Enlightening talk by Lucia Marucci Lucia Marucci at SBUK22 on programming cells, pushing the frontiers of applying mathematical models to complex SynBio processes and even entire cells. Whole-cell models! #BiochemEvent Biochemical Society

Thanks @ioanagherman5 for leading this review PLOS Comp Biol on the use of machine learning and surrogate modelling in systems and synthetic biology! Thomas Gorochowski Wei Pang Zahraa Abdallah Claire G Bristol BioDesign Institute

Did you know you can find upcoming SynBio-related conferences and workshops in our SynBio calendar? Check it out here: eusynbios.org/synbio-calendar Can't find your event listed? No worries! Let us know, and we'll make sure to add it to our calendar! 📩

This year's Synthetic Biology UK meeting will take place in Bristol on 6-7 November. We are delighted to be working with Biochemical Society to organise this key #synbio and #engbio event. More info: bit.ly/SynBio23

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The results are in! In the QS World University Rankings, the University of Bristol is... 🏆 Still ranked 9th in the UK 🏆 Rising up to 55th in the world 🥳 QS World University Rankings #QSWUR

#DDE23 Around 400 Participants, from 50 countries: undergraduates, graduate and PhD students, post-docs, researchers and academics: Mathematicians,Physicists,Engineers,Biologists, and more. New ideas,new collaborations,new friendships. An event to remember. Many thanks to all!

Cell-free protein synthesis system: A new frontier for sustainable biotechnology-based products dlvr.it/Swx9vT

New preprint from our very own @ioanagherman5 and with Thomas Gorochowski Claire G Zahraa Abdallah Wei Pang Joshua Rees-Garbutt ! ! Ioana used machine learning+whole-cell models to design small bacterial cells ⬇️ ift.tt/4b19NGO #biorxiv_bioE; she is presenting today at #SBUK23 #SynBio

Glad to share my work about Cybergenetics control of stem cells pluripotency at Synthetic Bioology UK 2023 developed in Marucci lab at Bristol University 🧫🔬💻🧑‍🔬 #mesc #pluripotency #SBUK2023 #controlengineer #microfluidic #naive #primed #stemcell #tuning

Lucia Marucci @ioanagherman5 Claire G Zahraa Abdallah Wei Pang Joshua Rees-Garbutt @ioanagherman5 presenting this work at #SBUK2023. Great talk!

Researchers have achieved a significant milestone by successfully integrating more than seven synthetic chromosomes into a single yeast cell, yielding a strain with over 50% synthetic DNA that can survive and replicate similarly to wild yeast strains: synbiobeta.com/read/its-alive…

The new issue is out! Featuring a chimeric monkey composed of embryonic stem cells, the mechanopathology of tuberculosis infection, and the development of NMDAR-CAAR T cells that precisely target pathogenic B cells in encephalitis.⁠ To browse our new issue click

Self-organization of embryonic stem cells into a reproducible embryo model through epigenome editing dlvr.it/T3vcy6

Bristol hosts Swiss-British Summit to drive innovation in healthcare and environmental sustainability bristol.ac.uk/news/2024/may/… Huge thanks to all the speakers and attendees, and our co-organisers BioIndustry Association (BIA) Swiss Embassy UK Ambassador of Switzerland to the United Kingdom and Lucideon.

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🌈My first PhD poster presentation The Francis Crick Institute London Mathematical Biology conference 2024, showcasing my 7+ months of work 🥳 I am humbled to be supervised by the fantastic Lucia Marucci ✨ and receiving all support from amazing RAs Antonella La Regina and Manju 👥 🫁💫

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Now online! Metformin decelerates aging clock in male monkeys dlvr.it/TDBnYx

...and that's it for today! (though a digest of *some* #SBUK2024 posters may follow later) Huge thanks to the organisers Biochemical Society EngBio IRC , to everyone who presented, and to you all for following my live(ish) report!