Tae Seok Moon
@taeseokmoon.bsky.social
YouTuber, traveler, director of an NSF global center, Full professor at JCVI, EBRC Council Member, SynBYSS Chair, Moonshot Bio founder, EFB Executive Board Member, and editor of 10 journals, including the New Biotechnology Editor-in-Chief.
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Tae Seok Moon
@taeseokmoon.bsky.social
· Aug 30
Please suggest the last keynote speaker for the 2nd SynBYSS conference on June 8-11, 2026 in Barcelona
Until now, the confirmed speakers are
Keynote speakers:
Víctor de Lorenzo, Sarah O'Connor, Pam Silver, Ian Paulsen, Wilfried Weber, Mark Isalan, Chase Beisel
@vdlorenzo.bsky.social @jcvi.org
1/n
Until now, the confirmed speakers are
Keynote speakers:
Víctor de Lorenzo, Sarah O'Connor, Pam Silver, Ian Paulsen, Wilfried Weber, Mark Isalan, Chase Beisel
@vdlorenzo.bsky.social @jcvi.org
1/n
Having a great time hiking in Tambourine Mountain near Brisbane & having Korean lunch with future #synbio leaders in Australia. Thank Bingyin Peng for arranging the gathering & giving a ride, and Naga Bandari & Zeyu Lu for joining us!
November 30, 2025 at 6:45 AM
Having a great time hiking in Tambourine Mountain near Brisbane & having Korean lunch with future #synbio leaders in Australia. Thank Bingyin Peng for arranging the gathering & giving a ride, and Naga Bandari & Zeyu Lu for joining us!
#Life is #unfair because it's the consequence of #unpredictable and #stochastic processes since Big Bang. However, we are now alive, and we may have a better #future. At the end of the day, we started from nothing, and life is a #free #journey. That is what I am thankful for.
#HappyThanksgiving!
#HappyThanksgiving!
November 27, 2025 at 9:37 PM
#Life is #unfair because it's the consequence of #unpredictable and #stochastic processes since Big Bang. However, we are now alive, and we may have a better #future. At the end of the day, we started from nothing, and life is a #free #journey. That is what I am thankful for.
#HappyThanksgiving!
#HappyThanksgiving!
My 1st scuba diving experience in Great Barrier Reef, the world largest coral reef area, Australia. Due to pollution, climate crisis, etc., corals are dying faster. Shouldn't we allow our children to see those and live in a cleaner world? Let's protect our environment for future generations.
November 27, 2025 at 5:10 AM
My 1st scuba diving experience in Great Barrier Reef, the world largest coral reef area, Australia. Due to pollution, climate crisis, etc., corals are dying faster. Shouldn't we allow our children to see those and live in a cleaner world? Let's protect our environment for future generations.
Humans are beautiful only when getting along with nature, not necessarily when conquering them.
As mom Kangaroo is carrying her baby in her pouch, humans should embrace the planet when living in it, by not disturbing sleeping koala and building box beach houses without contaminating sources in them.
As mom Kangaroo is carrying her baby in her pouch, humans should embrace the planet when living in it, by not disturbing sleeping koala and building box beach houses without contaminating sources in them.
November 25, 2025 at 7:37 AM
Humans are beautiful only when getting along with nature, not necessarily when conquering them.
As mom Kangaroo is carrying her baby in her pouch, humans should embrace the planet when living in it, by not disturbing sleeping koala and building box beach houses without contaminating sources in them.
As mom Kangaroo is carrying her baby in her pouch, humans should embrace the planet when living in it, by not disturbing sleeping koala and building box beach houses without contaminating sources in them.
Nature is great! Koala, Kangaroo, and the 2nd largest tree species in the world, just after one in Yosemite or Red woods, California.
12 Apostles, Australia, is the highlight of today's trip.
12 Apostles, Australia, is the highlight of today's trip.
November 24, 2025 at 4:29 AM
Nature is great! Koala, Kangaroo, and the 2nd largest tree species in the world, just after one in Yosemite or Red woods, California.
