We all start by cloning something into a plasmid. But the vector you choose matters more than you think. A Commentary from the battleground with my colleague & curator of the @sevaplasmids.bsky.social collection, Esteban Martínez enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Isn't what we wish for 😉

Happy to share our latest progress in revealing the last puzzle (out membrane uptake system) of mediator-based EET process. Now we can move our focuses from understanding to engineering 🤗

enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

For years we have been thinking about the realistic application niche of eletrobiotechnology. With the paper now online below, we are happy to introduce you a concept that has promising future that can bring electro-bio hybrid technology to industrial level

Realistic roles for hydrogen in the future energy transition - Nature Reviews Clean Technology Hydrogen has been proposed as a fuel for widespread use since the 1970s, but uptake has repeatedly fallen below projections, primarily due to high costs. This Perspective considers hydrogen’s potentia...

www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Light-microscopy-based connectomic reconstruction of mammalian brain tissue Nature - A technique called LICONN (light-microscopy-based connectomics) allows mapping of brain tissue at synapse level and simultaneous measurement of molecular information, thus enabling...

Connectomics 😲 just learnt a new technique

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Metabolic Engineering 16 Metabolic Engineering 16 is the premier conference in the field, offering a unique platform to learn about the latest methodologies and applications, connect with leading experts from industry and aca...

#ME16 is approaching soon on this Sunday, and cannot wait to meet many colleagues and friends, and also looking forward to the always-great and inspiring science from talks and posters. See you in #Copenhagen
www.aiche.org/imes/confere...

✈️Heading to Uppsala for the 3rd annual symposium hosted by my project mentor Peter Lindblad. Can't wait to see one of the best cyanobacterial research hubs and all the interesting and inspiring science

1/3 Although the issue of releasing GMOs for env bioremediation has been virtually absent of the mainstream scientific literature in Europe/US for >20 yrs, the topic has continued strong in Asia—alas in less fancy/visible journals. Time to revisit the subject in view of new global challenges 💪🏻!

I really respect some journals with long historical high reputation, but now may be fall in Q2 or Q3 group. But during my limited experience, I suffered several times of long review time, delay even no response from editors. These demotivate me to support these journals further

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The conformation emails for ISMET9 talks and posters were just sent out @ismetsociety.bsky.social . Please check your inbox for updates.

The registration has been open. Early bird rate is available until 15.06.2025. Please register via the link below:

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you can see the list of speakers here:

The application for the Advanced Synthetic Biology & Metabolic Engineering of Pseudomonas course at Cold Spring Harbor Asia, organized by @vdlorenzo.bsky.social @pabnik.bsky.social and GuoQiangChen, is open.
The deadline is July 7th. Please submit your application here
www.csh-asia.org?content/2645

Dual carbon sequestration with photosynthetic living materials - Nature Communications Natural ecosystems efficiently sequester CO2, but containing and controlling living systems remains challenging. Here, the authors engineer a photosynthetic living material for dual CO2 sequestration ...

Absolute smart ideas, especially making use of the alkaline condition caused by cyano to fix CO2 into CaCO3

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Extracellular respiration is a latent energy metabolism in Escherichia coli Diverse microbes utilize redox shuttles to exchange electrons with their environment through mediated extracellular electron transfer (EET), supportin…

Nice work. Congratulations Biki

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The only words I can say now is "Thanks you Jens for your long-term unconditional supports", and the only wish I have now is "wish we can continue to celebrate our 50th, 70th, ... joint publications"

Such fruitful collaboration plays a determination role in my career development. It helps me to develop critical scientific thinking in my phd phase, scientific leadership in my postdoc phase and finally become an independent group leader taking caring of my own students.

Today is a special day highlighted by the 20th joint publication between Jens (my phd supervisor, close friend, broad-sense family member, ...) and me. From the 1st one in 2016 to now 20th in 2025, I cannot image a better collaboration that a ECR can have.

Hyperspectral reporters for long-distance and wide-area detection of gene expression in living bacteria - Nature Biotechnology Hyperspectral reporter genes allow imaging of ground bacteria from aerial vehicles

Smart and creative idea of developing a remote biosensor

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Immediate Effect of Floating Solar Energy Deployment on Greenhouse Gas Dynamics in Ponds Floating photovoltaic (FPV) solar energy offers promise for renewable electricity production that spares land for other societal benefits. FPV deployment may alter greenhouse gas (GHG) production and ...

Important paper to read. Similar argument (also took some time to be accepted) that not all biotechnology processes are green and sustainable.

Immediate Effect of Floating Solar Energy Deployment on Greenhouse Gas Dynamics in Ponds | Environmental Science & Technology pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

The abstract submission deadline for #ISMET9
is extended to April 14th. Important note: this will be the only extension!!!

Please submit your abstract via the link below:

conference.ufz.de/frontend/ind...

Congratulations to Hannah, the first official Master graduate from the group, for achieving the best possible 1.0 score for her master thesis project. Well done!!!🥳 🥳 🥳

One-carbon fixation via the synthetic reductive glycine pathway exceeds yield of the Calvin cycle - Nature Microbiology An engineered one-carbon-fixation pathway increases biomass yields of Cupriavidus necator compared with the Calvin cycle and can support future, sustainable bio-based production.

This 👉🏻 www.nature.com/articles/s41... 😱

Biosynthesis of poly(ester amide)s in engineered Escherichia coli - Nature Chemical Biology Biobased polymers provide a sustainable alternative to petroleum-based plastics. In this study, the authors engineered Escherichia coli to biosynthesize poly(ester amide)s with customizable amino acid...

Fantastic work

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

While evolution is considered to play a role, the questions are what is the selective force and who/what will benefit from this process. I am more concerning it is not "natural evolution" but more "artifical adaptive evolution" that is normally "against the natural process".

Protein codes promote selective subcellular compartmentalization Cells have evolved mechanisms to distribute ~10 billion protein molecules to subcellular compartments where diverse proteins involved in shared functions must assemble. In this study, we demonstrate t...

"code" for the protein translocation 👍👍👍
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Climate change will amplify the impacts of harmful microorganisms in aquatic ecosystems - Nature Microbiology Here the authors discuss the influence of aquatic microbiomes on the health and economies of human populations and examine how climate changes might impact these dynamics.

Interesting perspective of biased influence of climate change on the pathogenic microorganism
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A peptide-centric local stability assay enables proteome-scale identification of the protein targets and binding regions of diverse ligands - Nature Methods The peptide-centric local stability assay (PELSA) can be used to determine ligand-binding targets and binding regions on a proteome-wide scale with high sensitivity.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Capture of membrane proteins in their native membrane milieu - Nature Methods This work presents optimized experimental protocols for the extraction of >2,000 unique membrane proteins directly from their native membranes into native nanodiscs. Combined with orthogonal struct...

Very interesting method targeting membrane proteins
www.nature.com/articles/s41...