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Victor de Lorenzo (CNB, Madrid) @vdlorenzo.bsky.social · 1d

Université Grenoble Alpes opens a full professorship in microbiology in 2026. The selected candidate will develop their research program on quantitative approaches in microbiology in the Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire de Physique. More info: liphy.univ-grenoble-alpes.fr/en/join-us/r...

Professorship (tenure) in 'Quantitative approaches in microbiology' (CNU Sections 64/65) | LIPhy - Université Grenoble Alpes

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bioRxivpreprint @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social · 1d

SHARK: a specialized host for assembling R6K plasmids https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.06.680659v1

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Olivier Borkowski @oborkowski.bsky.social · 1d

SHARK: a specialized host for assembling R6K plasmids
doi.org/10.1101/2025...

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Thomas Gorochowski @chofski.bsky.social · 1d

We've been using these strains in the lab for the past couple years and they are super solid. I should also point out this package will include a nice inducible λ-Red system called pREMORA! Big thank you to the supporters of the work including Dstl, BBSRC and @royalsociety.org.

Thomas Gorochowski @chofski.bsky.social · 1d

🛠️New tool from the lab! #SHARK🦈: a new strain to support complex cloning of transient R6K expression plasmids – perfect for genome engineering. Work led by the talented Shivang Joshi and all strains and strain assembly tools enroute to Addgene. #synbio doi.org/10.1101/2025...

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Thomas Gorochowski @chofski.bsky.social · 14d

She's great!

Thomas Gorochowski @chofski.bsky.social · 14d

🥳Excited to share our latest collaborative work using whole-cell models and #AI to design genomes!🦠🧬 What a time to be alive! Project led by Ioana Gherman, with Kieren Sharma, Joshua Rees-Garbutt, Claire Grierson, Lucia Marucci, Wei Pang & Zahraa Abdallah #synbio authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

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Thomas Gorochowski @chofski.bsky.social · 22d

Very excited to attend and speak at this years #UKOMAIN Multimodal AI workshop at the Barbican. Already learning a lot about emulators and generative models for novel materials.

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Thomas Gorochowski @chofski.bsky.social · Sep 3

Email me for further details or apply directly at: www.bristol.ac.uk/study/postgr... but be sure to mention Thomas Gorochowski as supervisor and funding from EPSRC IDLA.

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Thomas Gorochowski @chofski.bsky.social · Sep 3

🚨I have a fully funded 4-year #PhD opportunity in my lab on 'Tuneable multi-input genetic logic circuits for designer probiotics'.🦠 We'll be throwing all the tech we have at this one to make reliable engineering of diverse microbes a reality. Applicants must be UK national...

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Thomas Gorochowski @chofski.bsky.social · Sep 1

Come and join us at a free complementary Japan-UK Engineering Biology meeting after the main ESSL conference (essl2025.org/). A few spaces left to some see some of the up and coming superstars of #synbio in the UK!

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Thomas Gorochowski @chofski.bsky.social · Aug 12

Standard day in Bristol... balloons!

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Thomas Gorochowski @chofski.bsky.social · Aug 12

Congrats! I look forward to reading :)

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Thomas Gorochowski @chofski.bsky.social · Aug 7

Reading some wonderful old Russian mathematics on automata theory and love this comment that just popped up! Coming from the rural countryside of Somerset, I'm not sure the people quite match this analysis! 🤠

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Thomas Gorochowski @chofski.bsky.social · Jul 22

I'm so up for building a team to explore this approach for engineering biology. And it feels like the time is ripe to move beyond the pure stream of technology to a better point of understanding. No idea how I take this forward, but reach out if interested!

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Thomas Gorochowski @chofski.bsky.social · Jul 22

I've become obsessed by the idea of "design" in all aspects of synthetic biology. How do we discover good bio-design? How will it make me feel? Does it even matter? This awesome post by iA is the first that resonates in terms of how we might get there... ia.net/topics/maker...

Maker’s Knowledge

Giambattista Vico's Design of Philosophy

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Thomas Gorochowski @chofski.bsky.social · Jul 8

Although I've now taken a back seat, it is great to see the growing adoption of SBOL Visual in the synthetic and engineering biology literature and even more awesome to see so many current and visiting students to my lab on the author list😍 Roll on 2035! arxiv.org/abs/2507.04601

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Thomas Gorochowski @chofski.bsky.social · Jun 23

Big thank you to @ukri.org and @royalsociety.org for supporting this work and great collaborations with the Parmeggiani and Steel labs!

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Thomas Gorochowski @chofski.bsky.social · Jun 23

What to agument your favourite protein with new functionalities? 🛠️ We've got a #biodesign workflow to help with that! In work led by @georgiehs.bsky.social we present SIMPLIFE that blends biophyscial and #ML models to extend biology in useful ways. #synbio doi.org/10.1101/2025...

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Thomas Gorochowski @chofski.bsky.social · Jun 20

What to learn a bit about some of the topics explored at the Japan-UK Synthetic Biology Conference earlier this year? Then, check out our meeting report now out in ACS Synthetic Biology. Big thanks to all the authors and Patrick Cai and Masato Kanemaki for organising! #synbio doi.org/10.1021/acss...

The Japan-UK Synthetic Biology Conference, Spring 2025: Strengthening Global Links to Engineer Biology

Both Japan and the UK have recognized the growing importance of synthetic and engineering biology for transforming life science research and transitioning toward a sustainable biobased economy. Such a...

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Thomas Gorochowski @chofski.bsky.social · Jun 12

Great to see this report out from the UK Government Office for Science on 'Mirror Life'. Was nice to contribute to the discussions and thoughts on this topic with other UK colleagues. #synbio www.gov.uk/government/p...

Mirror life

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Thomas Gorochowski @chofski.bsky.social · Jun 4

Some days I’m reminded of why working in research can be so exciting. Imaging DNA at the sub-nanometre scale on this beast! High-speed scanning #AFM for the win.

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Stephen Montgomery @ebablab.bsky.social · Jun 4

🚨Anyone want a job?🚨
We have two #postdocs up for grabs! 🧪
- cell developmental biology/#evodevo/#neuroevodevo
- bioinformatics and molecular biology
Both working on brain evolution in Heliconiini butterflies
Details below! Please repost 🙏 1/n

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Thomas Gorochowski @chofski.bsky.social · Jun 1

For those of you interested in the convergence of AI and Engineering Biology, keep the 15–16 Jan 2026 free. Next “AI, Engineering Biology and Beyond” #AIEBaB will be in Bristol, UK! Organisation currently underway and more info to follow soon!

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Thomas Gorochowski @chofski.bsky.social · May 29

Thanks! We were really happy the plant parts worked so well.

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