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

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

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...

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/...

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...

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

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

🥳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...

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

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

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

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...

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...

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/...

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

NERC funded PhD project with Tom Fayle and myself to study the impacts of anthropogenic change on ecosystems using synthetic microbial communities and agent based modelling www.trees-dla.ac.uk/projects/exp... Short deadline (20th Jan) Please share 🙏

Join us Jan. 23, 17:45 for the first 2025 LSN event! 🧬 Designing de novo tRNAs for Genetic Code Expansion Amir Guppy 🧪 Harnessing synbio tools for solving crucial biotech questions Dr. Anastasiya Kishkevich events.humanitix.com/copy-of-lond...

What I should have done if I was a good supervisor is advertise the posters that Alice, Casey, and Louie brought to #sbuk24 However, I got lots of lovely comments from folks who had chatted to my group #proudPI

Reflecting on the two days of #sbuk24 talks on the very slow journey home, I think my favourite was Scott Stacey from Harrison Steel's group. Lovely demonstration of complexity built from simple biology that needs modelling to fully understand an unexpected result

Still a few spots left in the Mammalian Synthetic Biology starter pack!🧪

Day 2 of #sbuk24 starts with a session on control opened by Harrison Steel. Lots of excellent stuff (as usual), from directed evolution in microfluidics to "magnetogenetics"

My first conference since moving to bluesky. I'll try to maintain a live stream #sbuk24

🚨Interested in #evolution and #synbio and looking for a PhD? Then come join mine, @taylorlabgroup.bsky.social and Paps labs to trace and shape the evolutionary paths of engineered biology!🧬🔍🛠️🧪 Project details here: bpb-eu-w2.wpmucdn.com/blogs.bristo..., apply here: swbio.ac.uk/programme/ho...

Science friends coming from the bad place—let’s not lose each other in the void. Over the next few weeks, I'll try to put together some science "starter packs" of who to follow. Fill out this form to be included. bit.ly/sci-starterp... Share widely ❤️ Thanks @robp.bsky.social for the inspiration!

I currently have a funded vacancy (24 months) for a post-doc to work on strain engineering projects in the area of yeast biotechnology. You can find more details about the post and how to apply on the UCC jobs portal or LinkedIn Sept 5th deadline).

Synthetic Microbial Ecology: Engineering Habitats for Modular Consortia - in J Appl Microbiol from @ajfedorec.bsky.social academic.oup.com/jambio/advan...

Well done to Chania for her first paper! 🧪 @ajfedorec.bsky.social

We are actively recruiting for two open Computational Biology positions in our NGS group - both covered by this listing www.ginkgobioworks.com/job-listings...

Does anyone have experience with the OpenTrons Flex? How reliable is the plate gripper, for example?

Q for microbio ppl: When making synthetic defined media (e.g. EZ Rich) for bacteria (mostly E. coli), do you need to buy cell culture grade reagents? If not, what quality is acceptable? Diff in cost between cc grade and cheapest is ~£20 per L of media and ~£2k in initial outlay

Funded PhD opportunities to join our group! From exploring how the immune system shapes bacteriophage behavior to tracking microbiome dynamics within NICUs, with @claudiaigler.bsky.social, @sheencr.bsky.social and others. Please share, and get in touch if interested! www.findaphd.com/phds/?Keywor...

Has anyone used ApexPrep DNA Plasmid Miniprep kits before? Nearly half the price of our standard NEB Monarch kits and wondering if they're ok

We have an open postdoc position on a really cool project in collaboration with @hv_lab aiming to discover new sources of plant virus resistance using advanced proteomics! 🌱🦠🧬 Please share and apply here: www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo...

Very hot day on the trains but I'm now in beautiful Leuven for a summer school on design and control of microbial communities. Really looking forward to the next few days!

For the Newskies, here are few tools that should help 1. https://goodfeeds.co/ (you can search for niche feeds, feeds help you find new and old friends) 2. Looking for birdsite mutuals? Use these: a. skeet.labnotes.org/ b. https://fedifinder.glitch.me/ Remember to create app p/w from setting.

And I really need a bookmark feature for this app. How else will I create an aspirational archive of unread papers?

It would be amazing if someone could develop a Twitter to Bluesky "following" importer. Pretty sure there was something similar for Mastodon

UCL Biosciences is seeking applications for the UCL Excellence Fellowship Career stage: Transition to establishing independence Duration: 3 years (can be held on a part-time basis) + £50k consumables Deadline: Midnight on 17 September 2023 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DCJ995/u...