August O. Staubus

This study engineers ligand-activated splicing ribozymes (LASRs) using domain insertion and high-throughput screening, showing their functionality across multiple kingdoms and applications in genetic regulation and information recording.

The paper uses synthetic RNA to store and detect information in microbial communities through rRNA sequencing, revealing differences in information storage across variants.

This paper introduces RENDR, a system that uses RNA to control protein outputs by splicing split ribozymes, demonstrating detection of antibiotic resistance in bacteria.