Tae Seok Moon
@taeseokmoon.bsky.social
YouTuber, traveler, director of an NSF global center, Full professor at JCVI, EBRC Council Member, SynBYSS Chair, Moonshot Bio founder, EFB Executive Board Member, and editor of 10 journals, including the New Biotechnology Editor-in-Chief.
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@taeseokmoon.bsky.social
· Aug 30
Please suggest the last keynote speaker for the 2nd SynBYSS conference on June 8-11, 2026 in Barcelona
Until now, the confirmed speakers are
Keynote speakers:
Víctor de Lorenzo, Sarah O'Connor, Pam Silver, Ian Paulsen, Wilfried Weber, Mark Isalan, Chase Beisel
@vdlorenzo.bsky.social @jcvi.org
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Until now, the confirmed speakers are
Keynote speakers:
Víctor de Lorenzo, Sarah O'Connor, Pam Silver, Ian Paulsen, Wilfried Weber, Mark Isalan, Chase Beisel
@vdlorenzo.bsky.social @jcvi.org
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This week is World #AntimicrobialResistance Awareness week
This article collection spans the breadth of #AMR across pathogens (bacteria, viruses, fungi, parasites), covers epidemiological monitoring, diagnostics, treatment, etc
This article collection spans the breadth of #AMR across pathogens (bacteria, viruses, fungi, parasites), covers epidemiological monitoring, diagnostics, treatment, etc
Antimicrobial resistance: a silent pandemic
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November 23, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Important topic
3rd day trip of 17d Australia trip: Melbourne.
25h since my departure from home to a hotel.
Botanic Gardens, Free food distribution, African Festival, Game Worlds, Robot to fry Korean chicken, and 30 min reading a Captain Cook book in State Library after 4.5h free walking tour!
Dinner & more walk!
25h since my departure from home to a hotel.
Botanic Gardens, Free food distribution, African Festival, Game Worlds, Robot to fry Korean chicken, and 30 min reading a Captain Cook book in State Library after 4.5h free walking tour!
Dinner & more walk!
November 23, 2025 at 6:53 AM
3rd day trip of 17d Australia trip: Melbourne.
25h since my departure from home to a hotel.
Botanic Gardens, Free food distribution, African Festival, Game Worlds, Robot to fry Korean chicken, and 30 min reading a Captain Cook book in State Library after 4.5h free walking tour!
Dinner & more walk!
25h since my departure from home to a hotel.
Botanic Gardens, Free food distribution, African Festival, Game Worlds, Robot to fry Korean chicken, and 30 min reading a Captain Cook book in State Library after 4.5h free walking tour!
Dinner & more walk!
24.5h after I left my San Diego home, I am taking a bus to Melbourne downtown, Australia! Enough sleep and work during the airplane ride!
Time to enjoy my vacation and seminars!
Time to enjoy my vacation and seminars!
November 23, 2025 at 12:23 AM
24.5h after I left my San Diego home, I am taking a bus to Melbourne downtown, Australia! Enough sleep and work during the airplane ride!
Time to enjoy my vacation and seminars!
Time to enjoy my vacation and seminars!
Embarking on my 17-day trip to Australia to give 3 talks, including an opening plenary talk at a conference in Gold Coast. I combine it with a vacation. 24h from door to door & I've stayed up for 21h, so I'll sleep well in a plane.
Thank Ian Paulsen, Claudia Vickers, Birgitta Ebert for the invite!
Thank Ian Paulsen, Claudia Vickers, Birgitta Ebert for the invite!
November 22, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Embarking on my 17-day trip to Australia to give 3 talks, including an opening plenary talk at a conference in Gold Coast. I combine it with a vacation. 24h from door to door & I've stayed up for 21h, so I'll sleep well in a plane.
Thank Ian Paulsen, Claudia Vickers, Birgitta Ebert for the invite!
Thank Ian Paulsen, Claudia Vickers, Birgitta Ebert for the invite!
Another interesting paper by Harris Wang et al. in Nature Biotechnology!
