NEWS ARCHIVE

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• Nov 2024: Koray and Ivy's review paper on BC-based ELMs is live at ACS Synthetic Biology

• Oct 2024: Tom is chairing the 2nd Synthetic Biology for Health and Sustainability Conference in Hinxton, UK

• Sept 2024: Koray gives a selected talk at the International ELMs meeting in Saarbrucken, Germany 

• Aug 2024: Alison's review paper on nucleic acid delivery by bacteria is live at Trends in Biotechnology

• July 2024: Fankang's preprint on toolkits for yeast multicellularity is now up on BioRxiv

• June 2024: Tom is Keynote speaker at the SEED 2024 synthetic biology conference in Atlanta, USA 

• May 2024: Tom has been appointed to the UK government's Engineering Biology Steering Group

• Apr 2024: Tom was called to give evidence to the House of Lords enquiry on Engineering Biology

• Mar 2024: Tom is presenting to Newcastle Engineering Biology Community on March 21st 

• Feb 2024: We've won an exiting new £2M Mission Award grant to develop sustainable materials with biology

• Jan 2024: We're kicking off the year with a new generative genomics team added to the group

• Dec 2023: Saying a sad farewell to Klaudia, Linde and Anastasiya who move to cool jobs

• Nov 2023: Ben paper on Synthetic Chromosome XI of yeast is now out in Cell Genomics

• Oct 2023: Will Shaw's amazing MYT system for yeast engineering is out in ACS SynBio

• Sept 2023: Fankang's write-up of a recent minimal cell paper has been published in GEN Biotech

• Aug 2023: Xinyu has been selected to talk at the Swiss-UK Synthetic Biology Conference

• July 2023: Welcoming Alex Van de Steen as a new postdoc in our group

• June 2023: Anastasiya wins the poster prize at the Metabolic Engineering 15 Conference in Singapore 

• May 2023: We are hosting the NextSkins ELMs project meeting in London on May 25

• Apr 2023: Ivy Li joins the group to start her PhD on bacterial cellulose materials

• Mar 2023: Tom is chairing the 1st Synthetic Biology for Future Health Conference in Hinxton, UK

• Feb 2023: Marcus' preprint on engineering light-controlled melanin biosynthesis in BC is online

• Jan 2023: Mateo has won a 7 year Wellcome Trust Fellowship - congratulations!

• Dec 2022: Our 5 year European collaborative ELMs project NextSkins has launched

• Nov 2022: Tom is co-hosting the Royal Society meeting on Cell Mimicry

• Oct 2022: Tom and Stacey are both presenting at ArcInTex at Newcastle University

• Sept 2022: Joaquin's paper on improving BC-based ELM compression mechanics is published

• Aug 2022: Congratulations to Dr Amrit and Dr Lucie who both passed their PhD viva exams

• July 2022: Klaudia, Anna, Anastasiya, Mateo and Linde will be at the Mammalian Synbio Workshop in Edinburgh

• June 2022: Our new materials collaboration with CSM, FENDI and LVMH begins

• May 2022: Tom is presenting at the Microbial Foods Conference, Copenhagen

• April 2022: Xinyu has been selected to talk at SEED 2022 next month!

• Mar 2022: Joaquin's summary of a recent ELMs paper is published in Nature Chemical Biology

• Feb 2022: Welcoming visting researchers Maria and Pedro to the group

• Jan 2022: Our fabulous new postdoc Linde has joined us from VIB Gent

• Dec 2021: Tom is presenting at the Biodesign Research annual online conference 

• Nov 2021: Viv's KTK system for modular cloning in acetobacter has been published in ACS Synthetic Biology.

• Oct 2021: Xinyu and Anastasiya have been selected for talks at the 5th Annual GP-Write Meeting.

