Megan McSweeney

EBRC In Translation EBRC In Translation is a podcast working to bring you conversations with leaders in the world of Engineering Biology. The show is the official podcast of the Engineering Biology Research Consortium St...

Explore plant synthetic biology with Stanford’s Jenn Brophy
@jennbrophy.bsky.social on EBRC In Translation. We discuss engineering genetic circuits in plants & microbes, lab sustainability, fostering the next gen of synthetic biologists, and championing diversity in science!
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The next @ebrc.org panel hosted by the Student and Postdoc Association is Sept 25! Re-post/share!

🧬 Are you a grad student thinking about pursuing a postdoc?

📺 Attend our panel to learn more about postdoc life and how to make the most of it!

🔗 Register here: forms.gle/FQLTRcP8wR2h...

Georgia's college faculty worry public syllabus rule could lead to harassment The policy to make course syllabuses public is being partially implemented this semester. By next fall, every class offered by USG schools must have its syllabus online.

A recent AJC article covered how Georgia lawmakers want all public university syllabi to be made public, in line with a movement to keep classrooms free from what has been labeled as “woke.” I’ll save everyone the trouble; I am glad to share my syllabus openly. www.ajc.com/education/20...

A scalable cell-free manufacturing platform for two-step bioproduction of immunogenic conjugate vaccines https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.05.668792v1

How many plasmids can bacteria carry? A synthetic biology perspective | Open Biology Plasmids are pinnacle tools in synthetic biology and other biotechnological applications. They serve as the simplest approach to introduce recombinant DNA, which is then transcribed into RNA that func...

How many plasmids can bacteria carry? A synthetic biology perspective
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My first year participating in Bike to Work Day 🚴🏼‍♀️☀️ thanks @stanford.edu for the energizer stations

Scalable Cell‐Free Production of Active T7 RNA Polymerase The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic highlighted the urgent need for biomanufacturing paradigms that are robust and fast. Here, we demonstrate the rapid process development and scalable cell-free production of T7...

Super cool CFPS engineering and scale-up to express and purify highly active T7 RNAP. Congrats to @rochelleaw.bsky.social and the rest of the team!
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With a simple, flexible, no-equipment-needed platform, Georgia Tech chemical engineers in @stygroupgt.bsky.social are creating a new way to test for disease at home or in places where medical resources are limited. b.gatech.edu/3XwFWsB

Map of Stand Up for Science events, with official SUFS events in Red and solidarity events in Blue

WHERE WILL YOU BE ON MARCH 7TH!?

Head to www.standupforscience2025.org/local-event-information/ or the link in our bio to find your closest event—or add one if you're hosting one!

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A modular cell-free protein biosensor platform using split T7 RNA polymerase A split polymerase is used to develop a plug-and-play cell-free biosensor platform for point-of-care protein detection.

I’m so happy that the major focus of my PhD is out! Very proud of what we accomplished here, and excited for the potential this tech has to enhance future point-of-care protein diagnostics.
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A modular cell-free protein biosensor platform using split T7 RNA polymerase A split polymerase is used to develop a plug-and-play cell-free biosensor platform for point-of-care protein detection.

Excited to share our work in Science Advances! TLISA is a plug-and-play cell-free protein biosensor system developed by @meganmcsweeney.bsky.social. We hope this technology is a stepping stone to expand protein detection at the point-of-care! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Engineering a genomically recoded organism with one stop codon - Nature Ochre, a strain of Escherichia coli engineered to have a single stop codon, enables reassignment of four codons for non-degenerate functions, such as incorporation of non-standard amino acids into pro...

Amazing work from Farren Isaacs team at Yale - reducing E.coli's genetic code down to only using a single stop codon. A 62 codon GRO with lots of potential for applications. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Be sure to check out the next EBRC SPA panel this Jan 28th 💻 Share with anyone looking for tips on grad school interviews and choosing a lab

Yay! Congratulations, Dr. Han!!

View from the top—literally! A classic Hoover Tower sighting from the Shriram Center of Bioengineering & Chemical Engineering. #iconic #Stanford 🌲🌟🌅