Ellis

The Ellis Lab is actively involved in advancing foundational synthetic biology and applying synthetic biology to a variety of different research areas. Our research is interdisciplinary, with members coming from biology, chemistry, maths and engineering backgrounds. The laboratory is part of the UK Flowers Consortium for synthetic biology infrastructure and is based in CSynBI, The Centre for Synthetic Biology and Innovation and The Department of Bioengineering at Imperial College, London. The major focuses of the lab are studying the construction of regulatory networks and understanding how to build a designer genome from parts.

Follow Tom Ellis on Twitter at @drtomellis

Monthly News

• Sep 2015: Ben, Francesca, Charlie, Will and Tom will all be presenting at Synthetic Biology UK 2015 in London Sept 1-3
• Aug 2015: Tom will be attending the YEASTCELL Summer School in Frankfurt this month.
• Jul 2015: Dejana, Tom and Rob are presenting progress at the 2015 Synthetic Genomes Conference in New York.
• Jun 2015: Our paper on DNA Assembly Methods and Standards is out in Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology
• May 2015: Check out the recap of our recent PLoS SynBio webchat
• Apr 2015: Francesca & Rhys' paper on measuring burden and optimising constructs design is online at Nature Methods

Ceroni et al. Nature Methods

• Mar 2015: Our work on engineered yeast was presented to BBSRC CEO Jackie Hunter & UK Chief Scientist Mark Wolpert and will be presented at BYG2015 on March 26
• Feb 2015: Both Arturo and Elena passed their PhD vivas. Well done guys!
• Jan 2015: Francesca presents on 26th at Lorentz Centre workshop on Integrative Cell Models
• Dec 2014: Ben Reeve is presenting Aqualose at Biofabricate in New York
• Nov 2014: Our awesome iGEM team Aqualose is 2nd best in the world. Congratulations!
• Oct 2014: Welcoming 3 lab new members: Charlie Gilbert, Will Shaw and Robert Chen.
• Sep 2014: Ben Reeve's book chapter on Synthetic Biology & Bioluminescence is out
• Aug 2014: Dejana's paper on the Sc2.0 synthetic yeast project is in Bioessays
• Jul 2014: Francesca and Tom are both speakers at the SEED2014 Conference in L.A. on 15th July.
• Jun 2014: Ollie's GeneGuard Plasmid System paper is published in ACS Synthetic Biology.
• May 2014: Tom has been awarded a prestigious EPSRC Engineering Fellowship from 2015 to 2020.
• Apr 2014: The SB6.0 Issue of ACS Synthetic Biology is now out, edited by Tom and Yizhi Cai.
• Mar 2014: Arturo's paper on R2o DNA Designer Software is out in ACS Synthetic Biology
• Feb 2014: Read about how our Sc2.0 project is a landmark in UK genomics research.
• Jan 2014: Arturo and Tom will both be speaking at the Symposium on Synthetic Biology on Jan 10th.
• Dec 2013: Tom Ellis will be the guest speaker at the Henrietta Barnett School on Dec 17th.
• Nov 2013: Tom, Francesca and Ollie will all be attending Towards Next Generation Synthetic Biology in Warwick
• Oct 2013: Arturo's paper on modular overlap DNA assembly is published in Nucleic Acids Research
• Sep 2013: Rhys's model that captures translation burden is now up on ArXiv QBio
• Aug 2013: Our paper on Spinach RNA aptamer for characterising gene expression is now out in ACS Synthetic Biology
• Jul 2013: We are looking forward to welcoming the synthetic biology world to Imperial for the SB6.0 Conference and the 2nd annual synthetic yeast genome meeting.
• Jun 2013: Our PNAS paper from our collaboration with Xiao Wang's lab at ASU is published
• May 2013: Tom Ellis will be speaking at the GARNET Synthetic Biology workshop on May 22nd.
• Apr 2013: Ollie's review on Building-in Biosafety for Synthetic Biology is published online in Microbiology.
• Mar 2013: Ben Blount and Tom Ellis will be speaking at the British Yeast Group Meeting, Nottingham, Mar 20th.
• Feb 2013: Welcoming Joshua Smit, Joachim de Jonge and Thomas Hargest to the Ellis Lab
• Jan 2013: Welcoming Dr Francesca Ceroni to our group.

For older news please see Ellis:Archive

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