@harriswang.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@harriswang.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Fecal exfoliome sequencing captures immune dynamics of the healthy and inflamed gut - Nature Biotechnology
Profiling host RNA shed in feces reveals disease states in the gut.
www.nature.com
November 22, 2025 at 12:51 AM
Another interesting paper by Harris Wang et al. in Nature Biotechnology!
@harriswang.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@harriswang.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#SynBYSS welcomes Prof Pablo Carbonell at Inst. for Integrative Systems Biol., CSIC-UV, Valencia & Dr Fraser Andrews, an editor at Nature Communications as the 262nd & 263rd pioneer speakers! Thanks!
8 Nature Portfolio & 7 Cell Press editors have been on board & 250 rising stars have been selected.
8 Nature Portfolio & 7 Cell Press editors have been on board & 250 rising stars have been selected.
November 21, 2025 at 6:23 PM
#SynBYSS welcomes Prof Pablo Carbonell at Inst. for Integrative Systems Biol., CSIC-UV, Valencia & Dr Fraser Andrews, an editor at Nature Communications as the 262nd & 263rd pioneer speakers! Thanks!
8 Nature Portfolio & 7 Cell Press editors have been on board & 250 rising stars have been selected.
8 Nature Portfolio & 7 Cell Press editors have been on board & 250 rising stars have been selected.
Invention often comes from a necessity or by accident.
I was frying bacon, mushroom & garlic that accompany rice, but found no steamed rice. I quickly searched for alternatives, finding potato & inventing Moon fries!
Recipe: all grilled, served with cucumber & soybean paste!
#HappyThanksGiving
I was frying bacon, mushroom & garlic that accompany rice, but found no steamed rice. I quickly searched for alternatives, finding potato & inventing Moon fries!
Recipe: all grilled, served with cucumber & soybean paste!
#HappyThanksGiving
November 20, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Invention often comes from a necessity or by accident.
I was frying bacon, mushroom & garlic that accompany rice, but found no steamed rice. I quickly searched for alternatives, finding potato & inventing Moon fries!
Recipe: all grilled, served with cucumber & soybean paste!
#HappyThanksGiving
I was frying bacon, mushroom & garlic that accompany rice, but found no steamed rice. I quickly searched for alternatives, finding potato & inventing Moon fries!
Recipe: all grilled, served with cucumber & soybean paste!
#HappyThanksGiving
#SynBYSS seminar with Dr. Robert Barry at National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB), The National Institutes of Health, and Rebecca Wilkes at Oak Ridge National Laboratory
The video link is below:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sa6g...
The video link is below:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sa6g...
SynBYSS seminar with Dr. Robert Barry at NIBIB, NIH, and Dr. Rebecca Wilkes at ORNL (Oak Ridge lab)
YouTube video by TAESEOK Moon
www.youtube.com
November 20, 2025 at 5:42 PM
#SynBYSS seminar with Dr. Robert Barry at National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB), The National Institutes of Health, and Rebecca Wilkes at Oak Ridge National Laboratory
The video link is below:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sa6g...
The video link is below:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sa6g...
Whatever it contains, it's a shame of the leadership and people involved.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/whi...
www.nbcnews.com/politics/whi...
Trump signs bill to release the DOJ's Epstein files
The legislation requires Attorney General Pam Bondi to release all unclassified records related to Epstein within 30 days.
www.nbcnews.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Whatever it contains, it's a shame of the leadership and people involved.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/whi...
www.nbcnews.com/politics/whi...
#SynBYSS webinar talks with Dr. Diane Jofuku Okamuro, a program director at National Science Foundation (NSF) & Prof. Le Cong at Stanford University.
@lecong.bsky.social @stanforduniversity.bsky.social
The video link is below:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VaUl...
@lecong.bsky.social @stanforduniversity.bsky.social
The video link is below:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VaUl...
