Kirill Sechkar @KSechkar
DPhil Engineering Science student at @UniofOxford. All opinions are my own, but the risk you take by reading them is yours Other soc. media: https://t.co/e3kbxbX7md Oxford, UK Joined March 2021-
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Looks like there is a new sponge thread in town, now by the key driving force behind the project himself:
Very excited to share that our preprint on synthetic bacterial sponge RNAs is now out. This paper is for you if you’re interested in RNA synthetic biology, quantitative gene circuit characterisation, resource competition, or post-transcriptional regulation. (1/11)
Besides @ScottBStacey1 and yours truly, @antonis_papach , @Harrison_Steel and Marco Corrao have all made vital contributions to the project! Working alongside such brilliant people amazed me on the daily 10/10
…but the full story about Hfq competition turned out to be much weirder than just that! A preprint on that will hopefully be published soon, but for now I will leave you with this cliffhanger. Stay tuned! 9/10
Our preprint on sponge RNAs is finally out! This is an immense body of work led by @ScottBStacey1 showcasing many possible (amazing) applications of this newest tool for bacterial RNA circuits (link in next tweet) 1/10
Engineering Quantum Effects in Biology: Our paper is out today, and we think this will be the start of a new challenge in Bioengineering. If you want to start working in this area, get in touch! nature.com/articles/s4158…
Sketch: CDC 2025 open.substack.com/pub/ksechkar/p…
A piece descirbing my research at @EEBioPG is now out in the latest edition of SoTA Letters! Come for my extended analogy between fashion and innovation, stay for many brilliant ideas by many people on how we will make the future great
Letters VI In our final edition of the year, we offer an overview of SoTA's progress in 2025, request your input on our new cyber-physical trust project with @ARIA_research, invite you to a Robot Rave to celebrate our birthday, and present the following letters: - Unlocking
Not sure if that's what @BiochemSoc had in mind when asking us to share our conference experience with the tags #BiochemEvent and #SBUK2025, but here comes my humorous SKETCH of this week's London gathering (link in the next post)
Read the piece on s*bst*ck: open.substack.com/pub/ksechkar/p…
In case you wanted to keep up with SynBio news but don't like the weekend read format, you can now classify my sketch as a weekday read instead
Thrilled to have attended this week's iGEM Jamboree - full of amazing teams, brilliant research and indomitable SynBio optimisim But even if you couldn't come, you can still watch me embarass myself by trying to write it up as a satirical sketch (s*bst*ck link in the next post)
Claudia Driscoll @driscoll_cl
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Ryo Yamamoto @RyoYbioinfo
191 Followers 361 Following interping bio models @GoodfireAI · behind EVEE prev; PhD UCLA (Zaitlen / Xiao)
dogukan @dogukan1566
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Calum Drysdale @CalumDrysdale
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sara @sarambrancato
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Lords Science & Techn... @LordsSTCom
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Alastair Monty @AlastairMonty
47 Followers 797 Following Building neuromodulation neurotech with ultrasound. For brain health solutions at scale. Let's talk neural data, hardware, and ML: https://t.co/XiePzhsvqE
Felix @felixwww_
285 Followers 3K Following opinions expressed are not my own, I don't know who's opinions they are
Freddie Poser @freddie_poser
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Lix Ruoxi @gina9001223
3 Followers 67 Following Always listen to your heart and you will be able to achieve anything in life.
Vicente Trelles Ferna... @vicente_trelles
8 Followers 80 Following DPhil Student at Steel Lab - University of Oxford. High throughput single cell microscopy applied to screening and directed evolution.
Leonardo Rios @DrLeoRios
9K Followers 8K Following Assoc Prof @UCLBiochemEng1 | #SynBio Metabolic Engineering Bioprocessing Scale up | Championing Microbial Cell Factories | Lead @LeoRiosLab |
Marwane @GenerateLakatos
111 Followers 1K Following moderately locked in PhD student @sangerinstitute @Cambridge_Uni | previously @ICR_London @emblebi
Rutessl @Rutesslo3lm
144 Followers 3K Following
Michiel ☁️ @Michielstock
2K Followers 2K Following Machine learning and computational biology researcher. Develops models to understand ecology and synthetic biology. Likes 📚, ☕, 👨🍳, 👨💻 and ☁️s.
