Jake Wintermute
@synbio1.bsky.social
Synthetic Biologist - Foundry Theorist
foundrytheory.substack.com
stay humble biodesigners
foundrytheory.substack.com
stay humble biodesigners
Somebody once sent me a DNA sequence in a Microsoft Word document and something about seeing nucleotides in Times New Roman font really stresses me out
November 16, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Somebody once sent me a DNA sequence in a Microsoft Word document and something about seeing nucleotides in Times New Roman font really stresses me out
There's a lot of bioproduct innovation happening in the world that isn't well connected with academia or the industrial biotech scene like what conferences is this guy attending and how do I get invited
November 15, 2025 at 4:44 PM
There's a lot of bioproduct innovation happening in the world that isn't well connected with academia or the industrial biotech scene like what conferences is this guy attending and how do I get invited
How it feels to add the transformation recovery broth to your microbes after electroporation
November 14, 2025 at 8:22 PM
How it feels to add the transformation recovery broth to your microbes after electroporation
Justice for furbaby
November 14, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Justice for furbaby
Enemies to lovers but make it biology and engineering
November 13, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Enemies to lovers but make it biology and engineering
The application of humanoid robots that I’m the most excited about and one that will definitely work is super dope ass fortune teller machines
November 10, 2025 at 1:50 AM
The application of humanoid robots that I’m the most excited about and one that will definitely work is super dope ass fortune teller machines
Victor frankenstein did nothing wrong
November 9, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Victor frankenstein did nothing wrong
Will AI-generated genomes read like AI slop?
Like you’ll be scrolling GenBank one day and it will be full of microbial genomes with the nucleotide equivalent of
“This lac operon doesn’t just encode LacA and LacY — it expresses LacZ”
Like you’ll be scrolling GenBank one day and it will be full of microbial genomes with the nucleotide equivalent of
“This lac operon doesn’t just encode LacA and LacY — it expresses LacZ”
November 9, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Will AI-generated genomes read like AI slop?
Like you’ll be scrolling GenBank one day and it will be full of microbial genomes with the nucleotide equivalent of
“This lac operon doesn’t just encode LacA and LacY — it expresses LacZ”
Like you’ll be scrolling GenBank one day and it will be full of microbial genomes with the nucleotide equivalent of
“This lac operon doesn’t just encode LacA and LacY — it expresses LacZ”
It may seem obvious but honestly it is worth taking a moment to reflect on how amazing this actually is
November 7, 2025 at 12:03 PM
It may seem obvious but honestly it is worth taking a moment to reflect on how amazing this actually is
If you study cholinesterases in plant tissues you have legendary opportunity to make your work relatable to gen z by showing them this article from 1975 that has PubMed ID # 67
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/67
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/67
November 6, 2025 at 1:38 PM
If you study cholinesterases in plant tissues you have legendary opportunity to make your work relatable to gen z by showing them this article from 1975 that has PubMed ID # 67
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/67
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/67
Pink olives (soaked in beet juice) and purple olives (soaked on blueberry juice) is this the next gen of olives only time will tell
November 4, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Pink olives (soaked in beet juice) and purple olives (soaked on blueberry juice) is this the next gen of olives only time will tell
The hottest girl you know isn't trying to industrialize biology she wants to biologize industry
November 3, 2025 at 10:13 PM
The hottest girl you know isn't trying to industrialize biology she wants to biologize industry
Consider the importance of form factor when designing a bioproduct
November 3, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Consider the importance of form factor when designing a bioproduct
When you need to remove contaminating human DNA reads from your metagenomic sequencing run
November 2, 2025 at 12:59 PM
When you need to remove contaminating human DNA reads from your metagenomic sequencing run
Ok but hear me out: green
October 31, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Ok but hear me out: green
Happy halloween to all my biologists who have ever cultivated an organism by feeding it another organism's blood
October 31, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Happy halloween to all my biologists who have ever cultivated an organism by feeding it another organism's blood
The moral of the story is label your boxes
October 30, 2025 at 12:27 PM
The moral of the story is label your boxes
Skeletons are spooky and dinosaurs are scary but skeleton-dinosaurs are "a scientist lives here"
October 29, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Skeletons are spooky and dinosaurs are scary but skeleton-dinosaurs are "a scientist lives here"
You can just goo things
October 28, 2025 at 1:34 PM
You can just goo things
Only with biology can we build this future
October 26, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Only with biology can we build this future
Ladies if you go to his apartment and his fridge is full of sequencing primers for his plasmid collection you DO NOT date him you deserve a man who does whole plasmid sequencing
October 25, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Ladies if you go to his apartment and his fridge is full of sequencing primers for his plasmid collection you DO NOT date him you deserve a man who does whole plasmid sequencing
My fellow biologists we must do everything in our power to prevent this scenario
October 23, 2025 at 12:48 PM
My fellow biologists we must do everything in our power to prevent this scenario
Cursed bioproduct
October 22, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Cursed bioproduct
Stand back everyone I have an AI take
AI will accelerate biotech more if it can reduce the paperwork-and-meetings burden on scientists by 25% than if it can 100x the speed of data analysis
AI will accelerate biotech more if it can reduce the paperwork-and-meetings burden on scientists by 25% than if it can 100x the speed of data analysis
October 21, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Stand back everyone I have an AI take
AI will accelerate biotech more if it can reduce the paperwork-and-meetings burden on scientists by 25% than if it can 100x the speed of data analysis
AI will accelerate biotech more if it can reduce the paperwork-and-meetings burden on scientists by 25% than if it can 100x the speed of data analysis