Nathan Crook
@nathanguy14
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My lab develops new ways to engineer biology! We are currently obsessed with engineering microbiomes.
Raleigh, NC
Joined September 2012
Awesome article by Rebeck, Wallace, Prusa, and others from the Dantas Lab @volatilebug showing S. boulardii can be engineered to treat colon cancer in mice! A super hard problem and inspiring for those working on engineered probiotics.
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I want to give a shoutout to Ethan Gates for writing an epic review article on all the currently known mechanisms of plastic biodegradation. If you want to break down some plastic, give it a look!.
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This review synthesizes current knowledge on the biochemical mechanisms of plastic degradation by microbes to enable researchers to harness these activitie
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Are you an international student interested in doing a PhD in Chemical Engineering at NC State? If so, we are holding a Zoom session on Thursday, October 24 at 3pm Eastern Time: .Join Zoom Meeting. Meeting ID: 953 1206 6622.Passcode: 986934.
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Are you researching enzymatic C/N capture? Just interested? NCSU is hosting a Biocatalyst Interactions with Gases (BIG) Research Symposium at NC State University from May 14-16! If you want more info, fill out the following survey!
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Reducing carbon emissions and developing alternative routes for fertilizer production are increasingly urgent challenges facing our world. The Biocatalyst Interactions with Gases (BIG) Collaboration...
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A postdoc position is available in the lab of my amazing colleague, Dr. Abdulkerim Eroglu! The position focuses on the impacts of dietary phytochemicals on gut biology (both host and bacterial). Please send to anyone who might be interested.
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Cool article by McMillen lab using inducible recombinases and the ade1 marker to record events in the gut using probiotic yeast!
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The procedures involved in diagnoses of intestinal diseases are often costly, invasive, expensive and dependent on specific technical expertise; these factor...
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RT @DenizDurmusogl1: IMPRINT is now out🎉 @MolecularCell .Extremely grateful to be part of this exciting collaboration! .@BeiselLab @nathang….
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The Crook Lab is hiring a postdoc in the broad area of gas capture by enzymes! Part of a wonderful collaboration funded by the Novo Nordisk Foundation ( Please forward to those who might be interested!
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Hello! On March 22 I'm giving a seminar at the hybrid Biotech Seminar Series by DTU Biotech Lifelong Learning and NC State BTEC. It's free and online! Check out the nice advertisement they made:
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What if your body could sense when it was sick, make its own medicines, and administer them before you even felt sick? This is the moonshot goal of the budding field of “in situ biomanufacturing”, ...
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If you are on the faculty job market, check this out! WashU is a great place to be.
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One year ago I was waist deep in diapers and decided that I didn't have time to apply for a NIH DP2 award. My wife said "go for it anyway", so I wrote up an idea @DenizDurmusogl1 and Carly Catella had been piloting. Today it was funded! Thank you to my family and my students😊.
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RT @DenizDurmusogl1: Having trouble with transforming your favorite bacteria with valuable genetic cargo? Try IMPRINT🙌🏻! A sophisticated TX….
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A lot of papers introduce a genetic toolkit for a single organism. My student @schaik_john was like "nah I'm going to make one for 5". Introducing the Maize Root Microbiome Toolkit (MRMTK)! With critical assist by @jbcheadle and @Zidan_Li97.
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Sustainably enhancing crop production is a global necessity to meet the escalating demand for staple crops while sustainably managing their associated carbon/nitrogen inputs. Leveraging plant-assoc...
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Many microplastics are located in the ocean, so my talented student, Tianyu Li, decided to engineer a microbe that tolerates ocean-level salt to break down PET microplastics! We love this microbe because under ideal conditions, it replicates in <10 mins!
aiche.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
Poly(ethylene terephthalate) (PET) is a highly recyclable plastic that has been extensively used and manufactured. Like other plastics, PET resists natural degradation, thus accumulating in the...
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A spinout led by two awesome former members of my group is hiring! Looking for a probiotic engineer to make animal agriculture more sustainable!
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RT @DenizDurmusogl1: Phenomenal work from @schaik_john .Engineering the Maize Root Microbiome: A Rapid MoClo Toolkit and Identification of….
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NCSU CBE is hiring! The colleagues are supportive, the students are motivated, the facilities are excellent - what more could you want?
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Hello! A good friend of mine @nutribiochemist has an open postdoc position focusing on the impacts of carotenoids on gut health! Take a look!
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RT @sarma_sudeep: Excited to see our paper go online today in @CommsBio.on the development of peptide inhibitors for treating Clostridoides….
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Communications Biology - A computational design and experimental screening approach leads to the identification of peptide inhibitors that block Toxin A in colon epithelial cells.
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Hey! Do you want to engineer root microbes really efficiently? Using a vector toolkit that is surprisingly easy to use? Check out @schaik_john, Zidan Li, and John Cheadle's recent preprint! We also find a highly transformable, DNA-demethylating root bug!.
biorxiv.org
Sustainably enhancing crop production is a necessity given the increasing demands for staple crops and their associated carbon/nitrogen inputs. Plant-associated microbiomes offer one avenue for...
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