Andrea Garza E.
@andrea-garza-e.bsky.social
synthetic micro-biologist 🔬🧬👩🏽🔬🇲🇽🏳️🌈 | postdoc at Oak Ridge Nat Lab | non-model bacteria, gene tools and editors, bioinformatics, and robots! | also, cats.
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bioRxiv Microbiology@biorxiv-microbiol.bsky.social · 3w agoWhat colour are Actinomycetes? We have a tool for that! PhylaChrome - A systematic and deterministic tool for assigning colours that capture taxonomic relationships in microbiome datasets https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.07.29.741550v1
Excited to share the first research paper from my group. This work started when I was a visiting postdoc at the @cemau.bsky.social and was a great collaboration with @kartiksaiyer.bsky.social developing artificial sediment matrices that support the growth of freshwater cable bacteria.
Kartik Aiyer@kartiksaiyer.bsky.social · last mo.Happy to share our new paper on cable bacteria. Motivated by the lack of pure cultures, we developed a standardized artificial sediment system that supports repeated cultivation of freshwater and marine cable bacteria under controlled conditions. Link: doi.org/10.1093/isme...
Check out this Symposium at Rice Univ this Sept 18 www.bakerinstitute.org/event/synthe.... Much of the conversation will go into environmental applications of Synthetic Biology 👇
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Dave Krantz@weskrantz.bsky.social · 3mo agonow available - cat shaped alarm clock *cannot be switched off or snoozed
High-throughput engineering of ligand-activated splicing ribozyme through domain insertion https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.05.21.726912v1
Our next @bioctrl.bsky.social Seminar is Tuesday (May 26th) at 8am PT / 11am ET / 5pm CET! Kshitij Rai from UW and Ronan O'Connell from Baylor University will present Join us online: mit.zoom.us/j/9432532792...
The paper on my Ph.D. work is fully online! We used a ribozyme that barcodes 16S rRNA to track the transduction range of phage P1 in a synthetic community and real wastewater communities, while diving deeper into the unique range conferred by P1s two tail fibers. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Cross-order detection of bacteriophage transduction in microbial communities using RNA barcoding - Nature Communications
Bacteriophages are the most abundant life form on earth and can be applied to eliminate or engineer bacteria. Here, authors demonstrate RNA barcoding as a high throughput tool to measure bacteriophage...
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today's enemies are adhesion and cohesion because my media is more sticky than water and so the liquid handling script i wrote, and successfully tested (with water), failed (with media. to my great disappointment)
went into the lab to do a midiprep eluted into the wrong column 👌
Plasmids evolved in the wild. 🧬 This lab created a modular, synthetic ORI to improve their use in the lab. Our new post is by the depositor of SynORI:
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A Modular, Synthetic Origin of Replication
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How can better crops be engineered? Join @cvoiniciuc.bsky.social with Kristen Van Gelder (Agriculture & Agri-Food Canada) & Vance Whitaker (@ufresearch.bsky.social) on April 9 @ 2 PM ET for a Reddit AMA to talk about new growing strategies for fruits & vegetables. www.reddit.com/r/askscience/
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companies when deciding how to send me 10 mL of an antibiotic
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🎉EBRC In Translation podcast series hits 10,000 downloads! In the newest episode, Will Grubbe & Talia Jacobson chat with MIT’s Jim Collins on new antibiotics, diagnostics, and AI-driven discoveries in SynBio. 🎧 Catch the episode & full series: ebrcintranslation.buzzsprout.com
EBRC In Translation
EBRC In Translation is a podcast working to bring you conversations with leaders in the world of Engineering Biology. The show is the official podcast of the Engineering Biology Research Consortium St...
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the september issue of vogue is out!!
Nucleic Acids Research@narjournal.bsky.social · 7mo ago🌟 2026 Nucleic Acids Research Database issue 🧬 182 papers, 84 new databases, plus Breakthrough Articles on JoGo (global long‑read haplotypes) and So3D (3D spatial genomics). Browse the issue and Editorial: academic.oup.com/nar/issue/54... academic.oup.com/nar/article/... @danielrigden.bsky.social
Excited to launch the new improved Reproducible Code guide from @britishecologicalsociety.org @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social FREE online here! www.britishecologicalsociety.org//wp-content/... Amazing work by some very talented ECRs. We hope it’s useful!
A new perspective/review article on the role of Synthetic Biology in realizing bio-based economy, shout out to @andrea-garza-e.bsky.social for the heavy lift! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Building an expanded bio-based economy through synthetic biology
The field of synthetic biology is essential to the continued development of a bio-based economy, creating mechanisms to supply carbon needed in the ec…
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🚨Just announced! The NSF-NIST Bioeconomy Standards Scholar-in-Residence Initiative offers researchers the opportunity to spend time at a NIST lab developing expertise in standards development for AI-ready data, workflows, machine readable code, calibration objects, and more. tinyurl.com/44cuz94u
NSF-NIST Scholars in Residence
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opinion: we should be saying upstrand and downstrand instead of upstream and downstream 🧬
As #Halloween approaches, adults stalk the aisles of stores, looking for their favorite gummy candy. Chemists can tweak many ingredients in search of the best bounce or bite, but one of the largest differentiators is the molecule that creates the gel: cen.acs.org/food/food-in... #chemsky 🧪
procrastinating on writing the reviewer response + needed some art for the office walls = "organizing the freezer" acrylic on canvas 😂
