figures we made and especially my hard-earned protein gel in fig 3c. doi.org/10.7554/eLife.81400
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Really excited to finally share this preprint! It's a culmination of several advances in my group(optogenetics, bacterial gels, therapeutic proteins) and is the start of creating remote controlled engineered living materials for regeneration.@priya_dhakan @MoeglichLab @Vrunvrun3
Light-regulated pro-angiogenic engineered living materials biorxiv.org/cgi/content/shor… #bioRxiv
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Today in @NatureComms , Will Shaw (@willmshaw) and I finally share our new work collaborating with Xiaozhou (David) Luo @ SIAT, developing a yeast-based biosensor & workflow for screening microbially-produced Δ9-tetrahydrocannbinol, better known as 𝗧𝗛𝗖🧵nature.com/articles/s41467-0…
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Come join us. 3 open academic positions at Assistant Professor level available in my home department at Imperial College London. Engineering Biology / Synthetic Biology is within scope so please apply. imperial.ac.uk/jobs/descript…
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Happy to report that I've joined the faculty of @TheCrick Institute in London as a Principle Investigator! I lead the Biodesign Lab, where we use 🤖 Robotics-Accelerated Evolution 🧬 to push the limits of biotech for use on Earth 🌎 and in Space 🪐 biodesignlab.co.uk
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Miami is hiring an Assistant Professor in Analytical Chemistry. Such an amazing and SUPPORTIVE Department. Very productive, averaging 3 publications per student. Deadline Oct. 3. Please spread the word @ACS_ANYL @ChemFaculty2020 @mu_chem @NSF!!! miamioh.edu/cas/academics/de…
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Do you want to publicize your #EngineeredLivingMaterials research?
Then contact @M_B_Avinash or me, as we are serving as the Guest Editors for a new Collection in @JoVEJournal
JoVE takes care of filming and producing your ELM research video!
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