Imperial College Centre for Synthetic Biology @IC_CSynBio
An open and interdisciplinary centre for word-leading research at the forefront of synthetic biology. Joined March 2018-
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Very happy that Javi and Rakesh's paper has finally come out in @NatureChemistry (link in reply). We use DNA nanotechnology to implement a synthetic molecular templating system - a minimal analog of the processes that are crucial to assembling complex proteins in the cell.
We're hiring! We have a lab-based PhD position available for UK nationals (supported by DSTL) on persistent computation for sense and record applications: imperial.ac.uk/principles-of-…
Congratulations to Francesca Smith who's work on sequence dependence in RNA/DNA hybrid strand displacement has (finally!) been published.
Kinetic Proofreading Can Enhance Specificity in a Nonenzymatic DNA Strand Displacement Network | Journal of the American Chemical Society pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.10…
Please check out this PostDoc opportunity at Bristol, supervised by @chofski with support from our group at @ImperialBioeng @IC_CSynBio Positions | Research groups | Imperial College London
Self-pigmenting textiles grown from cellulose-producing bacteria with engineered tyrosinase expression go.nature.com/4aDxMCR
Happy to announce the line-up for the 2024 Wellcome Trust Synthetic Biology for Health and Sustainability Conference in Cambridge, UK on 21–23 October. …erences.wellcomeconnectingscience.org/event/syntheti… | What an exciting line-up. Hope you can join us!
Congratulations to Dr Annalise Zouein for successfully defending her PhD today on DNA and RNA based control of mammalian gene expression. Anna was supervised by the brilliant @ceronifranci and was one of Imperial’s first @BioDesignEngCDT students. Very proud of her!
Very pleased to see two of our papers come out today. First, Alicia's work on the use of light-up fluorescent RNA aptamers in synthetic biology, a collaboration with @LedesmaAmaro in @IC_CSynBio :
Congratulations to Francesca Smith, who has posted her article "Strong sequence dependence in RNA/DNA hybrid strand displacement kinetics". biorxiv.org/content/10.110…
Some exciting news - we're looking for a postdoc with experience in experimental chemistry/molecular biology/DNA nanotechnology to work on novel mechanisms for molecular templating in synthetic systems. We are looking to emulate the most important class of process in nature.
Full details of the post can be found here: imperial.ac.uk/jobs/descripti…. @IC_CSynBio @ImperialBioeng
We have a fully funded 2023 entry CDT studentship available: MRes at @IC_CSynbBio followed by 3yr PhD at @UoMMIB with @Micklefield_Lab Engineering microbial cell factories for production of improved anti-infectives. Info here imperial.ac.uk/synthetic-biol… Deadline Monday 17th July!
Exciting synbio seminar tomorrow! 🧬🧬🧬 Enoch Yeung (UCSB) on data-driven approaches to controlling non-model microbes - come join us! 12 pm (BST) In-person (SAF122) or online (register 👇 for the link) Everyone around the globe welcome! eventbrite.co.uk/e/ic-csynb-sem…
My main takeaway though is that she became a Tory, despite a grim early life in Liverpool, because Thatcher gave her family the right to buy their council flat. What would be the equivalent rationale for a young, upwardly mobile woman now? I can't think of anything.
👉 IC-CSynB seminar on 15 June (4pm) 👈 Join to listen Prof Tom Brown (Oxford) on his pioneering work on artificially functionalised nucleic acids! 🧬 Hybrid delivery - RSM 2.28, South Kensington, or register here for online access: shorturl.at/arC19 Everyone welcome!
IC-CSynB Seminar next week - Come listen to Dr Sierin Lim (NTU, Singapore) about bio-upcycling plastics with synbio! 🧬🦠😎 Noon (BST), 26 May 2023 Hybrid (SAF120 & online) Open to everyone around the world! Register here for a free ticket: eventbrite.co.uk/e/ic-csynb-sem…
Fantastic seminar by @nicolabiologist today at IC CSynB! From gene regulation tools to cool pathway engineering projects - inspiring! Thanks 🙏 Nicola!

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