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Tae Seok Moon
@taeseokmoon.bsky.social
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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.
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Tae Seok Moon @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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Tae Seok Moon @taeseokmoon.bsky.social · 3h
This is my first participation in Biomedical Engineering Society despite my almost 30 years of experience in research.
#BMES2025 begins!
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Tae Seok Moon @taeseokmoon.bsky.social · 14h
Talk schedule & speaker list
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
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Tae Seok Moon @taeseokmoon.bsky.social · 14h
#SynBYSS Thur 10 am USA CT
176th, Oct 9: Prof Leonardo Rios at UCL & Prof Gita Naseri at Humboldt U. of Berlin, Germany
@ucl.ac.uk @gitanaseri.bsky.social

177th, Oct 14 (Note Tue, 10am): Dr Pablo Rabinowicz at DOE BER & Prof George Lu at Rice U

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Tae Seok Moon @taeseokmoon.bsky.social · 15h
Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2025 to

Susumu Kitagawa
Kyoto University, Japan

Richard Robson
University of Melbourne, Australia

Omar M. Yaghi
University of California, Berkeley, USA

“for the development of metal–organic frameworks”

www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemi...
Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2025
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2025 was awarded jointly to Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M. Yaghi "for the development of metal–organic frameworks"
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Tae Seok Moon @taeseokmoon.bsky.social · 1d
Call for papers

Yeast Synthetic Biology – Rodrigo Ledesma-Amaro
think.taylorandfrancis.com/article_coll...

Emerging Biotechnological approaches to Waste Valorisation – Elia Tomás Pejó
think.taylorandfrancis.com/article_coll...

Due: Dec 31, No fee if submitted by it

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Yeast Synthetic Biology
think.taylorandfrancis.com
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Tae Seok Moon @taeseokmoon.bsky.social · 1d
I slept for 2h, but I did wake up. I posted one, and I found your post. Thanks!
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Tae Seok Moon @taeseokmoon.bsky.social · 1d
Nobel Prize in Physics 2025 to

John Clarke
UC Berkeley

Michel H. Devoret
Yale University

John M. Martinis
UC Santa Barbara

“for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling and energy quantisation in an electric circuit”

www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physi...
Nobel Prize in Physics 2025
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2025 was awarded to John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis “for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling and energy quantisation in an electri...
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Tae Seok Moon @taeseokmoon.bsky.social · 1d
I have a meeting in 5 hours. Should I stay up to see the result for Nobel Prize in Physics that will be announced in 2 hours?
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Tae Seok Moon @taeseokmoon.bsky.social · 1d
6 October 2025
2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine to:

Mary E. Brunkow
Institute for Systems Biology,
Seattle, USA

Fred Ramsdell
Sonoma Biotherapeutics,
San Francisco, USA

Shimon Sakaguchi
Osaka University,
Osaka, Japan

www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medic...
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2025
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2025 was awarded jointly to Mary E. Brunkow, Frederick J. Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi "for their discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance"
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Tae Seok Moon @taeseokmoon.bsky.social · 1d
A variant version of Galbi with spicy flavor: much better! Happy Korean or Oriental Thanksgiving!
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Tae Seok Moon @taeseokmoon.bsky.social · 3d
Happy Chuseok, the mid Autumn Harvest Festival with the full Moon!
To celebrate it, I prepared Galbi, marinated & grilled Korean beef short ribs with grilled onion & kimchi after finishing 2 proposals & submitting 1 paper to a Nature journal over the weekend.
Yummy like the Moon!
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Tae Seok Moon @taeseokmoon.bsky.social · 4d
Interesting work in Nature Communications, Nature Portfolio
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Long-term homeostasis in microbial consortia via auxotrophic cross-feeding - Nature Communications
Synthetic microbial consortia are collections of strains which can segregate metabolic tasks for efficient use in biomaterials, biomanufacturing, and biotherapeutics. Here, the authors present a method to maintain and tune the ratio of two co-cultured bacterial strains via growth medium manipulation.
www.nature.com
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Tae Seok Moon @taeseokmoon.bsky.social · 6d
#SynBYSS webinar with Prof. Jose Avalos at Princeton University & Prof. Hannes Beyer at Heinrich-Heine-University of Düsseldorf
@princeton.edu @hhu.de

