Maciej Maselko
synbionaut.bsky.social
Maciej Maselko
@synbionaut.bsky.social
Associate Professor at Macquarie University
Excited about most things related to animal synthetic biology
MaselkoLab.com
Amazing PhD opportunity to work on cutting edge biocontrol of cane toads in the NT with an incredible team!
December 2, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Our work demonstrating CRISPR in cane toads is now published in The CRISPR Journal!

www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1177/...
October 15, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Reposted by Maciej Maselko
🚀 Meet Our Centre Startups: EntoZyme with Dr Maciej Maselko @synbionaut.bsky.social

#EntoZyme is transforming sustainable #wastemanagement and #biomanufacturing industries with the use of transgenic Black Soldier Flies. 🪰♻️

Some footage sourced from #OpenPlanet

youtu.be/N81qOcKx_qo?...
EntoZyme: Building a Bio-Future
YouTube video by ARC Centre of Excellence in Synthetic Biology
youtu.be
June 30, 2025 at 4:37 AM
Our latest preprint on Cas9 in Cane Toads is out.
Congrats to postdoc Michael Clark driving this excellent work!
lnkd.in/gGDq92bJ
May 17, 2025 at 4:12 AM
Super excited that our paper demonstrating that animals can be engineered for methylmercury bioremediation is now published!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
February 12, 2025 at 10:09 AM
Our Toxic Male Technique (TMT) paper is finally out! TMT males produce insecticidal semen to eliminate the female population. It's the first example of intragenerational genetic biocontrol. TMT mosquitoes could dramatically reduce bloodmeals.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
January 7, 2025 at 10:25 AM