Thomas Eng
@engthomas.bsky.social
Microbial genetic engineer at Berkeley Lab (LBNL). I am a steward of two indoor cats.
https://profiles.lbl.gov/21262-thomas-eng
https://profiles.lbl.gov/21262-thomas-eng
Vinegar to biofuels: using acetate as a co-carbon source for isoprenol in Pseudomonas putida. Out today in AEM journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
Alternate routes to acetate tolerance lead to varied isoprenol production from mixed carbon sources in Pseudomonas putida | Applied and Environmental Microbiology
Acetate is a relatively abundant component of many lignocellulosic carbon streams
and has the potential to be used together with sugars, especially in microbes with
versatile catabolism such as P. put...
journals.asm.org
March 20, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Vinegar to biofuels: using acetate as a co-carbon source for isoprenol in Pseudomonas putida. Out today in AEM journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
Just deposited! New preprint about modular workflows, biosensors for biofuels, and HT screening. Thanks to all my coauthors and @berkeleylab.lbl.gov @biosci.lbl.gov @jgi.doe.gov
March 19, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Just deposited! New preprint about modular workflows, biosensors for biofuels, and HT screening. Thanks to all my coauthors and @berkeleylab.lbl.gov @biosci.lbl.gov @jgi.doe.gov
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I have been delinquent in posting birds lately. I'll try to do better.
For now, two brown pelicans near Santa Barbara. 🪶
For now, two brown pelicans near Santa Barbara. 🪶
March 9, 2025 at 11:43 PM
I have been delinquent in posting birds lately. I'll try to do better.
For now, two brown pelicans near Santa Barbara. 🪶
For now, two brown pelicans near Santa Barbara. 🪶
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Hawaiian crows are extinct in the wild and are found nowhere else on Earth. Now, a small group, safeguarded in captivity, has been released in the forests of Maui.
This rare, intelligent species of crow is taking flight in Hawaii again
Hawaiian crows are extinct in the wild and are found nowhere else on Earth. Now, a small group, safeguarded in captivity, has been released in the forests of Maui.
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February 23, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Hawaiian crows are extinct in the wild and are found nowhere else on Earth. Now, a small group, safeguarded in captivity, has been released in the forests of Maui.
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I can’t remember where I read this, but it’s important:
Why is it that when people think about traveling to the past, they worry about doing something small that will drastically change the present, but no one in the present thinks that doing something small today can drastically change the future?
Why is it that when people think about traveling to the past, they worry about doing something small that will drastically change the present, but no one in the present thinks that doing something small today can drastically change the future?
February 19, 2025 at 5:33 AM
I can’t remember where I read this, but it’s important:
Why is it that when people think about traveling to the past, they worry about doing something small that will drastically change the present, but no one in the present thinks that doing something small today can drastically change the future?
Why is it that when people think about traveling to the past, they worry about doing something small that will drastically change the present, but no one in the present thinks that doing something small today can drastically change the future?
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Your lab scissors are actually a parafilmase - a highly specialized enzyme that catalyzes the precise cutting of parafilm through a metal-dependent mechanism
February 16, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Your lab scissors are actually a parafilmase - a highly specialized enzyme that catalyzes the precise cutting of parafilm through a metal-dependent mechanism
Not even LinkedIn is immune to becoming a dating simulator
February 13, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Not even LinkedIn is immune to becoming a dating simulator
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Fellowship opportunity for grad students:
DOE Office of Science Graduate Student Research #SCGSR program now open for applications
JGI @jgi.doe.gov is part of @berkeleylab.lbl.gov and can host students. To discuss possible projects, please reach out to our scientists!
science.osti.gov/wdts/scgsr
DOE Office of Science Graduate Student Research #SCGSR program now open for applications
JGI @jgi.doe.gov is part of @berkeleylab.lbl.gov and can host students. To discuss possible projects, please reach out to our scientists!
science.osti.gov/wdts/scgsr
February 7, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Fellowship opportunity for grad students:
DOE Office of Science Graduate Student Research #SCGSR program now open for applications
JGI @jgi.doe.gov is part of @berkeleylab.lbl.gov and can host students. To discuss possible projects, please reach out to our scientists!
science.osti.gov/wdts/scgsr
DOE Office of Science Graduate Student Research #SCGSR program now open for applications
JGI @jgi.doe.gov is part of @berkeleylab.lbl.gov and can host students. To discuss possible projects, please reach out to our scientists!
science.osti.gov/wdts/scgsr
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We just celebrated the opening of the newest building at @berkeleylab.lbl.gov - BioEPIC! Many thanks to the Smith Group, Clark Construction, and UC National Laboratories for your efforts in making this building a reality!