Ali Najafi @Ali_Njf13
18 Followers 5K Following •CMB student •Tabriz University •Molecular biology •Biochemistry •Genetics
Kim @SynbioKim
413 Followers 3K Following |DrugExpert|Chevener|SyntheticBiologyEthusiast|AntibioticSteward|. Retweets and likes are not endorsements.
Vinod Kumar @vinodkumar_IITD
14 Followers 516 Following Doctoral Scholar, Control in systems and synthetic biology #RNAStructureModeling #BiomolecularCircuits #RnaThermometer #Riboswitch
Ting An @tingan99
3 Followers 48 Following
Arslan Sarwar @Arsilsarwar
87 Followers 994 Following Doctoral candidate at Kyung Hee. #MetabolicEngineer. #Microbial production of bio commodities using C1 substrate. #Tabletennis & #cricket lover.
Rhys Allen @RhysAllenSysBio
1K Followers 4K Following #BlackLivesMatter Microbiologist postdoc-ish. 🦠😍 Systems metabolic engineering, synthetic ecology. 🧬✂️ @[email protected] 🔬[email protected]
ruirui @ruiruidesuwa
4 Followers 265 Following
lidiakuti @lidiakuti
4 Followers 16 Following Cofounder and CEO @Smobya, biofabrication, material development
Tyler Inskeep (they/t... @trinskeep
241 Followers 742 Following PhD candidate in the Groen Lab @ UC Riverside. evolutionary systems biology, plant development, root-knot nematodes. they/them 🏳️🌈
Yanrui Ye @yanrui_ye
27 Followers 424 Following Associate Professor @ South China University of Technology. Synthetic Biology, Genome Engineering, Directed Evolution, Microbial Biotechnology.
Paul Jaschke @PaulJaschke
2K Followers 3K Following Synthetic Biology | Engineering phage, tRNA, & microbes to discover and create new biology | @[email protected] | @[email protected] 🇨🇦🇦🇺
Agrima Deedwania @AgrimaDeedwania
111 Followers 551 Following she/they 🏳️🌈| Graduate student at @Ox_DTP | Bachelor's @IITDelhi | keen interest in #SynBio, #ProteinEngineering
Gabi Abrahams @GabrielAbrahams
166 Followers 322 Following @gabriel-abrahams.bsky.social PhD candidate @Ox_DTP | MSc physics ('20-'21) @unimelb | Previously at @RMIT, @CSIROC3 and @melbspace (he/him)
Miroslav Gasparek @MiroGasparek
1K Followers 2K Following Co-Founder and CEO at @sensible_bio, making mRNA medicines of the future. Synthetic Biology, Biosecurity. MD @NucleateHQ UK, Engineering @oxengsci
Daniel Plaza Sáez @DPlazaSaez
860 Followers 2K Following Passionate Microbiologist 🦠🔬 | PhD @Cambridge_Uni | ex member Molecular Microbiology (Salmond Lab) at @CamBiochem | Enthusiastic drummer 🥁 and keyboardist 🎹
scaralbi @scaralbi
331 Followers 928 Following Homo liber nulla de re minus quam de morte cogitat; et ejus sapientia non mortis sed vitae meditatio est.
Elif @elcinelif2
150 Followers 753 Following coding biologist | postdoctoral researcher @sourjik | @mpi_marburg
Ross D. Jones, PhD @jonesr18
692 Followers 867 Following Postdoc fusing #synbio, cell fate programming, and cell therapy at @StemCellBioEng @SBME_UBC. Avid fan @UWAthletics @Seahawks @Mariners @SeattleKraken @Celtics
Josiah Kratz @josiah_kratz
61 Followers 219 Following Postdoc @GeorgiaTech. Prev. PhD @CMUCompBio @SCSatCMU. Developing theories of learning in both living and artificial systems.
