Ben Adler
@ben_a_adler
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Postdoc @ Doudna Lab - UC-Berkeley | Bacteriophage engineering | CRISPR | Biotechnology | Microbiology | All Combinations Thereof | He/him. Opinions my own.
Berkeley, CA
Joined September 2015
🦠🧬Our paper is live @CellCellPress: Genome integrity sensing by the broad-spectrum Hachiman antiphage defense complex. Through structural, genetic and microbiological approaches, we show that Hachiman degrades DNA… by sensing low integrity DNA.
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RT @vatsanraman: Excited to share our new work—PhageMaP, a high-throughput platform for genome-wide knockout screening in diverse phages ac….
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I put Novome on a "doing super cool science" pedestal for a pretty long time. This is why: super cool work doing true microbiome engineering.
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Precision microbiome programming for therapeutic applications is limited by challenges in achieving reproducible colonic colonization. Previously, we created an exclusive niche that we used to...
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RT @EricTopol: Engineering the gut microbiome in people with hyperoxaluria to avoid kidney stones.@ScienceMagazine.
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Precision microbiome programming for therapeutic applications is limited by challenges in achieving reproducible colonic colonization. Previously, we created an exclusive niche that we used to...
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RT @dr_alphalyrae: Introducing La-Proteina, a generative AI model that creates complete atomistic protein structures together with their am….
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RT @francesarnold: I saw it firsthand at the #Lindau2025 Nobel Laureates meeting--international young scientists welcomed and recruited in….
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Research-funding cuts and immigration changes threaten some of America’s economic advantages.
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RT @seemaychou: I worry the pendulum has swung too far towards generalists over specialists, sacrificing wisdom for speed. Resulting in eit….
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🚨 Fresh from the press! We created and analyzed over 100 in vitro cyanobacterial consortia using well-characterized model cyanobacterial hosts to better understand how cyanobacteria recruit and interact with their microbiomes. Check it out:
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RT @AndrejaKust: 🚨 Fresh from the press! We created and analyzed over 100 in vitro cyanobacterial consortia using well-characterized model….
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RT @pdfiisermohali: Congratulations to Dr. Amar Deep @iamamardeeep on joining IISER Mohali @IiserMohali as a new faculty member in the Depa….
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RT @karpathy: How to build a thriving open source community by writing code like bacteria do 🦠. Bacterial code (genomes) are:. - small (eac….
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RT @sokrypton: CASP is getting cut by NIH. 😢. (Anyone with extra funds wanna help support perhaps the most important competition of the c….
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Agency silent on funding renewal for contest that inspired creation of AIs that predicted how proteins would fold
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RT @Nature: Nature research paper: Functional amyloid proteins confer defence against predatory bacteria.
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Nature - Escherichia coli uses curli fibres, oligomers of the functional amyloid CsgA, as a barrier to protect against the predatory bacteria Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus and Myxococcus xanthus in a...
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RT @pacyc1841: Identifying phage proteins that activate the bacterial innate immune system | bioRxiv
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Bacteria have evolved sophisticated antiphage systems that halt phage replication upon detecting specific phage triggers. Identifying phage triggers is crucial to our understanding of immune signal...
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RT @RyanCookAMR: New pre-print alert! 🚨🫁. COPD affects millions worldwide. While we know bacterial dysbiosis drives disease, the role of ba….
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RT @tatta_bio: We are thrilled to announce our new publication in Science Advances: Gaia, an AI-powered protein search platform that brings….
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The genomic language model enables rapid genomic context–aware search and discovery of microbial proteins.
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RT @oventurelli2: Excited to share our latest work on unraveling the role of a key metabolic pathway in human gut microbiome assembly and h….
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RT @NaturePlants: New OA Letter: "Viral delivery of an RNA-guided genome editor for transgene-free germline editing in Arabidopsis" https:/….
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