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Met most of you during my time in SF, arriving with nothing but motivation and passion for science. I gave it my all, and I still can’t believe where it’s taken me!
In 6 years, I became the first Latin American who studied in LATAM to reach MIT Bioengineering. The dream begins❤️🔥
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I just lost my mentor. The one who believed in me way before I did.
This tweet says “when I grow up, I want to be like Majo”. He’ll send me a motivation message like this every week to keep me going. Even last week!
My science dad and friend, we’ll carry your legacy forever🕊️
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The biotech community in SF isn’t complete without Latinas! Here are two :)
@paulinapaiz02
so lucky to share this journey with you!! (& thanks
@LatchBio
for the meetup 😉)
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BIG congrats to the iGEM Costa Rica team for winning a GOLD medal! So honored to be part of your team🫀
In 2019 we tried to engineer Lacto, but it was painful and unsuccessful. Here, they solved it with a new plasmid/tech. Could you imagine how many diseases we could target now?
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Today marks 1 year since I joined
@roybal_lab
#UCSF
. I could say that measuring mice tumors and recording 0 x 0 cm2 for the groups with our engineered Tcells have been one of the greatest feelings in my life.
Here 4 the next gen of immunotherapies. Here to make them + accesible.
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A full conference featuring Woman in Immunology. Also, my first time as a speaker in this field. Feels like I’m living a dream!! Thanks for having me
@IgEquity
Starting our Synthetic Immunology session were trainee speakers
@BaharZirak
and
@majoduran__
who spoke about ways to leverage bioengineering to solve complex health issues!
#IgEquity
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I’m super excited to be selected for the 6th cohort of Frequency Bio! As a passionate in immunotherapy, it’s fascinating to think about the impact these therapies can have for humanity. Can’t wait to learn more about the biotech startup process from the bio team at
@pillar_vc
! 🤩
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I’ve done many unexpected things in SF, but dancing tap was never on my plans!!!!
After 2.5 years out, I can say: Scientists can Tap too 😋
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Surreal week judging at iGEM Jamboree - Paris!!
How in the world a high school team engineered a bacteria that adjust pH and block grow inhibitors for hydroponics + created their own hydroponic system + did math modeling + public engagement + educated other students in -1 year?
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The art of being surrounded by people that are fighting like crazy for their dreams, and inspire you to keep working on yours. No matter how far or unreal they look right now. Thanks
@fiftyyears
🌻
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Wearing my Latch t-shirt because today is
@LatchBio
Day!!!!! Your platform will help us research in faster and more reliable ways, and I can’t be more excited for that!
Huge congrats
@AlfredoAndere
@kylegiff
@kenbwork
and team 👏🏼
We just raised a $28 million Series A from Coatue and
@Lux_Capital
to build the AWS x GitHub for biocomputing.
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If you’re at Synbiobeta, take a picture with the
@fiftyyears
murals!
Did you see the freaking amazing prizes you can win???
You have until 8 pm today!
Have you ever wondered how synbio looked fifty years ago and or how it will look fifty years from now?
If you’re at
@SynBioBeta
we have 2 murals outside the conference waiting for you! 👀
Find them for a chance to win seriously cool synbio prizes! 👇
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It’s happening! Join the AI + Bio Hackathon by
@LatchBio
@fiftyyears
@Lux_Capital
tomorrow! You will not only get to build with cool scientists of the Bay, but also learn these amazing speakers 😲
RSVP and see you there!
Floored by the amazing lightning talks that
@majoduran__
put together.
HANI GOODARZI (
@genophoria
) will talk about AI applied to the understanding of complex human diseases.
DANIEL GOODMAN (
@dbgoodman
) will discuss the use of multiplex synthetic biology
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Appreciation post to one of my mentors
@dbgoodman
for spending at least 4.5 hours today showing me how to make some code for our big library screens. If you know Dan, you know the amazing energy he injects into his work. So glad to be here to testify it!
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I just spent most of my day with Pamela Silver today. What a pleasure! Her philosophy of life easily explains how she was able to lead in the early days of Synbio. A room full of men, a system full of unethical means, but she was way more powerful than that! That’s contagious ❤️🔥
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I taught dance classes to +200 girls for 6 years, and I always took 15 min of the class to talk ab science and leadership.