The talk video link is below:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=evkX...
SynBYSS with Prof Jose Avalos at Princeton U. & Prof Hannes Beyer at Heinrich-Heine-U. of Düsseldorf
YouTube video by TAESEOK Moon
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Tae Seok Moon @taeseokmoon.bsky.social · 7d
KSBB is annual, but the KSBB-AFOB combined one is unique this year. This year was amazing with great speakers for the 40 year anniversary. No synbio only conference in Korea, but our SynBYSS may be in Korea in 2028 or an Asian country.
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Tae Seok Moon @taeseokmoon.bsky.social · 7d
Talk schedule & speaker list
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
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Tae Seok Moon @taeseokmoon.bsky.social · 7d
#SynBYSS Thur 10 am USA CT
175th, Oct 2: Prof Jose Avalos at Princeton U. & Prof Hannes Beyer at H-H-U. of Düsseldorf

176th, Oct 9: Prof Leonardo Rios at UCL & Prof Gita Naseri at Humboldt U. of Berlin, Germany
@ucl.ac.uk @gitanaseri.bsky.social

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Tae Seok Moon @taeseokmoon.bsky.social · 7d
Leaving Korea, finalizing my trip trilogy since Sep 9 (3 weeks): back to back trips to National Science Foundation, Univ. Wisconsin-Madison, and Korea.
Great time in Korea with colleagues and future leaders!

@uwmadison.bsky.social @sumsung.bsky.social
@jcvi.org @ebrc.org @oecd-ocde.bsky.social
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Tae Seok Moon @taeseokmoon.bsky.social · 11d
#SynBYSS welcomes Professors SangWoo Seo at Seoul National University, DaeHee Lee at Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology (KRIBB), and Si Jae Park at Ewha Womans University as the 248-250th pioneer speakers, thanks!
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Tae Seok Moon @taeseokmoon.bsky.social · 12d
#SynBYSS welcomes Professors Jeongwook Lee at Postech, Hyun Uk Kim at KAIST, Tomohisa Hasunuma, Akihiko Kondo at Kobe U, Jochen Förster at DTU, and Donghyuk Kim at UNIST as the 242nd to 247th pioneer speaker, thanks, all!
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Tae Seok Moon @taeseokmoon.bsky.social · 15d
The conference begins!
The 40th Anniversary International Symposium of KSBB, jointly with Asian Federation of Biotechnology's ACB2025.
Asian Federation of Biotechnology (AFOB)
European Federation of Biotechnology
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Tae Seok Moon @taeseokmoon.bsky.social · 16d
Hopefully, this 1-p article helps trainees become happier.
www.science.org/content/arti...
How I overcame my anxiety to achieve my purpose as a professor
“I learned to spend more time trying than worrying,” this scientist writes
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Tae Seok Moon @taeseokmoon.bsky.social · 18d
If not staying up due to the unexpected meeting, I would have missed my dinner gathering in Korea with my ex-colleagues at LG Chem ~24h later.

Life is full of unexpected events, which lead to good or bad things depending on how positively we think about them.
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Tae Seok Moon @taeseokmoon.bsky.social · 18d
The best part of trips is to meet future leaders. These students were working at 9:15 pm & I had an honor to have a great time discussing work & life for ~3h.
I came back at 12:30 am, finding my flight's 3h delay at 1:30 am. It allowed me to reschedule it & catch the new one at 7 am after 3h sleep.
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Tae Seok Moon @taeseokmoon.bsky.social · 19d
#SynBYSS webinar series welcomes Prof. Jean-Michel Ané at University of Wisconsin-Madison as the 241st pioneer speaker, thanks!
@uwmadison.bsky.social
We also have 238 rising stars. If interested in giving a talk as a rising star, please send your CV to [email protected]
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Tae Seok Moon @taeseokmoon.bsky.social · 19d
The last one of my trip trilogy: Wisconsin Madison to Korea; 13 days to give 5 invited talks and attend the Korean Biotechnology conference.
Thank UW Madison people for your hospitality. I'll meet many more in Korea! 3h sleep due to flight rescheduling or delay, but excited!
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