🧬 Attention iGEM teams!

Are you starting a new project and thinking about biosafety systems? This is a great resource to explore different containment strategies:

📘 Auxotrophy to Xeno-DNA: an exploration of combinatorial mechanisms for a high-fidelity biosafety system for synthetic biology applications

➡️ https://doi.org/10.1186/s13036-018-0105-8

From engineered auxotrophy to xeno-DNA containment, it is full of ideas that could help shape your design and safety planning.
#iGEM #SynBio #Biosafety #OpenResearch

Synthetic Biology for Light-Activated Smart Materials

Design and characterise light-responsive proteins and demonstrate light-controlled behaviour of cell-free biology in materials.

#SynBio, #StructuralBiology, #ProteinEngineering, and #biomaterials.

#PhD Studentships are fully funded for 4yrs, with minimum of 3 months at the industry partner. Funding for home (UK) students = tax-free stipend (indicative in year 1 in 2026-27 (£21,383), research costs and tuition fees.
https://www.findaphd.com/phds/project/synthetic-biology-for-light-activated-smart-materials/?p193808

🧬 Largest RNA language model to date offers new way to predict behavior and boost drug discovery

https://phys.org/news/2025-11-largest-rna-language-date-behavior.html

#rna #llm #biotech #synbio #molbio #drugdiscovery #pharmacology #medicine

I have a postdoctoral research post available in my lab. Please share, especially suitable for #EngBio #SynBio people, or Metabolic Engineers.

Its a cell-free metabolic engineering project, and part of a bigger, multi-year effot: https://www.ncl.ac.uk/press/articles/latest/2025/06/greatbritishchemicals/

Job Listing: https://jobs.ncl.ac.uk/job/Newcastle-Research-Associate/1274601001/

#Methode: Effizientes Klonieren? Eine Frage der Koordination! Das Open-Source-Tool #CloneCoordinate, entwickelt vom Team um Ben Thuronyi (USA), ist eine Open-Source-Softweare für kollaborative DNA-Konstruktion. Mehr im Laborjournalartikel von Andrea Pitzschke: https://www.laborjournal.de/editorials/3383.php
#SynBio #LabLife

@thuronyi

SYNTHETIC + MOLECULAR BIOLOGY on MICROPLASTICS - POSTDOCTORAL FELLOW
University of Toronto

Turn your #PostDoc into a Global Impact. 🌍 Join @UofT/#RNAlab to evolve plastic-degrading enzymes #SynBio. 🧬🔬

See the full job description on jobRxiv: https://jobrxiv.org/job/university-of-toronto-27778-synthetic-molecular-biology-on-microplastics-postdoctoral-fellow/

#b...
https://jobrxiv.org/job/university-of-toronto-27778-synthetic-molecular-biology-on-microplastics-postdoctoral-fellow/?fsp_sid=6150

Learn more about Twist and #SynBio at Rhymes with Haystack, link in bio.

🎃 Have you picked your Halloween costume? 🎃 And more importantly, have you submitted your papers to our upcoming special issue on Advances in Plant Natural Products: #Biosynthesis, #Bioengineering, and Applications.

https://jipb.net/EN/news/news863.shtml

#PlantScience #medicine #food #beauty #agriculture #botany #SynBio

This #FreeAccess Brief Communication describes an optimized prime editing system in a model #medicinal #plant that allows precise editing of key #genes and generates germplasm with elevated amounts of #bioactive tanshinone, advancing #SynBio applications in medicinal plants.

💊 https://doi.org/10.1111/jipb.70006

#PlantSci #botany

SYNTHETIC + MOLECULAR BIOLOGY on MICROPLASTICS - POSTDOCTORAL FELLOW
University of Toronto

Turn your #PostDoc into a Global Impact. 🌍 Join @UofT/#RNAlab to evolve plastic-degrading enzymes #SynBio. 🧬🔬

See the full job description on jobRxiv: https://jobrxiv.org/job/university-of-toronto-27778-synthetic-molecular-biology-on-microplastics-postdoctoral-fellow/

#e...
https://jobrxiv.org/job/university-of-toronto-27778-synthetic-molecular-biology-on-microplastics-postdoctoral-fellow/?fsp_sid=3826

SYNTHETIC + MOLECULAR BIOLOGY on MICROPLASTICS - POSTDOCTORAL FELLOW
University of Toronto

Turn your #PostDoc into a Global Impact. 🌍 Join @UofT/#RNAlab to evolve plastic-degrading enzymes #SynBio. 🧬🔬

See the full job description on jobRxiv: https://jobrxiv.org/job/university-of-toronto-27778-synthetic-molecular-biology-on-microplastics-postdoctoral-fellow/

#e...
https://jobrxiv.org/job/university-of-toronto-27778-synthetic-molecular-biology-on-microplastics-postdoctoral-fellow/?fsp_sid=3749

We are excited to welcome our next iGEM Bonn team for the 2025/2026 cycle! 🌍✨

The students are already gearing up for a year of innovation in synthetic biology, and we are proud to support their journey.

👉 Meet the new team here: https://www.igem-bonn.org/team-2026/

Let’s cheer them on as they begin their iGEM adventure!

#iGEM2026 #iGEM #SynBio #Teamwork #Innovation
@boas_pucker @samnm

Preparing a Journal club about rubisco directed evolution for tomorrow

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41477-025-02093-8

#photosynthesis #synbio #ecoli

This #review examines how advances in #plant #genomics and #SynBio have accelerated research on plant prenyltransferases in natural product synthesis, positioning them as a focal point for prenylated natural product-based #drug development.
https://doi.org/10.1111/jipb.70004
@wileyplantsci
#PlantScience #medicine #botany

Investigating morphogen and patterning dynamics with optogenetic control of morphogen production

"🎵 Efficient, logical, effective, and practical 🎶". Also: beautiful.

Congratulations to Dirk Benzinger & James Briscoe.

#PaperThemeTune is "ChemiOptoGenetic Engineering" by Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark #ShowingMyAge

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1534580725004952

#DevBio #SynBio

New issue! Featuring reviews on #SynBio #biofortification and transcription factor engineering to improve #yield, plus research articles spanning #PlantScience. Free to read for a limited time! 🔓 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/17447909/2025/67/8

Thử thách SynBio lần thứ 4 tại Thâm Quyến đã quy tụ hơn 265 đội và gần 1.900 tài năng trẻ từ khắp nơi trên thế giới. Họ đã tạo ra những giải pháp bền vững cho các vấn đề thực tiễn. Đây là cơ hội để sáng tạo và đổi mới cho thế hệ tương lai! #SynBio #BềnVững #ĐổiMớiThanhNiên #ThâmQuyến https://ift.tt/15iGOZY

Synthetic biology-based #biofortification of crop plants may be the key to addressing hidden #hunger caused by chronic #micronutrient deficiencies, which affect billions of people. Learn more in this #OpenAccess mini-review!
https://doi.org/10.1111/jipb.13934
#PlantScience #SynBio 🔓 #botany

An old friend of mine has a blog about #synBio, #genomics, and #biology. Here's the first post in a series on genome sequencing technology:

https://editlife.substack.com/p/part-1-the-dna-sequencing-arms-race

Site-specific DNA insertion into the human genome with engineered recombinases www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... in other words... genome engineering to precisely insert large multi-kilobase sequences into specific sites without introducing double-strand breaks #synbio