My 8 y-o students and I start believing that we are unstoppable, we are the leaders of tmw and we are here to inspire others.
Thanks for the feature! 👩🏻🔬
We talked to a slew of up and coming life science researchers to find out there accomplishments and see how they are helping other women enter the sector.
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Hope you’re ready 🚀🔥
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Last week
@cantos
,
@HummingbirdVC
and
@KdT_Ventures
hosted the AI in Bio Summit at the NYSE!⚡️
AI is changing the way we see and read bio. But it remains a tool and not an application. We still need to (fully) understand the outputs to have bio impact. 🌎
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I’m building a database with all JPM events in this 2024 edition 🔥 Any event you want to share?
Retweets would be appreciated!
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Congrats Caleb Bashor and the whole lab for their latest preprint!
My first intro to Synbio in mammalian cells was @ this lab. Modulating genes in these cells is definitely *a journey*, and they have such cool approaches to it.
Excited to see where this method can take us!
This new synthetic biology method / preprint from Caleb Bashor‘s team looks very exciting >> Ultra-high throughput mapping of genetic design space
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I’m just learning that you can friends as loyal, fun and special as Pau. I feel BEYOND grateful to be your friend 😩❤️
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Thank you for being part of my journey. Each of you has made a positive impact on me in one way or another.
Now, I’m ready to use these opportunities to create tech that’ll speed up science and bring real solutions. Stick around! ✨
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The end goal, the material, and the people behind it ❤️🔥 Masterpiece. Congrats
@MichaelRetchin
and team!
Can’t wait to hear these stories!!
Introducing Signal, the new voice of next generation biotech.
A few words from me on what it is and why it matters.
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Haven’t seen a program for future founders as revolutionary as 5050.
I traveled all the way from BOS to SF for just 48h to attend the kickoff.
The science shared, the caliber of these future founders, the workshops, the insights from great founders… I’d do it 100 times over❤️🔥
Kickoff weekend for 5050 cohort 5 is a wrap. What a blast! Yesterday had sessions on resiliency, essential founder traits, choosing what to build, and more. Today visited
@Astranis
,
@OctantBio
,
@Molten_Ind
,
@multiplylabs
,
@huminly
, and Electroflow. So fired up!
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2 years ago, this changed the way I see synbio in immune cells. They wondered if properties from cancer cells could be useful and feasible for therapies, and found an incredible protein that acts like magic - you add it and therapy instantly faster and stronger! Go
@roybal_lab
❤️
I am excited to share some of my PhD work, from the lab of
@KoleRoybal
and in collaboration with
@jaehyukchoimd
and
@jay_daniels1
, online today
@Nature
. Full story is here, , and more details below 👇
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This lab makes days and nights of work so easy and fun. The motivation, energy, empathy, and, of course, mentorship from
@KoleRoybal
, has been everything for me. Thanks and 🥂 for the year to come.
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Thanks for hosting such a great Holiday Party
@LatchBio
!!! I’m amazed by all the tech and community you have built this year ⚡️
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Goosebumps reading the 17 projects that these amazing scientist put together. WOW!
Special congrats to the SVM team, for winning the
@fiftyyears
Impact Prize 🏆 Dr. Dan Goodsell wrote an inspiring quote for you on his book The Machinery of Life.
Enjoy it and keep thriving!
1/ We wrapped up the first large-scale Bio x ML hackathon last week with
@huggingface
,
@openbioml
,
@LatchBio
&
@Lux_Capital
Thrilled to share some of the projects at this nexus with you below:
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This is happening tomorrow ⚠️‼️
We will discuss the newest technologies, the gaps and the future of synthetic immunology, with inputs from the scientists, investors and founders working on it!
Founders, researchers, and investors in bio! Whether you're established or just getting started in Synthetic Immunology, we invite you to join us on May 30th for this seminar!
RSVP:
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I wonder if when we die, we get to talk to “The Creator” and asks all our scientific questions… Like:
- Was targeting X cytokine the best strategy for that disease?!
- No. I know you spent your whole life working on it, but the answer was molecule Z.
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This is today!!!!
