@ericmyces

Assistant professor. PI of the YoungLab@WPI. We engineer yeast, bacteria, and mammalian cells. Always ready to talk transport proteins.

 Worcester, MA
linkedin.com/in/ericmyoung7/
Joined July 2010
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Excited that my collaboration with Sue Roberts is now published!! Our awesome student Cassandra used crispr to epigenetically modify Taxus plant cell lines! She focused on repressing phenylpropanoid biosynthesis to boost paclitaxel production. frontiersin.org/articles/10.…
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Busy week for the Young Lab!! Our high quality sequence of the nonconventional yeast Ogataea polymorpha (Hansenula polymorpha) is now a genome announcement! doi.org/10.1128/MRA.00611-22
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Happy to share our latest preprint on -omics driven onboarding of red yeast: Supported by the National Science Foundation and the DOE JGI CSP! biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…

Transcriptomics elucidates metabolic regulation and functional promoters in the basidiomycete red...

Genomics has become the primary way to explore microbial diversity, because genetic tools are currently difficult to develop in non-model organisms. Here, we demonstrate that -omics can be leveraged...

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For those at #SIMB2023, check out poster P14 - Emma is presenting her latest results on the NSF CAREER funded YoungLab red yeast engineering project!
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Great week so far at CSHL Synthetic Biology! Students have completed intensive modules on crispr, txtl, modeling, and dna assembly. Looking forward to week 2! @CSHL #cshlsynbio23
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Congratulations to recent PhD graduate Dr. Kevin Keating, whose work on part transfer just came out in ACS Synthetic Biology and is being featured on the Young Lab poster at #ME15 in Singapore this week! pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs…
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Pleased to announce the latest application for our Prymetime yeast genome sequencing workflow is now public! Beginning to understand the genomic underpinning of probiotic yeasts with @ReetaPRao!! academic.oup.com/g3journal/a…

Genetic basis for probiotic yeast phenotypes revealed by nanopore sequencing

Abstract. Probiotic yeasts are emerging as preventative and therapeutic solutions for disease. Often ingested via cultured foods and beverages, they can su

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Pleased to share our latest preprint! Systematic part transfer by extending a modular toolkit to diverse bacteria biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…

Systematic part transfer by extending a modular toolkit to diverse bacteria

It is impractical to develop a new parts collection for every potential host organism. It is well-established that gene expression parts, like genes, are qualitatively transferable, but there is...

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I'm happy to announce that I will be an instructor for the 2023 @cshlsynbio course! I'm also happy to share that my colleague Michelle O’Malley (UCSB) will be a guest speaker! Attendees can attend a small-group lecture and chat. Apply by April 1, 2023 tinyurl.com/32pz7c79
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Check out my SynBYSS talk for updates on what we're doing in sequencing, yeast synthetic biology, and fungal highways! #SynBYSS youtube.com/watch?v=tPsZyYrZ…

SynBYSS with Prof. Alfonso Jaramillo at U. Valencia in Spain & Prof. Eric Young at WPI.

SynBYSS with Prof. Alfonso Jaramillo at University of Valencia in S...

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.@ericmyces and co show how whole genome sequencing can be used to analyse and identify #synbio engineered yeast in pure and mixed samples go.nature.com/2OolHN5
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Very happy to announce the first preprint from my lab. Want to verify your yeast strain engineering with NGS? Now you can. Made possible by @IARPAnews and in collaboration with the BBN team at @RaytheonTech
bioRxiv@biorxivpreprint6 May 2020
Verification of genetic engineering in yeasts with nanopore whole genome sequencing biorxiv.org/cgi/content/shor… #bioRxiv
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@WPI21 May 2019
With support from @IARPAnews & @Raytheon, #WPI chemical engineer @ericmyces is identifying genetic signatures for a biosecurity tool that will find engineered organisms in the wild. wpi.today/biosecuritytool #DNA #biotechnology
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Interested in engineering environmental isolates of bacteria? Check out our new paper for a tool that may help!
Nature Microbiology@NatureMicrobiol20 Aug 2018
Voigt & co: 'XPORT' is an engineered conjugative element-based system that enables efficient DNA delivery into a broad range of undomesticated Gram positive #bacteria: rdcu.be/4RqM
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So good to see Alper Lab alums and current members at #me12! It was a great conference - excellent talks, strong posters. Already looking forward to another reunion at me13!
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Just got back from the beautiful English garden here in Munich! Come by Poster 90 today or tomorrow where I’ll be talking about iterative design-of-experiments for genetic design optimization! #metabolicengineering #ME12
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Excited to be in Munich for #me12!
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Click-and-read link to the massively parallel pathway engineering paper from my time at the MIT-Broad Foundry @SynBioFoundry : authors.elsevier.com/c/1X7tj…
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Scientists are building a completely synthetic yeast cell, engineered to have its genome SCRaMbLEd. My lab is now also using the technology to create better industrial #yeasts. Know more? Read our comment in @NatureComms HERE: rdcu.be/PbIW @VIBLifeSciences @LeuvenU
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Iterative algorithm-guided design of massive strain libraries, out in Metabolic Engineering! Check it out: doi.org/10.1016/j.ymben.2018…
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