SynBYSS with Dr. Diane Okamuro at National Science Foundation & Prof. Le Cong at Stanford University
YouTube video by TAESEOK Moon
www.youtube.com
November 18, 2025 at 5:46 PM
#SynBYSS webinar talks with Dr. Diane Jofuku Okamuro, a program director at National Science Foundation (NSF) & Prof. Le Cong at Stanford University.
@lecong.bsky.social @stanforduniversity.bsky.social
The video link is below:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VaUl...
@lecong.bsky.social @stanforduniversity.bsky.social
The video link is below:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VaUl...
#SynBYSS with 3 new speakers as 259-261st pioneers: Alison Smith at U Cambridge, Atin Sharma at Nature Microbiol & Clare Curtis @biochemsoc.bsky.social
510 speakers, including 249 rising stars, 1 Nobel Laureate, 27 National Academy members, 47 funders, 14 Nature or Cell journal editors & 20 EICs.
510 speakers, including 249 rising stars, 1 Nobel Laureate, 27 National Academy members, 47 funders, 14 Nature or Cell journal editors & 20 EICs.
November 18, 2025 at 4:25 PM
#SynBYSS with 3 new speakers as 259-261st pioneers: Alison Smith at U Cambridge, Atin Sharma at Nature Microbiol & Clare Curtis @biochemsoc.bsky.social
510 speakers, including 249 rising stars, 1 Nobel Laureate, 27 National Academy members, 47 funders, 14 Nature or Cell journal editors & 20 EICs.
510 speakers, including 249 rising stars, 1 Nobel Laureate, 27 National Academy members, 47 funders, 14 Nature or Cell journal editors & 20 EICs.
#SynBYSS 10 am Chicago time
181st, Nov 18: Dr Diane Okamuro at NSF & Prof Le Cong at Stanford U.
@lecong.bsky.social
182nd, Nov 20: Dr Robert Barry at NIBIB, NIH & Dr Rebecca Wilkes at ORNL
No seminar until Dec 10 & 11, 2 more in 2025!
Zoom link for the audience:
us02web.zoom.us/j/88380504839
181st, Nov 18: Dr Diane Okamuro at NSF & Prof Le Cong at Stanford U.
@lecong.bsky.social
182nd, Nov 20: Dr Robert Barry at NIBIB, NIH & Dr Rebecca Wilkes at ORNL
No seminar until Dec 10 & 11, 2 more in 2025!
Zoom link for the audience:
us02web.zoom.us/j/88380504839
November 17, 2025 at 12:43 PM
#SynBYSS 10 am Chicago time
181st, Nov 18: Dr Diane Okamuro at NSF & Prof Le Cong at Stanford U.
@lecong.bsky.social
182nd, Nov 20: Dr Robert Barry at NIBIB, NIH & Dr Rebecca Wilkes at ORNL
No seminar until Dec 10 & 11, 2 more in 2025!
Zoom link for the audience:
us02web.zoom.us/j/88380504839
181st, Nov 18: Dr Diane Okamuro at NSF & Prof Le Cong at Stanford U.
@lecong.bsky.social
182nd, Nov 20: Dr Robert Barry at NIBIB, NIH & Dr Rebecca Wilkes at ORNL
No seminar until Dec 10 & 11, 2 more in 2025!
Zoom link for the audience:
us02web.zoom.us/j/88380504839
So great speakers that I feel bad because I miss it due to my trip to the USA government awardee meeting 😭
Join us and these amazing speakers next March'26 at Synthetic Biology for Health and Sustainability - an international conference held at the Wellcome Genome campus near Cambridge UK.
Abstracts deadline: December 1st, 2025
Register here - x.com/gallowaylabm...
Abstracts deadline: December 1st, 2025
Register here - x.com/gallowaylabm...
November 17, 2025 at 12:35 PM
So great speakers that I feel bad because I miss it due to my trip to the USA government awardee meeting 😭
Happy Monday!
As the holiday season is approaching, how about calling your loved ones or just sending messages to your old friends?
Listening to "Slipping through my fingers" at 3:30 am, I did so, missing my people who live far away. I love you all!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7fo...