Excited to co-host at
@bakarlabs_uc
with the amazing
@majoduran__
! ❤️ There are endless VCs in the Bay and I say with care & meaning that very few are passionate, driven, & kind as
@fiftyyears
. I cannot wait to see
@UCBerkeley
dreaming big to solve big problems 🚀🧬🌱🌎
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My favorite event at Synbiobeta in many many years. Thanks to everyone who came ❤️🔥
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A few years ago,
@maricelsaenz
called me during quarantine in CR🇨🇷 to share an idea she had. Beanless coffee?! Say no more! We prepared formulas in our kitchens and ran many virtual tastings.
It grew, scaled (clearly!) and now, YOU CAN TASTE IT ☕️ Welcome to the next generation!
We are so excited to introduce you to: Minus☕️
Our first product, Coffee Minus the beans, is a beanless cold brew that you have to taste.
The day has finally arrived, today we are opening our website with a limited amount of product for purchase!
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More pictures because I can’t get enough from yesterday ❤️🔥 THANKS FOR COMING.
It feels like the International Women’s Day is over, but our intentions to build a better world together are just starting!
Most inspiring international women's day yet! Constantly blown away by these scientists and the barriers they are breaking daily.
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Wondering where/why I got SO crazy in love with the startup life 🤔🤔 Literally none of this would have happened if you hadn't opened your doors to me like you did a couple of years ago. Thank you my friend ❤️
@sethbannon
@majoduran__
@sarakemppainen
@Aleborda21
@fiftyyears
@majoduran__
is literally the best!! So excited for this next stage🔥
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Honored to have contributed a (very) small piece on this paper from the Baker Lab.
Excited to see where this technology take us! 🚀
Thrilled to share our work on novo protein LYTAC(pLYTAC)/EndoTag in
@nature
! Using de novo protein design, we created endocytosis triggering binding proteins (EndoTags) to degrade extracellular targets and amplify receptor signaling.
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Avatar was INDEED too intense 😂 Judge by this picture with
@synbiomaria
. We laughed, screamed and cried, the whole combo! What a Holiday Party 50Y 🫶🏼
Avatar 2 is INTENSE 🙀
Just wrapped an advance screening for 150
@fiftyyears
founders and friends community! What a blast!
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Bay Area friends, be the first ones to try the amazing beanless coffee that
@shopminuscoffee
@maricelsaenz
have been prep for us 👀⚡️
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Games offer a unique way to explore complex scientific concepts by combining realistic biology with engaging gameplay.
Ever wondered about the amazing science you could create in this field? Find out at the Synbio Game Jam next Saturday
@FiftyYears
HQ!
Introducing the inaugural
#SynBio
Game Jam!
A week-long hackathon where scientists, game developers, designers, and ML engineers come together to explore synthetic biology through creative game design.
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In two days we’ll have a big celebration 👀: It’ll be
#WorldCRISPRDay
!! The talks are virtual (yay!). But guess what?! Synthego will be hosting the first in-person CRISPR day celebration in the Bay Area. Meetup:
🎶 It's the most wonderful time of the year 🎶 That's right, registration for
#WorldCRISPRDay
is now open. Reserve your seat now:
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Once Ayush went to talk to the waiter in *Spanish*, I felt like it was mission accomplished. Haha! Unforgettable dinner 💛
On
@majoduran__
’s recommendation,
@ATrotmanGrant
and I tried El Salvadoran pupusas today and were treated to a live mariachi performance. Cross-cultural exchange with friends is one of my favorite aspects of living in a vibrant, diverse city like
#SanFrancisco
.
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I love protein engineering and therapy discovery, but I really dislike the models that we use to validate it.
It’s so exciting to hear about all these new crazy ideas to get to + human-like models, such as
@Herophilus_SF
. Thx
@indbio
for hosting it!
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Of course! Of course we could increase the impact of our research and inventions in bio if we use platforms as big a la gaming. This is 🤯🤯!!!!!!
Introducing The Gameful Scientist!
I'm excited to explore the intersection of science and gaming to reimagine how discoveries are made.
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In Costa Rica we say that if the clouds look broken like in this picture (taken today), there’s going to be an earthquake. I told
@paulinapaiz02
that like 5 times today 😂 ups, it wasn’t a joke!
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Thank you ❤️ what an honor to host this party and have you there!!
