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Tom Ellis

@ProfTomEllis

Synthetic Biology & Synthetic Genomics @ Imperial College London and the Sanger Institute. Bilingual in English and DNA. D-/L-

London Katılım Ocak 2011
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Peter Ly@PeterLyLab·
Excited to share our latest paper, out today @CellCellPress. We found that large pieces of the human genome can transfer between cells upon direct contact, endowing recipient cells with heritable phenotypic changes. (1/7) cell.com/cell/fulltext/…
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Prachee Avasthi
Prachee Avasthi@PracheeAC·
For no reason at all, I made a simple one-page guide for self-publishing research without relying on journals or other centralized gatekeepers. It covers: – DOI deposits via Zenodo – FAIR repositories – crawlable HTML for Google + AI systems – metadata, licenses, datasets, code, and protocols
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biohub@biohub·
New in @NatureBiotech from Aly Khan: a platform combining yeast display with fine-tuned protein language models to identify antigens driving autoimmune disease. In collaboration with Chris Garcia at @Stanford / @hhmi_science 🧵
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Tetsuhiro Harimoto
Tetsuhiro Harimoto@TetsuHarimoto·
Our implantable living materials work is officially out @ScienceMagazine! We confined therapeutic bacteria in stiff and tough hydrogels for deployment in vivo. Check out the paper shorturl.at/qT6db and perspective shorturl.at/d5eTM here
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Tetsuhiro Harimoto@TetsuHarimoto

My postdoc work is now on bioRxiv! We combined engineered bacteria with hydrogels to create implantable living materials. These living materials safely confine microbes while enabling them to sense disease and release drugs on demand. 🔗 biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

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Isabelle Zane
Isabelle Zane@isabellease·
If you’re based in Cambridge (UK) and want to meet interesting people in biology — come along to one of our events!! Next Sunday evening we’ll be meeting to talk about organisms with weird genomes. Message/like for details
ARIA@ARIA_research

Highly ambitious, technical breakthroughs rarely arrive fully formed. They’re often born out of half-articulated thoughts – whispers in the university library, debates over lunch, or musings on the walk home. Our Innovator Circles initiative was designed to support these environments: high-trust, self-organised technical peer groups where people can test ideas early, raise each other’s ambition, and pursue ideas that could underpin the next world-changing breakthroughs. Find out more about cohort one. open.substack.com/pub/ariaresear…

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Mo Khalil
Mo Khalil@MoKhalilLab·
HONORED to receive the Kuwait Prize! A testament to the achievements and hard work of Khalil lab members past and present. It’s an honor to be recognized as a scientist, and especially meaningful to celebrate my background as a Palestinian-Jordanian 🙏 tinyurl.com/2jvrjszb
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Tom Ellis@ProfTomEllis·
@galosgann @SynBio1 Show me the statistics then. How many Nobel prize publications involved no PhD students?
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Mishа 170005@galosgann·
@ProfTomEllis @SynBio1 lol, not as dumb as denying statistically-rationally obvious statements. As the saying goes, these are exceptions which prove the rule.
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Jake Wintermute 🧬/acc@SynBio1·
We're seeing the "unbundling" of the research and teaching functions of the modern university More federal money moving to institutes that don't teach (and thus have lower overheads) I'm not opposed to experiments like this per se. Would probably be better to have them run by an admin that doesn't hate science and scientists
U.S. National Science Foundation@NSF

NSF announces $1.5B NSF X-Labs initiative to pursue generational breakthrough science efforts. NSF X-Labs will scale a new generation of transformative independent research organizations to advance breakthrough science outside of traditional institutions. nsf.gov/news/nsf-annou…

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Tom Ellis@ProfTomEllis·
@galosgann @SynBio1 Dumbest reply ever. Almost every Nobel prize winning publication has PhD students on it. Marie Curie got two Nobel prizes for her PhD work. Exoplanets, Telomerase, Superfluidity and lots more were all discovered by PhD students.
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Tom Ellis@ProfTomEllis·
@SynBio1 The infectious cancer that Tasmanian devils spread to each other is pretty scary
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Jake Wintermute 🧬/acc@SynBio1·
I get why most of the zoonotic viruses come from farm animals or rats or whatever because they are more numerous but what if there was a virus that came from polar bears how scary would that be
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Tom Ellis@ProfTomEllis·
@SynBio1 Plus universities can offer PhDs, and right or wrong this allows them to do world class research without having to pay world class salaries. So it’s another reason why universities *should* be the best value place to do most research.
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Tom Ellis@ProfTomEllis·
@SynBio1 Maybe the maths is different in the USA but in the UK, the money brought in by teaching (esp. masters programs) subsidises research activities and infrastructure. So in theory overheads should be lower at universities.
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Tom Knight -- e/🦀🌴@TomKnightSynBio·
@SynBio1 Most of the newer organizations also don't have to support extremely expensive sports teams, coaches, and stadiums.
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Alys Key
Alys Key@alys_key·
We need a name for all the DeepMind alumni doing exciting things in the UK tech scene, but calling it the DeepMind Mafia feels a bit unimaginative. Anyone have ideas?
Tim Rocktäschel@_rockt

Excited to co-found Recursive (@recursive_si) with an exceptional team in London and SF to create AI that experiments on how to safely improve itself, turning compute into knowledge that accumulates in an open-ended process of endless, automated scientific discoveries.

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Tom Ellis@ProfTomEllis·
@drdevangm Also. He’s clearly never worked in a real job if he doesn’t think that happens at offices all around the business world every day.
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Devang Mehta 🌱👨🏽‍🔬🧬
Devang Mehta 🌱👨🏽‍🔬🧬@drdevangm·
Hard disagree
Dr. Manabendra Saharia@m_saharia

Yesterday, I was giving an intro talk to our dept's new PhD students. Technical things aside, my number 1 suggestion has remained the same over the years: Treat your PhD like a job. - Avoid 1.5h lunch and three tea breaks. - Avoid gossiping and loitering at work. - Lab at 9 am and leave at 6 pm. Being productive till 11 pm in the lab is a lie people till themselves when their day starts at 1 PM. Everything worth doing can be done with high intensity focus during work hours. And having fun in life is the secret to being productive in a marathon.

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David Kelley
David Kelley@drklly·
We’re hiring in my group at Calico. We build Borzoi and its successors—deep learning models that predict how every nucleotide shapes cell-type-specific gene regulation—and apply them to interpret human genetic variation.
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Kyle Chan
Kyle Chan@kyleichan·
Almost half of the CEOs traveling to China are tech. There's a lot of attention on Chinese purchases of agricultural goods. But I wonder if more of the deals will be around selling US tech to China and trying to loosening Chinese restrictions. Elon wants Tesla FSD approval and maybe solar panel manufacturing equipment. Nvidia wants to sell H200s. Illumina used to sell a lot of DNA sequencers to China before being put on a blacklist. Micron got cut out from Chinese critical infrastructure.
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