Karas Lab

Excited to share our new preprint co-led with Hwan Su Yoon and Hocheol Kim. The genomic basis of evolutionary stasis in the 500-million-year-old red #seaweed genus Ahnfeltia. A living fossil in coastal oceans. It also appears to be an ocean cactus... biorxiv.org/content/10.648…

The @SchulichMedDent at @WesternU invites applications for a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair (CRC) in Mass Spectrometry ‘Omics for Novel Therapeutics. uwo.ca/facultyrelatio…

Huge day in K-lab! @Daniel_Nucifora successfully defended his PhD thesis titled “Acholeplasma laidlawii as a New Platform for Creating Synthetic Cells.” Congratulations, Dr. Nucifora!

This work builds on our earlier efforts on Acholeplasma and synthetic genomes. Both published in @ACSSynBio First one was published in the very first issue: pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/sb… and one more recently: pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

Newest paper from our lab lead by @Daniel_Nucifora. We show that the entire genome of A. laidlawii can be transferred directly into yeast by cell fusion. Cloning whole genomes in yeast is a key step toward building and engineering synthetic cells. pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

Thank you @NSERC_CRSNG for sponsoring this work @SchulichMedDent

Awesome new synthetic biology paper in Nature today led by Bolin An (SIAT) and Zijay Tang (Harvard/MIT) on cell fate gene circuits that specialise cell progeny to different tasks and control their population ratios. This is the most #synbio paper ever! nature.com/articles/s4158…

Reminder that next seminar is today at 1:30 pm ET

Foggy morning ⁦@WesternU⁩

Excited that our latest diatom engineering research @SchulichMedDent was highlighted by CTV News London! Congrats @ejlwalker and all authors. ctvnews.ca/london/article…

Just out @NatureComms Our new paper led by @KarasLab with our help (Thalassiosira pseudonana). Breaking the cell wall for efficient DNA delivery to #diatoms @NorwichResearch @uniofeastanglia @UEAResearch nature.com/articles/s4146…

Seminar on the fascinating coral-algae endosymbiosis, by the experts Professor Virginia Weis and Dr Maria Ruggeri from Oregon State University starts in 10 minutes. Zoom link: stanford.zoom.us/j/99189904989?…

I’m excited to share that our department @westernuBiochem @SchulichMedDent is hiring Canada Research Chair (CRC) Tier 1 in Metabolomics for Novel Therapeutics uwo.ca/facultyrelatio…

Thanks to KAUST Discovery for this great write-up on our work. Algae and the Chocolate Factory! @MLPMasson @ASU_AzCATI Prof. Peter Lammers, @Barbara_C_F @MikeD_Fox @KAUSTCoreLabs @MarsGlobal discovery.kaust.edu.sa/en/article/262… Beautiful image by @HenoHwang

#WesternU welcomes The Canada Impact + Chairs program launched by Minister Joly yesterday. This program will help attract the best and brightest to support innovation, knowledge translation and new discoveries that drive social and economic growth.

K-lab dream team

New Preprint from the Karas Lab: Conjugation-Based CRISPR Antifungals (COBRA). Congrats @VidaNasrollahi Thank you to our Sponsors @WesternU Western Innovation Fund, @NSERC_CRSNG, Ontario Agri-Food Research Initiative @westernuBiochem biorxiv.org/content/10.648…

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