Ahmad Mannan was awarded the ‘Top Poster Winner’ at Metabolic Engineering 14 this week. Congratulations Ahmad! For a copy of his poster, please visit his ResearchGate Webpage: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/353211996_Designing_an_irreversible_metabolic_switch_for_scalable_induction_of_microbial_chemical_production
– Most high-value chemicals are currently produced using fossil fuels – industrial chemistry’s use of petroleum accounts for 14% of all greenhouse gas emissions. – An exciting alternative is to engineer bacteria as “cell-factories” with a genetic switch that reroutes their chemistry to produce high-value chemicals, such as biofuels, polymers and pharmaceuticals. – The use … Continue reading Efficiently “switching on” bacteria to produce high-value chemicals
The five films created during the inaugural LabCut workshop are now available to be viewed on the official LabCut YouTube channel and will be screened during the British Science Festival in September. Three of the films have also been shortlisted in the Bristol Science Film Festival 2019. Funded by the Wellcome Trust and Warwick Quantitative … Continue reading Videos from the first LabCut workshop
Scientists at the University of Warwick showed that bioelectrical signals from bacteria can be used to rapidly determine if they are alive or dead. The findings offer a new technology which detects live bacteria in minutes instead of waiting for lab-test results which can take days. When ‘zapped’ with an electrical field, live bacteria absorb … Continue reading Bacteria detected in minutes by new technology from the University of Warwick
Are you a scientist working on human health and interested in communicating your research? Or a creative with a passion for film making and want to work with researchers and their data? Funded by the Wellcome Trust and Warwick Quantitative Biomedicine Programme (WQBP), LabCut is a science film workshop run by SynBio CDT PhD students Cansu Kuey, Charlotte Gruender and Patrick … Continue reading LabCut: A Science Film Project Launches at Warwick
In partnership with SYNMIKRO, we are delighted to announce that we are running a FEBS Advanced Course on the island of Spetses, Greece from 29 September until 7 October. The title of the course is Biosystem Design: Computational and Experimental Approaches and features a series of seminars, lectures and tutorials by leaders in the field … Continue reading FEBS Advanced Course: applications now open!
We are very proud of our 2018 iGEM team and all of the hard work they put in over the summer. They were rewarded with a gold! Congratulations! Read about their experience below and apply for next year’s team here www.warwick.ac.uk/igem. Warwick iGEM: Our 2018 Experience Our iGEM journey was an emotional and tumultuous one. … Continue reading Warwick iGEM score gold at Boston! Apply for 2019
Researchers at the University of Warwick, Dr Lauren Swiney and Professor Declan Bates, have considered efforts to understand public perceptions of synthetic biology using cognitive science in their recently published article in the journal Trends in Biotechnology. It is proposed that human cognition places constraints upon how we think about synthetic biology. The research explores … Continue reading Cognitive Constraints Shape Public Debate on the Risks of Synthetic Biology
The recently funded BIORIBOBOOST consortium had its first joint meeting at the end of October in Valencia. This EU-funded 25-partner consortium includes groups from eleven European countries plus further partners in China, Japan, Singapore and USA. John McCarthy represents WISB in the consortium, which has the objective to establish a new framework of future standards … Continue reading First BIORIBOBOOST meeting in Valencia
· A large DNA fragment from a soil bacterium was captured and engineered to be awoken · The researchers then used to trigger production of a novel natural product, an acid antibiotic, encrypted in that DNA was identified and characterised · The discovered molecule, Scleric acid, could help combat bacteria and was shown to partially … Continue reading Researchers wake-up DNA from soil bacteria to discover novel acid antibiotic
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