Paul Freemont
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Co-director of UK Innovation and Knowledge Centre for Synthetic Biology at Imperial College https://t.co/m3qQkjEsmk
London, England
Joined September 2011
First day of GBA2024 opening remarks from Prof Sang Yup Lee KAIST
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New guidelines from uk gov on screening synthetic DNA
gov.uk
Guidance for users and providers involved in the provision, use, and transfer of synthetic nucleic acids and benchtop equipment that synthesises nucleic acids in the UK.
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Game-changing tech to reach the public faster as dedicated new unit launched to curb red tape
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Science Secretary launches new Regulatory Innovation Office today to speed up public access to new technologies.
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NSF is partnering with agencies in the U.S., Canada, Finland, Japan, the Republic of Korea and the U.K. to invest $82 million into six new Global Centers. Each center will harness global talent to discover groundbreaking methods to advance the bioeconomy. https://t.co/P00dwayaIx
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Research Associate - Bioinformatician at Imperial College London
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@caiyizhi giving a fantastic talk on synthetic genomes and safeguards at uk Japan Worksop on synbio @imperialcollege
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Pre-print from our group, @PaulFreemont and @hungenlai90 Biosynthesis of Arcyriaflavin F from Streptomyces venezuelae ATCC 10712
biorxiv.org
Indolocarbazoles are natural products with a broad spectrum of reported bioactivities. A distinct feature of indolocarbazole biosynthesis is the modification of the indole and maleimide rings by...
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This is a great paper on how to screen large numbers for infections .. another fab collaboration driven by @M_Crone from the covid days #pandemic preparedness A standardised, high-throughput approach to diagnostic group testing method validation
medrxiv.org
Background Group testing, combining the samples of multiple patients into a single pool to be tested for infection, is an approach to increase throughput in clinical diagnostic and population testing...
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What a week .. just gave a speech at no 10 at an engineering biology investment networking breakfast organised by by uk @biztradegovuk and @SciTechgovuk .. great mix of people and super exciting developments with UK gov policy on #engbio
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You can still submit evidence to our inquiry on Engineering Biology until 7 May; we're grateful for any contributions from those in the field - find instructions on how to do so below.
NEW: Today, the Committee is launching an inquiry into engineering biology. We want to hear from scientists, industry, policy experts and anyone with a stake in engineering biology. Submit evidence below until Tuesday, 7 May. https://t.co/jDLzS7p1Bo THREAD/ for our questions
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It was such an honour to kick off of the enquiry on engbio along with great colleagues ..
On Tuesday 16 April, starting at 10.15am, we will hold our first evidence session on engineering biology. We'll be hearing from 10.15am: @PaulFreemont Dr Grandellis of @EarlhamInst
@RosserLab 11:15am: @ProfTomEllis
@marucci_lucia Watch live here: https://t.co/qWOKchTK1N
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On Tuesday 16 April, starting at 10.15am, we will hold our first evidence session on engineering biology. We'll be hearing from 10.15am: @PaulFreemont Dr Grandellis of @EarlhamInst
@RosserLab 11:15am: @ProfTomEllis
@marucci_lucia Watch live here: https://t.co/qWOKchTK1N
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It has been a privilege to give evidence to the @LordsSTCom Engineering Biology inquiry with @PaulFreemont @ProfTomEllis @cgrandellis @RosserLab this morning. Written contributions to this inquiry can be submitted by the 7th of May
committees.parliament.uk
The House of Lords Science and Technology Committee is launching an inquiry into engineering biology.
Synthetic biologists in the halls of parliament! Enjoyed the morning giving expert evidence to the @LordsSTCom UK inquiry on Engineering Biology. With @cgrandellis @marucci_lucia - along with earlier appearances from @RosserLab and @PaulFreemont
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Building synthetic chromosomes from natural DNA | Nature Communications
nature.com
Nature Communications - Building synthetic chromosomes from natural components is an unexplored alternative to de novo chromosome synthesis that may have many potential applications. In this paper,...
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The second paper to share today led by Jean Peccoud @peccoud and contributed by many and me. #PLOSCompBio: Ten simple rules for managing laboratory information @PLOSCompBiol
journals.plos.org
Author summary Information is the cornerstone of research, from experimental (meta)data and computational processes to complex inventories of reagents and equipment. These 10 simple rules discuss...
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Check out our latest paper on using CRISPR-associated transposons (CASTs) as a novel gene activation tool. Huge congratulations to @Andrea_Garza_E who led the work! https://t.co/UxXURohHN5
pubs.acs.org
Synthetic perturbation of gene expression is central to our ability to reliably uncover genotype–phenotype relationships in microbes. Here, we present a novel transcription activation strategy that...
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