Synthetic biology for high performance materials

In partnership with the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (DSTL), The University of Manchester (UoM) and SYNBIOCHEM, have launched a series of SynBio initiatives around the development of high performance materials with potential civilian and military...

New Uk – Brazilian collaboration

Harnessing SynBio, metagenomics and bioprocessing to provide alternative routes to high value chemicals. Lignin can be obtained as a by-product of cellulosic ethanol production, and is a potential source of renewable chemicals. Efficient valorisation of lignin is a...

Equipment recycling in Africa

Reynard Spiess who provides Mass Spectrometry support to the SYNBIOCHEM Centre visited the Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology near Nairobi in Kenya earlier this summer. He helped with the installation of Mass Spectrometry equipment donated from the...

ESOF 2016

The SYNBIOCHEM Centre was involved in a number of activities throughout the EuroScience Open Forum which was held in Manchester in July. We joined forces with SYNENERGENE for a science and reflection session on “Synthetic Biology and the new Bio-Industrial...

Ion Mobility MS workshop China

Cunyu Yan was invited to attend the ion mobility mass spectrometry workshop in Shanghai/Beijing, China from 26th to 29th of April. His talk “When ion mobility mass spectrometry meets synthetic biology” simply outlined two major new cutting-edge technologies that have...