molpigs (@molpigs_) profile picture

We are the Molecular Programming Interest Group, connecting early career researchers from all over the world! Check out the molpigs podcast https://nitter.gq/t.co/enOIOfyORV

🐷
Joined March 2021
Photo by molpigs (@molpigs_)
New podcast alert! This episode we talked with Zibo Chen, a new professor at Westlake University about molecular programming across scales and materials, from DNA to proteins, to cellular networks. open.spotify.com/episode/3za…
1
5
16
2,537
The Molpigs podcast returns! Check out our recent discussion with Prof. Ashwin Gopinath on modes of molecular programming and doing science in the time of AI. Out now on all major feeds, Spotify link here: open.spotify.com/episode/5i3…
1
4
1,039
We know it’s been a bit quiet from Molpigs recently, new podcasts are recorded and coming soon! Any interest in another reading group like our previous one on Ned Seeman’s papers? Vote on the topic you would be most likely to attend, or feel free to comment your interests!
36%History of DNA computing
45%DNA origami fundamentals
18%DNA assembly methods
0%Non-DNA mol programming
11 votes • Final results
2
331
It’s been a bit, but we just recorded a new podcast!
1
2
6
603
We all like to make functional structures from DNA origami. Here is a new function by Monari et al. Thanks @monari_luca!
6
5
106
12,198
Our last podcast of the year with @kdunnresearch is out! Find out how she crossed length scales from terahertz spectroscopy to biological nanotechnology and preparing students for the challenges of modern science. Available on all major feeds! podcast.molpi.gs/media/dunn-…
2
4
1,546
This week is our final “Revisiting the Classics” journal club! Everything in the last 6 weeks has been leading up to this point: Fu and Seeman’s famous 1993 paper “DNA Double Crossover Structures”. Sign up here for either the Tuesday or Thursday sessions: forms.gle/GMX51yBMxCj9DM9x9
No journal club this week due to the Thanksgiving holiday. This lil piggy suggests pigging out to build up your energy for next week where we will be discussing the final paper in this session (finally, double crossover tiles!)
1
On the most recent episode of the @molpigs_ podcast, @erika_alden_d talked about #bioautomation, #spacescience, and #proteinengineering. Want to hear about the place of robots in modern laboratories & the feasibility of cloud laboratories in making science more accessible? 🧵⬇️
1
3
4
This week in the Molpigs journal club we’ll be discussing “Synthetic DNA Knots and Catenanes”, which forms the theoretical basis for the different types of DNA tiles and wireframe structures! Sign up here for either the Tuesday or Thursday group: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F…
1
1
2
Due to conference travel, we’re slightly switching up the hosts for this week. Tuesday will be with @floppleton and Javier, while @Julie_Finkel and @crystalxyz have Thursday.
1
For our next journal club, we’re tackling the first experimental paper of this series: “DNA junctions, antijunctions, and mesojunctions”! We’ll be discussing how these experiments led to the development of DNA tiles and beyond. Signup for a session here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F…
1
1
Like usual, the Tuesday session will be led by @crystalxyz and @floppleton while the Thursday session will be led by @Julie_Finkel and Javier Cabello García
1
1
For this week's journal club we'll be discussing Ned's classic sequence design paper, "De Novo Design of Sequences for Nucleic Acid Structural Engineering" Join @crystalxyz and @floppleton on Tuesday or @Julie_Finkel on Thursday. Signups here: forms.gle/yKYKhEPa1YTAFfRT7
New podcast alert! On the latest episode of the Molpigs Podcast we talk with @erika_alden_d about her scientific journey and the future of cloud laboratories and bioautomation for developing new biomolecular capabilities. podcast.molpi.gs/media/deben…
This week in the Molpigs reading group we'll be discussing Ned's 1988 paper, "Physical Models for Exploring DNA Topology". Sign up at the form below for either the Tuesday (with @floppleton and @crystalxyz ) or Thursday (with @Julie_Finkel) session! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F…
2
3
This week in the Molpigs Reading Group we will be continuing our series on classic Ned Seeman papers with his 1987 paper, "A Self-Assembling Molecular-Scale Memory Device!" The two sessions will be Oct 18th at 19:00 UTC and Oct 20th at 16:00 UTC Signup link in next tweet!
1
4
The Tuesday session will once again be hosted by @crystalxyz and @floppleton and the Thursday session by @Julie_Finkel and Javier Cabello García. We're changing to a simpler form for signup after some difficulties with Eventbrite last week: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F…
Join our reading group « Revisiting the classics » around the work of Ned Seeman! We’ll start next Thursday by the famous « Nucleic acid junctions and lattices » 🧬
Replying to @molpigs_
Thursday, Oct 14, 14:00 GMT hosted by @Julie_Finkel and Javier Cabello García (special thanks to them for stepping up so we could host two sessions!) eventbrite.co.uk/e/molpigs-r…
5
10
Our reading group, "Revisiting the Classics" starts next week! We will be have two sessions on Ned Seeman's legendary 1982 paper, one on Tuesday at 19:00 GMT and the other Thursday at 14:00 GMT. Sign up at one of the Eventbrite links in the comments! Space is limited.
1
7
Thursday, Oct 14, 14:00 GMT hosted by @Julie_Finkel and Javier Cabello García (special thanks to them for stepping up so we could host two sessions!) eventbrite.co.uk/e/molpigs-r…
1
1
3