Assistant Professor @ KAUST. C. elegans genetic engineering and Synthetic Bio. Role of non-coding DNA in reducing epigenetic and transgenerational silencing.
Joined August 2013
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10 Mar 2024
Big congrats to my Ph.D. student @FaisalMAlkhaldi for winning 1st place in the #LEAP24 Hackathon for his generative AI model to accelerate genetic engineering! #KAUST @KaustResearch
🏆Congratulations to the Top 5 onsite winners in the LEAP24 AI Oasis Hackathon!
🥇1st Place: Nuqta Genomics BioForge
Project: Accelerating Genetic Engineering
🥈2nd Place: Aures DAIT
Project: THE Diabetic AI Assistant
🥉3rd Place: Andromida
Project: WorthyYou
🏅4th Place: RAHA
Project: A voice-enabled AI for digital accessibility
🏅5th Place: Eventful
Project: AI Planner
They have won and joined the MVP Lab program by @ntdpsa , receiving a grant of 150,000 Saudi Riyals (40,000 US Dollars) to support and develop their winning ideas. 🚀
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17 Aug 2023
Excited that a talented Ph.D. student Mohammed Aljohani @MDJEditing from my lab is presenting his work on a genome-wide C. elegans CRISPR library for DNA and RNP-based CRISPR editing for the first time today at the CSHL CRISPR meeting.
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😿Yesterday finished the Spanish Worm Meeting number VIII. #SWM2022
📶Our community is solid and the scientific level is rising.
🏅We were honored of hosting the Nobel laureate Andrew Fire and the superclass Christian Frokjaer-Jensen.
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6 Oct 2022
Very proud of Sarah AlHarbi (@SarahAlharbi_3), Ph.D. student in my lab and VP for Women in Science and Engineering Research at KAUST, for representing the university at Camp 2030 to work on UN SDG goals in New York. kaust.edu.sa/en/news/kaust-s…
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Christian Froekjaer Jensen retweeted
3 Oct 2022
Interested in chromatin folding/SMC complexes/nuclear organization and want to move the Switzerland for a post-doc? Switzerland has its own Marie-Curie postdoc program (deadline 01.12). Reach out by email if you look for a host lab! @snf_ch
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28 Jul 2022
SGB lab members at the European Worm Meeting 2022!
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21 Jun 2022
1/7 Try our new app for optimizing transgenes for C. elegans expression (wormbuilder.org/transgenebui…). The app uses algorithms from collaborators Henrik Bringmann (TU Dresden) and Dan Dickinson (UT Austin) - or codons from highly expressed ubiquitous genes.
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21 Jun 2022
6/7 The optimized sequence is annotated in the app or in a GenBank file that can be opened in gene editors (for example @ApEplasmid)
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21 Jun 2022
7/7 The app was developed by postdoc Amhed Vargas (code, github.com/AmhedVargas/) and transgene expression tested by @sonia_elmouridi. We'll write up the details but let us know if you find any bugs or have feature suggestions (no promises!).
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Christian Froekjaer Jensen retweeted
22 Apr 2022
Deadline in 2days for #EMBOCelegans!
Apply for #genetics,#CRISPR editing,#imaging,analysis, lectures by Bringmann,@ShahLabUCLA,@jisaacmurray,@tischitischer,@LCochella,@wormbuilder,@AnneCReymann,@schumacherbj,@Tavernarakis,@zhenlab_Toronto and more!
@EMBLEvents, @EMBOevents
6 Apr 2022
Are you an early career scientist interested in C. elegans? Apply by 24th April, for our 7-day course covering #Celegans research topics, web resources, handling, #genetics, genome editing, #imaging, data analysis. #EMBOCelegans 🗓 17 – 23 July
🔗s.embl.org/cel22-01
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20 Apr 2022
1/5 Our paper is out as a bioRxiv preprint. @sonia_elmouridi and @FaisalMAlkhaldi Like MosSCI, just better. Targeted single-copy and array integration synthesizing new and gradual improvements from the past 15 years across many labs. biorxiv.org/content/early/20…
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20 Apr 2022
4/5 We integrated a > 5.4 Mb simple plasmid array and @FaisalMAlkhaldi assembled it from long-read Oxford Nanopore sequencing. Tandem arrays and truncated plasmids as first shown by Stinchcomb in 1985. First baby steps in trying to assemble larger synthetic genomic regions.
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20 Apr 2022
5/5 Let us know if you try MosTI. We’d love to hear how it works in the wild. We plan to keep developing and supporting at wormbuilder.org
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4 Feb 2022
And sincere thanks to Nature Methods for writing a short author story. Very grateful to the labs that trained me as a scientist and finding a place in the C. elegans community rather than pursuing particle physics... nature.com/articles/s41592-0…
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