Merry Christmas!

Amazing PhD opportunity to work on cutting edge biocontrol of cane toads in the NT with an incredible team!

Sanity has prevailed!

Our work demonstrating CRISPR in cane toads is now published in The CRISPR Journal! doi.org/10.1177/257315992513…

🚀 Meet Our Centre Startups: EntoZyme with Dr Maciej Maselko @SynBioNaut #EntoZyme is transforming sustainable #wastemanagement and #biomanufacturing industries with the use of transgenic Black Soldier Flies. 🪰♻️ Some footage sourced from #openplanet #SyntheticBiology @arc_gov_au

Our latest preprint on Cas9 in Cane Toads is out. Congrats to postdoc Michael Clark driving this excellent work! lnkd.in/gGDq92bJ

Super excited that our paper demonstrating that animals can be engineered for methylmercury bioremediation is out. Congrats to @Dr__Tepper for an amazing job! nature.com/articles/s41467-0…

I/We have a fully funded international PhD scholarship in sunny Sydney that’s just come online! This is part of an exciting collaboration between the ARC Centre of Excellence in Synthetic Biology and the Dementia Research Centre. More information here: mq.edu.au/research/phd-and-r…

🎥 Check out Dr Maciej Maselko's (@SynBioNaut) feature on @BBCNews! 🎥 In the interview, he explains the innovative Toxic Male Technique (TMT) and how it could reduce the spread of diseases carried by mosquitoes. 🦟✨ #CoESB #OurPeople #SyntheticBiology #Innovation #DiseaseControl #TMT @arc_gov_au

Our Toxic Male Technique (TMT) paper is finally out! TMT males produce insecticidal semen to eliminate the female population. It's the first example of intragenerational genetic biocontrol. Use in mosquitoes could dramatically reduce bloodmeals. nature.com/articles/s41467-0…

1 more sleep until #CoESB24! We're pleased to welcome Dr Maciej Maselko @SynBioNaut, co-founder of @EntoZyme to present an Industry Talk at #CoESB24 Dr Maciej Maselko is a research group leader in Applied BioSciences at @Macquarie_Uni and co-founder of EntoZyme, a Macquarie University startup developing black soldier flies as a synbio platform for sustainable #biomanufacturing. 🦟✨ 📢 Talk Topic: Developing Black Soldier Flies for Sustainable Waste Management & Biomanufacturing 📅 Date: Thursday 5 December, 11:05 AM 📍 Event: CoESB Annual Conference 2024 See you all in Wollongong tomorrow! 👋 #AnnualConference #SyntheticBiology #SyntheticBiologist #EngineeringBiology @arc_gov_au @mqnatsci

🌍🔥 Engineered black soldier flies (Hermetia illucens) are at the forefront of our research led by @Dr__Tepper ! Exploring their potential to divert organic waste from landfills, offering promising solutions for sustainability. 🦗✨ nature.com/articles/s42003-0…

Join us for our next SBA Sydney event on the 31st of October! We’ll have a spooky spin on insects with talks from @SynBioNaut and @Dr__Tepper! Join us for free food and beverages. Halloween costumes encouraged! eventbrite.com.au/e/sba-sydn…

A colleague and friend has a postdoc position open in engineering enzymes for bioremediation (NJ, USA) - feel free to circulate. asmcareerconnections.org/job…

Predatory mites like Transeius montdorensis are important tools for integrated pest management. Check out our latest preprint where we improve their diet for mass rearing and lab research. Great work by PhD student Hung Nguyen! biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…

Check out postdoc @EtInNaturaEgo's publication on improving base editing in insects. Great collaboration with @viclodela! nature.com/articles/s42003-0…

Insects are great sources of protein for animal feed, but can we make them even better? Yes! Check out our preprint demonstrating the production of a functional phytase enzyme in Drosophila as a proof of principle biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…

Check out our Allele Sail paper - a simple method to use genome editors for modification of wild populations. Applications include genetic rescue of threatened species, reducing the ability of vectors to spread disease, and making cane toads less toxic. nature.com/articles/s41467-0…

"Years of Advocacy Pay Off With Policy Change That Improves Science and Protects Horseshoe Crabs" pcrm.org/news/news-releases/…

Excited to share our work on Programmable Transcriptional Activators (PTAs) for plants! We started by screening a library of activation domains in monocots&dicots, culminating in using these PTAs to activate enhancers in protoplasts. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…