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Tae Seok Moon
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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.
#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.
November 18, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Talk schedule & speaker list
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
November 17, 2025 at 12:45 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
November 17, 2025 at 12:43 PM
We have a Nobel Prize laureate, 27 members of National Academies of Sciences, Engineering & Medicine, 46 funding agency directors, 20 Editors-in-Chief, 6 Nature Portfolio editors, 7 Cell Press editors & 248 rising stars.
@cellpress.bsky.social @natureportfolio.nature.com
@jcvi.org @nobelprize.org
November 15, 2025 at 10:12 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
November 15, 2025 at 10:09 AM
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?
November 14, 2025 at 8:54 PM
All the greatest British writers and artists in the Westminster Abbey!
November 14, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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 going into Westminster Abbey to see legends, including Newton, Darwin, and Hawking!
November 14, 2025 at 9:29 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
November 14, 2025 at 2:06 AM
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
November 13, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Early Career Panel session
The best session of #BiochemEvent Biochemical Society
Jordan Ang at Bactobio, UK
Sarah Guiziou, Earlham Institute, UK
Kate Royle at Better Dairy, UK
Dongsoo Yang at Korea University, South Korea

Chair: Heather Angell, Biochemical Society
@biochemsoc.bsky.social
November 13, 2025 at 8:44 AM
I am watching Wicked, the musical, again in the same London theater with a 30 UK Pound ticket. #discrimination, #prejudice, #giving, #friendship, wrong #leadership, #freedom of #speech, #witch hunt, #propaganda, #misinformation, but most importantly, #love. My favorite musical!
November 12, 2025 at 9:09 PM
What would be a better way to end the main talk session of #BiochemEvent than a panel session by leading researchers?
@biochemsoc.bsky.social

Scott Allen, DSIT
Dana Heldt, Innovate UK
Rodrigo Ledesma-Amaro, PhD, Imperial College London
Brenda Parker, UCL
Anca Tacu, UCL
November 12, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Talk schedule & speaker list
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
November 11, 2025 at 8:18 AM
Although it's the 9th day with 3h sleep/day in a row, I've been refreshed by colleagues, future leaders, Shakespeare & Harry Potter.
See Alex et al. at U Warwick for 2d to discuss our NSF Global Center.
I finished 2 reports to ONR & USDA by waking up at 2 am, so It's a huge breakfast time
@jcvi.org
November 10, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Shall we play table tennis at Shakespeare's birth place? To play, not to play, that's the question.
November 9, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Shakespeare's birth place & his statue in Stratford-upon-Avon. It took 6h by 4 trains & 2 buses from Heathrow Airport. It is always challenging and takes time and effort to obtain creative inspiration and valuable things. I feel creativity!
November 9, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Is ET or Martian kingdom the next? BTW, my foot is on either side of the Hemisphere. No need to pay for the pricy ticket if you are outside of the wall as I did.
November 8, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Royal Observatory Greenwich where the Prime Meridian divides Eastern & Western Hemisphere: a remnant of the glorious Great Britain.
As a flower doesn't last forever, a kingdom doesn't.
Our leaders not learning from history? Often, accelerating the falling.
England, USA & then which nation? Martian?
November 8, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Dinner & Lunch with future #synbio leaders after visiting Peng Yin, Church, Silver at Harvard U. & Kris Prather, Jim Collins & Chris Voigt labs at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Thanks to these passionate and bright young researchers, our future is bright although the situation is dark now.
November 7, 2025 at 1:58 AM
Having lunch with future #synbio leaders, who are also #SynBYSS rising star speakers, after visiting Wyss Institute at Harvard University
November 6, 2025 at 6:45 PM
#SynBYSS webinar series welcomes Dr Michelle Muzzio, Editor-in-Chief of Chem Circularity by Cell Press & Prof Marjan De Mey at Ghent U as the 253rd & 254th pioneer speakers. Thanks!
499 speakers, including 245 rising stars, 6 Cell Press editors & 6 Nature Portfolio editors.
@cellpress.bsky.social
November 6, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Costas Maranas is giving an amazing talk, receiving an award. Congrats, Costas!
AIChE - American Institute of Chemical Engineers
November 4, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Honor to celebrate Greg Stephanopoulos' 75th birthday and the #aiche2025 session. Happy birthday to Greg, and thank you for your vision and leadership in Metabolic Engineering!
November 4, 2025 at 7:12 PM