Christopher J Hernandez

Great lab retreat @exploratorium.bsky.social today! Wonderful time sharing our research with staff and volunteers. Thank you for having us!

I’m a mentor to the high school KhanLab-BayArea @iGEM. They made #engineeredlivingmaterials with advice from me @kelsey DeFrates @jingjieyeo.bsky.social @cheveran.bsky.social The team earned a Gold Medal and were nominated for a special award. Thanks to @NSF for supporting this broader impact.

This is figure 1, which gives an overview of carbon footprints of the construction industry.

Cement, brick, and metal use are responsible for more than half of the carbon dioxide emissions from the construction sector, and the sector’s carbon footprint could exceed the annual carbon budget, according to an analysis in Communications Earth & Environment. go.nature.com/4op0VZR 🧪

Congrats to University of California, San Francisco Health Innovations Via Engineering professor Kyle Cromer on receiving the #NIH New Innovator award! After @kelseyhcollins.bsky.social last year #engineers @UCSf are on a roll.

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Biosensors to Track Proteins and Inflammation in Our Blood in Real Time A recording from Eric Topol's live video

I've been following the field of biosensors for nearly 2 decades. This may well turn out to be the most important advance yet
erictopol.substack.com/p/biosensors...

Engineering Day | Exploratorium Museum Event Our annual Engineering Day returns! Learn about STEM through interactive activities, hands-on exhibits, and panel discussions.

I'm pleased to participate in the @exploratorium.bsky.social and SHPE Engineering Day, Saturday Sept. 27. Gissell Jimenez from my lab will also be doing a demonstration of her working looking at how cells deep inside a material get their nutrients.

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We have an open rank, tenure-line faculty position in biomechanics in the School of Kinesiology at the University of Michigan Ann Arbor. At U-M we have great colleagues, exceptional resources, and biomechanics can be found all across the campus. #BiomechSky

Another #UCSF Orthopaedics Research Retreat on a perfect day at the #presidio so lucky to have such an amazing team

Congrats to Natasha hunt for passing her qualifying exam!

Commensal taxa in gut microbiota limit antibiotic resistance during extended oral antibiotic use https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.13.670183v1

Commensal taxa in gut microbiota limit antibiotic resistance during extended oral antibiotic use Certain bacterial infections, such as those involving prosthetics, can require antimicrobial therapy over months to years, potentially increasing the burden of antimicrobial resistance. Here we longit...

Pleased to release this preprint with @elcyphert-phd.bsky.social and many others. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Some journals are claiming that you need to pay big $$ for gold open access to comply with NIH's new public access policy. FYI that is total bs. You can comply by depositing the Accepted Manuscript into PubMed Central on the Date of Publication without embargo. Pass it on.

I wonder how many more microbial produced molecules regulate disease throughout the body, especially in musculoskeletal tissues.

Junior, Assistant, or Associate Specialist – Xue Lab University of California, Irvine is hiring. Apply now!

The Xue lab at UC Irvine is looking for a staff scientist to support our work investigating how microbes interact and evolve in the gut microbiome! Open to a wide range of previous experience levels, see ad for more.
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Due to popular demand, the abstract submission deadline for the Engineered Living Materials Workshop has been extended to July 22nd. | Marimikel Charrier Due to popular demand, the abstract submission deadline for the Engineered Living Materials Workshop has been extended to July 22nd. Be a part of a dynamic exchange of ideas with leading experts from ...

Engineered Living Materials will change the world. Want to be in the room where it happened? Submit your abstract to the meeting today (due July 22). www.linkedin.com/posts/marimi...

Where did you take your @asbmr.bsky.social swag this summer?

We're hiring for 2 postdocs to work in our lab in London on the newly announced Wellcome Trust SynHG project. If you know people looking to work on big-scale ambitious science like this, please RT and share this with them. Apply by 7/20, interviews in Aug. imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...

I’m proud of Natasha Hunt who presented her work at the Benioff Center for Microbiome Medicine Annual Retreat

Great talk by Cater Wilder at the UC wide bioengineering meeting

Great talk by Cater Wilder at the UC wide bioengineering meeting

Congrats Frank!

Fungi and bacteria could be used to build homes one day, new study suggests | CNN Researchers in Montana say they have found a way to turn fungus into a brick, which could eventually offer a more sustainable cement alternative.

What a great story about @cheveran.bsky.social and her team!
www.cnn.com/2025/04/30/s...

Another PhD from the Hernandez Research Group! Congrats Dr. Chongshan Cleo Liu

Hernandez Research Group party this year featured tacos and a close look at a Cybertruck

Ten Thousand Men of Harvard: A Virtual ARTS FIRST Celebration! YouTube video by Harvard University Band

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Want to do a #postdoc? Did you know more faculty jobs go to people who postdoc in slightly different subject area? doi.org/10.1073/pnas... Are you an expert in #microbiome OR #osteoarthritis? How'd you like to join me and @kelseyhcollins.bsky.social as we figure out how the two are connected?

Physical mechanisms that enable bacteria to traverse channels half their width https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.07.642077v1

Wow what a great visit to Washington University in St Louis. Thank you #MuscloskeletalResearchCenter students and postdocs for the invite! Thanks @settonlab.bsky.social for the engineering school tour. @mcalinden-lab.bsky.social @simonytanglab.bsky.social

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Congrats to Samuel Stephen who was just awarded a UC Postdoctoral Fellowship! I was lucky to recruit Sam to the lab last year. He's got big plans to revolutionize bone