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Aaron N. Brooks

Genetic Design Group Lead @ Ginkgo Bioworks
Verified email at ginkgobioworks.com
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Adaptation of cells to new environments

AN Brooks, S Turkarslan, KD Beer… - … Systems Biology and …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
The evolutionary success of an organism is a testament to its inherent capacity to keep pace
with environmental conditions that change over short and long periods. Mechanisms …

[PDF][PDF] Debugging and consolidating multiple synthetic chromosomes reveals combinatorial genetic interactions

…, AL Hughes, L Lazar-Stefanita, S Yang, AN Brooks… - Cell, 2023 - cell.com
The Sc2.0 project is building a eukaryotic synthetic genome from scratch. A major milestone
has been achieved with all individual Sc2.0 chromosomes assembled. Here, we describe …

[PDF][PDF] Design, construction, and functional characterization of a tRNA neochromosome in yeast

D Schindler, RSK Walker, S Jiang, AN Brooks, Y Wang… - Cell, 2023 - cell.com
Here, we report the design, construction, and characterization of a tRNA neochromosome, a
designer chromosome that functions as an additional, de novo counterpart to the native …

[HTML][HTML] Macromolecular networks and intelligence in microorganisms

HV Westerhoff, AN Brooks, E Simeonidis… - Frontiers in …, 2014 - frontiersin.org
Living organisms persist by virtue of complex interactions among many components organized
into dynamic, environment-responsive networks that span multiple scales and dimensions…

Transcriptional neighborhoods regulate transcript isoform lengths and expression levels

AN Brooks, AL Hughes, S Clauder-Münster, LA Mitchell… - Science, 2022 - science.org
Sequence features of genes and their flanking regulatory regions are determinants of RNA
transcript isoform expression and have been used as context-independent plug-and-play …

A system‐level model for the microbial regulatory genome

AN Brooks, DJ Reiss, A Allard, WJ Wu… - Molecular systems …, 2014 - embopress.org
Microbes can tailor transcriptional responses to diverse environmental challenges despite
having streamlined genomes and a limited number of regulators. Here, we present data‐…

On the highway measures of driver glance behavior with an example automobile navigation system

DP Chiang, AM Brooks, DH Weir - Applied ergonomics, 2004 - Elsevier
An over-the-road study of visual–manual destination entry using an example original
equipment GPS-based navigation system was accomplished in traffic on urban streets and …

[HTML][HTML] Data-driven integration of genome-scale regulatory and metabolic network models

S Imam, S Schäuble, AN Brooks, NS Baliga… - Frontiers in …, 2015 - frontiersin.org
Microbes are diverse and extremely versatile organisms that play vital roles in all ecological
niches. Understanding and harnessing microbial systems will be key to the sustainability of …

[HTML][HTML] Deep mutational scanning of essential bacterial proteins can guide antibiotic development

L Dewachter, AN Brooks, K Noon, C Cialek… - nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Deep mutational scanning is a powerful approach to investigate a wide variety of research
questions including protein function and stability. Here, we perform deep mutational scanning …

Disrupting the ArcA regulatory network amplifies the fitness cost of tetracycline resistance in Escherichia coli

…, V Srinivas, A Dash, SRC Immanuel, AN Brooks… - Msystems, 2023 - Am Soc Microbiol
There is an urgent need for strategies to discover secondary drugs to prevent or disrupt
antimicrobial resistance (AMR), which is causing >700,000 deaths annually. Here, we …