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Please RT: the adverts are now live for two post doc positions to work with us, the Kontoravdi group and colleagues within the Bezos Centre and NAPIC on cultivated meat: jobs.ac.uk/job/DJX349/res… jobs.ac.uk/job/DJW377/res…

Looking forward to attending this conference and meeting @Grininger_Lab and colleagues. Reach out if you are joining too!

Our last paper is out Nature Communications 📢 We used #synbio to create synthetic communities of Yarrowia and Yarrowia-cerevisiae 👯 Cross-feeding controlled population dynamics📈 Division of labour improved #sustainable #bioproduction 🏆 Full article: nature.com/articles/s4146…

Emergency bulletin! 14 journals have co-published an urgent call for the deployment of microbial solutions against climate catastrophe, by Raquel Peixoto et al. nature.com/articles/s4156…

Is it “winner-takes all” when the simplest living things compete? Check out my fresh publication on phage coexistence in Science and a thread below🧵 science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Happy holidays everyone! We had a great celebration with my lab including secret Santa and a fantastic quiz! Another great year with a great team :)

🍴If we are to feed the world, we need innovative, expert-led solutions, and soon! Today we’re launching the Bezos Centre for Sustainable Proteins to tackle our unsustainable and environmentally damaging food ecosystems. Find out more ⬇️ #BezosCentreImperial | Bezos Centre for Sustainable Protein

🚨3 positions to join my lab Links to apply below 👇👇👇👇👇 1) a group leader position for 4 years: lnkd.in/esxz6Y57 2) a postdoc position: lnkd.in/esWmd5QU 3) a PhD student position: lnkd.in/ehtgVEJ9 Imperial College London Bioengineering Bezos Centre for Sustainable Protein

Thanks The Good Food Institute for amplifying my article in the Financial Times Looking forward to contributing to both scientific moonshots and agile regulations from the Bezos Centre for Sustainable Protein Imperial College London

C. acnes is the most abundant bacterium on human skin. But what if we could make it the smarterst? 🦠✨ In our new Cell-Systems study, we programmed C. acnes to actively protect the skin for therapeutic applications! 🛡️ authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S24…

Imperial has launched the Bezos Centre for Sustainable Protein, backed by £24 million from the Bezos Earth Fund, to tackle climate change through alternative proteins 🍽️ 👀 Imperial expert Rodrigo Ledesma-Amaro on lab-grown pet food being available for the first time. Read ⬇️ 🔗 express.co.uk/news/uk/201064…

That’s one small step for cultivated meat, one giant leap for humankind!

Great work from a great team 👇🏼👇🏼 Lucky to have contributed! A great milestone for #EngineeringBiology showcasing the importance of non-conventional organisms in #biotech

🌟 Get ready to be inspired by our speakers at #SynBioBeta2025! #Biotech #Innovation

Elsewhere in this issue: oxygen-generating scaffolds (Warren Grayson), engineered yeast as geroprotectives (Ignea Group - McGill), synthetic microbial communities (Rodrigo Ledesma-Amaro), PET upcycling (Tae Seok Moon), waste stream valorization (Dixon Lab), and more.

Big congrats to Dr Lucas Coppens who successfully defended his PHD yesterday! Thanks to Thomas Gorochowski and Jose Jimenez, the fantastic examiners! Stay tuned for what is coming next 🚀

Congratulations to Dr Eliza Atkinson! She passed her PhD exam earlier this week after a fruitful discussion with the examiners Zibi Lazar and Sonja Sonja Billerbeck (who sadly missed the photo!). Well done 👏🏻

At 1:30am, my alarm woke me up for something surreal: watching microbial cells from my lab 🚀 launch into space! Part of a collab w/ Bezos Centre for Sustainable Protein, Imperial College London, Frontier Space Technologies to explore growing food in orbit 🪐 bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…