14/08/23 Jose has been promoted to Reader!!

12/07/23 Congrats to Eve Nery on passing her PhD viva!!!

07/07/23 Jose will be presenting for the Cluster Agroalimentario Nuevo León (Mexico).

26/06/23 Satya will be presenting his work in the 4th General assembly of SECRETed in Ghent (Belgium).

07/06/23 Congrats to Syeda and Said on passing their PhD Late Stage Reviews. Also congrats to Perrine on passing her PhD Early Stage Assessment!

05/05/23 Jose will be presenting at the University of Oxford Grand Challenges seminar series.

23/04/23 Welcome to our UG Final Year Project students Harshi, Hezreef, Charles and John.

25/04/23 We are hosting the final General Assembly of our project MIPLACE.

07/01/23 Welcome Daniel Boros who is joining as a MRes/PhD student of our EPSRC CDT in BioDesign Engineering.

07/12/22 Christmas dinner!!

29/11/22 Jose is presenting our MIPLACE work for the Australasia Synthetic Biology Node in Perth.

18/11/22 Umar Abdulmutalib has passed his PhD viva. Congrats Umar!!!

07/11/22 The group will be well represented at SynBioUK 2022 in Newcastle with talks by Alice and Satya and posters by Syeda, Said, Perrine and Daniel.

15/10/22 Welcome to Martha Yeung and Christian Nielsen who are joining the group for their MRes projects.

01/10/22 Welcome to Perrine Dalby who will be joining as a PhD student of the BioDesign Engineering DTC.

30/09/22 Alice, Joanne and Jose are presenting our work on plastics biodegradation for the Open Age Charity in London.

18/06/22 Lab members will be presenting our research on plastic biodegradation at the Great Exhibition Road Festival this weekend.

06/06/22 Joanne and Alice’s video entry for the ERA CoBiotech video contest showcasing MIPLACE has been awarded with the first prize!!

01/06/22 Pankhuri Srivastava has joined the lab for her MSci Applied Biosciences and Biotechnology project.

28/04/22 Jose is a keynote speaker at the Biomania conference organised by Masaryk University (Brno; Czech Republic)

31/03/22 Our collaboration with LGC on the use of dPCR in synbio has just been published. Check it out here.

28/03/22 Jose has been awarded with an Imperial’s Faculty of Natural Sciences Excellence Prize for Teaching!!

18/03/22 Our collaboration with David Hidalgo and José Utrilla (UNAM-Mexico) has just been published. Read the paper here.

15/03/22 Noemi Herrera, Ana Blas, Jiayi Hou and Jiuyuan Lai have joined the lab for their Final Year Projects

16/02/22 Jose has contributed to a review on the microbiota of pancreatic cancer. Check the paper here.

10/01/22 Emma Watts and Pedro Lovatt-Garcia have joined the lab for their MRes in Systems and Synthetic Biology projects.

13/12/21 Jose gave a seminar for the Dpt. of  Applied Sciences at Northumbria University

08/12/21 Alice was a panelist at the IPSBI03 conference hosted by the Institute of Systems Biology at the Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia

20/11/21 Jose talked about Synthetic Biology and evolution for the Biotechnology Cluster Nuevo Leon (Mexico)

11/11/21 Alice presents her work at the Synthetic Biology UK conference

04/10/21 Alice gives a talk on PET bioupcycling at the SfAM Sustainable Microbiology webinar series

04/10/21 A warm welcome to Satya Prakash who has joined the lab as a postdoctoral researcher!

01/10/2021 We welcome our new members: PhD students Syeda Begum and Said Muñoz-Montero and MRes students Julia Stewart-Wood and Marco Leong

20/09/21 Jose presents for the BioTech Research and Innovation Hack 2021

02/09/21 Jose presents our work on PET degradation for the MIX-UP consortium

14/7/2021 Alice wins the prize to the best presentation at the Environmental Biotechnology Network Early Career Researcher (EBNetUK ECR) Conference!!! Congrats!!

06/07/2021 Joanne and Jose will be speaking about Responsible Research and Innovation at the European Biotechnology and Society Online Seminar Series

03/06/2021 We are recruiting a postdoctoral researcher. For info check this link.

24/05/2021 Alice is presenting at the Dpt. of Life Sciences seminars and the London Synthetic Biology Network

05/05/2021 Alice is giving a poster presentation in the EFB2021 conference

22/04/2021 Welcome to Fatemah Kassamali who has joined the lab as part of her second rotation of her MRes!

02/04/2021 Juhyun’s preprint on tradeoffs between growth and resource allocation is out! You can find it here

18/03/2021 Alice has won the 2nd prize to the best poster presentation at GRIPS2021!!! Well done Alice!

28/02/2021 Jose will be introducing our project MIPLACE at the Global Research in Plastics Sustainability Conference

16/02/2021 Welcome to Theodore Glenaldo (MRes) and Zheren Zhang (postdoc) to the lab!!

29/01/2021 Our new paper describing the genome of Pseudomonas umsongensis GO6 for the valorisation of PET monomers is out!! Have a look at it here

16/12/2020 Jaime’s paper on population invasion in P. aeruginosa has been published in ISME Journal!! The press office at Imperial has highlighted the article releasing this note

13/11/2020 Mirkomol Mirzarakhimov joined the lab as a MRes student

29/10/2020 Jose presented on microbial communities as part of the Silwood seminars at Imperial College

02/10/2020 Jose is giving a virtual seminar to the ‘Centro de Ciencias Genomics’ at UNAM (Cuernavaca, Mexico)

01/09/2020 We have moved!! We are happy to join the Dpt. of Life Sciences at Imperial College London!