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Homeworld Academy applications are closing today! Join our free 8-week remote course where early-career bioscientists will learn to identify high-potential climate applications for their biological research.
Apply here by EOD today: homeworld.bio/academy
Cave microbes are a substantial methane sink. A @TrendsMicrobiol Opinion from Sean Bay, Bob Leung, @HomeworldBio, and @sparkclimate proposes enhanced subterranean aerotrophy, a prospective pathway for passive atmospheric methane removal (MR) in caves or mines.
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📣 Deadline extended: applications are still open for the inaugural Homeworld Academy, a free 8-week remote course where early-career bioscientists will learn to identify high-potential climate applications for their biological research.
Apply here by August 25: homeworld.bio/academy
On this episode of The Climate Biotech Podcast, @PaulReginato is joined by @evan_groover, a plant synthetic biologist at MIT's @WhiteheadInst, for a discussion about plant genome editing and how it could enable photosynthesis improvements for more efficient agriculture while sticking to smooth regulatory pathways.
#ClimateBiotech
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Applications are open for the first Homeworld Academy course, "Fundamentals in Biotech Translation and Climate Impact." This fully remote and interactive 8-week course is built around a translation project on your own research, with mentors and guest speakers available to support your learning.
#climatebiotech
Apply by August 18:
homeworld.bio/academy/
We surveyed 130+ people in climate biotech and interviewed 63 of them. We are excited to share the results with our community: an interactive dashboard where you can explore the data, discover what we found, and develop your own conclusions.
View the Climate Biotech Community Survey Dashboard here: survey.homeworld.bio/
On this episode of The Climate Biotech Podcast, @PaulReginato talks with Robbie Wilson, a research scientist at @MIT, about engineering #RuBisCO to improve photosynthesis and build more climate-resilient crops.
#ClimateBiotech
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On this episode of The Climate Biotech Podcast, @PaulReginato talks with Robbie Wilson, a research scientist at @MIT, about engineering RuBisCO to improve photosynthesis and build more climate-resilient crops.
#ClimateBiotech #RuBisCO
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On this episode of The Climate Biotech Podcast, @PaulReginato talks with @hhlee, CEO of Cultivarium, about building genetic tools for non-model organisms and widening the aperture on what biology we can use for applications.
#ClimateBiotech #TheClimateBiotechPodcast
🎧 Apple/Spotify: homeworld.bio/podcast/
On this episode of The Climate Biotech Podcast, @PaulReginato talks with Kiara Reyes Gamas, an environmental synthetic biologist, about tracking horizontal gene transfer in microbial communities and rethinking how we engineer microbes for environmental release.
#ClimateBiotech #TheClimateBiotechPodcast
🎧 Apple/Spotify: homeworld.bio/podcast/
On this episode of The Climate Biotech Podcast, @PaulReginato talks with Eli Hornstein, founder and CEO of Elysia Bio, about engineering feed crops to address methane emissions from livestock, and more.
#ClimateBiotech #TheClimateBiotechPodcast
🎧 Apple/Spotify: homeworld.bio/podcast/
Homeworld's new Biomining Handbook is live: an open resource for biologists and mining professionals to design better projects together.
This includes Mining 101 for biologists, Biology 101 for mining pros, flowsheets, a materials guide, a research roadmap, and more.
#ClimateBiotech #Biomining @ThermoFeyhl
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The microplastics field is quickly evolving. A necessary first step towards building the field is making the research landscape more accessible.
Great work by @Sarah_I_Daniels in shedding light on #microplastics research at a timely moment of new funding for this area.
Microplastics are starting to attract the attention of #biotech. Looking for the latest trends?
I mapped the #microplastics landscape. See who and what got funded and where research overlaps with other pollutants.
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📣 Homeworld’s Pollution Program is spinning out Engineered Resilience, led by @Sarah_I_Daniels, to address an overlooked driver of chronic disease: pollutant exposures. The goal is to translate the signals of pollutant-driven harm into biotech tools to curb chronic disease.
If you’re a funder or builder and want to learn more, please reach out. #Biotech #EngineeredResilience
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📣Methane causes ~30% of global warming, and even with emissions reductions, a gap will remain by 2050. Biological methane removal (bioMR) is one of the most promising frontiers for closing that gap. With @sparkclimate, we convened 30 experts to map the highest-leverage research opportunities, resulting in 22 problem statements.
#ClimateBiotech #BioMethaneRemoval
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⚡️After 30 episodes, Dan Goodwin hosts his final episode of The Climate Biotech Podcast, reflecting on lessons learned and passing the mic to incoming Executive Director, @PaulReginato.
#ClimateBiotech #TheClimateBiotechPodcast
🎧 Apple/Spotify: homeworld.bio/podcast/
🌱 The Homeworld 2025 Annual Impact Report is out! When we connect researchers to high-leverage problems, the right collaborators, and funding resources, they respond with creativity and rigor. See what we've built together.
#ClimateBiotech #AnnualReport
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📣 On the latest episode of the Climate Biotech Podcast, hear how @sandlab is building BIOME Consortia to take biology from thousands to billions of strains for applications.
🎧 Apple: bit.ly/4pZniVH
🎧 Spotify: bit.ly/4qSvhFy
#ClimateBiotech #ClimateBiotechPodcast
Excited to share that we're deploying ~$1.4M to 11 groundbreaking teams through our Greenhouse Gas Removal Garden Grants! Funded projects span from methane-eating microbes on tree surfaces to bio-enhanced rock weathering.
See our announcement: homeworld.bio/blog/announcin…
This marks the execution of our first true Roadmap-Ignite-Fund-Synthesize (RIFS) cycle and the results exceeded our expectations. Our funding hypothesis was simple: surfacing important problems would be mutually reinforcing to funding solutions.
By facilitating collaborative identification of problems that connect researchers to funding we're accelerating research in climate biotech.
Thanks to Garden Grant co-funders @SparkClimate and @granthamcsf, and to Quadrature Climate Foundation for or making this possible through programmatic and regranting support.