Ciarán Kelly

Just home from a cracking couple of days down at the @aria-research.bsky.social Programmable Plants creator event down in Harrogate. Really interesting sessions working with amazing plant scientists on bold bets, visions for the 2050 and how to translate our work into real world impact! #gainsbio

Brilliant to have @rochelleaw.bsky.social back in the UK and starting up her group at Nottingham. Doing really cool cell-free glycosylated protein production. #sbuk #sbuk2025

Great talk by Sarah Guiziou on all of the amazing things integrases can be used for to study and engineer plant roots. And how to engineer root-microbe interactions #sbuk #sbuk2025

Matt Rogan talking us through the engineering of Geobacillus this morning #sbuk2025 #sbuk

Policy and Innovation Panel discussion underway. Lots of questions from the audience. No easy answers to solving the training, policy, scale up and engagement challenges that still exist around Engineering Biology #sbuk2025 #sbuk

Really impressive talk on artificial cells and all the behaviours that can be built up inside them using DNA by @waltherlab.bsky.social #sbuk2025 #sbuk

And we're off with an overview of a decade of Synthetic Biology UK conferences by the amazing Karen Polizzi #sbuk25 #sbuk2025 #syntheticbiology #synbio #engineeringbiology

You live in the future!

Delighted to be one of the 14 Seed Creators in the @aria-research.bsky.social Programmable Plants opportunity space!

Smart bacteria could transform global agricultural food production With the global population expected to reach 10 billion by 2050 and crop yields declining annually, a team of academics from Northumbria University is developing a revolutionary new approach to food s...

Delighted to announce that we are one of 14 ARIA Seed Creators in the Programmable Plants space!

We're engineering bacteria as smart conduits between the plant & environment, reprogramming crops in the field, to respond appropriately to moderate stress.

www.northumbria.ac.uk/about-us/new...

A genetic toolbox for the high-resolution engineering of the plant growth-promoting agricultural bacterium Azospirillum brasilense. Azospirillum brasilense is an important plant-growth promoting bacterium found in the rhizosphere and used extensively in commercial agriculture. It is an attractive candidate for use in the developme...

New preprint out today: doi.org/10.1101/2025...

In it we tackle making our favourite plant-growth promoting bacterium engineerable, with lots of useful genetic tools #synbio #syntheticbiology #engineeringbiology

The Production and Polymerisation of Bio-Based C2-C4 Diols for Industrial Applications. at Northumbria University on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - The Production and Polymerisation of Bio-Based C2-C4 Diols for Industrial Applications. at Northumbria University, listed on FindAPhD.com

Hi all, I have a fully-funded, four-year PhD studentship opportunity in my group: www.findaphd.com/phds/project.... This is Synthetic Biology first and foremost, looking at replacing oil-derived diols, which are really important industrial monomers used in thousands of the objects we use every day.

What a picture! 😀 Great to come down. Thanks again!

Developing High Affinity Metal Chelating Peptides through Synthetic Biology and Computational Design at Procter & Gamble on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - Developing High Affinity Metal Chelating Peptides through Synthetic Biology and Computational Design at Procter & Gamble, listed on FindAPhD.com

I have an exciting PhD position available in my group in collaboration with P&G, combining Synthetic Biology & Computational Biology to develop novel metal-binding peptides to replace non-biodegradable chemicals. #synbio #syntheticbiology #engineeringbiology
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