Postdoc, Boyden lab, MIT. Synthetic bio, weird microbes, physics. Engineering complex systems with evolution. High-dimensional optimization. Too verbose for twi
Dec 3, 2018 • 15 tweets • 4 min read
So so so so excited to share this!
This preprint summarizes my journey of trying to engineer the brain parasite Toxoplasma gondii to deliver therapeutic proteins into neurons, together with @OdedRechavi and @SheinerLab 1/n biorxiv.org/content/early/…#bioRxiv
You probably heard of Toxoplasma because of the way it cycles between cats and their prey. However, Toxoplasma also infects people. 2/n