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It’s been an amazing day 1 #Synbitech2023 with our Minister of Science Andrew Griffith Andrew Griffith MP announcing a huge investment GOV.UK Department for Science, Innovation and Technology commitment of £2B to engineering bio

The team strutting it at #SynbiTECH - shame I had to miss

Great to take part over the past couple of days in #synbitech. An excellent programme that gave us inspiration and great to see many new but also many familiar faces. Biological Sciences | University of Edinburgh Centre for Engineering Biology EBRC The University of Edinburgh

Just reflecting on #synbitech2023 .. it was such a privilege to talk with Professor Dame Angela McLean .. amazing insights into the role of the CSA in UK government … and the need for our community to continue to actively engage with policy makers.also lots of opportunities or ECRs in gov !

The second paper to share today led by Jean Peccoud Jean Peccoud and contributed by many and me. #PLOSCompBio: Ten simple rules for managing laboratory information PLOS Comp Biol dx.plos.org/10.1371/journa…

Building synthetic chromosomes from natural DNA | Nature Communications nature.com/articles/s4146…

On Tuesday 16 April, starting at 10.15am, we will hold our first evidence session on engineering biology. We'll be hearing from 10.15am: Paul Freemont Dr Grandellis of Earlham Institute Rosser Lab 11:15am: Tom Ellis Lucia Marucci Watch live here: parliamentlive.tv/Event/Index/67…

You can still submit evidence to our inquiry on Engineering Biology until 7 May; we're grateful for any contributions from those in the field - find instructions on how to do so below.

It has been a privilege to give evidence to the Lords Science & Technology Committee Engineering Biology inquiry with Paul Freemont Tom Ellis CAROLINA grandellis Rosser Lab this morning. Written contributions to this inquiry can be submitted by the 7th of May committees.parliament.uk/committee/193/…

It was such an honour to kick off of the enquiry on engbio along with great colleagues ..

What a week .. just gave a speech at no 10 at an engineering biology investment networking breakfast organised by by uk Department for Business and Trade and Department for Science, Innovation and Technology .. great mix of people and super exciting developments with UK gov policy on #engbio

Pre-print from our group, Paul Freemont and Hung-En Lai, PhD Biosynthesis of Arcyriaflavin F from Streptomyces venezuelae ATCC 10712 biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

This is a great paper on how to screen large numbers for infections .. another fab collaboration driven by Michael Crone from the covid days #pandemic preparedness A standardised, high-throughput approach to diagnostic group testing method validation medrxiv.org/content/10.110…

⁦Patrick Cai⁩ giving a fantastic talk on synthetic genomes and safeguards at uk Japan Worksop on synbio ⁦Imperial College London⁩

It’s here ⁦SynBioBeta⁩ the night before !

4 minutes to go ⁦SynBioBeta⁩

⁦John Cumbers⁩ ⁦SynBioBeta⁩ .. here we go

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