bioepic.lbl.gov
@ucnewsroom.bsky.social
@eesaberkeleylab.bsky.social
bioepic.lbl.gov
@ucnewsroom.bsky.social
@eesaberkeleylab.bsky.social
February 6, 2025 at 10:07 PM
We just celebrated the opening of the newest building at @berkeleylab.lbl.gov - BioEPIC! Many thanks to the Smith Group, Clark Construction, and UC National Laboratories for your efforts in making this building a reality!
bioepic.lbl.gov
@ucnewsroom.bsky.social
@eesaberkeleylab.bsky.social
bioepic.lbl.gov
@ucnewsroom.bsky.social
@eesaberkeleylab.bsky.social
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Remember that Europe (@ebi.embl.org) has mirrored all these services and they will keep on running. They look and feel a bit different but do the same thing. I think @ewanbirney.bsky.social should be able to confirm.
www.europepmc.org
www.ebi.ac.uk/jdispatcher/...
www.europepmc.org
www.ebi.ac.uk/jdispatcher/...
February 6, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Remember that Europe (@ebi.embl.org) has mirrored all these services and they will keep on running. They look and feel a bit different but do the same thing. I think @ewanbirney.bsky.social should be able to confirm.
www.europepmc.org
www.ebi.ac.uk/jdispatcher/...
www.europepmc.org
www.ebi.ac.uk/jdispatcher/...
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Do you know Daisy Roulland-Dussoix? She is one of the discoverers of restriction enzymes, who’s findings paved the way for the development of recombinant DNA and cloning technologies. Accordingly, the finding was rewarded with a #NobelPrize. But the prize didn’t go to her.
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February 1, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Do you know Daisy Roulland-Dussoix? She is one of the discoverers of restriction enzymes, who’s findings paved the way for the development of recombinant DNA and cloning technologies. Accordingly, the finding was rewarded with a #NobelPrize. But the prize didn’t go to her.
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This is such a huge loss for the meiosis community. Scott provided so much important support when I felt I was yelling into the void about meiotic checkpoints and equity issues. I will miss him 💕
Sadly, our colleague and friend Scott Hawley passed away this morning. He was an irreplaceable presence and force for good in the meiosis an Drosophila communities and will be sorely missed.
January 31, 2025 at 9:15 PM
This is such a huge loss for the meiosis community. Scott provided so much important support when I felt I was yelling into the void about meiotic checkpoints and equity issues. I will miss him 💕
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Happy new year! This is not my cat. www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8Ye2hdc/
and then she takes it out 1 min ltr 🥲
TikTok video by val
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January 30, 2025 at 5:50 AM
Happy new year! This is not my cat. www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8Ye2hdc/
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In fairness, “you can make millions of individual molecules but there are 13 that you need but can’t make so let’s outsource their production to plants. Also, it’s actually 12…you can make one of the vitamins…as long as the sun’s rays touch your skin like you yourself are a plant” does sound fake.
I’m sorry but vitamins sound fake
January 23, 2025 at 5:16 PM
In fairness, “you can make millions of individual molecules but there are 13 that you need but can’t make so let’s outsource their production to plants. Also, it’s actually 12…you can make one of the vitamins…as long as the sun’s rays touch your skin like you yourself are a plant” does sound fake.
Honoring Senator Skinner at the lab today to celebrate her dedication to renewable energy and energy storage
January 22, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Honoring Senator Skinner at the lab today to celebrate her dedication to renewable energy and energy storage
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Thank you Jimmy Carter for one last gift to the nation: flags at half-staff today
starsandstripesdaily.org/half-staff-s...
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**HALF-STAFF ~ Sunday, December 29, 2024 until sunset, Tuesday, January 28, 2025 ** In honor and tribute to the memory of President James Earl Carter, Jr. - Stars and Stripes DAILY
December 29, 2024 Proclamation Announcing the Death of James Earl Carter, Jr. TO THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES: It is my solemn duty to announce officially the death of James Earl Carter, Jr., the t...
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January 20, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Thank you Jimmy Carter for one last gift to the nation: flags at half-staff today
starsandstripesdaily.org/half-staff-s...
starsandstripesdaily.org/half-staff-s...
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Our new review article "Microbial secondary metabolites: advancements to accelerate discovery towards application" in Nature Reviews Microbiology is now published!
rdcu.be/d6BHX
rdcu.be/d6BHX
Microbial secondary metabolites: advancements to accelerate discovery towards application
Nature Reviews Microbiology - In this Review, Dinglasan and colleagues explore innovations that facilitate rapid microbial secondary metabolite discovery, focusing on recent techniques for the...
