Juan Rico
@juanricomol.bsky.social
Biologist. Working on novel synthetic biology chassis, dynamic input sensing, non-canonical synthetic gene circuits and evolution. Currently at CNB-CSIC.
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The CSIC @csic.es Doctoral Programme in #SyntheticBiology is currently offering 10 PhD positions on a number of projects. Good opportunities!
syntheticcell.eu/synbio-csic-...
syntheticcell.eu/synbio-csic-...
SynBio CSIC is recruiting 10 doctoral researchers
The doctoral programme in synthetic biology, run by the Spanish National Research Council, is recruiting 10 doctoral researchers
syntheticcell.eu
December 9, 2025 at 11:10 AM
The CSIC @csic.es Doctoral Programme in #SyntheticBiology is currently offering 10 PhD positions on a number of projects. Good opportunities!
syntheticcell.eu/synbio-csic-...
syntheticcell.eu/synbio-csic-...
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Our #ALIFE2025 paper is out! 🎉 We show that even when two circuits produce the same output, their evolutionary potential can differ greatly. #Evolution at the smallest scale.
“Parameter Evolvability in Gene Expression Models Drives Phenotypic Adaptation”
🔗 direct.mit.edu/isal/proceed...
“Parameter Evolvability in Gene Expression Models Drives Phenotypic Adaptation”
🔗 direct.mit.edu/isal/proceed...
December 1, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Our #ALIFE2025 paper is out! 🎉 We show that even when two circuits produce the same output, their evolutionary potential can differ greatly. #Evolution at the smallest scale.
“Parameter Evolvability in Gene Expression Models Drives Phenotypic Adaptation”
🔗 direct.mit.edu/isal/proceed...
“Parameter Evolvability in Gene Expression Models Drives Phenotypic Adaptation”
🔗 direct.mit.edu/isal/proceed...
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Next in the Lab's conference agenda: Synthetic Biology UK #SBUK. Always a target event for us! Look for Lewis @lewisgrozinger.bsky.social to hear about biocomputation and evolution: "Evolutionary algorithms to design biocomputing circuits beyond logic gates" - an upgrade of our #ALIFE 2023 story.
November 11, 2025 at 7:03 AM
Next in the Lab's conference agenda: Synthetic Biology UK #SBUK. Always a target event for us! Look for Lewis @lewisgrozinger.bsky.social to hear about biocomputation and evolution: "Evolutionary algorithms to design biocomputing circuits beyond logic gates" - an upgrade of our #ALIFE 2023 story.
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The 2025 Retreat of the Biocomputation Lab (in wonderful Chinchón, Madrid) comes to an end. Three days of fantastic discussions, with new (and revisited) goals ahead. What a brilliant team!
October 29, 2025 at 2:12 PM
The 2025 Retreat of the Biocomputation Lab (in wonderful Chinchón, Madrid) comes to an end. Three days of fantastic discussions, with new (and revisited) goals ahead. What a brilliant team!
If you are attending the Designer Biology conference at Newcastle, do not miss the chance to speak to Crislaine Rocha and Paula Múgica at their posters re biosensors and quorum sensing toolkits for #Pseudomonas. www.efbiotechnology.org/designerbiol...
Designer Biology
Designer Biology Conference, 29–31 July 2025 in Newcastle, UK. This event gathers bioengineering and synthetic biology scientists to explore applications like protein engineering and materials.
www.efbiotechnology.org
July 30, 2025 at 10:11 AM
If you are attending the Designer Biology conference at Newcastle, do not miss the chance to speak to Crislaine Rocha and Paula Múgica at their posters re biosensors and quorum sensing toolkits for #Pseudomonas. www.efbiotechnology.org/designerbiol...
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Next in Lab's conference agenda: Designer Biology! www.efbiotechnology.org/designerbiol... Paula Múgica has a poster on her recently published quorum sensing tools, and Crislaine Rocha will talk about environmental biosensors as input to logic gates.
Designer Biology
Designer Biology Conference, 29–31 July 2025 in Newcastle, UK. This event gathers bioengineering and synthetic biology scientists to explore applications like protein engineering and materials.
www.efbiotechnology.org
July 25, 2025 at 7:41 AM
Next in Lab's conference agenda: Designer Biology! www.efbiotechnology.org/designerbiol... Paula Múgica has a poster on her recently published quorum sensing tools, and Crislaine Rocha will talk about environmental biosensors as input to logic gates.
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El grupo de Angel Goñi lidera un proyecto "Proof of Concept" @erc.europa.eu para desarrollar gemelos digitales pioneros y analizar en profundidad el comportamiento de células vivas
Más info: www.cnb.csic.es/proyecto-de-...
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July 14, 2025 at 1:45 PM
El grupo de Angel Goñi lidera un proyecto "Proof of Concept" @erc.europa.eu para desarrollar gemelos digitales pioneros y analizar en profundidad el comportamiento de células vivas
Más info: www.cnb.csic.es/proyecto-de-...
@angelgm.bsky.social
@csic.es
@sommalliance.bsky.social
Más info: www.cnb.csic.es/proyecto-de-...
@angelgm.bsky.social
@csic.es
@sommalliance.bsky.social
Thanks Ángel! Everything is already in place here at the #EESMicrobiology. Fun week ahead🧬
Next in the Lab's conference agenda: the @embl.org symposium on New approaches and concepts in #microbiology. Look for @juanricomol.bsky.social!
June 24, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Thanks Ángel! Everything is already in place here at the #EESMicrobiology. Fun week ahead🧬
Looking forward to great science at #EESMicrobiology. If you are around Heidelberg this week, come visit me at poster 220 to discuss about host-controlled reconfigurability of genetic circuits. New approaches and concepts in microbiology www.embl.org/about/info/c...
New approaches and concepts in microbiology
www.embl.org
June 23, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Looking forward to great science at #EESMicrobiology. If you are around Heidelberg this week, come visit me at poster 220 to discuss about host-controlled reconfigurability of genetic circuits. New approaches and concepts in microbiology www.embl.org/about/info/c...
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Jungle Express promoter. Large dynamic range, low leak. Keeps expression tight, especially on low copy plasmids. Induced by cationic dyes—we use crystal violet. Has allowed us to clone some pretty toxic phage genes. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Jungle Express is a versatile repressor system for tight transcriptional control - Nature Communications
Tightly regulated promoters with strong inducibility and scalability are highly desirable for biological applications. Here the authors describe ‘Jungle Express’, a EilR repressor-based broad host sys...
www.nature.com
March 26, 2025 at 5:56 AM
Jungle Express promoter. Large dynamic range, low leak. Keeps expression tight, especially on low copy plasmids. Induced by cationic dyes—we use crystal violet. Has allowed us to clone some pretty toxic phage genes. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
New position at the @cnb-csic.bsky.social. I re-join @angelgm.bsky.social's lab. Exciting times ahead!
March 4, 2025 at 4:49 PM
New position at the @cnb-csic.bsky.social. I re-join @angelgm.bsky.social's lab. Exciting times ahead!