Transposons meet genome editing. Check out our latest study that characterizes an R2 retrotransposon and turns it into a genome engineering tool for mammalian cells in this skeetorial! 🐦⬛🥚
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If you like transposons...
If you you love genome editing...
Or if you just like random bird animations,
we have the paper for you!
We (@kedmonds.bsky.social et al) are happy to share our work turning a songbird retrotransposon into a genome editing tool. 🐣 (1/n)
03.07.2025 03:20 — 👍 43 🔁 16 💬 4 📌 2
mcb grad student in the collins lab at uc berkeley | likes rna
@DamonRunyon.org Postdoc @UCBerkeleyofficial.bsky.social | Leading Edge Fellow | PhD Princeton | Mobile elements, Structural biology and Genome engineering | http://thawanilab.org
PhD candidate in Collins Lab at Berkeley MCB, studying evolution of transposable elements. Formerly Fordyce Lab @ Stanford and Park Lab @ Harvard. (he/him) 🧬🏳️🌈
Postdoc with Sascha Martens and Tim Clausen at the Vienna BioCenter (VBC). #MSCA Fellow. Formerly University of Oxford and University of Antwerp.
Transposable Element, piRNA & Drosophila #GReD #UCA, #Clermont-Ferrand
Assistant Professor of Biochemistry @stanford.edu. Previously at MIT, Broad Institute, and Harvard Society of Fellows. Microbiology and biotech 🧬 https://gaolab.bio/
Caltech Bioengineering grad-student of the Elowitz lab, synthetic biologist
Synthetic Biology. Designer cells and organelles. Space plants and microbes. Antifungal. Antimicrobials. Optimization of DNA delivery: conjugation, cell fusion. Western University, Canada.
BioE PhD student at Stanford
Understanding life. Advancing health.
Associate Prof @HarvardMed. Microbial evolution, antibiotic resistance, mobile genetic elements, algorithms, phages, molecular biotech, etc. Basic research is the engine of progress.
baymlab.hms.harvard.edu
Mobile genetic element whisperer. Computational Biologist @arcinstitute.org. Genetics PhD @stanfordmedicine.bsky.social.
I post about programmable recombinases and genome design.
shendure lab |. krishna.gs.washington.edu
https://lovelesslab.blogs.rice.edu/
Prof. at UC Irvine developing specialized genetic systems for rapid evolution, protein engineering, and biology at large. Also at https://x.com/chang_c_liu
www.liulab.com
Synthetic Biology & Synthetic Genomics @ Imperial College London and the Sanger Institute. Bilingual in English and DNA. Views are either my own or my microbes'
Aging lab @Stanford. Our interests include mechanisms of aging, brain aging and rejuvenation, neural stem cell aging, genetics of lifespan and suspended animation in killifish
cell signaling, synbio, publication anarchy, mentoring, teaching, curiosity, caring. ⚧️🏳️🌈🧙🏻♀️
