di Bernardo Lab

Mark your calendar! We're proud to sponsor this free webinar from @repro4everyone.bsky.social featuring @doctorzen.net on designing effective scientific posters. Don't miss this great resource for students and researchers!

Tenure Track Professorship (W1 with Tenure Track to W3) in “Molecular Biology" (f/m/d) - Heidelberg job with Universität Heidelberg | 12850668 The Center for Molecular Biology of Heidelberg University (ZMBH) and the Faculty of Biosciences invite applications for a   Tenure Track Professors...

We are recruiting a tenure track professor in the broader area of molecular biology @zmbh.uni-heidelberg.de at Heidelberg University! www.nature.com/naturecareer... Please share and apply!

🚨 Last call for the 'AI, Engineering Biology and Beyond' conference taking place in Bristol on the 15-16 January 2026. There is a limited capacity and some places are still left, but worth signing up soon before the 19th December deadline! Register at: aiebab.github.io

An unfinished Pompeian construction site reveals ancient Roman building technology - Nature Communications Here the authors combine microstructural and chemical analysis of building materials collected from an active construction site in Pompeii prior to the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE. Through these analyses, they identify the  key raw materials and processes used in the production of Roman concrete.

Building materials found in partially constructed rooms in Pompeii offer clues into how ancient Romans made cement, according to research published in Nature Communications. These insights improve our understanding of ancient Roman technologies that have kept structures standing for centuries.🏺 🧪

It's happening! Canada launched two programs to recruit international researchers.

Canada Impact+ Research Chairs (1 million/yr for 8 yrs +)
Canada Impact+ Emerging Leaders.

I will do my best to facilitate the process for those interested. Hit me up.

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A couple new #PhD opportunities to join my lab at the intersection of #synbio, #plantsci and #biotech as part of the Plant BioDesign doctoral programme spanning the University of York, University of Cambridge, University of Bristol and John Innes Centre. 1/4

Excited to share a new preprint! Wireless devices use FM modulation to transmit multiplexed noise-resistant data. Led by @born2raisecell.bsky.social, we create a biochemical analogue of this paradigm using genetically encoded oscillators (GEOs) for single-cell FM streaming tinyurl.com/nbs8rw42 🧵

Ten days left to apply to be a @crick.ac.uk Early Career Group Leader

Closing date 27th November

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Finally our lab is on @addgene.bsky.social !!! we will be actively adding new plasmids from our lab over the coming months. I hope you'll find our plasmids useful...and a big thanks to Addgene :)
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Are GLP-1s the first longevity drugs? go.nature.com/49aN7gR

Our 2nd online talk of the AI Hub in Generative Models generative biology meetings is on November 20th at 12pm UK time. We have @alextong.bsky.social presenting "Scalable Equilibrium Sampling via Generative Modelling" hosted by @jhartford.bsky.social - register here lnkd.in/eQUhfZjV

Work published today in @natbiotech.nature.com from Arc’s Luke Gilbert and Patrick Hsu labs presents a new way to insert large DNA sequences into the genome using engineered recombinases that don’t require DNA cutting or rely on the cell's repair machinery.

Meet our speakers for #SynBio26 🌟

Field experts will provide fascinating insights on how synthetic based-biology innovations are transforming human health and planetary sustainability.

Submit an abstract by 1 December 2025 - bursaries available
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#ALife ⚙️🧫

di Bernardo Lab - Join Us Postdoctoral Positions in Synthetic Biology – Join the DIMERCIRCUITS Project funded by an ERC Advanced Grant starting in 2026. My lab is looking for highly motivated postdoctoral researchers to join o...

dibernardo.tigem.it/join-us Postdoctoral Positions in Synthetic Biology – Join the DIMERCIRCUITS Project funded by an ERC Advanced Grant starting in 2026.

