Julia Borden

TL;DR: In this article, a flexible modelling framework is developed to systematically probe any arbitrary selection strategy on any arbitrary set of communities and selected functions, and a range of alternative directed evolution strategies that are well suited for the top-down engineering of large, diverse and stable microbial consortia.

TL;DR: Carboxysomes are CO2-fixing protein compartments present in all cyanobacteria and some proteobacteria as mentioned in this paper, and are attractive candidates for carbon assimilation bioengineering because they concentrate carbon, allowing the fixation reaction to occur near its maximum rate, and because they self-assemble in diverse organisms with a set of standard biological parts.

TL;DR: This work examines the fundamental limits of the two main breeding methods used so far, and identifies a range of directed evolution strategies that are better suited for the top-down engineering of large, diverse, and stable microbial consortia.

TL;DR: In this paper , an improved ISABEL trap was proposed that incorporates a near-infrared scatter illumination beam and rapidly interleaves 405 and 488 nm fluorescence excitation reporter beams.

TL;DR: In this paper , an improved Interferometric Scattering Anti-Brownian ELectrokinetic (ISABEL) trap is proposed to track the position of a single nanoparticle via its scattering of a near-infrared beam and applies feedback to counteract its Brownian motion.