lauren-stadler.bsky.social
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The Stadler and Chappell labs are hiring a joint postdoc to join an NSF-funded project on isolating and engineering environmental plasmids for microbiome engineering applications! Email jc125@rice.edu and ls58@rice.edu to apply. More info below!
August 18, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Thrilled to share our work on engineering phages to study their host range in microbial communities. This is the work of @micronaut.bsky.social who recently defended and is on the postdoc market!
Very excited to share a manuscript at the heart of my PhD! We added an RNA-memory device (RAM) to phage P1 to identify transduction hosts in synthetic and wastewater microbial communities in high throughput. Also, I am on the post-doc market, so please reach out if interested! 1/6

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Cross-order detection of bacteriophage transduction in communities using ribosomal RNA barcoding
Bacteriophages (phages) facilitate gene transfer and microbial evolution in all ecosystems and have applications as tools for engineering microbiomes and as antimicrobials. Historic efforts to map pha...
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May 7, 2025 at 2:16 AM
Fresh in @NatureBiotech! We developed a synthetic biology tool for tracking gene transfer in microbial communities and applied it to study plasmid hosts in a wastewater microbiome. Awesome collab with James Chappell & @joffsilberg.bsky.social and incredible students. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Information storage across a microbial community using universal RNA barcoding - Nature Biotechnology
Barcoding microbial ribosomal RNA creates a recording of gene transfer events without requiring translation.
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March 18, 2025 at 3:57 PM