Absolutely over the moon to see our work of whole-cell PET plastic bioremediation with engineered bacteria published in its final form!!! authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S... This is a World-Cup-worth 🏆 effort of an amazing team led by Alice Banks, Umar Abdulmutalib and Brooke Wain.

Engineering environmental bacteria for whole-cell PET hydrolysis and assimilation

Poly(ethylene terephthalate) (PET) is one of the most widely used plastics in food and textile applications, yet post-consumer PET waste persists and …

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🚀 Exciting opportunity for early career researchers in Cell & Developmental Biology! 🧪 Open to early career researchers 📈 Focused on supporting independent research careers 📅 Deadline: 31 August 2026 (5pm) 🔗 Learn more and apply: www.ucl.ac.uk/life-science...

Research Career Development Fellowships

We run regular calls inviting expressions of interest from early career researchers who wish to be sponsored for external fellowships to establish an independent research group in CDB.

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We're hiring a postdoctoral researcher in plant genome engineering with expertise in synthetic biology, gene editing, and omics, with an interest in developing next-generation technologies for plants.🪴🧬 Available immediately. If interested, send your CV! Feel free to share with your networks.

I'm hiring for a Research Assistant (pre-PhD) to push forward lab automation and robotics in our group. tinyurl.com/bdh7yjs3

UCL – University College London

UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

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Join us May 14, 6pm at Imperial! 🧫 Design, cloning, & competitive growth screening of CRISPRi and protein variant libraries to study yeast killer toxins Thijs de Vroet (Billerbeck Lab) 🌱 Evolving biological nitrogen fixation with microbial co-cultures Amir Guppy (Isalan Lab) shorturl.at/aGL5M

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London SynBio afterwork talks and networking event on Thursday 14th of May

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My super department @warwicklifesci.bsky.social is hiring 6 assistant profs in the wake of recent retirements. We're looking for people in microbiology/infection, cellular disease / immunity; environmental biology; and plant/crop science. #MicroSky warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/lang-en-G...

Join us Apr. 16 UCL! Removing Host-Induced Bias in Directed Evolution with Cell-Free Ultra-High Throughput Screening Platform Lise Boursinhac (Cambridge) Deciphering Human Gene Biochemistry at Scale Using Synthetic, Homology-Free DNA Josh Mayne (UCL, Imperial) events.humanitix.com/copy-of-lond...

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London SynBio afterwork talks and networking event on Thursday 16th of April

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Our special issue "Biology computes: Information processing across biological scales" Editorial - authors.elsevier.com/a/1moUK3si8Q... Contributions from @drmichaellevin.bsky.social, Chris Barnes, Matthias Függer, Thomas Nowak, @angelgm.eurosky.social - www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...

I’m excited to announce the launch of my lab at EPFL in Jan 2026 🎉. We’ll combine evolution & synthetic biology to study and (re)engineer bacterial communication. I’m recruiting PhD students to start in the first semester of 2026. Apply via EPFL PhD programs by Nov 1 drive.google.com/file/d/1cm-t...

Tom Fayle (www.tomfayle.com/index.htm) and I have a funded PhD project available on the NERC TREES programme to use synthetic microbial communities and agent-based modelling to explore anthropogenic impacts in ecosystems www.trees-dla.ac.uk/projects/exp...

Also our new book came out! It's technically a textbook, but should be a good primer for anyone trying to work out how to understand synbio in society using an approach global.oup.com/ukhe/product... #synbio #engbio #sts #governance

1 week left to apply for a postdoctoral position in my group to lead the experimental component of a 5 year BBSRC project on synthetic microbial communities www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

UCL – University College London

UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

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Alex Fedorec@ajfedorec.bsky.social · 12mo ago

I'm going to be advertising for a few positions in my group in the next couple of months for a big project on synthetic microbial communities. I would love to hear from you if you are interested and I'd also appreciate if everyone could share this far and wide!

Oct. 23, 6pm at UCL 🥳! Excited for: 🧬 Dirk Benzinger (Briscoe Lab) Dissecting and engineering cellular signal processing with synthetic biology and optogenetics 🌍 Brooke Wain (Jimenez Lab) Biocatalytic recycling of plastic: industrial viability and limitations events.humanitix.com/london-synbi...

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London SynBio afterwork talks and networking event on Thursday 23rd of September

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Lost Science is a new NYT series of accounts from scientists who have lost their jobs or funding. You can send your story to the Times here www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/c...

