Latest News
05/12/23 Jose gave a talk for the SynBic community at Imperial
09/11/23 Jose has received a BBSRC Pioneer Award to start a new project investigating the central dogma of molecular biology in 3D
07/11/23 Perrine, Alice, Cata, Satya and Daniel presented posters at the Synthetic Biology UK conference in Bristol
05/10/23 We also welcome Iris Gao who will be joining the lab to do her MRes MCB project
01/10/23 We welcome Catalina Cruañas-Pániker who will be joining the lab for a PhD project of the Sustainable Solutions for a Changing Planet cohort
25/09/23 Jose presented for the iGEMx community
01/09/23 Alice won the prize to the best session presentation at the EBNet ECR conference!
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!
On the media
Bendy X-rays and DMT infusions: News from Imperial
‘Trojan horse’ bacteria could help defeat antibiotic-resistant infections
New technique improves strains of bacteria used to develop medications
New study could revolutionise the way we recycle
Drug-producing bacteria possible with synthetic biology breakthrough
University of Surrey awarded £450,000 in major plastic project
Latest News
05/12/23 Jose gave a talk for the SynBic community at Imperial
09/11/23 Jose has received a BBSRC Pioneer Award to start a new project investigating the central dogma of molecular biology in 3D
07/11/23 Perrine, Alice, Cata, Satya and Daniel presented posters at the Synthetic Biology UK conference in Bristol
05/10/23 We also welcome Iris Gao who will be joining the lab to do her MRes MCB project
01/10/23 We welcome Catalina Cruañas-Pániker who will be joining the lab for a PhD project of the Sustainable Solutions for a Changing Planet cohort
25/09/23 Jose presented for the iGEMx community
01/09/23 Alice won the prize to the best session presentation at the EBNet ECR conference!
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!
On the media
Bendy X-rays and DMT infusions: News from Imperial
‘Trojan horse’ bacteria could help defeat antibiotic-resistant infections
New technique improves strains of bacteria used to develop medications
New study could revolutionise the way we recycle
Drug-producing bacteria possible with synthetic biology breakthrough
University of Surrey awarded £450,000 in major plastic project
Latest News
05/12/23 Jose gave a talk for the SynBic community at Imperial
09/11/23 Jose has received a BBSRC Pioneer Award to start a new project investigating the central dogma of molecular biology in 3D
07/11/23 Perrine, Alice, Cata, Satya and Daniel presented posters at the Synthetic Biology UK conference in Bristol
05/10/23 We also welcome Iris Gao who will be joining the lab to do her MRes MCB project
01/10/23 We welcome Catalina Cruañas-Pániker who will be joining the lab for a PhD project of the Sustainable Solutions for a Changing Planet cohort
25/09/23 Jose presented for the iGEMx community
01/09/23 Alice won the prize to the best session presentation at the EBNet ECR conference!
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!
On the media
Bendy X-rays and DMT infusions: News from Imperial
‘Trojan horse’ bacteria could help defeat antibiotic-resistant infections
New technique improves strains of bacteria used to develop medications
New study could revolutionise the way we recycle
Drug-producing bacteria possible with synthetic biology breakthrough
University of Surrey awarded £450,000 in major plastic project