Alex Taylor

Sir Henry Dale Fellow, King's College London. Synthetic biologist developing artificial nucleic acids (XNA) for precision medicine.

[Alex Taylor @Taylor_Lab_KCL]

🚨New paper in @NAR_Open - ever wonder what happens if you do molecular evolution with artificial building blocks (XNA) instead of the usual DNA, RNA or protein? Us too, and the answer is some strange structures! https://t.co/SnA4lV8sdQ

[Vitor B. Pinheiro @p_xisto]

I'm finally updating group website and I am hoping to take blogging a little bit more seriously. So, question to X: what aspect of directed evolution would you like to hear about? Or what concept you think is often misunderstood in DE?

[Phil Holliger @PhilHolliger]

Finally out, Falk's paper on the evolution of function starting from single RNA sequences https://t.co/9ow7HMHSJS Thanks to Ben Porebski and Chris Johnson for great contributions.

[Alex Taylor @Taylor_Lab_KCL]

@kath_lab @J_A_C_S @ChemUniCologne @UniCologne Cool work, congratulations!

[Zakir Tnimov @zakir_tnimov]

Hey, #synbio people. Wes Robertson, A good friend of mine and a great scientist is starting his lab @MRC_LMB This is a unique opportunity to have an impact in #synthetic_genomics and work under leadership of talented and ambitious PI. https://t.co/U6wZTuPg2f

[Alex Taylor @Taylor_Lab_KCL]

4-year studentship available in my lab at @kclchemistry working at the interface of fundamental synthetic biology and therapeutic biotechnology development - come & join me in the XNA world! Please RT

https://t.co/wFpGZlRQ23

[James Attwater @DrJamesAttwater]

I'm currently looking to recruit a PhD student interested in synthetic polymers (https://t.co/ppXTlTIk5F, 1 week left to deadline!) and a postdoc to study models of primordial biology (https://t.co/lRIfYMHqcT)

[Alex Taylor @Taylor_Lab_KCL]

@DrJamesAttwater @UCLChemistry Yesssss well done Jamie!!

[Alex Taylor @Taylor_Lab_KCL]

Could our type of life be an invention of older, [biochemically] alien life? Exciting findings by @matt_powner @NatureComms suggest that prebiotic chemistry scenarios could’ve provided the building blocks of an ‘XNA world’ predating RNA & DNA https://t.co/LTzOQNNxPt

[James Attwater @DrJamesAttwater]

Porebski et al. hit the motherlode of antibody affinity data by repurposing a DNA sequencer - enough data to both identify better antibodies, and then improve them using machine learning.

[Leverhulme Centre for Life in the Universe @LeverhulmeCLU]

A new MPhil programme at the University of Cambridge will deliver postgraduate training in the search for life’s origins on Earth and its discovery on planets beyond Earth. https://t.co/51cKTACZfz via @Cambridge_Uni

[Alex Taylor @Taylor_Lab_KCL]

It’s official! A permanent academic at last!! See you soon @KCLSU_Reggie 🦁 !! @KingsCollegeLon

[EngBio IRC @EngBioIRC]

Come and join us at our popular Cafe Synthetique on Mon 4 Sept, 6pm. Dr Alex Borodavka 'Viruses:Elegance in their Simplicity or Simply Bad News Wrapped in Protein. @AlexBoRNA sign up here https://t.co/FuWiJ1Demy

[Alex Taylor @Taylor_Lab_KCL]

@jenny_molloy @EngBioIRC @ICGEB Congrats Jenny!

[James Attwater @DrJamesAttwater]

PDRA opportunity in our group @UCLChemistry to develop & characterise ribozymes that harness primordial chemistries. 28 months, funded by BBSRC & Royal Society; org chem or mol bio background. Apply by 7th August: https://t.co/kXz8mIWXt5

[Alex Taylor @Taylor_Lab_KCL]

@chiara_rapi @SjorsScheres Not sure glory is the right word 😂 Crick used to say something like, who makes the discovery doesn’t matter, only that it was made.

[Alex Taylor @Taylor_Lab_KCL]

Very well deserved congratulations to my student @MariaDonde2 who has won one of this years’ PhD student awards from the Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) for her work on XNAzymes! Well done Maria! https://t.co/nIruy8Gvhc

[Ellie Wilson @ellieokwilson]

If you think it’s unacceptable that rapists can freely roam university campuses with no safeguarding measures in place then say #NotOnMyCampus and sign the petition to introduce national guidance on tackling sexual misconduct in higher education 👇🏽 https://t.co/yyV9FKCHau

[Alex Taylor @Taylor_Lab_KCL]

@chiara_rapi @LeroyElodie3 @AnaCasanal & she is a brilliant human! 🫶