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January 17, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Our new review article "Microbial secondary metabolites: advancements to accelerate discovery towards application" in Nature Reviews Microbiology is now published!
rdcu.be/d6BHX
rdcu.be/d6BHX
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Genomes assembled from #metagenomes (a.k.a. MAGs) are awesome and have revolutionized our ability to study uncultivated microbes
...BUT: they still don't capture a lot of the 🦠 species that are out there
New @jgi.doe.gov paper led by Dongying Wu and Natalia Ivanova: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
...BUT: they still don't capture a lot of the 🦠 species that are out there
New @jgi.doe.gov paper led by Dongying Wu and Natalia Ivanova: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
January 17, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Genomes assembled from #metagenomes (a.k.a. MAGs) are awesome and have revolutionized our ability to study uncultivated microbes
...BUT: they still don't capture a lot of the 🦠 species that are out there
New @jgi.doe.gov paper led by Dongying Wu and Natalia Ivanova: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
...BUT: they still don't capture a lot of the 🦠 species that are out there
New @jgi.doe.gov paper led by Dongying Wu and Natalia Ivanova: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Congratulations to Lab scientists Raúl Briceño, Stefan Wild, and Ahmet Kusoglu for receiving the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), the highest honor the US government bestows on early-career scientists and engineers. 🧪
More ⬇️
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newscenter.lbl.gov/2025/01/16/t...
Three Berkeley Lab Scientists Receive PECASE Award
Three scientists with Berkeley Lab were among the nearly 400 scientists and engineers awarded by President Biden to receive the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE).
newscenter.lbl.gov
January 16, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Congratulations to Lab scientists Raúl Briceño, Stefan Wild, and Ahmet Kusoglu for receiving the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), the highest honor the US government bestows on early-career scientists and engineers. 🧪
More ⬇️
newscenter.lbl.gov/2025/01/16/t...
More ⬇️
newscenter.lbl.gov/2025/01/16/t...
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If the total number of bacteria on earth stays roughly
constant, then on average there must be as much death as there is growth, suggesting at least naively that selection for surviving starvation is as relevant as for growing fast. But we know relatively little about how bacteria change 2/n
constant, then on average there must be as much death as there is growth, suggesting at least naively that selection for surviving starvation is as relevant as for growing fast. But we know relatively little about how bacteria change 2/n
January 15, 2025 at 11:12 AM
If the total number of bacteria on earth stays roughly
constant, then on average there must be as much death as there is growth, suggesting at least naively that selection for surviving starvation is as relevant as for growing fast. But we know relatively little about how bacteria change 2/n
constant, then on average there must be as much death as there is growth, suggesting at least naively that selection for surviving starvation is as relevant as for growing fast. But we know relatively little about how bacteria change 2/n
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Microbial Genomics & Metagenomics Workshop
Want to learn how to use IMG, GOLD, and other @jgi.doe.gov -hosted platforms and tools for microbial and metagenomics?
Register now for the 33rd MGM Workshop in Berkeley
Early bird rates available until Jan 31!
mgm.jgi.doe.gov
Want to learn how to use IMG, GOLD, and other @jgi.doe.gov -hosted platforms and tools for microbial and metagenomics?
Register now for the 33rd MGM Workshop in Berkeley
Early bird rates available until Jan 31!
mgm.jgi.doe.gov
January 14, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Microbial Genomics & Metagenomics Workshop
Want to learn how to use IMG, GOLD, and other @jgi.doe.gov -hosted platforms and tools for microbial and metagenomics?
Register now for the 33rd MGM Workshop in Berkeley
Early bird rates available until Jan 31!
mgm.jgi.doe.gov
Want to learn how to use IMG, GOLD, and other @jgi.doe.gov -hosted platforms and tools for microbial and metagenomics?
Register now for the 33rd MGM Workshop in Berkeley
Early bird rates available until Jan 31!
mgm.jgi.doe.gov
Some recent work from our group on evaluating growth coupled cutsets
Addressing genome scale design tradeoffs in Pseudomonas putida for bioconversion of an aromatic carbon source - npj Systems Biology and Applications
npj Systems Biology and Applications - Addressing genome scale design tradeoffs in Pseudomonas putida for bioconversion of an aromatic carbon source
www.nature.com
January 14, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Some recent work from our group on evaluating growth coupled cutsets
only 3 people in sardinia make this pasta: su filindeu. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ueJr...
Unseen Italian Food!! WORLD’S RAREST PASTA! (Only 3 People on Earth Can Make It)
YouTube video by Mark Wiens
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January 14, 2025 at 3:06 AM
only 3 people in sardinia make this pasta: su filindeu. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ueJr...