www.biotrans2025.com/programme

I don't take tenure for granted anymore as universities are under unprecedented attack

I'm also looking forward to sabbatical. I'll start as an Otto Mønsted Visiting Professor at Denmark Technical University next week and look forward to connecting more with my European colleagues
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We have a vibrant and supportive culture in the Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering department @udelaware.bsky.social. Thanks to the faculty and staff who create the environment to succeed

I've benefited from great mentors at all stages & especially Wilfred Chen

But most of all, the students (2/3)

Thank you, Abhishek! Very glad you liked it

Thanks, Pat!!
Hope you've been doing well.

All three of the contexts you mentioned are under investigation by some combination of us, us and collaborators, or folks we have shared synthetic auxotrophs with

Ah, thanks for sharing this example. "Free living" may be a bit of a misnomer, but you correctly interpreted that I wanted to exclude the category of obligate intracellular symbionts/parasites

This work represents a first step towards developing safeguards that could contain and sustain engineered microbes in a specific environment

That could be useful for addressing myriad challenges in planetary health

Work led by Amanda Forti, who is tenacious, meticulous, & entering the job market