12 Apostles, Australia, is the highlight of today's trip.
12 Apostles, Australia, is the highlight of today's trip.
Koala carrying and moving with her baby in wilderness, not a zoo, an event to spot with 5% chance, even for Australian tour guides
Nature is so amazing, and trips teach it.
youtube.com/shorts/B6R85...
Nature is so amazing, and trips teach it.
youtube.com/shorts/B6R85...
Koala carrying her baby in wilderness, not a Zoo, with 5% chance to spot such even for Australians
YouTube video by TAESEOK Moon
youtube.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:45 AM
Koala carrying and moving with her baby in wilderness, not a zoo, an event to spot with 5% chance, even for Australian tour guides
Nature is so amazing, and trips teach it.
youtube.com/shorts/B6R85...
Nature is so amazing, and trips teach it.
youtube.com/shorts/B6R85...
Important topic
This week is World #AntimicrobialResistance Awareness week
This article collection spans the breadth of #AMR across pathogens (bacteria, viruses, fungi, parasites), covers epidemiological monitoring, diagnostics, treatment, etc
This article collection spans the breadth of #AMR across pathogens (bacteria, viruses, fungi, parasites), covers epidemiological monitoring, diagnostics, treatment, etc
Antimicrobial resistance: a silent pandemic
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November 23, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Important topic
3rd day trip of 17d Australia trip: Melbourne.
25h since my departure from home to a hotel.
Botanic Gardens, Free food distribution, African Festival, Game Worlds, Robot to fry Korean chicken, and 30 min reading a Captain Cook book in State Library after 4.5h free walking tour!
Dinner & more walk!
25h since my departure from home to a hotel.
Botanic Gardens, Free food distribution, African Festival, Game Worlds, Robot to fry Korean chicken, and 30 min reading a Captain Cook book in State Library after 4.5h free walking tour!
Dinner & more walk!
November 23, 2025 at 6:53 AM
3rd day trip of 17d Australia trip: Melbourne.
25h since my departure from home to a hotel.
Botanic Gardens, Free food distribution, African Festival, Game Worlds, Robot to fry Korean chicken, and 30 min reading a Captain Cook book in State Library after 4.5h free walking tour!
Dinner & more walk!
25h since my departure from home to a hotel.
Botanic Gardens, Free food distribution, African Festival, Game Worlds, Robot to fry Korean chicken, and 30 min reading a Captain Cook book in State Library after 4.5h free walking tour!
Dinner & more walk!
24.5h after I left my San Diego home, I am taking a bus to Melbourne downtown, Australia! Enough sleep and work during the airplane ride!
Time to enjoy my vacation and seminars!
Time to enjoy my vacation and seminars!
November 23, 2025 at 12:23 AM
24.5h after I left my San Diego home, I am taking a bus to Melbourne downtown, Australia! Enough sleep and work during the airplane ride!
Time to enjoy my vacation and seminars!
Time to enjoy my vacation and seminars!
Embarking on my 17-day trip to Australia to give 3 talks, including an opening plenary talk at a conference in Gold Coast. I combine it with a vacation. 24h from door to door & I've stayed up for 21h, so I'll sleep well in a plane.
Thank Ian Paulsen, Claudia Vickers, Birgitta Ebert for the invite!
Thank Ian Paulsen, Claudia Vickers, Birgitta Ebert for the invite!
November 22, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Embarking on my 17-day trip to Australia to give 3 talks, including an opening plenary talk at a conference in Gold Coast. I combine it with a vacation. 24h from door to door & I've stayed up for 21h, so I'll sleep well in a plane.
Thank Ian Paulsen, Claudia Vickers, Birgitta Ebert for the invite!
Thank Ian Paulsen, Claudia Vickers, Birgitta Ebert for the invite!
Another interesting paper by Harris Wang et al. in Nature Biotechnology!
@harriswang.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@harriswang.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Fecal exfoliome sequencing captures immune dynamics of the healthy and inflamed gut - Nature Biotechnology
Profiling host RNA shed in feces reveals disease states in the gut.
www.nature.com
November 22, 2025 at 12:51 AM
Another interesting paper by Harris Wang et al. in Nature Biotechnology!