Promoter-GPT: Writing DNA Instructions with Language Models A Blog post by Hugging Science on Hugging Face

New from our lab!!! thanks to a fantastic graduate student (Adele De Hoeffer) a small blog on how to use #AI language models to write DNA thanks to @hf.co
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She Lived To 117. Here’s How The World’s Oldest Woman’s Cells Stayed Decades Younger Than Her Age - NewsBreak Study suggests Maria Branyas Morera’s daily yogurt habit could have shaped her tremendously healthy gut microbiome In A Nutshell Maria Branyas Morera lived

Research reveals that the daily #yogurt consumption of the world’s oldest woman is linked to her much younger #cell #age.

From a team including Maria A. Blasco at @cniostopcancer.bsky.social.

🇪🇺 #FrontierResearch @scienceinnovation.ec.europa.eu #cancer @manuelansede.bsky.social 🧪

Arc is looking for an outstanding early-career scientist to be our next Science Fellow. This program provides resources and freedom for those looking to transition into a principal investigator role immediately after doctoral training. Apply here: arcinstitute.org/programs/sea...

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I'm very excited to announce that UNC Biology has 6 faculty positions open this year! The first is for an Asst Professor who studies organismal resilience using an integrative approach 1/n
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Just back from the ESCGT 2025 in Sevilla Spain with my fantastic post docs who presented their work on engineering AAV producer cell lines and novel ways to address gene dosage compensation in gene replacement therapy, all using #syntheticbiology

Not very surprising…

Megabase-scale human genome rearrangement with programmable bridge recombinases Bridge recombinases are naturally occurring RNA-guided DNA recombinases that we previously demonstrated can programmably insert, excise, and invert DNA in vitro and in Escherichia coli. In this study,...

The team is already working to expand the platform’s abilities, including testing in clinically relevant immune and stem cells, and engineering future versions of the system that can rearrange sequences beyond one megabase.

Learn more in the full paper: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

🧪Roman Jerala @kemijski.bsky.social developed a new method for modular protein design that allows controlled assembly and disassembly.

The work is publicly available and could support advances in synthetic biology.

👉 europa.eu/!4GrrNf

#Biochemistry #Catalysis #GeneEditing @addgene.bsky.social

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Postdoc in adaptive laboratory evolution and C1 synthetic metabolism!

Location: DTU Biosustain

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Starting in 01/2026!

Fell free to reach out if you have questions!
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Join our lab dibernardo.tigem.it for the #ERC-funded project DIMERCIRCUITS at @tigem.bsky.social. We are building synthetic gene circuits to power next-generation gene and cell therapies. We are looking for candidates with a PhD in #SyntheticBiology or related. Apply by email: dibernardo@tigem.it

MCDB Opens Search for Faculty | U-M LSA Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology (MCDB) MCDB welcomes applications at the Assistant Professor level from outstanding biological scientists in all areas of physiology and neuroscience, spanning molecular, cellular, systems, and organismal le...

My MCDB dept is accepting applications for a faculty position at the Assistant Professor level!

Applications Due by October 15, 2025

We welcome applications from all areas of physiology and neuroscience, spanning molecular, cellular, systems, and organismal levels.

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Synthetic biology meets diagnostics: Engineering biosensing platforms for rapid and accurate pathogen and viral detection
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Group photo of postdocs conducting research at a Max Planck Institute

The #MaxPlanckPostdocProgram offers a guaranteed contract of at least 3 years, targeted mentoring, and career workshops. The call for applications is open now! 🚀 Take advantage of this opportunity and browse the job vacancies. www.mpg.de/en/max-planc...

Come and join us at a free complementary Japan-UK Engineering Biology meeting after the main ESSL conference (essl2025.org/). A few spaces left to some see some of the up and coming superstars of #synbio in the UK!

Your DNA sequence reveals a rare mutation. Will you get the disease, i.e. penetrance? A new study using machine learning predicts this across 10 common diseases, 1,600 genomic variants
New @science.org
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A community effort to optimize sequence-based deep learning models of gene regulation - Nature Biotechnology A benchmarking competition improves tools that predict how regulatory regions control gene expression.

A benchmarking competition improves tools that predict how regulatory regions control gene expression go.nature.com/3NnblYZ
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