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Joshua Ricouvier
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Building the future molecule by molecule
Artificial cells in microfluidic devices
Curious about science
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New on @biorxiv!!!!!!
We’re excited to share our latest paper on combining cell-free systems and machine learning to express full genome in vitro.

Check it out now! 👉 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Catch us at SEED in Houston this June to discuss this work.
#CellFree
June 5, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Congratulations to Noa Avidan who defended her PhD supervised by Pr Roy Bar-Ziv in front of Pr Ada Yonath
at the Weizmann Institute of Science

Autonomous synthesis of ribosomal large subunit intermediates in a minimal system
April 23, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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Disentangling microbial interaction networks
www.cell.com/trends/micro...
March 11, 2025 at 9:57 AM
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New study in @cellpress.bsky.social by Allen Distinguished Investigator @elowitzlab.bsky.social and collaborators explores the versatility of protein dimers. #FrontierScience

🔗 www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
February 19, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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Build-a-cell seminar with Roy Bar-Ziv
youtu.be/yvbPmAS_cPM?...
Build-a-Cell seminar Roy Bar-Ziv: Toward autonomous DNA compartments in 2D
YouTube video by Build-a-Cell
youtu.be
February 10, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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Our review, What remains from living cells in bacterial lysate-based cell-free systems, is available on HAL (the french open archive):
hal.science/hal-04118475...
February 13, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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Finally published: A fluorescence microscope that performs microscale MRI using NV centers in diamond. www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🔬💎 #QuantumTech #MRI #NMR #Microscopy
February 6, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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Nature research paper: De novo designed proteins neutralize lethal snake venom toxins

https://go.nature.com/4fZU9EI
De novo designed proteins neutralize lethal snake venom toxins - Nature
Deep learning methods have been used to design proteins that can neutralize the effects of three-finger toxins found in snake venom, which could lead to the development of safer and more accessible antivenom treatments.
go.nature.com
January 16, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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Five years of hard work has paid off! 🎉 What a nice new year surprise—we made it to the cover of Nature Microbiology! 🌟
Acknowledgment to all co-authors and specially Elisa Atza for producing this cover image!
Our first issue of 2025 has gone live, featuring...

🥗microbial roles in diet and food insecurity
🛶freshwater microbial dynamics
📈SARS-CoV-2 spike evolution
🚨bacterial danger signals
🥔microbiomes forecasting spud vigor

...and more. Check it out here 👇
www.nature.com/nmicrobiol/v...
January 11, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Applications of bacteriophages in precision engineering of the human gut microbiome
doi.org/10.1016/j.en...
Redirecting
doi.org
January 9, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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First paper of the year is out! A collaboration with Tzion Fahima @University of Haifa with heavy lifting by Tamara Reveguk, who was a pleasure to co-supervise. We generated an atlas of tandem kinase proteins (TKPs). TKPs are known to confer disease resistance in monocots. 🧵(1/4)
rdcu.be/d5ADS
Tandem kinase proteins across the plant kingdom
Nature Genetics - This genomic analysis of tandem kinase proteins across 104 plant species highlights their mechanisms of convergent molecular evolution and potential roles in plant immunity.
rdcu.be
January 8, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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Exciting new #synbio engineered living materials work from Chao Zhong, Peng Huang and Bolin An's team in Shenzhen has just come out on bioRxiv. Lovely demonstration of how engineered E.coli can sense and treat in vivo.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
January 5, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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Happy to kick off 2025 with this new review on gut microbiota-neuroepithelial signaling by the very talented Taka Ohara!
January 4, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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1/n Some time ago my colleague, excellent cook, and friend Ivan told me: "Cacio e pepe is the recipe that I screw up more often. Let's make a project studying systematically the physics of that sauce".

Prepare to get cheesy, I'm glad to share the Cacio e paper preprint:

arxiv.org/abs/2501.00536
January 4, 2025 at 9:34 AM
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I remember doing this maze with our lab after lunch one day! Great work on collective cognition comparing humans vs. ants in trying to solve a maze by Dreyer et al. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
December 26, 2024 at 11:43 AM
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There are always many ways to look at your data.
December 19, 2024 at 12:16 PM
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This is our latest preprint about the biogenesis of the translation proteins in a minimal translation system (PURE). www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
December 17, 2024 at 9:39 AM
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