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12 days of Negative Results 🎄⛔🧪
Failures are still real science! 😜
Dec 25, 2025
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Decoding biology with functional genomics
🧬 🔢 Gathering quantitative genotype → fitness data at scale: Part 2
Dec 16, 2025
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Jonathan Liu
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Karin Isaev
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Edward Sukarto
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What’s the best way to make a Mars Microbe?
How ‘should’ you do bacterial directed evolution?
Nov 20, 2025
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An Introduction to Mars Terraforming 🚀
The beginning of a field
Oct 17, 2025
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Our first target microbe for Mars, and how we chose it 🏗️
Goal: push the limits of science AND be practically useful
Jul 9, 2025
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Harley Greene
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Laying the groundwork for data-driven evolution
Gathering quantitative genotype --> fitness data at scale: Part 1
May 8, 2025
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Jonathan Liu
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🏆 A Biologist’s Guide to Mars Dirt
Just add water
Dec 10, 2024
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Una Nattermann
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The first turn of our engineering crank 🛠🧂
Beyond deletions: additive strain engineering and adaptation
Oct 24, 2024
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Devon Stork
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Una Nattermann
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