We all start by cloning something into a plasmid. But the vector you choose matters more than you think. A Commentary from the battleground with my colleague & curator of the @sevaplasmids.bsky.social collection, Esteban Martínez enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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The very 1st #Course on #SynBio & #Metabolic #Engineering of #Pseudomonas at Cold Spring Harbor Asia successfully completed in Suzhou, #China! Excellent group of students & lecturers, w/time for culture, food & stand-up paddling alongside the science—thanks to all who participated & stay tuned 4+!

Grand Finale of the Pseudomonas hands-on Course in @cshlaboratory.bsky.social Asia in Suzhou 👏 Great memories of the place and many new experiments in mind 😅

The @cshlaboratory.bsky.social Asia hands-on Course in Pseudomonas SynBio is coming to an end 😢 after 2 weeks of great science, cool experiments, enthusiastic & hard-working int students & super-pro support by local staff. What else one can ask for? Can you decipher the meaning of the course logo 👇?

It seems that after > 1 week of working hard with our favourite bug, the students of the @cshlaboratory.bsky.social Asia hands-on Course on Pseudomonas SynBio start develop some affection for this bacterium 👇

Please spread the word about our Special Collection focused on Pseudomonads! @asm.org #JBacteriology

Catching up with Prashant Pale's team at IIT Bombay & learning about their cool work on biodegradation of aromatic pollutants & the unusual substrate choice of their Pseudomonas strains—some of which prefer to eat first naphthalene & later glucose when offered the two C sources simultaneously 😱!