• Sept 2021: We are welcoming two new postdocs to the group: Stacey from Oxford and Klaudia from DSM

• Aug 2021: Joaquin's paper on 3D materials from bacterial cellulose spheroids is published in Nature Communications

• July 2021: Ming and Olivia's paper on Ten Future Advances for Synbio is published in IET Engineering Biology

• June 2021: Anastasiya is presenting her project at the 2021 Salk Cell Cycle Meeting on the 23rd

• May 2021: Marcus successfully defended his PhD on Engineering Cellulose Producing Bacteria

• April 2021: Tom will be giving the weekly seminar at IATA-CSIC, Valencia on the 23rd

• March 2021: Tom is at Working with Life: Practices, Processes & Approaches to Biological Design at the Royal College of Art

• Feb 2021: Annalise's review of mammalian synbio cloning kits is out now in Trends in Biotechnology

• Jan 2021: Our big paper on Engineered Living Materials grown from Kombucha co-cultures is out in Nature Materials

• Dec 2020: Fabio and Anastasiya both publish reviews in a special issue of Current Opinion in Systems Biology

• Nov 2020: After 6 amazing years Will Shaw is leaving our lab to head to the Khalil lab at BU. Thanks Will!

• Oct 2020: Fankang and Tom have written about the last decade of synthetic biology for Nature Communications

• Sept 2020: Tom is presenting at Wellcome Trust's CRISPR and Beyond conference on the 24th 

• Aug 2020: Glen Gowers successfully defended his PhD thesis. Congrats Glen!

• July 2020: Tom will be giving a Bioengineering Dept COVID-19 talk on engineered yeast in the pandemic

• June 2020: Joaquin's bioRxiv preprint on bacterial cellulose spheroids is now online

• May 2020: Tom will be presenting research online on the 18th for the SynBio Oxford Society

• Apr 2020: Our lab is closed for everything except our emergency work assisting a VLP vaccine project

• Mar 2020: Tom will be presenting at VIBes 2020 in Leuven, Belgium

• Feb 2020: Glen's paper on using Rapid LCMS on synthetic yeast genome libraries is now published

• Jan 2020: The lab is celebrating our 10 year anniversary this month

• Dec 2019: Will is presenting his research in Edinburgh at the UK Pharmacology 2019 meeting  

• Nov 2019: Glen's paper on LA-REIMS mass spec screening of colonies is published in ACS SynBio

• Oct 2019: Viv, Tom and Joaquin are all talking at the 4th International Symposium on Bacterial Nanocellulose in Porto

• Sept 2019: Tom will be lecturing in Germany at the EMBO Practical Course - Synthetic Biology in Action 

• Aug 2019: Rodrigo is leaving us to set up his own research lab in our department at Imperial College

• July 2019: Tom is speaking on yeast synthetic genomes at the 2019 FEMS Congress

• June 2019: Tom's essay on Synthetic Genomics is now published in The Biochemist

• May 2018: Tom and Viv are both presenting at the DSTL synthetic biology for materials showcase at F1 Williams, Oxford

• April 2019: Will's paper on engineering yeast to enable GPCR signalling pathway tuning is now published in Cell

• March 2019: Alice's review paper on Host-Aware Synthetic Biology is now published in Current Opinions

• Feb 2019: Tom will be presenting on engineering biosynthesis and materials at Bioprosp_19 in Tromso, Norway.

• Jan 2019: Charlie's exciting review paper on Bioengineered Living Materials is published in ACS Synthetic Biology

• Dec 2018: Ben's education paper on our 2016 Synthetic Yeast Summer Course is published and now online.

• Nov 2018: Tom will be giving talks at Chulalongkorn University and VISTEC Institutes in Thailand and at the 7th IYSGC meeting in Sydney, Australia

• Oct 2018: We've now published our work on design of modular hairpin structures for tuning yeast translation tuning yeast translation

• Sep 2018: Glen's work on automating yeast multigene assembly with the London DNA Foundry is published in SLAS Technology

• Aug 2018: We have FOUR preprints up on BioRXiv from our work - feel free to send us your comments on these: GPCR Signal Tuning, Psilocybin biosynthesis, Cell-signalling in bacterial cellulose, Geobacillus HGT

• July 2018: Tom is back in London in time to see Charlie successfully defend his PhD thesis - congrats Dr Gilbert!