Two postdoc positions with @ajfedorec.bsky.social: one computational and one wetlab, for a 5 year grant on synthetic microbial communities Research Fellow in Computational Synthetic Biology www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/... Research Fellow in Synthetic Biology www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/... #PostDoc

UCL – University College London

UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

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The advert for the second (wetlab) postdoc is now live www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

UCL – University College London

UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

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Alex Fedorec@ajfedorec.bsky.social · 12mo ago

I'm going to be advertising for a few positions in my group in the next couple of months for a big project on synthetic microbial communities. I would love to hear from you if you are interested and I'd also appreciate if everyone could share this far and wide!

🥳Excited to share our latest collaborative work using whole-cell models and #AI to design genomes!🦠🧬 What a time to be alive! Project led by Ioana Gherman, with Kieren Sharma, Joshua Rees-Garbutt, Claire Grierson, Lucia Marucci, Wei Pang & Zahraa Abdallah #synbio authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

🎉 London SynBio Network is back! Join us on 25th of September. 🧬 Surpassing Nature – Metabolic engineering for novel biological CO2 fixation routes Ari Satanowski 💐 Open Flower: designer flowers for art and education Nick Desnoyer ➡️ Register at: events.humanitix.com/london-synbi...

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London SynBio afterwork talks and networking event on Thursday 25th of September

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The advert for the first of these positions (computational/mathematical synbio) is live! www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

UCL – University College London

UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

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Alex Fedorec@ajfedorec.bsky.social · 12mo ago

I'm going to be advertising for a few positions in my group in the next couple of months for a big project on synthetic microbial communities. I would love to hear from you if you are interested and I'd also appreciate if everyone could share this far and wide!

Only 2 days left to submit abstracts and get the early registration discount! #synbio

Biochemical Society@biochemsoc.bsky.social · last yr.

Join us in London for the 10th anniversary of SynBio UK, the premier conference for synthetic and engineering biology. Submit your abstract for consideration as a poster or oral communication and register before 12 September to save £50 🧪 : www.eventsforce.net/biochemsoc/2...

SynBio UK London 2025. Submit your abstract and register before 12 September for earlybird discount.

Biochemical Society@biochemsoc.bsky.social · last yr.

Join us in London for the 10th anniversary of SynBio UK, the premier conference for synthetic and engineering biology. Submit your abstract for consideration as a poster or oral communication and register before 12 September to save £50 🧪 : www.eventsforce.net/biochemsoc/2...

Join us in London for the 10th anniversary of SynBio UK, the premier conference for synthetic and engineering biology. Submit your abstract for consideration as a poster or oral communication and register before 12 September to save £50 🧪 : www.eventsforce.net/biochemsoc/2...

I'm going to be advertising for a few positions in my group in the next couple of months for a big project on synthetic microbial communities. I would love to hear from you if you are interested and I'd also appreciate if everyone could share this far and wide!

#synbio folks, come and join us for the 10th annual Biochemical Society Synthetic Biology UK conference in London this November. www.eventsforce.net/biochemsoc/f...

Join us in London (12-13 November) for the 10th anniversary of SynBio UK, the premier conference for synthetic and engineering biology. Organised this year by @biochemsoc.bsky.social and colleagues at @ucl.ac.uk. www.eventsforce.net/biochemsoc/s... #synbio

Join us Apr. 24th, 6pm @ Imperial Royal School of Mines 🦠 Microbial consortia for plastic upcycling Javier Molpeceres (CIB-CSIC) 🧑‍🔬‍🔬 OpenCloning: a credible Open Source alternative to SnapGene and Benchling that supports automation Dr. Manuel Lera Ramirez (UCL) events.humanitix.com/copy-of-lond...

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London SynBio afterwork talks and networking event on Thursday 24th of April

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This is a really crushing piece on the way in which disability is vilified and the government perspective that productive work is the only thing of moral value www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

There is a shameful tradition of demonising disabled people. Why is Labour reigniting it? | Frances Ryan

Ministers run away from a wealth tax and then concoct a punitive benefits system. They have made that choice and it’s immoral, says Guardian columnist Frances Ryan

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Looking for a #PhD that is at the intersection of #biodesign, #synbio, #openendedness, #evolution? Look no further. Great supervisory team too 😉

My department @ucl-cdb.bsky.social, is looking to hire a lecturer (assistant prof equivalent) in computational cell biology www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

UCL – University College London

UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

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I got reviewer comments back for a big grant today. Is "in E. Coli" going to be the new "in mice" for synthetic biology work? I should say it's a fair comment for my synthetic community work, but this proposal is already so extensive that to then say we'll include more species feels crazy