📢 #CoESB25 Keynote Speaker Announcement. We're pleased to announce Dr Michelle Perugini @DrMPerugini as a keynote speaker at the CoESB Annual Conference 2025!. Dr Michelle Perugini is an accomplished entrepreneur, AI leader, and expert in research commercialisation, with deep

Centre researchers from our @QUT node have successfully secured a prestigious $1.2 million Australia's Economic Accelerator (AEA) Innovate Grant to bring their research closer to market. The grant will support an advanced manufacturing project which harnesses #syntheticbiology,

RT @BioplatformsAus: 🚨 Now open! The NCRIS Synthetic Biology Voucher Scheme offers up to $50K Primary and $25K Secondary matched funding to….

Congratulations to Chief Investigator Professor Brett Neilan, Dr Leanne Pearson and their team from University of Newcastle on being awarded a $718,476 Australian Research Council (@arc_gov_au) Linkage Grant! 🎉 . 👉 Read the full story here:

In two weeks' time, we'll bid farewell to Roxane Mutschler as she submits her PhD, and heads off to Europe for her next big adventure. 🌍. Roxane has made amazing contributions to the team at @QUT, and has been a valued member the Centre. Bon voyage, Roxane! ✈️✨

📢#CoESB25 Keynote Speaker Announcement. We're pleased to welcome Dr Ezhil Subbian, Chief Executive Officer of @StringBio!. As one of the world leaders in gas fermentation, String’s proprietary platform enables biomanufacturing of sustainable ingredients from greenhouse gases,

Students from regional and rural areas got a taste of #syntheticbiology at MQ InRoads 2025, an event organised by @Macquarie_Uni #WideningParticipation! . We had a space food station making 3D-printed "sushi" 🍣, a DNA jewellery making experience, and explained how synthetic

Fantastic to be a part of the #ProteomePioneers event at @Macquarie_Uni this week, celebrating 30 years of the Australian Proteome Analysis Facility #APAF! 🎉. The event featured insightful seminars, including one by Distinguished Professor of Glycoproteomics Nicki Packer, also

We work hard, we play hard!. Our @QUT (Queensland University of Technology) SynBio team got together last week for a friendly game of #lasertag. 🏃🔫. #CoESB #OurPeople #SyntheticBiology @arc_gov_au

@SynBioNaut @Macquarie_Uni @MQAppBioSci.

🚀 Meet Our Centre Startups: EntoZyme with Dr Maciej Maselko @SynBioNaut. #EntoZyme is transforming sustainable #wastemanagement and #biomanufacturing industries with the use of transgenic Black Soldier Flies. 🪰♻️. Some footage sourced from #openplanet . #SyntheticBiology

What do protein cages and punchlines have in common? Just ask Felicia Lie, a PhD student at @Sydney_Uni @SydneyChemistry and member of the ARC Centre of Excellence in Synthetic Biology, who took to the stage at The @Syd_Comedy_Fest 2025 as part of @ScienceTalksAU. 🎭 Read the

✨#CoESB25 Sponsor Spotlight ✨. We're pleased to welcome back @ShimadzuAusNZ as a Silver Sponsor of the CoESB Annual Conference 2025!. Since its inception in 1875, Shimadzu’s philosophy has been to apply its thinking ‘for the well-being of humankind and the Earth’. That means

#Levur, a startup launched from the ARC Centre of Excellence in Synthetic Biology and based at @Macquarie_Uni, has raised $1.2m in pre-seed funding to take its #syntheticbiology platform to market. Read the story: @arc_gov_au.

📢 The UK’s @ARIA_research has awarded a major international grant to @Macquarie_Uni researchers to develop synthetic chromosomes for agricultural crops in a bid to advance global food production systems. 🌱🧬 . 👉The story: @arc_gov_au.

How do Australians justify their support or opposition to advanced genetic technologies? 💭A recent national study by @CSIRO and @ourANU, led by Dr Henry Dixson, delved into participants’ thought processes and revealed two dominant public narratives. 👉 Learn more:.

Families of sugar cane growers got a taste of science in action at the Sweet Days, Hot Nights Festival in Burdekin, Queensland, where researchers from The @UQ_News and @QUT nodes of our Centre brought #syntheticbiology to life with hands-on exhibits and inspiring conversations.

📢 We are proud to share a new report published in Australia’s #bioeconomy. The report, published by Madeline Smith, Professor Ian O'Hara, and Dr Jerome Ramirez, researchers from @QUT (Queensland University of Technology), calls for a national strategy and outlines the five key

More than 130 members from @arc_gov_au Centres of Excellence across Australia came together for two days of open, honest and impactful conversations on equity, diversity, inclusion, and leadership in #STEM. Read our InSTEM report:

We recently had the pleasure of hosting the Japan Bioindustry Association and #syntheticbiology startup Fermelanta, Inc. at our office and labs in #MacquarieUniversity to exchange information, and explore collaborative opportunities in synthetic biology between #Japan and