Postdoctoral Fellow at John Hopkins University || Lynch Lab of Host-Microbe Dynamics || PhD in Biological Design || Metabolic Engineer & Synthetic Biologist
Tempe, AZ
Joined August 2018
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Arren Liu retweeted
The next @EngBioRC SPA workshop is on Monday! Please RT/share!
🧬 Are you an undergraduate or Master’s student and interested in applying to graduate programs?
📺 Attend our workshop to learn about writing strong statements of purpose!
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Looking for a postdoc to start by sept 1 to work on developing genome scale tools for a really cool non model yeast. The project is a collaboration with an exciting industry partner, with significant potential for translation. Email me if your cv and statement of interest.
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Check out the latest episode of EBRC In Translation! @jonesr18 and @KokZhiLee interview Doug Densmore (@cidar_lab), a professor at @BU_Tweets and co-founder of @LatticeAutomatn, @AsimovBio, and @BioSens8, about automation and more! ebrc.org/InTranslation
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We hope that our results can inform further studies into this interesting protein as well as accelerate the development of more practical targets academic.oup.com/nar/advance…
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What we found is that #NgAgo CAN cut DNA under select conditions - just not the ones commonly tested. However, its performance is complicated by suboptimal expression and folding in mesophilic hosts due to its halophilic character. (4/n)
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But, like everyone else, when @KokZhiLee repeated the retracted study in question, we got similar inconclusive results. What followed became a passion project that pushed my engineering lab into more mol bio and biochem than I ever dreamed (3/n)
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While our pilot studies were spinning up, there were already grumbles in various fora that something was wrong. However, our initial plasmid curing studies with the protein, surprisingly, worked (2/n)
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Storytime: In 2016 when I started my lab, #NgAgo was put forth as CRISPR 2.0. We picked it up as a promising tool to engineer our @AnaerobicFungi, which suffer from extreme genomic AT biases making standard Cas9 technologies (and CRISPR broadly) impractical (1/n)
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Excited to finally share the hard work of @KokZhiLee, @SynBioLiuG, @archana_kikla, @FitzgeraldBio, @pandolfi_paula and collaborators @PurdueBiochem
Congrats to @KokZhiLee and @drksolomon on the publication and all of the hard work! It’s so exciting to see parts of my undergrad research published! You can find our manuscript characterizing NgAgo and it’s potential as a gene editing tool here: academic.oup.com/nar/advance…
Arren Liu retweeted
Time: August 27th, 2021, 5pm EST | 2pm PST
Avenue: EBRC GatherTown
Who: EBRC members only
This is a casual social event. We want you to have fun!
Click the link below to participate!
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Want to connect to @EngBioRC members who also love pets? Want to network with other synthetic biologists? Join this month's EBRC social event! And yes, bring your favorite pets to the social as well! #synbio #networking
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Today is the start of Asian Pacific American Heritage month, and I ask you (everyone not just AAPIs) to do at least one action. It’s been a tough year for AAPIs. Hear Us, See Us for who we are. I made this #AAPIHeritageMonth guide with ideas to do. Please share. #APAHM (THREAD)
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Thrilled to share that our recent @NatureMicrobiol paper is on the cover this month! What did we learn from Elway the goat's gut microbiome? How does it have anything to do with biotechnology? A 🧵
nature.com/articles/s41564-0…
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So thankful for the opportunity to have worked for @drksolomon over the past five years, can’t imagine this journey without his guidance! Looking forward to seeing everything that the future holds for the Solomon Lab!
Congrats to @EthanHillman on the successful defense of his PhD Dissertation. As the first PhD of the lab, I could not be more proud. Good luck on your postdoc @umichmedicine and I look forward to submitting your papers. @PurdueABE @PU_OIGP
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I could name my favorite @AnaerobicFungi but this is why the Solomon Lab @UDChBE studies and engineers environmental consortia to identify microbes for #biofuels, recycling of #plastics, #biomanufacturing and much more. Recruiting PhD students now!
Introducing #microbemondays! 🦠
What undervalued microbes do you think could have the biggest impact on #syntheticbiology? 💥
👉 bit.ly/2YMtSF7
#synbio
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I am recruiting for Fall 2021 for projects in biofuels/biomass deconstruction, microbial plastic recycling, and SynBio tool development. PhD apps to @UDChBE are due Jan 3 cbe.udel.edu/graduate-progra…. Come join a top 8 ChE dept with rich collaborative and interdisciplinary research
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Congrats @purdueigem!!! Incredibly proud of you guys for winning @iGEM gold this year!!! 🥇🎉🧬 #VirtualGiantJamboree #boilerup
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Kevin Solomon, ChE PhD and Assistant Professor @PurdueABE, soon to be @UDChBE. Passion for studying and reprogramming microbial systems to solve societal challenges such as sustainable energy #synbio
#BlackInEngineering #BiERollCall
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Let's recognize Prof. Kristala Prather, expert in metabolic engineering and syn bio, who is a life long mentor, friend and just good person. She is one of two #BlackWomen that leads the top ranked ChE program in the US (and maybe world) #AmplifyBlackSTEM cheme.mit.edu/profile/krista…