Anastasia Kolesnikova @natplantsci
50 Followers 134 Following Current PhD student @SoCoBioDtp Keen on all things plants, bioinformatics and science communication :)
Biocontrol Seminars @bioctrl
123 Followers 176 Following Online seminar series on cutting-edge development in the control of biological systems. @bioctrl.bsky.app
🧚🏻♂️ @pixiegurllll
25 Followers 4K Following
Leron Perez @leron_perez
279 Followers 6K Following reimagining bio-production by deeply understanding cellular physiology & metabolism PhD in biophysics w/Cremer Lab @ Stanford | UChicago '20
Yamauchi Yuhei 山�... @TheoBioYuhei
70 Followers 378 Following MD, PhD, postdoc in Kyoto University Working on theoretical biology, bioinfomatics
Kemi Badenoch @KemiBadenoch
394K Followers 315 Following Leader of the Conservative Party. MP for North West Essex.
Claudia Driscoll @driscoll_cl
190 Followers 457 Following postdoc @eit_cx | prev @Stanford and @arcinstitute, DPhil @BiochemOxford
Diana Jorge @diana_c_jorge
50 Followers 148 Following PhD student in Biodesign Engineering. Excited about a future reality where the daily use of bio-inspired technology is as normal as driving a car 🌱
The OED @OED
189K Followers 373 Following The Oxford English Dictionary is an unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history, and usage of over 500,000 words and phrases across the English-speaking world.
Bjorn Fraser Olaisen @BjornOlaisen
375 Followers 353 Following Aging biology researcher │ 5050 UK entrepreneur │ University of Cambridge
Marlhens Jérémie @MarlhensJ
100 Followers 603 Following PhD student in biology at TU Darmstadt. Researching RNA-based logic gates in cell-free systems. Exploring the intersection of engineering and biology.
EIT Oxford @EITOxford
929 Followers 67 Following Translating scientific discovery into real world impact 🌍
Liz Kendall @leicesterliz
98K Followers 2K Following Labour MP Leicester West. Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology.
Cai Linton @CaiLinton
239 Followers 0 Following CEO & Co-founder @multusmedia. AI-driven #CellCultureMedia optimization to grow the industrial bioeconomy. Helping people thrive on a healthy planet.
Jakub Lála 👨🏻�... @jakublala
699 Followers 769 Following science, music, startups, philosophy, love, curiosity | previously @TheCrick @ICSoftNano @lab_COSMO @RGBLabMIT @FutureHouseSF
Francesca Ceroni @ceronifranci
1K Followers 393 Following Reader (Associate Professor) @ Chemical Engineering Department, Imperial College London (views are my own)
Sebastian S. Cocioba�... @ATinyGreenCell
32K Followers 10K Following Flower Designer at Neoplants ♧ Researcher at Binomica Labs ♧ Degreeless Heathen ♧ Petunia and Snapdragon Breeder ♧ Open Lab Notebook: https://t.co/umYTLluuuw
Christina Agapakis @thisischristina
13K Followers 2K Following “If chaotic good was a biologist” 🧬🦠🧫🌱🥩🌽🦀🐉 working wherever biology, technology, and people collide at https://t.co/IJdNoFq1mI and @americanwetware
Адовый UX @ux_from_hell
15K Followers 2 Following Примеры хуёвых интерфейсов, юикса и истории про это всё
Steven Strogatz @stevenstrogatz
180K Followers 3K Following Mathematician, writer, Cornell professor. All cards on the table, face up, all the time.
Katie Galloway @GallowayLabMIT
8K Followers 2K Following Assistant Prof @MITChemE ; mom^4 + wife; enjoys building cell-fate circuits, exploring dna topology, reprogramming the living world, and soccer; soli gloria deo
Freddie Poser @freddie_poser
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POST (UK Parliament) @POST_UK
22K Followers 2K Following The Parliamentary Office of Science & Technology publishes impartial, balanced and peer-reviewed briefings that make research evidence accessible to Parliament.
Calum Drysdale @CalumDrysdale
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Science, Innovation a... @CommonsSITC
25K Followers 1 Following We are a cross-party group of @HouseofCommons MPs. This account is not being monitored. Follow us at @HOCcommitteesUK.