As the holiday season is approaching, how about calling your loved ones or just sending messages to your old friends?
Listening to "Slipping through my fingers" at 3:30 am, I did so, missing my people who live far away. I love you all!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7fo...
Slipping Through My Fingers - ABBA - Connie Talbot (Cover)
YouTube video by ConnieTalbotOfficial
www.youtube.com
November 17, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Happy Monday!
As the holiday season is approaching, how about calling your loved ones or just sending messages to your old friends?
Listening to "Slipping through my fingers" at 3:30 am, I did so, missing my people who live far away. I love you all!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7fo...
As the holiday season is approaching, how about calling your loved ones or just sending messages to your old friends?
Listening to "Slipping through my fingers" at 3:30 am, I did so, missing my people who live far away. I love you all!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7fo...
#SynBYSS 2026 webinar series schedule is live!
Untenured professors, postdocs & senior grad students with a good publication record & interest in academia,
Please self-nominate to give a talk in 2027 by sending CV to tsmoon7@gmail.com
Thanks, all!
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
SynBYSS chair
Untenured professors, postdocs & senior grad students with a good publication record & interest in academia,
Please self-nominate to give a talk in 2027 by sending CV to tsmoon7@gmail.com
Thanks, all!
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
SynBYSS chair
SynBYSS_2026
docs.google.com
November 16, 2025 at 7:18 PM
#SynBYSS 2026 webinar series schedule is live!
Untenured professors, postdocs & senior grad students with a good publication record & interest in academia,
Please self-nominate to give a talk in 2027 by sending CV to tsmoon7@gmail.com
Thanks, all!
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
SynBYSS chair
Untenured professors, postdocs & senior grad students with a good publication record & interest in academia,
Please self-nominate to give a talk in 2027 by sending CV to tsmoon7@gmail.com
Thanks, all!
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
SynBYSS chair
The Langer Prize for Innovation and Entrepreneurial Excellence.
Apply to receive up to 100K USD for your start-up or entrepreneurship idea!
www.aiche.org/langerprizes. The deadline for 2026 fellowship applications is February 17, 2026.
Apply to receive up to 100K USD for your start-up or entrepreneurship idea!
www.aiche.org/langerprizes. The deadline for 2026 fellowship applications is February 17, 2026.
The Langer Prize for Innovation and Entrepreneurial Excellence
In honor of Bob Langer’s pioneering spirit, each recipient of a Langer Prize will be awarded an unrestricted grant up to $100,000 as seed funding, which will enable them to pursue “blue-sky” ideas tha...
www.aiche.org
November 15, 2025 at 11:10 AM
The Langer Prize for Innovation and Entrepreneurial Excellence.
Apply to receive up to 100K USD for your start-up or entrepreneurship idea!
www.aiche.org/langerprizes. The deadline for 2026 fellowship applications is February 17, 2026.
Apply to receive up to 100K USD for your start-up or entrepreneurship idea!
www.aiche.org/langerprizes. The deadline for 2026 fellowship applications is February 17, 2026.
#SynBYSS series welcomes Emily Edwards, an editor @cellpress.bsky.social Linda Broadbelt, an NAE member at Northwestern U, June Wispelwey, the CEO of AIChE & Andreas Walther, a Fellow of Max Planck at U. of Mainz, as the 255-258 pioneer speakers! Thanks, all!
@jcvi.org
@jcvi.org
November 15, 2025 at 10:09 AM
#SynBYSS series welcomes Emily Edwards, an editor @cellpress.bsky.social Linda Broadbelt, an NAE member at Northwestern U, June Wispelwey, the CEO of AIChE & Andreas Walther, a Fellow of Max Planck at U. of Mainz, as the 255-258 pioneer speakers! Thanks, all!
@jcvi.org
@jcvi.org
For the last night of my 15-day trip to give talks & meet people, including Lin Su at Queen Mary U. of London, where I gave my last talk, we had dinner. Then I spontaneously got a 50 pound seat, 10 m from the stage, 3 min before Mamma Mia started.
