Some fun pictures from our celebration lunch and cake for three amazing lab members! Emily Jepsen Acramul Haque Kabir Travis Seamons

Congratulations to Emily Jepsen for successfully passing her MS project! You know it's a good sign when the student and PI dress the same! 🤣. There are many amazing things about Emily. Her project, ambition, and hard work are just the start of describing her.

Just got off a game to receive these messages from a previous teammate whom I have never met before.

I'm frustrated at the unkindness, but even more frustrated by the lack of tools to report such behavior.

Pokémon UNITE Your users need better tools to advocate for their safety.

I love being with these folks ☺️

It’s back by popular demand!

We gave away these U landscape masks in the spring, and they were such a hit we made some more.

If you want an iconic #UofU campus scene for your face mask repertoire (perhaps for fall break travels) retweet this and we’ll send one out.

Homemade alpha helices

I'm very happy to share an early online version of a review with one of my very talented PhD students, Shwan Javdan. We ❤️ #SynBio and #engineeringreceptors authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S24…

I'm excited to share my first 1st-author publication, an open-access review paper on the design and development of engineered receptors for cell and tissue engineering! Big shoutout to my fantastic mentor Dr. Tara Deans (she/her) and my labmates The Deans Lab! sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

.Travis Seamons Jonathan Emmons Shwan Javdan Dr. Tara Deans (she/her) and co in the The Deans Lab demonstrate regulation of prokaryotic gene expression using a eukaryotic transcriptional activator

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Check out the story on our new paper! In the picture I'm showing Travis Seamons how cool loading dye is! 😀 coe.utah.edu/2021/07/08/syn… The Deans Lab Jonathan Emmons Shwan Javdan UtahBME

I'm so happy to share this exciting work! We have reversed the current trend of moving genetic parts from prokaryotes to eukaryotes and show that an activating eukaryotic transcription factor can control gene expression in bacteria. rdcu.be/cnKP3

This transcription factor & its corresponding DNA binding sequence can be moved to bacteria to introduce transcriptional activation and tight off states! I'm so proud of this team! CodyMacDonald Travis Seamons Jonathan Emmons Shwan Javdan The Deans Lab UtahBME

The amazing Dr. Tara Deans (she/her) recommended this documentary. It. Is. Amazing. Everyone needs to watch this and ask themselves how they can be part of the solution, not the problem. I want every woman scientist to know I stand with them.
#WomenInSTEM
#WomenInScience

The perfect bouquet for Valentine's Day 💐

Naming my ligations might be my favorite part of cloning 😄

Please join us for the Virtual International Mammalian Synthetic Biology Workshop (Dec. 7-8, 2020) by submitting an abstract here: aiche.confex.com/aiche/vmsbw20/…… and registering here: mammalian-synbio.org/2020/registrat…….

It's possible to be a 'serious researcher' and:
-jump up and down at an exciting result
-tell a funny story or joke in your seminar
-care about the people you do research with

Bringing your real self to your research means you care, not that you're not rigorous.

When your PI leaves smiles for you to find, it puts a smile on your face (well, behind your mask) 😊

I want to grow bacteria like this!