@harriswang.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@harriswang.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#SynBYSS welcomes Prof Pablo Carbonell at Inst. for Integrative Systems Biol., CSIC-UV, Valencia & Dr Fraser Andrews, an editor at Nature Communications as the 262nd & 263rd pioneer speakers! Thanks!
8 Nature Portfolio & 7 Cell Press editors have been on board & 250 rising stars have been selected.
8 Nature Portfolio & 7 Cell Press editors have been on board & 250 rising stars have been selected.
November 21, 2025 at 6:23 PM
#SynBYSS welcomes Prof Pablo Carbonell at Inst. for Integrative Systems Biol., CSIC-UV, Valencia & Dr Fraser Andrews, an editor at Nature Communications as the 262nd & 263rd pioneer speakers! Thanks!
8 Nature Portfolio & 7 Cell Press editors have been on board & 250 rising stars have been selected.
8 Nature Portfolio & 7 Cell Press editors have been on board & 250 rising stars have been selected.
Invention often comes from a necessity or by accident.
I was frying bacon, mushroom & garlic that accompany rice, but found no steamed rice. I quickly searched for alternatives, finding potato & inventing Moon fries!
Recipe: all grilled, served with cucumber & soybean paste!
#HappyThanksGiving
I was frying bacon, mushroom & garlic that accompany rice, but found no steamed rice. I quickly searched for alternatives, finding potato & inventing Moon fries!
Recipe: all grilled, served with cucumber & soybean paste!
#HappyThanksGiving
November 20, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Invention often comes from a necessity or by accident.
I was frying bacon, mushroom & garlic that accompany rice, but found no steamed rice. I quickly searched for alternatives, finding potato & inventing Moon fries!
Recipe: all grilled, served with cucumber & soybean paste!
#HappyThanksGiving
I was frying bacon, mushroom & garlic that accompany rice, but found no steamed rice. I quickly searched for alternatives, finding potato & inventing Moon fries!
Recipe: all grilled, served with cucumber & soybean paste!
#HappyThanksGiving
#SynBYSS seminar with Dr. Robert Barry at National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB), The National Institutes of Health, and Rebecca Wilkes at Oak Ridge National Laboratory
The video link is below:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sa6g...
The video link is below:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sa6g...
SynBYSS seminar with Dr. Robert Barry at NIBIB, NIH, and Dr. Rebecca Wilkes at ORNL (Oak Ridge lab)
YouTube video by TAESEOK Moon
www.youtube.com
November 20, 2025 at 5:42 PM
#SynBYSS seminar with Dr. Robert Barry at National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB), The National Institutes of Health, and Rebecca Wilkes at Oak Ridge National Laboratory
The video link is below:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sa6g...
The video link is below:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sa6g...
Whatever it contains, it's a shame of the leadership and people involved.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/whi...
www.nbcnews.com/politics/whi...
Trump signs bill to release the DOJ's Epstein files
The legislation requires Attorney General Pam Bondi to release all unclassified records related to Epstein within 30 days.
www.nbcnews.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Whatever it contains, it's a shame of the leadership and people involved.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/whi...
www.nbcnews.com/politics/whi...
#SynBYSS webinar talks with Dr. Diane Jofuku Okamuro, a program director at National Science Foundation (NSF) & Prof. Le Cong at Stanford University.
@lecong.bsky.social @stanforduniversity.bsky.social
The video link is below:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VaUl...
@lecong.bsky.social @stanforduniversity.bsky.social
The video link is below:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VaUl...
SynBYSS with Dr. Diane Okamuro at National Science Foundation & Prof. Le Cong at Stanford University
YouTube video by TAESEOK Moon
www.youtube.com
November 18, 2025 at 5:46 PM
#SynBYSS webinar talks with Dr. Diane Jofuku Okamuro, a program director at National Science Foundation (NSF) & Prof. Le Cong at Stanford University.
@lecong.bsky.social @stanforduniversity.bsky.social
The video link is below:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VaUl...
@lecong.bsky.social @stanforduniversity.bsky.social
The video link is below:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VaUl...
