Thomas Eng
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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
And of course I have to thank our fearless TEA gurus Nawa Baral and @cdscown.bsky.social for their amazing critical analysis on the economics of bioconversion processes.
March 19, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Are graphical abstracts still too long?! How about a chatbot-generated Haiku?

"Isoprenol's sweet rise
Biosensors guide the way
Fuel for future skies"
March 19, 2025 at 2:23 PM
There's a new chatbot attached to preprints -- you can ask it questions about the paper here:
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March 19, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Amazing tweetorial!! Looking forward to reading this. Interesting you don’t see partitioning of Ec into quiescent vs non-quiescent populations, like budding yeast from Maggie Werner Washburne pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21289090/ ; do the bulk phenotypes require growth in M9 first or would LB suffice?
The proteomics of quiescent and nonquiescent cell differentiation in yeast stationary-phase cultures - PubMed
As yeast cultures enter stationary phase in rich, glucose-based medium, differentiation of two major subpopulations of cells, termed quiescent and nonquiescent, is observed. Differences in mRNA abunda...
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
January 15, 2025 at 4:17 PM