Founder & CEO at @SwitchBioworks 🧬🦠 @Stanford Bioengineering PhD🥼Beekeeper 🐝 Homebrewer🍺 Author 📖
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This week, Switch welcomes @sarahejoe 🎉🥼to the Switchforce! Having studied plant science 🌱 with a concentration in breeding and genetics 🧬 at the University of Florida, Sarah is excited to grow and challenge herself with our R&D team + learn the ins and outs of a #startup.
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At Switch, we care deeply about building an inclusive company that we love coming in for every day and feel like we belong. At our off-site in Tahoe, we grew together tighter as a #team and practiced our #values in team-designed workshops, presentations and activities. 🍾🎊🌱🦠
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The Switch Bioworks team now has roots in every continent! (Except Antarctica - but I hear they don’t use a lot of fertilizer down there). Welcome another Tim to the Switchforce!
We’re excited to welcome Tim Haskett to the team! 🎉 An expert in engineering plant-microbe interactions for sustainable agriculture 🦠🌱🌽, Tim is originally from Australia and was most recently a research fellow with Phil Poole at the University of Oxford in the UK.
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Tim Schnabel retweeted
@SwitchBioworks to Combat the Food Crisis in Africa with New Partnership and $1.5m Grant from @KingPhilanthrop 🎉🌱🌽
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Honored to be recognized by Forbes 30 under 30 for the work we are doing @SwitchBioworks for social impact! 🌱🎊🎉 Sustainable agriculture is a cornerstone of future society - with #bioengineering the opportunities are endless! forbes.com/profile/tim-schna…
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Tim Schnabel retweeted
Join us on Wed Nov 9th from 5:30-7pm for a discussion panel + happy hour with Venture Capitalists, Founders and Opinion Leaders in biotech fields beyond healthcare: food, agriculture, materials, and more! This event is co-hosted by @iendeavors. RSVP here: tinyurl.com/SynBioPanel2022
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Excited about building @SwitchBioworks faster than expected! We’re all-in on #bioengineering our #sustainable tomorrow! Now with more funding to support us 🎉🚀
@SwitchBioworks increases pre-seed capital to $6.6M to support rapid growth 🎉. Re-raise comes on heels of macroeconomic climate tech tailwinds 🌍, fueling progress towards biofertilizer research and development milestones 🧬🦠 and team expansion 🥼 switchbioworks.com/news
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Tim Schnabel retweeted
We need a predictable regulatory path for gene edited microbes 🧬🦠Consensus from policymakers and stakeholders, @EPA @USDA @US_FDA, NGOs, and academics discussed at the National Academy of Science in DC last week. #biotechnology #regulation #ClimateAction
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Glad to have you at @SwitchBioworks after securing your O-1 extraordinary ability visa to work in the US biotech industry :) 🧬
@SwitchBioworks is happy to welcome @samaddars as Microbiome Scientist II 🥼🦠. Originally from India and recently a Postdoc at @ucdavis, Dr. Samaddar is an expert in designing #sustainable agricultural management practices 🌱 for boosting the #soilmicrobiome and #soilhealth.
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Amongst others, this Executive Order is calling for precise genetic circuits to control bioengineered products 🧬 which will improve performance (@SwitchBioworks) and safety! 🎉🌱
Executive Order on Advancing Biotechnology and Biomanufacturing Innovation for a Sustainable, Safe, and Secure American Bioeconomy - The White House whitehouse.gov/briefing-room…
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Welcome Elizabeth, who is bringing her triathlete intensity to our laboratory benches at @SwitchBioworks
@SwitchBioworks welcomes Elizabeth Ordeman as our newest Research Associate! 🎉 She not only has a B.S. in #genetics and #plantbiology and a M.Eng in #bioengineering from @UCBerkeley, but is also qualified for World Triathlon Championships 🚴♂️🥼🦠
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If getting to the center of a 10 ft tall corn field were an Olympic sport, @hunterdstone would be the coach, hands down. Good to be working with @FBNFarmers (cheers also to Matt Meisner) to find microbial chassis for our next-generation biofertilizer platform @SwitchBioworks 🧬🌱
We are excited at @SwitchBioworks to be working with @FBNFarmers, especially Matt Meisner and @hunterdstone, who have been leveraging their #datascience-driven understanding of #soiltypes and #agronomy across millions of acres to hone some of our #bioprospecting efforts🌽🦠
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Doug Cameron and Jim Swartz bring decades of experience scaling life sciences start-ups as we accelerate development of sustainable next-generation nitrogen fertilizer at @SwitchBioworks - honored to have them on the Board of Directors! 🧬🥂🦠🌎
Excited to announce today that joining our Board of Directors are two biotech pioneers: Doug Cameron, former Chief Scientist at @Cargill , @khoslaventures CSO, and @Stanford Professor James R. Swartz, founder of @SutroBio and @GreenLightBio1
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“Earth is a spaceship I dedicate my life to saving” - that’s what we’re doing at @SwitchBioworks - great to have you join us from NASA, Tomasz @ebeneben1
Tomasz Zajkowski @ebeneben1 is joining @SwitchBioworks strain engineering today. Originally from Poland, Tomasz has a PhD and Postdoc in #Biotechnology 🧬🦠🧪. Before #switching, he was a Research Scientist at NASA @USRAedu 🥼🚀
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Theres no point in having the best genetic engineering strategy, if you don’t also put it into the best microbe for the job.
On the hunt for a-maize-ing nitrogen fixing microbes to #bioengineer with our @SwitchBioworks crew and some incredible farmers in Iowa!
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Very cool synbio work from the Church lab
2013 resistance to many viruses.
2022 resistance to all natural viruses.
The method should work for any host.
biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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Tim Schnabel retweeted
Thrilled to share a new paper from the @HowardYChang lab in @NatureBiotech, co-led with Robert Chen! We systematically engineer circular RNAs for stronger translation, boosting yields >200-fold and enabling potent and durable protein production in vivo 1/
nature.com/articles/s41587-0…
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Welcome Dan Naylor, our founding Microbiome Scientist.
Today Dan Naylor starts as Founding Scientist @SwitchBioworks. With two postdocs of experience from @BerkeleyLab and @PNNLab in microbiome science and sustainable ag, Dan is here for some serious microbe-managing 😅🦠🧪!
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