#SynBYSS with 3 new speakers as 259-261st pioneers: Alison Smith at U Cambridge, Atin Sharma at Nature Microbiol & Clare Curtis @biochemsoc.bsky.social
510 speakers, including 249 rising stars, 1 Nobel Laureate, 27 National Academy members, 47 funders, 14 Nature or Cell journal editors & 20 EICs.
510 speakers, including 249 rising stars, 1 Nobel Laureate, 27 National Academy members, 47 funders, 14 Nature or Cell journal editors & 20 EICs.
November 18, 2025 at 4:25 PM
#SynBYSS with 3 new speakers as 259-261st pioneers: Alison Smith at U Cambridge, Atin Sharma at Nature Microbiol & Clare Curtis @biochemsoc.bsky.social
510 speakers, including 249 rising stars, 1 Nobel Laureate, 27 National Academy members, 47 funders, 14 Nature or Cell journal editors & 20 EICs.
510 speakers, including 249 rising stars, 1 Nobel Laureate, 27 National Academy members, 47 funders, 14 Nature or Cell journal editors & 20 EICs.
#SynBYSS 10 am Chicago time
181st, Nov 18: Dr Diane Okamuro at NSF & Prof Le Cong at Stanford U.
@lecong.bsky.social
182nd, Nov 20: Dr Robert Barry at NIBIB, NIH & Dr Rebecca Wilkes at ORNL
No seminar until Dec 10 & 11, 2 more in 2025!
Zoom link for the audience:
us02web.zoom.us/j/88380504839
181st, Nov 18: Dr Diane Okamuro at NSF & Prof Le Cong at Stanford U.
@lecong.bsky.social
182nd, Nov 20: Dr Robert Barry at NIBIB, NIH & Dr Rebecca Wilkes at ORNL
No seminar until Dec 10 & 11, 2 more in 2025!
Zoom link for the audience:
us02web.zoom.us/j/88380504839
November 17, 2025 at 12:43 PM
#SynBYSS 10 am Chicago time
181st, Nov 18: Dr Diane Okamuro at NSF & Prof Le Cong at Stanford U.
@lecong.bsky.social
182nd, Nov 20: Dr Robert Barry at NIBIB, NIH & Dr Rebecca Wilkes at ORNL
No seminar until Dec 10 & 11, 2 more in 2025!
Zoom link for the audience:
us02web.zoom.us/j/88380504839
181st, Nov 18: Dr Diane Okamuro at NSF & Prof Le Cong at Stanford U.
@lecong.bsky.social
182nd, Nov 20: Dr Robert Barry at NIBIB, NIH & Dr Rebecca Wilkes at ORNL
No seminar until Dec 10 & 11, 2 more in 2025!
Zoom link for the audience:
us02web.zoom.us/j/88380504839
So great speakers that I feel bad because I miss it due to my trip to the USA government awardee meeting 😭
Join us and these amazing speakers next March'26 at Synthetic Biology for Health and Sustainability - an international conference held at the Wellcome Genome campus near Cambridge UK.
Abstracts deadline: December 1st, 2025
Register here - x.com/gallowaylabm...
Abstracts deadline: December 1st, 2025
Register here - x.com/gallowaylabm...
November 17, 2025 at 12:35 PM
So great speakers that I feel bad because I miss it due to my trip to the USA government awardee meeting 😭
Happy Monday!
As the holiday season is approaching, how about calling your loved ones or just sending messages to your old friends?
Listening to "Slipping through my fingers" at 3:30 am, I did so, missing my people who live far away. I love you all!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7fo...
As the holiday season is approaching, how about calling your loved ones or just sending messages to your old friends?
Listening to "Slipping through my fingers" at 3:30 am, I did so, missing my people who live far away. I love you all!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7fo...
Slipping Through My Fingers - ABBA - Connie Talbot (Cover)
YouTube video by ConnieTalbotOfficial
www.youtube.com
November 17, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Happy Monday!
As the holiday season is approaching, how about calling your loved ones or just sending messages to your old friends?
Listening to "Slipping through my fingers" at 3:30 am, I did so, missing my people who live far away. I love you all!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7fo...
As the holiday season is approaching, how about calling your loved ones or just sending messages to your old friends?
