Alex Fedorec

PhD project in my group: Engineering biology to better understand plant development.

Such a wonderfully described story and a really cool discovery

Really cool PhD project available with Tom Fayle (QMUL) and me on impacts of anthropogenic habitat change on arthropod-microbe networks in tropical soils Applications now open www.trees-dla.ac.uk/projects/imp...

Early booking and abstract deadline for Synthetic Biology UK 2026 is TOMORROW! Sessions will cover protein and enzyme design, genome-scale rewriting, next-generation nucleic acid technologies and the engineering of genetic circuits and cellular control systems #synbio 🧪 bit.ly/Synthetic_Biology_2026

I very much love how much of my feed here is recalling the joy of Tim Curry. Good people

Can anyone point to syllabi for Master’s/PhD courses on AI (in the broadest possible sense) in biology? I’ll be teaching the subject in the future.

Europe always chooses science and partnership. Japan too. Japan is now officially associated with Horizon Europe. This means Japanese researchers and organisations can take part in the world's largest public research and innovation programme. Let's break new frontiers together.

Absolutely over the moon to see our work of whole-cell PET plastic bioremediation with engineered bacteria published in its final form!!! authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S... This is a World-Cup-worth 🏆 effort of an amazing team led by Alice Banks, Umar Abdulmutalib and Brooke Wain.

🚀 Exciting opportunity for early career researchers in Cell & Developmental Biology! 🧪 Open to early career researchers 📈 Focused on supporting independent research careers 📅 Deadline: 31 August 2026 (5pm) 🔗 Learn more and apply: www.ucl.ac.uk/life-science...

We're hiring a postdoctoral researcher in plant genome engineering with expertise in synthetic biology, gene editing, and omics, with an interest in developing next-generation technologies for plants.🪴🧬 Available immediately. If interested, send your CV! Feel free to share with your networks.

I'm hiring for a Research Assistant (pre-PhD) to push forward lab automation and robotics in our group. tinyurl.com/bdh7yjs3

Join us May 14, 6pm at Imperial! 🧫 Design, cloning, & competitive growth screening of CRISPRi and protein variant libraries to study yeast killer toxins Thijs de Vroet (Billerbeck Lab) 🌱 Evolving biological nitrogen fixation with microbial co-cultures Amir Guppy (Isalan Lab) shorturl.at/aGL5M

My super department @warwicklifesci.bsky.social is hiring 6 assistant profs in the wake of recent retirements. We're looking for people in microbiology/infection, cellular disease / immunity; environmental biology; and plant/crop science. #MicroSky warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/lang-en-G...

Join us Apr. 16 UCL! Removing Host-Induced Bias in Directed Evolution with Cell-Free Ultra-High Throughput Screening Platform Lise Boursinhac (Cambridge) Deciphering Human Gene Biochemistry at Scale Using Synthetic, Homology-Free DNA Josh Mayne (UCL, Imperial) events.humanitix.com/copy-of-lond...

Our special issue "Biology computes: Information processing across biological scales" Editorial - authors.elsevier.com/a/1moUK3si8Q... Contributions from @drmichaellevin.bsky.social, Chris Barnes, Matthias Függer, Thomas Nowak, @angelgm.eurosky.social - www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...

I’m excited to announce the launch of my lab at EPFL in Jan 2026 🎉. We’ll combine evolution & synthetic biology to study and (re)engineer bacterial communication. I’m recruiting PhD students to start in the first semester of 2026. Apply via EPFL PhD programs by Nov 1 drive.google.com/file/d/1cm-t...

Tom Fayle (www.tomfayle.com/index.htm) and I have a funded PhD project available on the NERC TREES programme to use synthetic microbial communities and agent-based modelling to explore anthropogenic impacts in ecosystems www.trees-dla.ac.uk/projects/exp...

Also our new book came out! It's technically a textbook, but should be a good primer for anyone trying to work out how to understand synbio in society using an approach global.oup.com/ukhe/product... #synbio #engbio #sts #governance

1 week left to apply for a postdoctoral position in my group to lead the experimental component of a 5 year BBSRC project on synthetic microbial communities www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

Oct. 23, 6pm at UCL 🥳! Excited for: 🧬 Dirk Benzinger (Briscoe Lab) Dissecting and engineering cellular signal processing with synthetic biology and optogenetics 🌍 Brooke Wain (Jimenez Lab) Biocatalytic recycling of plastic: industrial viability and limitations events.humanitix.com/london-synbi...