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Proudest friend! 🤩💯👏👏👏👏👏
When
@ayushnoori
was young, his grandma was diagnosed w/ progressive supranuclear palsy. Unsatisfied w/ the lack of treatments, Ayush began his scientific career at the age of 12. Read & listen to Ayush's story and find out how he would
#ReimagineTheWorld
.
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Today is a good day to share one of my favorite tweets!
Incredibly happy that David Baker’s work was recognized by the Nobel Committee and the whole world! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Today in my PI and I live in different worlds. He wants to look at some protein structures using alphafold and suggests I email David Baker if I have any questions. Sure, I also have some questions about Catholicism, should I email the pope about them?
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Wow that’s a big statement over there 👀✨
The limiting reagent of our brightest future is people choosing to build companies that matter.
I wish 5050 existed back when we started Vicarious!
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@SynBioBeta
week is literally one of my favorite holidays of the year!!!!
We are organizing a special dinner where scientists and leaders from the bio frontier can discuss the science of tomorrow with great people and food :)
Who are we missing? 🙆🏻♀️
The Viriditas Feast 🌱🧬
Join
@fiftyyears
and
@notboringco
for an evening of food and conversation leading up to
@SynBioBeta
2023!
A limited number of spots are still available 👀
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@michelleefang
Plus LatchBio AI + bio Hackathon on Saturday!!!! Check it out
@AlfredoAndere
👀👀👀
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@loewenkc
The number of GREAT scientists that we are getting tagged here. Wow. This is so inspiring ❤️ THANKS
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@velvetatom
@keerthanpg
@loewenkc
@sarakemppainen
@lisiena_lissi
@lehannahle
@justine_lippens
@olgabot
@junaxup
I literally can’t belive that you changed your flight to attend to this event, but I’m sure that you have no regrets haha! Thanks for inspiring us, you’re killing it!!!
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This is a huge opportunity! Working on this project has been one of the most inspiring and rewarding experiences of my life. The impact and versatility of this technology is something you wouldn’t like to miss as a technician (we are just starting our research career!) 🦠🥳
Why test
#celltherapies
one-by-one when you can use
#SynBio
to design, learn, and iterate on thousands in parallel? Our team
@UCSF
@MarsonLab
@roybal_lab
is
#hiring
a wetlab technician to help build the next revolution in genetically engineered medicine! DM for info & please RT!
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@elamadej
@alexteng101
@fiftyyears
@sarakemppainen
@PeregrineBadger
@aniascigalska
@moxon
@Aleborda21
I literally can’t 😂😂❤️❤️❤️ I’ll just say… my birthday is around the corner. You have a few weeks to stretch that body! 😼
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@paulkhls
@valley_dao
@bio_xyz
@SynBioBeta
Congrats Paul!!!! So excited to hear your talk about DeSci in synbio 😯🙆🏻♀️
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When science meets art, BEAUTIFUL 🫶 So excited about this collaboration!
How can we expand the number of organisms we research?
Join
@tylerbarnumphd
and
@seemaychou
on May 2nd in SF for a convo on predicting ideal growth conditions and choosing transformable research organisms, co-hosted by
@fiftyyears
and Arcadia!
RSVP:
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Being part of this lab is one of the coolest thing I've done. Congratulations to all the people involved in this awesome paper!
Excited to share our paper
@CellCellPress
. Ray Liu and Iowis Zhu led the development of clinically optimized and tunable nextgen synNotch receptors dubbed SNIPRs for cell therapies. Thank you
@UCSF
@GladstoneInst
@parkerici
press:
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IT’S HAPPENING!!
Join
@ATrotmanGrant
journey as he develops games for Synbio. How cool?! 🎮🦠
Games are the ultimate storytellers.
#Synbio
, the art and science of programming life, shapes our world through epic transformations.
🧬🧫🦠💊🌱🪵🌎
Join me in exploring these ideas through immersive games and simulations.
Introducing Karyo Studios, my new startup.
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@ayushnoori
@ATrotmanGrant
grateful for you guys! You pretty much changed my life this week. I have Translation on repeat 🤟🏼
#50Years
With
@ATrotmanGrant
@majoduran__
@NandaPiyush
at
@BuiltWithBio
and the
@NucleateHQ
after party. Equal parts phenomenal learning experience and inspiring convergence of the brightest minds in
#synbio
. 1/2
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@sarakemppainen
@loewenkc
@fiftyyears
@minney_cat
@lisiena_lissi
@kathrynjc7
@bejmaven
@ameekapadia
@straballar
@wetarynitup
Thanks SO much for organizing it! 🤩 and
@paulinapaiz02
can’t wait to have you next time!!
