Natanya Villegas
@TrieneToScience
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Biology PhD candidate optimizing gene synthesis technologies in the Plesa lab at the University of Oregon Knight Campus. SJSU Spartan and UO duck! 🦆
Eugene OR
Joined June 2020
Let's talk about how close we are to a cell-free mirror image central dogma in a tube, aka Mirror-PURE! This topic has been getting a lot of attention due to the recent @ScienceMagazine letter ( https://t.co/JXwiFvLnuU) outlining the threats posed by mirror life. 1/n
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Representing @uoregon Knight Campus Department of Bioengineering at #BMES2024! We're here to share insights, connect with colleagues, and showcase innovative research. It’s inspiring to see so much talent and dedication gathered together. #KnightCampus #Bioengineering
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1. Check out our MS just out! Amazing Mauricio Aguilar developed a new ML pipeline that identifies ribosome pausing sites as an Anomaly Detection problem to overcome spurious signals that arise when analyzing RiboSeq data.
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Machine learning aided discovery of mechanisms regulating eukaryotic ribosome translation elongation rate and disome formation.
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I'm honored to receive this award and am grateful for all of the support from @OregonBio. This experience, as well as the pitch coaching, has helped me to become a better science communicator.
Congratulations @TrieneToScience for winning the people’s choice award at the Oregon Bio Innovation Showcase today!!
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Our @UOKnightCampus @iGEM team this year is developing methods to fight enterohemorrhagic E. coli (EHEC). They just launched a @uoregon DuckFunder fundraiser to send more team members to the final competition jamboree in France:
duckfunder.uoregon.edu
Help University of Oregon raise $20,000 for the project: IGEM 2024. Your gift will make a difference!
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Interested in antibody generation and expression of human proteins in bacteria? If you're at @ProteinSociety tonight check out poster 75 at Bayshore Grand Ballroom D with @MuggleInSynbio to hear about expressing the human proteome in E. coli. @UOKnightCampus
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This is an incredibly moving story!
Powerful 1st-person piece by Knight Campus Dept of Bioengineering Asst Prof Parisa Hosseinzadeh on her long road to recovery following a brain hemorrhage in Nov. 2022. We are so inspired by your strength & determination Parisa and are happy to see you growing stronger every day
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At @ProteinSociety tonight check out poster 73 with @AlkynesOfSci to hear about our efforts to deorphanize sensor histidine kinases en masse & poster 117 with @TrieneToScience to hear about BAR-CAT, our approach to scalable enrichment of assembled gene libraries. @UOKnightCampus
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We are leading a new initiative in Synthetic Biology and Aging and are recruiting multiple postdocs and research assistants/technicians to join us! Details and application links here. Please RT. #longevity
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I think authenticity is important for good research and mentorship!
When I was in undergrad & volunteering for girls in engineering outreach events a friend told me: “Don’t be afraid to be your feminine self. It’s good for them to see that example.” Since then I’ve felt free to dress how I want & am so grateful for it.
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Tune in for this great panel line-up!
The next @EngBioRC SPA panel is Feb 5th! Please RT/share! 🧬 Are you an undergraduate or Master’s student and applying to graduate school or thinking about it? 📺 Attend our panel to prepare for the interview process! 🔗 Register here: https://t.co/1qsuCVWzBw
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Looks like it's time to explore a new era in genome engineering!
Just shared at @KeystoneSymp a new @ArcInstitute discovery of the bridge RNA recombinase mechanism: a new class of natural RNA-guided systems that retains the key property of programmability from RNAi and CRISPR while enabling large-scale genome design beyond RNA and DNA cuts
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Story time! Introducing the first of several new flavors of DropSynth #genesynthesis we have been working on, cooked up by @AlkynesOfSci and Sam Hinton. TLDR: We show multiple gene variants assembled per barcoded droplet and 1 kbp lengths. 1/n https://t.co/8n8qiQA1ik
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Protein engineering efforts often involve the creation of hybrid or chimeric proteins, where functionality critically hinges on the precise design of linkers and fusion points. Traditional methods...
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Congratulations @PlesaLab ! First lab pre-print is out today.
biorxiv.org
Protein engineering efforts often involve the creation of hybrid or chimeric proteins, where functionality critically hinges on the precise design of linkers and fusion points. Traditional methods...
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Wonderful job!
It was a pleasure to give a talk!
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A well deserved award for @PlesaLab @calinplesa !
Congratulations to Assistant Professor Calin Plesa who was named the 2023-24 Clark Honors College (@uohonors) Outstanding Senior Thesis Advisor! Plesa was nominated by former Knight Campus Undergraduate Scholars (KCUS) fellow Carmen Resnick.
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Going to the #NDiSTEM conference today? Come by our booth to learn more about opportunities in our Bioengineering PhD and Masters Graduate Internship Program ! (Cool swag included 😉) @UO_KCGradIntern @UOKnightCampus
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Roughly half the world's population is infected with H. pylori, a leading cause of stomach cancer. A group of UO undergraduates are working on a probiotic they hope could be a gamechanger. The iGEM team is raising funds to take their project to Paris: https://t.co/p49wmAeiaD
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Carmen, Yuki, and I representing @PlesaLab from @UOKnightCampus at #VariantEffect23 ! It's been a pleasure to see the amazing research and to share our work.
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Same here! Looking forward to @EngBioRC 2023
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