Lost Science is a new NYT series of accounts from scientists who have lost their jobs or funding. You can send your story to the Times here www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/c...

Two postdoc positions with @ajfedorec.bsky.social: one computational and one wetlab, for a 5 year grant on synthetic microbial communities Research Fellow in Computational Synthetic Biology www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/... Research Fellow in Synthetic Biology www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/... #PostDoc

The advert for the second (wetlab) postdoc is now live www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

🥳Excited to share our latest collaborative work using whole-cell models and #AI to design genomes!🦠🧬 What a time to be alive! Project led by Ioana Gherman, with Kieren Sharma, Joshua Rees-Garbutt, Claire Grierson, Lucia Marucci, Wei Pang & Zahraa Abdallah #synbio authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

🎉 London SynBio Network is back! Join us on 25th of September. 🧬 Surpassing Nature – Metabolic engineering for novel biological CO2 fixation routes Ari Satanowski 💐 Open Flower: designer flowers for art and education Nick Desnoyer ➡️ Register at: events.humanitix.com/london-synbi...

The advert for the first of these positions (computational/mathematical synbio) is live! www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

Only 2 days left to submit abstracts and get the early registration discount! #synbio

SynBio UK London 2025. Submit your abstract and register before 12 September for earlybird discount.

Join us in London for the 10th anniversary of SynBio UK, the premier conference for synthetic and engineering biology. Submit your abstract for consideration as a poster or oral communication and register before 12 September to save £50 🧪 : www.eventsforce.net/biochemsoc/2...

Join us in London (12-13 November) for the 10th anniversary of SynBio UK, the premier conference for synthetic and engineering biology. Organised this year by @biochemsoc.bsky.social and colleagues at @ucl.ac.uk. www.eventsforce.net/biochemsoc/s... #synbio

Join us Apr. 24th, 6pm @ Imperial Royal School of Mines 🦠 Microbial consortia for plastic upcycling Javier Molpeceres (CIB-CSIC) 🧑‍🔬‍🔬 OpenCloning: a credible Open Source alternative to SnapGene and Benchling that supports automation Dr. Manuel Lera Ramirez (UCL) events.humanitix.com/copy-of-lond...

This is a really crushing piece on the way in which disability is vilified and the government perspective that productive work is the only thing of moral value www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Looking for a #PhD that is at the intersection of #biodesign, #synbio, #openendedness, #evolution? Look no further. Great supervisory team too 😉

My department @ucl-cdb.bsky.social, is looking to hire a lecturer (assistant prof equivalent) in computational cell biology www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

I got reviewer comments back for a big grant today. Is "in E. Coli" going to be the new "in mice" for synthetic biology work? I should say it's a fair comment for my synthetic community work, but this proposal is already so extensive that to then say we'll include more species feels crazy

NERC funded PhD project with Tom Fayle and myself to study the impacts of anthropogenic change on ecosystems using synthetic microbial communities and agent based modelling www.trees-dla.ac.uk/projects/exp... Short deadline (20th Jan) Please share 🙏

Join us Jan. 23, 17:45 for the first 2025 LSN event! 🧬 Designing de novo tRNAs for Genetic Code Expansion Amir Guppy 🧪 Harnessing synbio tools for solving crucial biotech questions Dr. Anastasiya Kishkevich events.humanitix.com/copy-of-lond...

What I should have done if I was a good supervisor is advertise the posters that Alice, Casey, and Louie brought to #sbuk24 However, I got lots of lovely comments from folks who had chatted to my group #proudPI

Reflecting on the two days of #sbuk24 talks on the very slow journey home, I think my favourite was Scott Stacey from Harrison Steel's group. Lovely demonstration of complexity built from simple biology that needs modelling to fully understand an unexpected result

Still a few spots left in the Mammalian Synthetic Biology starter pack!🧪