Cell/mol/synthetic/micro biologist and designer. Living materials, pattern formation, pretty colors and alchemy(cloning). Ph.D. Candidate @keitzlab @utaustin

Austin, TX
Joined June 2023
Happy to add another journal cover to my portfolio, but mostly excited for everyone to read about @GinaPartipilo’s creative application of microfluidics for rapid screening of electroactive bacteria
⚡️An electrifying start to the New Year! Check out the January issue of AEM, featuring a dynamic cover by artist Ismar Miniel. @TexasCHE and @ut_caee researchers describe the use of microdroplet emulsion sorting to identify new electroactive bacteria⚡️ journals.asm.org/toc/aem/91/…
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A Linear Mixed Effects Model for Evaluating Synthetic Gene Circuits biorxiv.org/cgi/content/shor… #biorxiv_synbio
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We thrilled to share our latest work in @NatureComms, led by @TrevorRSimmons, in which we rewired CsrA to build designer post-transcriptional genetic circuits. Our approach supports the idea of co-opting native networks for complex bacterial computation. doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-5…
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We are excited to share our latest preprint, led by @matsuri_rojano & @TrevorRSimmons, in which we identify concentration dependent regulation of CsrA on a novel mRNA target and repurpose this interaction to build a genetic BANDPASS Filter. biorxiv.org/cgi/content/shor… #WhatStartsHere
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So surreal to see my image on the cover of Nature Chemical Biology! Shoutout to @GinaPartipilo and @austinjgraham for leading a great project and all of the @KeitzLab members who made it possible. #sciart
Our October issue is live! nature.com/nchembio/volumes/… The cover depicts an engineered living material with controllable mechanical properties: Bacteria (orange) embedded in a hydrogel are programmed to control the expression of MtrC which regulates microbial respiration
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So excited to see our Point of View in eLife come out today! elifesciences.org/articles/1…
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Today's render stays with the #Olympic2024 theme and is featuring precious metals: a RNA duplex containing C-Au-C base pair. Structure: pdb 7EDU Rendered with @Blender #sciart #gold
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Speed-run through styling a protein in @Blender It contains quite a bit of trial and error, but this is how designing works for me. I have a vision in mind, but the final outcome is often quite different 😅 #sciart #render
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I forgot to mention also - you can install from within Blender. No more need to download anything externall. Download and update from within Blender 4.2
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I have been working like absolute crazy over the past two months for this - #MolecularNodes 4.2 is now released for #b3d 4.2 A huge number of new features - which I will cover some here. - Selections using @mdanalysis selection language are updated live.
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Colony pattern development of a synthetic bistable switch doi.org/10.1101/2024.06.17.5…
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Very excited for #SEED2024 next week! Come find me at poster 104 during Tuesday’s poster session!
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Investigation of artificial cells containing the Par system for bacterial plasmid segregation and inheritance mimicry doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-4…
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When you come to split cells in the lab during a weekend
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Our #WeekendReading suggestion for you today is this Review article: Advances of Bacterial Biomaterials for Disease Therapy ➡️ go.acs.org/9BK Thanks to Lin Zhai, Laiying Fu, Wei Wei, and Diwei Zheng for their insightful work! #biomaterials #metabolicengineering
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Just released a new #MolecularNodes version. A bunch of bug fixes, but two new features after multiple requests in some recent workshops. - Panel to download from the #AlphaFold database - Quickly change styles by right clicking #b3d #GeometryNodes
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In this work, we investigate EET as a modulator of engineered living materials and use bacterial logic to actuate changes the abiotic environment.
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Working on this project was cloning and assay development boot camp. I’m beyond thankful and proud to be able to work with such brilliant people! 🫡
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