The Wallace Lab

Combining Biocompatible Chemistry + SynBio to enhance microbes' abilities to make chemicals sustainably. Vibrant research team @EdinburghUni. All views our own

[The Wallace Lab @Wallace_Lab]

The Wallace Lab is expanding in 2026, with five new Postdoctoral Research Associate positions now open. If you're passionate about engineering biology for sustainability, we'd love to hear from you! 🧬♻️

Deadline: 12th November 2025, details below ⬇️

[The Wallace Lab @Wallace_Lab]

The Wallace Lab is expanding in 2026, with five new Postdoctoral Research Associate positions now open. If you're passionate about engineering biology for sustainability, we'd love to hear from you! 🧬♻️

Deadline: 12th November 2025, details below ⬇️

[The Wallace Lab @Wallace_Lab]

Positions 4 & 5: https://t.co/ltVUbVjWgG

[The Wallace Lab @Wallace_Lab]

The Wallace Lab is expanding in 2026, with five new Postdoctoral Research Associate positions now open. If you're passionate about engineering biology for sustainability, we'd love to hear from you! 🧬♻️

Deadline: 12th November 2025, details below ⬇️

[The Wallace Lab @Wallace_Lab]

Position 3: https://t.co/qKcnZhPv5J

[Springwise @springwise]

🦠💊 Manufacturing paracetamol is currently extremely fossil fuel intensive. Now, researchers from @Wallace_Lab are using microbes to transform plastic pollution into lower-emission painkillers.

@Dr_StephenW #Health #Research #Microbes
https://t.co/rsMYFIbNo8

[Keasling Lab 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @Keasling_Lab]

New paper out in @NatureCatalysis! We used a retrobiosynthesis approach to engineer PKSs for the production of new-to-nature valerolactam analogs. Later, we developed a strategy to polymerize these monomers to create novel nylon-5 derivatives. Check it out https://t.co/FrHml95RKw

[The Wallace Lab @Wallace_Lab]

PhD opportunity in our lab, starting October 2025!

Project: Engineering Biology for the Remediation and Bio-upcycling of Drug Waste

Come join a welcoming research group and an excellent department in a beautiful city!

@Dr_StephenW
@SBSatEd
@EdEngBio

https://t.co/wyrSMwPi8x

[The Wallace Lab @Wallace_Lab]

PhD opportunity in our lab, starting October 2025!

Project: Engineering Biology for the Remediation and Bio-upcycling of Drug Waste

Come join a welcoming research group and an excellent department in a beautiful city!

@Dr_StephenW
@SBSatEd
@EdEngBio

https://t.co/wyrSMwPi8x

[The Wallace Lab @Wallace_Lab]

Two in a week! Another successful thesis defence, congratulations Dr Mirren White! 🎉

Thanks to @Prof_Sarge and @soreearskid for an engaging viva 👏🏽

@mirrenwhite @Dr_StephenW @SBSatEd

[IBioIC @IBioIC]

Stephen Wallace is Professor & Chair of Chemical Biotechnology @EdinburghUni

Hear him talk about Industry-Academia Partnerships for Sustainable Chemical Manufacture using Engineering Biology on Day 1

Early Bird tickets for #IBioIC25 are on sale now at https://t.co/fg1nPvj0XM

[Biological Sciences | University of Edinburgh @SBSatEd]

Take a look inside the lab where @Dr_StephenW team have engineered bacteria to eat fatbergs and turn them into fragrance🦠🧪

The fast-moving field of bioengineering is being hailed as the new industrial revolution

Great coverage by @STVNews

https://t.co/nyPmE3Xeiq

[IBioIC @IBioIC]

For our latest case study, C-Source Renewables and @Dr_StephenW from
@EdinburghUni used our Feasibility Fund to look at the potential for bread & potato #waste to be used as a #glucose replacement for the #bioproduction of 3 chemicals.

For details⤵️
https://t.co/FU8Mxg4GJ6

[Lords Science & Technology Committee @LordsSTCom]

By a happy coincidence, our report on Engineering Biology is published on the same day as the @royalsociety have their #TransformingOurFuture event on engineering biology. Looking forward to hearing from @uksciencechief at the RS event later

[The Wallace Lab @Wallace_Lab]

Great to see our upcoming work highlighted by the recent UK House of Lords report on #EngineeringBiology

and particularly this project by our PhD student Cordelia Kao, showcased by @BBCNews and @STVNews !

@SBSatEd @EdinburghUni @EdinInnovations

https://t.co/g2wGUY5pCc

[Louise Horsfall @lehorsfall]

#EngineeringBiology #SustainableManufacturing activities ⁦@EdinburghUni⁩ ⁦@Dr_StephenW⁩ https://t.co/dX50ZCWU9Q

[Stephen Wallace @Dr_StephenW]

Wonderful to see our upcoming work highlighted by the recent UK House of Lords report on #EngineeringBiology and to work with @EdinburghUni, @SBSatEd, @STVNews & @BBCNews to promote what can be achieved in this emerging field. Remember: waste is carbon, and therefore a resource.