Excited to share that I will soon be starting a group at University of Oxford in the Dept of Engineering Science. We will focus on data-driven methods for cell-machine interfaces, with applications in biomanufacturing, biomaterials, fundamental biology research, and more

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My supervisor Harrison Steel explains how and why we use #control in SynBio. For one, it makes directed evo more efficient by observing & steering *very many* *individual* cells with microfluidics! Works really well if you're selecting for growth-uncorrelated traits 2/

Welcome back to day 2 of Biochemical Society's SynBio UK 2024 #SBUK24 conference! Kicking off Control Systems this morning is Harrison Steel with a great run through of his work - from use of microfluidics for directed evolution to fluorescent magnetic and RF sensor development

New paper with novel biological quantum effects measured for the first time - and developed for applications in Synthetic Biology!

This is epic. Saw talk on this today and such a clever mix of physics and engineered biology!

Thank you Associate Professor Harrison Steel of University of Oxford for an engaging opening #keynote presentation on Cybergenetics: Synthetic Biology meets Robotics and AI. #CoESB24 #SyntheticBiology

Our Control Group Engineering Science, Oxford is hiring a new Associate Professor! This is a permanent/tenured academic position; anyone with research interests in theory/applications of control (including Biotech!) is encouraged to apply by 13 January 2025. eng.ox.ac.uk/jobs/job-detai…

Great to see this report and its recommendations come out now. 🧬⚙️ Engineering Biology is a key opportunity for growth in the UK, and a concerted effort is needed to get it right. Check out the thread here and give yourself a few minutes to read this important report too. 👇

Great to see the points highlighted by our lab’s submission, such as the need for long-term funding and developing standards, in the House of Lords Engineering Biology report! The work to make the UK a leader has been astutely laid out, now let’s get going tinyurl.com/33xuh2er

Many thanks to my supervisor Harrison Steel , as well as my fellow contributors Vicente Trelles Fernandez , Ting Lee, Jess James, Marco Corrao, LisaZillig and Scott Stacey

Hope I’ve gotten you interested enough to go and read our paper for details! And the best way I can conclude is by thanking the editors & reviewers, Harrison Steel for supervision and coauthorship, and Andreas Porse and other Steel Lab members for their great advice! 10/10

NEW PREPRINT! Do you think we can do better when characterising resource competition properties of gene circuit modules? If no, think again; if yes, you’re in for a pitch how exactly we can do that – automated culturing, cybergenetic control and all! 1/ doi.org/10.1101/2025.0…

We are hiring a Postdoc to work on a collaborative "Living Manufacturing" project alongside Martyn Dade Robertson, Meng Zhang, and Tom Ellis. We're developing novel hardware and wetware to create a novel bioprinting platform! tinyurl.com/2udp3seh

Antiviral therapy design is myopic 🦠🙈 optimised only for the current strain. That's why you need a different Flu vaccine every year! Our #ICML2025 paper ADIOS proposes "shaper therapies" that steer viral evolution in our favour & remain effective. Work done Foerster Lab for AI Research 🧵👇

Come and join us at a free complementary Japan-UK Engineering Biology meeting after the main ESSL conference (essl2025.org). A few spaces left to some see some of the up and coming superstars of #synbio in the UK!

Generative design of synthetic gene circuits for functional and evolutionary properties biorxiv.org/content/10.110… #biorxiv_synbio