Am I enjoying my life too much?
Am I enjoying my life too much?
November 14, 2025 at 8:54 PM
For the last night of my 15-day trip to give talks & meet people, including Lin Su at Queen Mary U. of London, where I gave my last talk, we had dinner. Then I spontaneously got a 50 pound seat, 10 m from the stage, 3 min before Mamma Mia started.
Am I enjoying my life too much?
Am I enjoying my life too much?
Wow, Harris Wang et al. achieve a milestone work in microbiome engineering!
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Metagenomic editing of commensal bacteria in vivo using CRISPR-associated transposases
Although metagenomic sequencing has revealed a rich microbial biodiversity in the mammalian gut, methods to genetically alter specific species in the microbiome are highly limited. Here, we introduce ...
www.science.org
November 14, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Wow, Harris Wang et al. achieve a milestone work in microbiome engineering!
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
All the greatest British writers and artists in the Westminster Abbey!
November 14, 2025 at 10:38 AM
All the greatest British writers and artists in the Westminster Abbey!
Finally, after visiting the United Kingdom 7 times, I am inside Westminster Abbey, meeting legends, including Newton, Darwin, and Hawking!
November 14, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Finally, after visiting the United Kingdom 7 times, I am inside Westminster Abbey, meeting legends, including Newton, Darwin, and Hawking!
Finally, after visiting the United Kingdom 7 times, I am going into Westminster Abbey to see legends, including Newton, Darwin, and Hawking!
November 14, 2025 at 9:29 AM
Finally, after visiting the United Kingdom 7 times, I am going into Westminster Abbey to see legends, including Newton, Darwin, and Hawking!
Great time in a London pub after #BiochemEvent, #synbio UK of Biochemical Society with Leonardo Rios Solis, Dongsoo Yang, and Brian Lee
@biochemsoc.bsky.social
@biochemsoc.bsky.social
November 14, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Great time in a London pub after #BiochemEvent, #synbio UK of Biochemical Society with Leonardo Rios Solis, Dongsoo Yang, and Brian Lee
@biochemsoc.bsky.social
@biochemsoc.bsky.social
#SynBYSS webinar with Prof. Marc Güell at Universitat Pompeu Fabra or Pompeu Fabra University, Spain, and Dr. Justin Panich, PhD at Berkeley Lab.
@marcguellc.bsky.social @upf.edu
@berkeleylab.lbl.gov
The talk video is below:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIq_...
@marcguellc.bsky.social @upf.edu
@berkeleylab.lbl.gov
The talk video is below:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIq_...
SynBYSS with Prof Marc Guell at Pompeu Fabra Univ. & Dr Justin Panich at Lawrence Berkeley Natl. Lab
YouTube video by TAESEOK Moon
www.youtube.com
November 13, 2025 at 7:57 PM
#SynBYSS webinar with Prof. Marc Güell at Universitat Pompeu Fabra or Pompeu Fabra University, Spain, and Dr. Justin Panich, PhD at Berkeley Lab.
@marcguellc.bsky.social @upf.edu
@berkeleylab.lbl.gov
The talk video is below:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIq_...
@marcguellc.bsky.social @upf.edu
@berkeleylab.lbl.gov
The talk video is below:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIq_...
I am giving my talk at #BiochemEvent of Biochemical Society for the first time. Two more days to finish my 15-day non-stop trip.
Thanks, all UK people, for making my stay fantastic!
@biochemsoc.bsky.social @jcvi.org
Thanks, all UK people, for making my stay fantastic!
@biochemsoc.bsky.social @jcvi.org
November 13, 2025 at 4:40 PM
I am giving my talk at #BiochemEvent of Biochemical Society for the first time. Two more days to finish my 15-day non-stop trip.
Thanks, all UK people, for making my stay fantastic!
@biochemsoc.bsky.social @jcvi.org
Thanks, all UK people, for making my stay fantastic!
@biochemsoc.bsky.social @jcvi.org