EngBio IRC

Interdisciplinary Research Centre for Synthetic and Engineering Biology @Cambridge_Uni. Formerly SynBio IRC.

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Limited spaces available for our #EngBio Symposium & Forum on 21 May! We’re excited to welcome Professor Jay Keasling, @UCBerkeley, as keynote speaker for our evening Forum, and Dr Jake Harris, @camplantsci, for our afternoon Symposium. Secure your spot!
https://t.co/q3DjRytwUP

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Our April #EngBio newsletter is out! This month we are sharing more details about the forthcoming EngBio Symposium & Forum on 21 May and introducing our latest speaker: Dr Jake Harris, @camplantsci.
Read it here 👉https://t.co/ZXh7FeOc9Y

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We're excited to partner with @CambridgeZero and Global Food Systems to organise this full‑day event focused on plant engineering for sustainable futures.

📅 17 April 2026 | ⏲️ 09:30 - 16:30

Register here: https://t.co/qR92Xi7tGW

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Due to increased interest we are extending the submission deadline for poster abstracts to 10 April!

⬇️Download poster submission form: https://t.co/GS7rYG6Wsv

[EngBio IRC @EngBioIRC]

Due to increased interest we are extending the submission deadline for poster abstracts to 10 April!

⬇️Download poster submission form: https://t.co/GS7rYG6Wsv

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Engineering Biology Symposium & Forum - Register and submit your abstract for a chance to win up to £500 to support conference registration and expenses.

More information: https://t.co/bzCOKuXrrO

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@CamBiochem #EccrineSweatGland #nucleotides #peptides

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EngBio ECRs Meetup is back on Mon 20 April. Join us for two talks:
🔬 Holly Bachas Brook – 3D eccrine sweat gland-on-chip
🧪 Fatma Mihoubi – Nucleotide & peptide diversity in coacervate protocells

Hear new research and connect with fellow ECRs.
👉 Sign up https://t.co/VWbLgaPGcT

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We are pleased to announce Jay Keasling (@jaykeasling), Professor in the Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering at @UCBerkeley as the first speaker at the #EngBioForum on 21 May 2026.
Registration is now open! RSVP here: https://t.co/1MIV9od1Q5

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Our March #EngBio newsletter is out! This month we are delighted to introduce the EngBio IRC's new Coordinator and Events Manager, Dr Francis Krampa. We are also sharing more details about the forthcoming EngBio Symposium & Forum on 21 May. Read it here 👉🏼https://t.co/xrZGxkuNwP

[Department of Plant Sciences Cambridge @camplantsci]

Job opportunity!

Research Assistant / Research Associate

An opportunity to join our team working on the generation of a completely engineered chloroplast genome (= synplastome).

Apply by Thursday 02 April 2026: https://t.co/HbfWKpl3cy

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Come and join us next Monday for great talks, company and pizza! Handful of spaces left.
🎟️https://t.co/PONcAYdcjm

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🎤🍕Cafe Synthetique is back! 🗓 Mon 2 Mar, 6pm

Join Gabriela Guedes, Joel Roca & Gorjan Stojanovski for three short talks on #proteins #nanomedicine & #plastic-eating #enzymes 🧫🧪🔬

🎟️ Sign up: https://t.co/PONcAYdcjm

@hollfelderlab @LauraItzhaki @CamBiochem @UnivCamPharm

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🎤🍕Cafe Synthetique is back! 🗓 Mon 2 Mar, 6pm

Join Gabriela Guedes, Joel Roca & Gorjan Stojanovski for three short talks on #proteins #nanomedicine & #plastic-eating #enzymes 🧫🧪🔬

🎟️ Sign up: https://t.co/PONcAYdcjm

@hollfelderlab @LauraItzhaki @CamBiochem @UnivCamPharm

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Our first #EngBioECR Meet event of the year, and it was a full house! Thanks to our speakers Daniela Gjorgjevikj, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB), and Brian Ng, @cebcambridge, for sharing their fascinating work. Our next event is on 20 April @ Postdoc Centre, Mill Lane.

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Join Professor Bill DeGrado, @UCSF, for a special guest lecture: '𝘋𝘦 𝘕𝘰𝘷𝘰 𝘋𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘨𝘯 𝘰𝘧 𝘗𝘳𝘰𝘵𝘦𝘪𝘯 𝘊𝘢𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘺𝘴𝘵𝘴, 𝘋𝘳𝘶𝘨-𝘋𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘝𝘦𝘩𝘪𝘤𝘭𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘕𝘢𝘯𝘰𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘦𝘴'.

5 March 2026 📍@UnivCamPharm

Register: https://t.co/7NEF4UBx3o

[Cambridge Biochemistry @CamBiochem]

Congratulations to our new group leader @jenny_molloy on her Special Recognition for Advocacy and Awareness at the European Open Source Awards in Brussels last week. 👏 👏 👏

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🧬🧫 EngBio ECRs Meetup is back!
📅 Mon 16 Feb | ⏰ 12pm
📍 Postdoc Centre Mill Lane

Two great talks on capsid proteins & RNA organelles in bacteria from Daniela Gjorgjevikj and Brian Ng

🎟️ Sign Up at https://t.co/tZcqDJc8pT

#EngBio #ECRs #RNA #bacteria #CapsidProteins

[School of Biological Sciences @Cambridge_SBS]

We’re hiring! Join a vibrant and inclusive research community in the School of Biological Sciences!

Discover our jobs of the week 👇

#ScienceJobs #Academia

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Our January #EngBio newsletter is out!

This month we are celebrating the achievements of our #Cambridge EngBio community in 2025 and looking ahead to our plans for 2026, including the EngBio Symposium & Forum on 21 May.

Read it here 👉🏼 https://t.co/KC1YQGszWJ

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🎉 Happy New Year! We’re kicking off 2026 with Cafe Synthetique on Mon 19 Jan.

🪴Hear from AlexJones @xanderjones82 and the Cambridge iGEM team on plant cellular decision-making and crop analysis🌱

👉 Sign up here: https://t.co/KpcFuxsVhf
#PlantSciences #Crops #miRNA