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DNA-level editing of microbial communities for understanding and control.
Overview
  • Microbial communities are major contributors to the uptake and release of greenhouse gasses and are critical regulators of human health; however, efforts to precisely engineer their constituents' DNA are nascent. Our laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley brings DNA-editing tools to microbiomes.

  • In the short term, this approach should provide understanding of the interactions and unstudied organisms within communities.

  • Over the longer term, community editing offers a precise means for controlling microbiomes that are instrumental to our health, agriculture, climate, and industry.

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The Lab

May 8, 2023

Welcoming Sophia Swartz who is joining the Rubin Lab as a graduate student!

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The Lab

May 2, 2023

Huge congratulations to undergraduate researcher Sara Smith who will be attending UCSF’s bioinformatics program later this fall!

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The Lab

April 21, 2023

Congratulations to Abby Wang for receiving a UC Berkeley 2023 Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF)!

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Media

April 17, 2023

The Rubin Lab is excited to be part of IGI's new initiative for developing precision microbiome editing solutions, the recipient of $70M in funding from the Audacious Project.

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Diversity and Belonging

​​The Rubin Lab intentionally cultivates an inclusive, diverse, welcoming, and empathetic lab environment. We recognize that there are historical and institutional structures in science that marginalize under-represented communities. Accordingly, we strive to work consciously to dismantle these structures and foster a diverse community.

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