• June 2018: Ben's paper on using synthetic yeast chromosome SCRaMbLE for metabolic engineering projects is published in Nature Communications with a Nature News & Views also covering the work

• May 2018: Olivier's paper on burden prediction using cell lysate measurements is published in Nature Communications

• Apr 2018: Francesca and Alice's paper on Burden-driven feedback control of gene expression is published in Nature Methods.

• Mar 2018: George's two papers on engineering yeast filamentous growth switching and inducible mother-specific expression are published in Communications Biology and PLoS One.

• Feb 2018: Tom is on sabbatical until summer at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, USA

• Jan 2018: Tom is presenting at VIB's 3rd Annual Genome Engineering and Synthetic Biology conference in Bruges, Belgium on Jan 25th.

• Dec 2017: A synthetic biology special issue of Current Opinion in Chemical Biology edited by Tom and Mike Jewett is now out.

• Nov 2017: Charlie and Rodrigo will both be presenting at SBUK 2017 in Manchester

• Oct 2017: Tom and Olivier will both be presenting at CRI Paris' 10Y iGEM even

• Sep 2017: Welcome Dr. Rodrigo Ledesma-Amaro, who will run his IC Research Fellowship from our group.

• Aug 2017: Our latest work on burden is up on BioRxiv – exciting preprints from Olivier and Francesca

• July 2017: Charlie and Viv will be attending the Synthetic Biology Gordon Conference in Maine, USA.

• June 2017: Olivier, Ben, Will, Marcus and Glen will all be presenting posters at SB7.0 in Singapore, while George will be presenting his poster at SEED 2017 in Vancouver.

• May 2017: Ali's paper on Penicillin Biosynthesis in Yeast is published in Nature Communications.

• Apr 2017: Tom, Glen, Marcus & George will all be attending SynBioBeta UK 2017

• Mar 2017: Charlie's ACS SynBio paper on Programming Extracellular Protein Conjugates is online

• Feb 2017: Tom will be at the Royal Society on Feb 8th for Synthetic Biology: Does Industry Get It?

• Jan 2017: Saying goodbye to Maureen, Rob and Dr Tim - thanks for all the great work.

• Dec 2016: Viv, Glen, Marcus & Tom will all be at the IET Synthetic Biology Conference

• Nov 2016: Olivier & Tom will be at the SBUK 2016 Conference in Edinburgh.

• Oct 2016: The ACS Synthetic Biology in Europe Special Edition is out.

• Sep 2016: All change - saying goodbye and thanks to Carlos, Ben Reeve, Alicia, Jack and Sabine.

• Aug 2016: Olivier & Franci's Current Opinions review on Burden & Resource Use is published

• July 2016: Ben Reeve's paper on a Modular Toolkit for Thermophile Synthetic Biology is out

• June 2016: Ben & Maureen's GC-Preps Genomic DNA protocol paper is out in Scientific Reports

• May 2016: Ali & Will's review on Natural Product Biosynthesis is now online in ADDR

• Apr 2016: We've been awarded an EPSRC/DSTL grant to make awesome materials by Synthetic Biology

• Mar 2016: Tom will be attending to Society for General Microbiology Annual Conference in Liverpool on the 23rd

• Feb 2016: Ben Blount will be presenting at the Applied Synthetic Biology in Europe conference in Lisbon on the 24th

• Jan 2016: Our student Michael Florea won 1st prize in Young Estonia Scientist of the Year

• Dec 2015: Tom is presenting at the Pearl Seiden conference in Haifa and at IHES in Paris

• Nov 2015: Tom will be presenting at the Royal Society/NAS Sackler Forum Meeting on Synthetic Biology on the 16th

• Oct 2015: The YouTube video of Tom's World Economic Forum talk in Dalian, China is now online to watch.