The Align Foundation @Align_Bio
2K Followers 278 Following Improving life science with programmable experiments. 🧬 🤖 Home of the Protein Engineering Tournament & Open Datasets Initiative
Society for Technolog... @sotalikesfuture
1K Followers 3 Following The cross-disciplinary community for Britain's most promising scientists, engineers & technologists building things that matter.
txp @txp_io
1K Followers 3 Following bridging tech & policy to build the future | built by @andrewjb_ & @Tom_Westgarth15
Centre for British Pr... @BritishProgress
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sara @sarambrancato
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Labour Growth Group @LabourGrowth
3K Followers 52 Following A group of Labour MPs committed to tearing down the barriers to growth. Tell us what's broken and give us ideas to fix it: [email protected]
Pablo Carbonell @pablocarb
1K Followers 1K Following Metabolic pathway design and sustainable automated biomanufacturing for the bioeconomy @i2sysbio @CSIC See my book https://t.co/STbLw55QYl.
Royal Society Publish... @RSocPublishing
38K Followers 370 Following Discover new research from across the sciences published in the Royal Society's journals. Part of @royalsociety
Arc Institute @arcinstitute
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Andreas Porse @Andreas_Porse
162 Followers 474 Following Working on understanding (AMR) evolution. Researcher at the University of Oxford.
Leonardo Rios @DrLeoRios
9K Followers 8K Following Assoc Prof @UCLBiochemEng1 | #SynBio Metabolic Engineering Bioprocessing Scale up | Championing Microbial Cell Factories | Lead @LeoRiosLab |
Ahmad A. Mannan @AhmadMannan17
157 Followers 434 Following Modelling to elucidate and harness bio-systems | Knowledge transcends space-time - whether or not you want to see it | I 🇬🇧🇵🇸🇬🇱🇱🇧🇮🇷🇪🇸🇨🇺🇻🇦🇯🇵
Paris Biofoundry @parisbiofoundry
103 Followers 112 Following The Paris Biofoundry is a cutting-edge automated and collaborative platform uniting leading institutions in the Île-de-France region.
ARIA @ARIA_research
17K Followers 56 Following Advanced Research + Invention Agency. Empowering scientists to reach for the edge of the possible.
Chania Clare @ChaniaNClare
53 Followers 124 Following BBSRC LIDo PhD student | UCL | Barnes Lab @LIDo_DTP @UCL @imperialcollege @cssb_lab
Michiel ☁️ @Michielstock
2K Followers 2K Following Machine learning and computational biology researcher. Develops models to understand ecology and synthetic biology. Likes 📚, ☕, 👨🍳, 👨💻 and ☁️s.
EngBio IRC @EngBioIRC
3K Followers 443 Following Interdisciplinary Research Centre for Synthetic and Engineering Biology @Cambridge_Uni. Formerly SynBio IRC.
Vicente Trelles Ferna... @vicente_trelles
8 Followers 80 Following DPhil Student at Steel Lab - University of Oxford. High throughput single cell microscopy applied to screening and directed evolution.
Fernanda Pinheiro @fepinheiromycin
3K Followers 313 Following Group Leader in Computational Biology @HumanTechnopole 🧫🧐👩💻 TED: https://t.co/mhPJsGpOWG
Synthetic Biology Aus... @SynBioAusAsia
3K Followers 544 Following Official voice of Synthetic Biology Australasia | Connecting #SynBio in Australasia since 2014 | https://t.co/Qgai97NI9B
Agrima Deedwania @AgrimaDeedwania
111 Followers 551 Following she/they 🏳️🌈| Graduate student at @Ox_DTP | Bachelor's @IITDelhi | keen interest in #SynBio, #ProteinEngineering
Gabi Abrahams @GabrielAbrahams
166 Followers 322 Following @gabriel-abrahams.bsky.social PhD candidate @Ox_DTP | MSc physics ('20-'21) @unimelb | Previously at @RMIT, @CSIROC3 and @melbspace (he/him)
Daniel Plaza Sáez @DPlazaSaez
860 Followers 2K Following Passionate Microbiologist 🦠🔬 | PhD @Cambridge_Uni | ex member Molecular Microbiology (Salmond Lab) at @CamBiochem | Enthusiastic drummer 🥁 and keyboardist 🎹
Elif @elcinelif2
150 Followers 753 Following coding biologist | postdoctoral researcher @sourjik | @mpi_marburg












