Inspiring ICBS Global Lectureship Award lecture by Peng Chen at #ICBS2026.

He gave exciting insights into the power of genetic code expansion to better understand PTMs and to enable new chemistry in living cells.

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#Protein #PTM #ChemBio #ChemSky #GeneticCodeExpansion

A cold-adapted enzyme beats standard genetic code expansion systems.

Our “Cold-OTS” enables efficient multi-site ncAA incorporation - even at low concentrations and reduced temperatures.
Psychrophiles are an underexplored resource for synthetic biology.

#GeneticCodeExpansion #PsychrophilicEnzymes

🎉 Jose Javier Vázquez Rodríguez is joining us this July as an EMBO fellow!

He'll use light to control gene expression in zebrafish and combine that with the RoLiLab's imaging to see what individual neurons do. 🧠🐟

Excited to have him on board! 👏

#Zebrafish #Optogenetics #GeneticCodeExpansion

The Review is titled “Genetic encoding of multiple distinct noncanonical amino acids” from Wei Yu, Yu Fang, Shixian Lin, Wenlong Ding.

#GeneticCodeExpansion #GCE #SyntheticBiology #OrthogonalTranslation #ncAA

📝 Online now - the Review "Chemical biology approaches for protein tagging in mammalian cells" from Kaitlyn Toy, Jenna Beyer, and @gburslem.bsky.social.

#SelfLabelingProteinTags #GeneticCodeExpansion #ncAAs #SplitInteins #SpatiotemporalControl

Read it here 👉 authors.elsevier.com/a/1mRdq3S6Gf...

Amazing talk by @janavolaric.bsky.social from our Molecular Physiology Department and @led3hub.bsky.social at #KNCVMCCB2026. She talked about her postdoctoral research in the Ed Tate lab into optical control of S-acyltransferase activity in mammalian cells.

#ChemSky #ChemBio #GeneticCodeExpansion