News
3/14/23
Behind the science: meet the faces of the lab!
The Lab
February 1, 2023
Big smiles from the lab's first solo lab meeting!
Abby, Sara, Ben, Leo, Amanda, and Sarah (from left to right)!
Social
January 10, 2023
The lab welcomes Amanda with members of the Cress Lab!
Leo, Sarah, Kate, Amanda, Ben, and Brady (from left to right).
The Lab
January 9, 2023
Amanda Alker joins the lab as a postdoctoral researcher. She will be developing microbial community editing techniques and applying them to new systems (such as plant-root microbiomes!).
A picture of Amanda.
Social
December 14, 2022
The Rubin Lab holds its first annual holiday dinner with friends from the Cress Lab! (Also, check out our Twitter launch!)
Great food and good company!
Media
October 4, 2022
A $2.5 million gift from the Shurl and Kay Curci Foundation supports BiomeForge's research efforts on developing microbiome editing technology.
The Lab
September 26, 2022
The Rubin Lab takes its first group photo featuring all the members of the lab!
Abby, Sara, Ben and Leo (from left to right)!
The Lab
August 23, 2022
Abby Wang joins the Rubin Lab as an undergraduate graphic designer and researcher, designing this website and working on other graphical tasks!
A picture of Abby.
The Lab
August 2, 2022
The Rubin Lab sets up its first lab space at the Innovative Genomics Institute Building!
The Rubin Lab space at the IGIB!
The Lab
August 1, 2022
The Rubin Lab starts at UC Berkeley, focusing on the applications of microbiome editing. Its first members are Ben Rubin, Leo Song, and Sara Smith!
Leo, Ben, and Sara (from left to right)!
Media
July 26, 2022
A fantastic article featuring Ben and colleagues discussing the experimental process and how they employ CRISPR to edit gut microbiomes.
Media
May 17, 2022
A toolkit for microbial community editing, by Susannah G. Tringe | Nature Reviews Microbiology
An article detailing how microbial community editing works and its current status in research.
Media
February 18, 2022
A conversation with Ben, Brady Cress, and Spencer Diamond on how microbiomes can be edited, the strategies, and its applications for future research.
Media
December 13, 2021
Genome editing in complex microbial communities, by Immy Mobley | Front Line Genomics
Front Line Genomics covers the new findings and strategies characterized by Ben and colleagues to edit genomes of microorganisms in microbial communities as published in Nature Microbiology.
Media
December 8, 2021
CRISPR editing within microbial communities, by Linda Koch | Nature Reviews Genetics
A research highlight detailing how the editing approaches ET-seq (environmental transformation sequencing) and DART (DNA-editing all-in-one RNA-guided CRISPR–Cas transposase) were developed and are currently being applied to edit microbiomes.
Media
December 6, 2021
DART takes aim at community editing, by Connie W. Y. Ha & Suzanne Devkota | Nature Microbiology
DART (DNA-editing all-in-one RNA-guided CRISPR–Cas transposase), one of the methods used to conduct community editing, is explained.
Media
December 6, 2021
An article from the Innovative Genomics Institute discussing the exciting applications of CRISPR to modify microbiomes. The article goes into depth on Ben, Brady Cress, and Spencer Diamond's work.
Publication Alert
December 6, 2021