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Your messages mean so much to me! This event was really heartbreaking, but I’m really feeling your love from distance. Thanks ❤️🩹
@elamadej
@sethbannon
@lisiena_lissi
@nimivashi15
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iGEM is definitely an innovation hub, and I can’t be more proud of all the highschool, undergrad and grad teams that made ALL this work just for the love of synbio. 🫀 we are going to change the world for good!
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@Davedevilcr
David!!! Gracias por haberme inspirado TANTO y haberme dado el trampolín que necesitaba. Usted es el dueño de ese trampolín! GRACIAS
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Thanks Surbhi Sarna to remind us at
@ycombinator
that it takes one YES to start a journey (full of serendipity and hard work) towards the solution of that problem you’re passionate about.
Currently: finding that problem :)
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It’s this weekend!! 🦠x🎮
The
#SynBio
Game Jam is this weekend.
Some participants might need some inspiration for what they can create during the event.
Enter Side Quest 3.
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A photo I keep close to my heart is this one. My grandma, mom, sister and I playing around with grains to make it work. We believed in you and in Compound Foods since day one!
So people, you don’t know what you’re missing!!! Go get it at 🤩
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👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 tan merecido!!!! Congrats amiga!!!
@paulinapaiz02
📢We are excited to announce the 2023 cohort of the
#Youth4Biosec
Fellowship!
Looking forward to embarking with them in a 3-month
#1972BWC
learning journey starting next week
Check out their bios here 👉
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Met
@ZacSolomon
and his great vision/goals behind hsi events yesterday and WOW. Let’s just just say: you should sign up for the next ones.
Thanks for featuring me, and for organizing the first Health x Biotech Startup Mixer!
Here are just some of the great people we met!
@sunainakavi
: one of the most interesting and charismatic people I’ve met!
@myrahahmad
: kicking ass as a solo founder, growing her company to over 60 employees!
@majoduran__
: From Costa Rica, but breaking into Venture in the
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Work from my college best friend 🥳 so proud!! Check it out!
My first paper as a co-author and I can not be more happy for it to be with Bikard's lab!
Here we showed that dCas9 can bind to off-targets with just 4-5 nts of complementarity with the gRNA!!!
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Another team I judged, targeted IBD using NO specific sensing and TNF secretion. They won the Therapeutics track!
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@ayushnoori
@Harvard
@time_initiative
@_Carol_Mag
@MichaelTrinh18
@RikardSaqe
@c_hudpaz
OMG! For how long are you staying?!
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@paulinapaiz02
@loewenkc
@sarakemppainen
Omg yes please!!! Super interested for grad school 🤩 thanks Pau!!
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@ceeceeboom
@rleuty_biotech
@SFBusinessTimes
@alishbaimran_
@ashleyz413
@peytongreenside
@royanaieni
@Nicole_Paulk
@synbiomaria
Thank you Cee Cee!!! Means a lot!!!! ❤️
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@Aleborda21
Ale let’s build ⚡️⚡️⚡️ so excited to work with you. Thanks for the warm welcoming and for being so AWESOME!!!
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@dbgoodman
@roybal_lab
Thanks Dan!!! So fortunate to have received your mentorship this year 🏆
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SO proud of you!!!!
Starting a company can be tough.
Our team
@fiftyyears
created a resource to help aspiring scientist founders confidently navigate tech transfer and the spinout process.
So excited to share this!
Introducing the Spinout Playbook👇🏾
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@moxon
@KiaFathi
@fiftyyears
6 celsiuses… are you sure? Feels more like 15th 😂😂
You guys are the best!
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@immuno_minna
Melt my heart to read this!! It was a such a fun day at the lab ❤️ we are so happy to have you here!!
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The Nucleate team has my heart! What a pleasure to met you all!!
#synbiobeta
east coast meets west coast meets the world. 💞
thank you RATC family for coming to our
@NucleateHQ
RATC after party after an AMAZING
@BuiltWithBio
conference. We loved connecting with you all!!
can’t wait for the next
@NucleateHQ
function, huh 😏
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