Listening to "Slipping through my fingers" at 3:30 am, I did so, missing my people who live far away. I love you all!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7fo...
#SynBYSS 2026 webinar series schedule is live!
Untenured professors, postdocs & senior grad students with a good publication record & interest in academia,
Please self-nominate to give a talk in 2027 by sending CV to [email protected]
Thanks, all!
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
SynBYSS chair
Untenured professors, postdocs & senior grad students with a good publication record & interest in academia,
Please self-nominate to give a talk in 2027 by sending CV to [email protected]
Thanks, all!
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
SynBYSS chair
SynBYSS_2026
docs.google.com
November 16, 2025 at 7:18 PM
#SynBYSS 2026 webinar series schedule is live!
Untenured professors, postdocs & senior grad students with a good publication record & interest in academia,
Please self-nominate to give a talk in 2027 by sending CV to [email protected]
Thanks, all!
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
SynBYSS chair
Untenured professors, postdocs & senior grad students with a good publication record & interest in academia,
Please self-nominate to give a talk in 2027 by sending CV to [email protected]
Thanks, all!
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
SynBYSS chair
The Langer Prize for Innovation and Entrepreneurial Excellence.
Apply to receive up to 100K USD for your start-up or entrepreneurship idea!
www.aiche.org/langerprizes. The deadline for 2026 fellowship applications is February 17, 2026.
Apply to receive up to 100K USD for your start-up or entrepreneurship idea!
www.aiche.org/langerprizes. The deadline for 2026 fellowship applications is February 17, 2026.
The Langer Prize for Innovation and Entrepreneurial Excellence
In honor of Bob Langer’s pioneering spirit, each recipient of a Langer Prize will be awarded an unrestricted grant up to $100,000 as seed funding, which will enable them to pursue “blue-sky” ideas tha...
www.aiche.org
November 15, 2025 at 11:10 AM
The Langer Prize for Innovation and Entrepreneurial Excellence.
Apply to receive up to 100K USD for your start-up or entrepreneurship idea!
www.aiche.org/langerprizes. The deadline for 2026 fellowship applications is February 17, 2026.
Apply to receive up to 100K USD for your start-up or entrepreneurship idea!
www.aiche.org/langerprizes. The deadline for 2026 fellowship applications is February 17, 2026.
#SynBYSS series welcomes Emily Edwards, an editor @cellpress.bsky.social Linda Broadbelt, an NAE member at Northwestern U, June Wispelwey, the CEO of AIChE & Andreas Walther, a Fellow of Max Planck at U. of Mainz, as the 255-258 pioneer speakers! Thanks, all!
@jcvi.org
@jcvi.org
November 15, 2025 at 10:09 AM
#SynBYSS series welcomes Emily Edwards, an editor @cellpress.bsky.social Linda Broadbelt, an NAE member at Northwestern U, June Wispelwey, the CEO of AIChE & Andreas Walther, a Fellow of Max Planck at U. of Mainz, as the 255-258 pioneer speakers! Thanks, all!
@jcvi.org
@jcvi.org
For the last night of my 15-day trip to give talks & meet people, including Lin Su at Queen Mary U. of London, where I gave my last talk, we had dinner. Then I spontaneously got a 50 pound seat, 10 m from the stage, 3 min before Mamma Mia started.
Am I enjoying my life too much?
Am I enjoying my life too much?
November 14, 2025 at 8:54 PM
For the last night of my 15-day trip to give talks & meet people, including Lin Su at Queen Mary U. of London, where I gave my last talk, we had dinner. Then I spontaneously got a 50 pound seat, 10 m from the stage, 3 min before Mamma Mia started.
Am I enjoying my life too much?
Am I enjoying my life too much?
Wow, Harris Wang et al. achieve a milestone work in microbiome engineering!
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Metagenomic editing of commensal bacteria in vivo using CRISPR-associated transposases
Although metagenomic sequencing has revealed a rich microbial biodiversity in the mammalian gut, methods to genetically alter specific species in the microbiome are highly limited. Here, we introduce ...
www.science.org
November 14, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Wow, Harris Wang et al. achieve a milestone work in microbiome engineering!
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...