Phillip Clauer

I've spent my PhD building the next generation of these N-fixing microbes to provide more nitrogen to crops and reduce the number of genetic changes required to achieve that effect. Looking forward to sharing that work and other efforts next year as I wrap up my time at MIT.

I was featured as a small part of a much larger story in the New York Times today discussing efforts to use genetically modified microbes to replace synthetic nitrogenous fertilizers on US farms! nytimes.com/2024/10/24/cli…

Engineering Bacteria for Environmental Release: Regulatory Challenges and Design Strategies dx.doi.org/10.22541/au.17…

Scientists have developed a one-drop test for water contamination axios.com/northwestern-w…

"Cell-free biosensors for rapid detection of water contaminants" My main postdoc project in @LucksLab along with co-first author @kirstenjung93 is now online at @NatureBiotech! 🧵 find out what’s new in #RNA #CellFree #SynBio & our peer review 1/n doi.org/10.1038/s41587…

Need a low-cost, rapid, point-of-use method to detect water contaminants? Check out our paper 'Cell-free biosensors for rapid detection of water contaminants' in @NatureBiotech from @NorthwesternU led by @kirstenjung93 and @biochemPhD: nature.com/articles/s4158… (1/10)

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE & USAGE: "A Massively Parallel COVID-19 Diagnostic Assay for Simultaneous Testing of 19200 Patient Samples" Protocol at docs.google.com/document/d/1kP…. Primers & Spike-in Controls at docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d…

CRISPR is awesome, but if you stably co-express many sgRNAs, what could you do? You could: regulate many genes, edit many SNPs, redirect metabolism, & build cool circuits. Now introducing ELSAs to co-express 22 sgRNAs without introducing repetitive DNA. nature.com/articles/s4158…

Working on ROSALIND with @LucksLab, @BiochemPhD, and @kirstenjung93, and being a part of the @NUSynBio community was an amazing experience. Excited to see how ROSALIND will transform point-of-use water quality monitoring!

Our @LucksLab #preprint is up! Introducing ROSALIND, a #cellfree #synbio platform for rapid, low-cost detection of #water contaminants. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…