The recently published report on Biosecurity by Drew Endy et al in the context of contemporary & future Biotech & SynBio is worth every word. Check it out 👉🏻 www.hoover.org/research/bio...
Biosecurity Really: A Strategy for Victory
Current trends make clear that biosecurity will become much more challenging over the next several years. We must act strategically to secure biology—before it becomes a general-purpose technology. Dr...
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Are you a rising start—or know one? Check the *Rising Stars Symposium* organized by the IBFG (Salamanca) to identify & attract young researchers—mainly postdocs—who could join the institute in the future or establish their own research groups here. Check readymag.website/u1842310954/... for info 👇
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3/3 If you do so, please describe the context and aims of your work. I would be delighted to see this material find a new home where it can continue to contribute to scientific discovery and understanding of metal homeostasis in microorganisms and the environment!
2/3 As I am in my way retirement in the coming years, I would like to donate this unique collection to an academic laboratory with a genuine interest in siderophore biology and a clear vision for putting these compounds to good use in research. If you or your group are interested, please contact me
1/3 To those interested in microbial iron & metal transport: In 1992, the late JB Neilands (UCB), the pioneer in the study of Fe transport entrusted me with his collection of purified siderophores from a wide range of microbes—many of them unique chemical species that can no longer be reproduced
Crazy World! In the same week I was in Los Angeles (California) and in Los Angeles (San Rafael, Segovia). The landscape looks a bit different, however—although not altogether alien 🤩
Predatory practices plague modern science, but the origins & reasons of their success can be identified—and solutions exist. Instead of blacklists, funding agencies should foster accreditation systems. See analyses & proposals of the EAM Task Force of @femsmicro.org on the matter shorturl.at/gVXJR
This is veering into the surreal, if not the downright dystopian. It is as if a handful of alien concepts were fused into a single sentence and uttered without hesitation … ☹️
The conversation on EMERs (= Engineered Microorganisms for Environmental Release) continues at this side of the pond, this time focusing on live bioremediaton agents 👇
2/2 But if we keep the same frame of questions and answers we wil never move on. IMHO we need a new narrative on Genet Eng, starting by the very terminology and by challenging the prevailing legal view that considers *natural* and *engineered* as completely different categories of biological items 🤔
1/2 Interesting and a bit disappointing that the conversation on the matter has barely moved in the last 30 yrs. Companies just wish regulations to relax, regulators request more & more containment and scientists ask for more research on fundamental questions eg microb ecology, HGT, evolution etc
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Université Grenoble Alpes opens a full professorship in microbiology in 2026. The selected candidate will develop their research program on quantitative approaches in microbiology in the Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire de Physique. More info: liphy.univ-grenoble-alpes.fr/en/join-us/r...
Professorship (tenure) in 'Quantitative approaches in microbiology' (CNU Sections 64/65) | LIPhy - Université Grenoble Alpes
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Our paper, describing how the T6SSs of P. putida shape the tomato rhizosphere, is now in its final format in @isme-microbes.bsky.social ISME Communications. If you'd like to learn more, here is a thread (1/11) or read the Article doi.org/10.1093/isme....
Off to @caltechlcssp.bsky.social to follow up the conversation started past Feb in Asilomar on *Biotech Beyond Conventional Containment*. Time to rethink the (now banned) release of Lab-trained microorganisms for extensive environmental remediation in view of new genet technols & urgent global needs
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Pleased to announce that our book on the evolution of biological agency is now available, thanks to @templetonfdn.bsky.social It condenses +2 years of discussions between a philosopher and a biochemist, including our conversations in the Jardí Botànic @uv.es
@ehu.eus @i2sysbio.es @dicv.csic.es
@ehu.eus @i2sysbio.es @dicv.csic.es
It is a scandal that many groundbreaking ideas capable of transforming medicine, agriculture & environment are stifled—not by a lack of ingenuity but by the rampant greed of IP holders that strangles sci & and tech progress. This stranglehold must be broken to allow knowledge serving the public good
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#MISB (@csic.es-UIMP )
Design meets evolution: Theory and practice
Víctor de Lorenzo (@vdlorenzo.bsky.social), @cnb-csic.bsky.social
📅Oct 3
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The seminar will take place at CIB and additionally streamed online 🔗https://rediris.zoom.us/meeting/register/ZmrXKHmFSHqyxE65O3wvRQ<span class="text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400">#/registration
Design meets evolution: Theory and practice
Víctor de Lorenzo (@vdlorenzo.bsky.social), @cnb-csic.bsky.social
📅Oct 3
⏰11am
The seminar will take place at CIB and additionally streamed online 🔗https://rediris.zoom.us/meeting/register/ZmrXKHmFSHqyxE65O3wvRQ<span class="text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400">#/registration
Not sure the movie is a faithful account of Edison’s young age, but as Italians say '… si non è vero è ben trovato … 🤩'
Los jabalíes vuelven a hacer de las suyas en el campus de la @uam.es
Relentless childhood curiosity—sometimes annoying to those around—often heralds a future in research. For me, a turning point was watching as a kid the classic 1940 film about young Edison, which sparked my fascination with science and inventiveness 😱
Nuevos Cursos SEM on line: 1. Biodeterioro y biodegradación: shorturl.at/jTsvp 2. Bioseguridad en los laboratorios de microbiología: shorturl.at/tkz6s 3. Control de virus emergentes: shorturl.at/WWZZM 4. Técnicas independientes de cultivo en microbiología de los alimentos: shorturl.at/AcvOj
by Ricard V. Solé — Reposted by Vı́ctor de Lorenzo
Can synthetic biology help save endangered ecosystems?
Our new paper with @vmaull.bsky.social explores how engineered genes can spread through soil microbes.
We model how synthetic gene transfer can support biodiversity. @vdlorenzo.bsky.social @guimaguade.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Our new paper with @vmaull.bsky.social explores how engineered genes can spread through soil microbes.
We model how synthetic gene transfer can support biodiversity. @vdlorenzo.bsky.social @guimaguade.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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The very 1st #Course on #SynBio & #Metabolic #Engineering of #Pseudomonas at Cold Spring Harbor Asia successfully completed in Suzhou, #China! Excellent group of students & lecturers, w/time for culture, food & stand-up paddling alongside the science—thanks to all who participated & stay tuned 4+!
Who is afraid of HGT? True, antibiotic resistances disseminate through it. But we can also leverage the same channels for spreading good stuff at a very large scale and fortifying the env microbiome with beneficial activities www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... by Victor Maull & @ricardsole.bsky.social
Synthetic Horizontal Gene Transfer for Ecosystem Restoration
Restoring endangered ecosystems has become a pressing issue as the effects of global warming continue to harm existing communities. Over the last decade, several studies have suggested the use of synt...
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Welcome to the social media account of the International Microbiology Literacy Initiative (IMiLI). Nearly 1,000 researchers freely contribute to the IMiLI project integrating microbiology into education providing downloadable resources for all. Explore at imili.org
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Opinion: As human–AI interdependence deepens, could they form an integrated evolutionary individual, subject to collective selection? Explore this perspective in PNAS Front Matter: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
#AI #evolution #singularity #ChatGPT #LLM #MajorEvolutionaryTransition
#AI #evolution #singularity #ChatGPT #LLM #MajorEvolutionaryTransition
Once upon a time Desk Editors quietly fixed minor issues in accepted papers to ensure format compliance. Now, even the smallest formatting slip sends a ms back to the authors for trivial corrections. Is this really about maintaining standards—or just saving salaries of those used to handle this 🤔?
Worse when the cancellation is a few days or hours before. Always count with a 10% last-minute no-show—and have backups handy 😅
