Microbial Discovery Team Lead @SwitchBioworks 🌱| Former postdoc @UC Davis 🔬| Hobbyist photographer 📷 | Tennis enthusiast 🎾
Joined March 2009
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10 Jun 2025
Rented a car via @turo — it had serious safety issues. Returned it & was promised a replacement. Now they’ve backed out. Over 1hr on call with ZERO resolution. Total scam. @TuroSupport this is unacceptable.
@bbb_us @FTC #TuroFail #ConsumerRights #CustomerServiceFail #TravelScam
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5 Dec 2023
Editors choice ✨. This #openaccess paper by N. Devaragan, @DSKarp, @Samaddars & team in @AMI_JAMJournal suggests that #organic composts and cover crops enhance beneficial soil bacteria that suppress pathogens.#WorldSoilDay #SaveSoil
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10 Jul 2023
Check out our recent paper on how #microbialcommunities differ between #perennial #kernza and #annualwheat at different depths. Great working with you on this project @KalynMTaylor ! #soildepth #soilmicrobiome #soilcarbon
10 Jul 2023
Check out new OA paper led by @SoilLife, @samaddars, and I 🌾 Main takeaway — depth matters! Annual wheat vs. #Kernza stored carbon at different depths in the soil profile & hosted distinct soil fungal communities primarily in the rhizosphere & topsoil.
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23 May 2023
Today @SwitchBioworks welcomes Deepa Kurpad as a scientist to our Microbial Discovery team! Deepa brings 15 years of diverse biotechnology expertise and is excited to switch on to our mission of feeding the world sustainably. 🌱
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5 Apr 2023
Excited to be a part of the team for developing customized #biofertilizers for #smallholderfarmers in #Africa to fight #foodinsecurity & provide #agriculturalindependence Thanks to @KingPhilanthrop for supporting us. You can learn more about our work at switchbioworks.com
3 Apr 2023
Honored for the opportunity to promote #ClimateAction 🌍across #Africa with @VP and Zambian President @HHichilema, US and Zambian industry leaders, government officials, and philanthropists🌽.....
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1 Apr 2023
Thrilled to join @VP and @HHichilema in Zambia today as we build partnerships between the US and African nations to promote climate resilience through #sustainable #agriculture! 🇿🇲🇺🇸🌽🌍
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14 Mar 2023
We are at the World Agri-Tech summit at Sanfrancisco. Feel free to stop by our booth in the startup arena. #startup #biotechnology #climatechange #itstime2switch #livingfertilizer #WorldAgriTech
14 Mar 2023
Stop by the @SwitchBioworks booth in the Startup Arena at the @WorldAgriTech Innovation Summit in San Francisco today and tomorrow! We’ll also be pitching on the main stage tomorrow at 10! #innovation #startup #biotech 🌱🦠🌽🧬🎉
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7 Mar 2023
@SwitchBioworks welcomes Nick Severin as our Executive Assistant 🎉! Nick is bringing a combination of small business management and corporate administration skills to take operations at Switch to the next level. He’s excited to join our mission to feed the world sustainably!🌱🌽
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4 Mar 2023
This week we are celebrating the 1-year founding anniversary of @SwitchBioworks! What an exciting time! 🎉🎊🧬 We’ve raised over $8M and built a team of 14 researchers from 6 continents, living our values and realizing our vision: to feed the world sustainably.
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28 Feb 2023
This week we welcome @DrAnkitaKothari as a Senior Scientist to the team🍾🥼. Previously a scientist at @BerkeleyLab and a strain build lead at @Zymergen, Ankita joined us to learn the ins and outs of an early stage startup and deepen her focus in biotech for sustainability 🌱🧬🦠
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3 Feb 2023
It was so much fun to be a part of this offsite and getting to know each other more outside of our lab life #retreat #companyculture #itstime2switch
3 Feb 2023
At Switch, we care deeply about building an inclusive company that we love coming in for every day and feel like we belong. At our off-site in Tahoe, we grew together tighter as a #team and practiced our #values in team-designed workshops, presentations and activities. 🍾🎊🌱🦠
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18 Jan 2023
Another development in @SwitchBioworks mission to feed the #world sustainably. Thanks to @KingPhilanthrop for providing us with this opportunity to work for fighting the food crisis in Africa #climatechange #sustainableagriculture #africa #biotech
18 Jan 2023
@SwitchBioworks to Combat the Food Crisis in Africa with New Partnership and $1.5m Grant from @KingPhilanthrop 🎉🌱🌽
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9 Jun 2022
#sustainable? #SoilHealth Soil health data thin on the ground. Economists, geographers and soil scientists in Malawi found worrying decadal declines in fertilizer efficiency on farmer fields, and declines in ag greenness from remote sensing data bit.ly/3H6d80A Why?
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Sandipan Samaddar retweeted
UC Davis Postdoctoral Scholars Association (PSA) is offering a Workshop "U.S. Immigration and Employment Options for International Postdocs"
Location: Virtual via zoom
Time and Date: May 24, 2022, at 3:00 pm
Link to Register: ucdavis.co1.qualtrics.com/jf…
@YuanjunS
#PSA #Immigration
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22 Apr 2022
A very informative paper and the challenges of looking at soil microbial networks are very well explained. #soilmicrobiome #microbialnetworks #soil #SoilHealth
21 Apr 2022
Our @SoilBiolBiochem Perspectives paper “From diversity to complexity: Microbial networks in soils” is out: doi.org/10.1016/j.soilbio.20…. Microbial co-occurrence analysis is increasingly used in soil ecology. However, the nature of soil poses challenges to it 1/5
2 Apr 2022
So much fun to represent #ucdavis postdocs at National Postdoc Conference at #Chicago. Great discussions, much to learn and importantly great for networking
#NPA2022AC #postdoc #leadership #leadershipdevelopment @UCDavisPostdocs
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31 Mar 2022
So true. DGGE was such a great technique to characterize the communities. Now its the #genomics era.
25 Mar 2022
Absolutely. Very misleading imo.
23 Mar 2022
"Metagenomics" doesn't mean 16S, right? ...right?
Sandipan Samaddar retweeted
@UCDavisPostdocs is offering Career Development
Workshop regarding the "Utilizing Library Resources"
Location: Walker Hall, Gibeling Room 1220 | Available on Zoom too
Time and Date: Mar 24, 2022, from 11:00am - 12:00 pm.
Registration Link: lnkd.in/d9NtVzhE
@YuanjunS #PSA
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