It's official! Six new #synbio scientists from across Europe have joined our steering committee, and we are more than happy to welcome them in our team! Together, we will work hard to bring the European #synbiocommunity together 💪 Check their profiles on: eusynbios.org/steeringcommit…

Excited to share our latest pre-print showing the unexpected origin of anti-nutritional compounds in faba bean. Vicine and convicine (pyrimidine glucosides) are derived from GTP (purine nucleotide)! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Hey twitter followers, I’d like to introduce to Elisabeth Bik aka Elizabeth Bik. She’s a warrior for academic publishing integrity. But she’s seldom recognized despite her critical work. You should all follow her!

I’m a virologist & investor... & I’m hearing people say it’s impossible to make covid vaccine b/c we haven’t been able to make one to any coronaviruses. Not true. We have veterinary vaccines for dog & cow strains. Human one’s not been investment worthy, until now. here’s why...

This has been a great team work ! warm congratulations Søren S.-R. Bohr . we acknowledge funding from Villum Fonden , Carlsbergfondet and Novo Nordisk Foundation funding for @NNFCPR

SynBio Canada is thrilled to present the next webinar with Dr. Claudia Vickers, Nov 25th, 16:00, free registration: synbiocanada.org/webinar Claudia Vickers

Our latest research has just been published today in the journal Nature. We engineered yeast to produce the cancer therapeutic vinblastine. You can find the work here: nature.com/articles/s4158…. It is the longest biosynthetic pathway ever refactored into yeast.

One more step towards expanding the terpenoid kingdom. Our paper on synthesis of C16 terpenoids is finally out in Nature Communications and it can be found here rdcu.be/cUS4J. Many thanks to everyone involved.

Last weekend, we hosted the first of our SynBio Collective workshops!🥼 We aim to allow McGill students to discover synthetic biology research outside of their classes. Thank you to McGill Faculty of Engineering, McGill School of Biomedical Sciences, Terry Hébert, and Lisa Munter for making this initiative possible!

Very honored to present my latest work on new-to-nature terpenoids at the #ME15 in Singapore. Thanks to Matthew Chang for organizing this amazying event, Pablo Iván Nikel @pabnik.bsky.social and Julius Fredens for co-chairing my session and discussion panel and Jay Keasling for the nice interaction.

Our latest review on Engineering yeast for the production of plant terpenoids using synthetic biology approaches is now published in Natural Product Reports pubs.rsc.org/en/content/art…

VACANCY - Applications are open for 3x five-year Postdoctoral Scientist positions in the group of Professor Anne Osbourn OBE FRS NAS okt.to/yN8v9F okt.to/ETIvm5 okt.to/znUTdt Closing date - 11 October 2023 Contract - Five years, full-time

Do you have a PhD, fluorescence microscopy expertise and want to work as a facility manager in a center interfacing single cell and tissue biology, biophysics and machine learning ? Please apply for our NNF center for 4D cellular dynamics. Please RT candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationIni…

Today, the European Commission identified synthetic biology as a top technology shaping economic security and geopolitical competition. Syn bio joins AI, Quantum, and Semiconductors. ec.europa.eu/commission/pre…

Congratulations to iGEM McGill on winning the Undergrad Grand Prize and the Vilnius Lithuania team on winning the First Runner Up Prize #iGEM2023

I am beyond proud of our McGill iGEM team, who won the Grand Prize, Best Therapeutics Project, Best Part Collection and Best Presentation Special Prizes in the undergrad category of #iGEM2023 competition. Well done all! Together, we can do it! McGill Faculty of Engineering McGill Bioengineering

📢Our last issue of 2023 is now online! Check out the article behind this month's cover by Codruta Ignea & co McGill Bioengineering reviewing how yeast can be engineered for the production of plant terpenoids using synthetic biology approaches pubs.rsc.org/en/content/art…

Brilliant talk on new-to-nature / non-canonical terpenoids engineered in yeast from Codruta Ignea this morning Phytochemical Society of North America.

Great talk from Mehran Dastmalchi on accumulation of alkaloids in Catharanthus roseus for the Arthur C. Neish Young Investigator Award at Phytochemical Society of North America 2024.

I'm delighted to share that our review on bioengineering yeast for preventing age-related diseases has been published, and I'm especially proud of my talented students for their contribution to this work.