• Sep 2015: Ben, Francesca, Charlie, Will and Tom will all be presenting at Synthetic Biology UK 2015 in London Sept 1-3

• Sep 2015: Ben, Francesca, Charlie, Will and Tom will all be presenting at Synthetic Biology UK 2015 in London Sept 1-3

• Aug 2015: Tom will be attending the YEASTCELL Summer School in Frankfurt this month.

• Jul 2015:Dejana, Tom and Rob are presenting at the 2015 Synthetic Genomes Conference in New York on the 16th.

• Jun 2015: Our paper on DNA Assembly Methods and Standards is out in Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology

• May 2015: Check out the recap of our recent PLoS SynBio webchat

• Apr 2015: Francesca & Rhys' paper on measuring burden and optimising constructs design is online at Nature Methods

• Mar 2015: Our work on engineered yeast was presented to BBSRC CEO Jackie Hunter & UK Chief Scientist Mark Wolpert and will be presented at BYG2015 on March 26

• Feb 2015: Both Arturo and Elena passed their PhD vivas. Well done guys!

• Jan 2015: Francesca presents on 26th at Lorentz Centre workshop on Integrative Cell Models

• Dec 2014: Ben Reeve is presenting Aqualose at Biofabricate in New York

• Nov 2014: Our awesome iGEM team Aqualose is 2nd best in the world. Congratulations!

• Oct 2014: Welcoming 3 lab new members: Charlie Gilbert, Will Shaw and Robert Chen.

• Sep 2014: Ben Reeve's book chapter on Synthetic Biology & Bioluminescence is out

• Aug 2014: Dejana's paper on the Sc2.0 synthetic yeast project is in Bioessays

• Jul 2014: Francesca and Tom are both speakers at the SEED2014 Conference in L.A. on 15th July.

• Jun 2014: Ollie's GeneGuard Plasmid System paper is published inACS Synthetic Biology.

• May 2014: Tom has been awarded a prestigious EPSRC Engineering Fellowship from 2015 to 2020.

• Apr 2014: The SB6.0 Issue of ACS Synthetic Biology is now out, edited by Tom and Yizhi Cai.

• Mar 2014: Arturo's paper on R2o DNA Designer Software is out in ACS Synthetic Biology

• Feb 2014: Read about how our Sc2.0 project is a landmark in UK genomics research.

• Jan 2014: Arturo and Tom will both be speaking at the Symposium on Synthetic Biology on Jan 10th.

• Dec 2013: Tom Ellis will be the guest speaker at the Henrietta Barnett School on Dec 17th.

• Nov 2013: Tom, Francesca and Ollie will all be attending Towards Next Generation Synthetic Biology in Warwick

• Oct 2013: Arturo's paper on modular overlap DNA assembly is published in Nucleic Acids Research

• Sep 2013: Rhys's model that captures translation burden is now up on ArXiv QBio

• Aug 2013: Our paper on Spinach RNA aptamer for characterising gene expression is now out in ACS Synthetic Biology

• Jul 2013: We are looking forward to welcoming the synthetic biology world to Imperial for the SB6.0 Conference and the 2nd annual synthetic yeast genome meeting.

• Jun 2013: Our PNAS paper from our collaboration with Xiao Wang's lab at ASU is published

• May 2013: Tom Ellis will be speaking at the GARNET Synthetic Biology workshop on May 22nd.

• Apr 2013: Ollie's review on Building-in Biosafety for Synthetic Biology is published online in Microbiology.

• Mar 2013: Ben Blount and Tom Ellis will be speaking at the British Yeast Group Meeting, Nottingham, Mar 20th.

