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Gordon Wellman

@GordonWellman

Itinerant Scientist 🇦🇺 - currently postdoc @ KAUST 🇸🇦 SSB Lab - Biotech, botany and automation - building better 🌿 for a changing planet 🌏

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Joined September 2011
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Putting this together was easier than RE cloning 😅 - thanks to @GenScript!
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Excited to kick off another year teaching the practical component of BioE300: Introduction to Genetic Engineering of Algae! Proud to still wear my badge from ACPFG's "Get Into Genes" program. Here's to another amazing semester! 🌱🧫 🦠✨
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Replying to @opentrons
@opentrons - is there a secret OT-3? {"level":"debug","message":"no OT-3 serial port found" ... 👆Getting this error after recent updates
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Ah, turns out to be unrelated. Our bot needed a device reset. Wasn't clear from the logs 🙄
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Sent off plasmids for sequencing to @plasmidsaurus last Thursday. Data back today! So quick! Even after travelling ~11,100 km(~7000 mi/freedom units) 🤯🤯
Automated annotations for a plasmid from our recent paper - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mec.2023.e00221 - and yes, that's an anatomically correct dinosaur.

ALT Automated annotations for a plasmid from our recent paper - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mec.2023.e00221 - and yes, that's an anatomically correct dinosaur.

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Me: "Today is going to be a good day..." Omens in the confocal: #Chlamy #pareidolia
Bottom right: Mike Wazowski and his buddies mocking me

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Much more comfortable being behind the camera with BioE300 students in the SSB lab today 😅 PhD students/TAs @razanzyahya & Malak taking them & @tk_ozawa through #Chlamy transformations 🧫
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Replying to @ATinyGreenCell
@ATinyGreenCell recovering your babies! via @Kylelauersen
No parafilm. I like to live dangerously.

ALT No parafilm. I like to live dangerously.

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A nice surprise this morning @ATinyGreenCell!
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Alice Stra@AliceStra18 Jan 2023
My first mini-review has been published today on Frontiers! frontiersin.org/articles/10.…

Frontiers | Carotenoid metabolism: New insights and synthetic approaches

Carotenoids are well-known isoprenoid pigments naturally produced by plants, algae, photosynthetic bacteria as well as by several heterotrophic microorganism...

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Stay humble my friends, you're never too experienced to perform retrophoresis 😐
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Check out my favourite (robotic) labmate for Chlamydomonas engineering!
Kyle J. Lauersen (@Kylelauersen) profile pictureKyle J. Lauersen
@Kylelauersen31 Aug 2022
I will be giving a seminar highlighting our recent work using the colony picking robots from @SingerInst for engineering Chlamydomonas. Hope to see you there 28th September! singerinstruments.com/rotor-…
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Great team, great lab! Selfishly, I want to borrow the AKTA specialist 😅
Monika Chodasiewicz (@StressGranuleMC) profile pictureMonika Chodasiewicz@StressGranuleMC24 Aug 2022
I still have Postdoctoral position open! Everyone who has experience working with AKTA and other separation methods is welcome to apply. Only serious applications please 😀👍 #KAUST
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eLife - the journal@eLife27 Jul 2022
PhDs can be challenging and public discourse tends to focus on the negatives. To bring back some balance and positive momentum, this group of students sought to highlight the positive elements of the PhD experience. #AcademicChatter #PhDChat elifesciences.org/articles/8…
Detailed venn diagram showing the three primary benefits of doing a PhD: acquiring expertise (pink circle), learning to work in a collaborative environment (blue), and developing communication skills for sharing knowledge (yellow).

ALT Detailed venn diagram showing the three primary benefits of doing a PhD: acquiring expertise (pink circle), learning to work in a collaborative environment (blue), and developing communication skills for sharing knowledge (yellow).

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Postdoctoral position open in my lab! Experience with ATKA and other separation methods - required! Project on stress biology involving protein-protein, protein-metabolite interactions 👍🔥☔️☃️ @kaustcda
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I participated in the #Saudi_Census_2022! #أنا_شاركت
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“Producing something is easy, but to produce something in a sustainable way, in terms of energy efficient, water efficient, chemical efficient and also sustainable—that is the challenge.” – Professor Wei Zhang from @Flinders University
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Nice to have some of the #TKS teachers stop by the #SSBlab today! Missed you @jamierhouse.
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Interested in #cyanobacteria? Don’t miss the opportunity to hear the talk of Prof. Ilka Axmann who currently works with synthetic metabolic pathways at the @HHU_de. Join the iGEM Phototroph kick-off event 26/6 17:00 CET: tinyurl.com/9hx7ecxs #igemphototrophs #iGEM2021
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Engineering #Chlamydomonas is a numbers game due to non-homologous end joining in the nuclear genome. Here, the process from transformation, recovery, robotic assisted selection (#PIXL), screening and phenotyping, by @GordonWellman #SSB @KAUST_News. Shelves by @kaust_corelabs – at Thuwal, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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What a great morning! We officially opened the Sustainable & Synthetic Biotechnology Research Group at #KAUST. @KAUST_News @KaustRPP @HorsingJig @s_overmans @SaGutierrezz @GordonWellman. Including lab tour to our senior leadership. Thanks to #BESE division for the event support!
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Tomorrow! Our official lab opening event in Building 2! @KAUST_News @KAUST_News @KaustRPP @s_overmans @SaGutierrezz @HorsingJig @GordonWellman. Thanks #SSBBteam for all the work to get ready. Looking forward to giving lab tours!
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