• Feb 2013: Welcoming Joshua Smit, Joachim de Jonge and Thomas Hargest to the Ellis Lab

• Jan 2013: Welcoming Dr Francesca Ceroni to our group.

• Dec 2012: Tom Ellis will be speaking to Kent Fungal Group on Dec 10th

• Nov 2012: Tom Ellis will be speaking at Trinity College Science Society in Cambridge on Nov 13th

• Oct 2012: Welcoming Ollie Wright to the lab, and welcoming back Tim and George for PhDs

• Sep 2012: Tom Ellis will be speaking on 19th Sept at the CRICK Systems and Synthetic Biology Event in London.

• Aug 2012: We're all glued to the Olympics. The Triathlon comes right by us. Work?

• Jul 2012: Our article on yeast fractal growth is in the Leverhulme Trust Newsletter

• Jun 2012: Our GEN Magazine interview on synthetic biology is out. Several of us will also be at the enGENEious meeting in Oxford on 25-26 June

• May 2012: Ben Reeve will be exhibiting our synbio work at the Imperial Festival on Fri-Sat 11-12 May.

• Apr 2012: The Ellis Lab sign-up to make Synthetic Yeast Chromosome XI at the 1st Sc2.0 International Meeting.

• Mar 2012: Our paper on promoter libraries and orthogonal TAL-effector-based regulation is published in PLoS One. Official press release is here.

• Feb 2012: Our review Construction of synthetic regulatory networks in yeast is published by FEBS Letters

• Jan 2012: Ben Reeve awarded 'Bioengineer of the year' at the Department Christmas Dinner

• Dec 2011: Awarded a Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation grant for Rapid Protease Detection using Synthetic Biology.

• Nov 2011: Tom Ellis will be speaking on 2nd Nov at 17th IBC 2011 Conference in Beijing, China.

• Oct 2011: Welcoming PhD candidate Ben Reeve to the group.

• Sep 2011: Tom Ellis will be speaking on 2nd Sep at IEEE's EMBC 2011 Conference in Boston, USA.

• Aug 2011: Check out the Imperial iGEM team 2011, working to make roots grow better where needed.

• Jul 2011: Fabio Chizzolini has successfully defended his MSc Thesis at Padova University, getting magna cum laudae.

• Jun 2011: Tom Ellis, Arturo Casini and Ben Blount will all be at SB5.0, Stanford Uni, June 15th to 17th

• May 2011: Our review on DNA Assembly has been featured in Nature and Nature Methods

• Apr 2011: We have created a GFP variant expressing stably in a Thermophile for promoter characterisation in high-temperature organisms It REALLY glows.

• Mar 2011: Talks of our research are being used in an interactive artwork: Public Misunderstandings of Science currently at Lab Life at The Lighthouse, Brighton.

• Feb 2011: E.Chromi project with James King and Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg, nominated for UK Design Museum's 2010 Design Of The Year.

• Jan 2011: Critical Review of DNA ASSEMBLY methods published online at Integrative Biology.

• Dec 2010: Speaking at the International Conference on Synthetic Biology at Genopole, Evry, France - Dec 15th/16th.

• Nov 2010: Talking at Imperial College's Autumn Symposium on Systems and Synthetic Biology on 11th November and atTD Bioinformatics at SCK.CEN in Mol, Belgium on 19th November

• Oct 2010: Welcoming Ben Blount, Rhys Algar, Arturo Casini and Elena Martinez-Klimova to the group

• Sep 2010: Attending Synthetic Biology and Open Source: Normative Cultures of Biology at BIOS @ LSE, London

• Aug 2010: Helping Imperial's 2010 iGEM team - Parasight

• Jul 2010: Writing a review on gene-to-genome DNA assembly methods

• Jun 2010: Attended the 2nd International Workshop on Bio-Design Automation at DAC in Anaheim, California

• May 2010: Talking at Nature Live! on Thurs 27th 7pm at the Natural History Museum, London