RRI team update
RRI Post Doctoral Researchers gain University Presidential Fellowships. Dr Barbara Ribeiro Dr Robert Meckin took up his fellowship in the School of Social Sciences in September to work on two research themes concerned with research methodology and technology. The SYNBIOCHEM Centre welcomes 2 new...
Future Biomanufacturing Research Hub
The University of Manchester has been awarded £10 million from UKRI (EPSRC/BBSRC) for a UK-wide biomanufacturing research hub that could pave the way for easier and quicker ways to make new medicines and sustainable energy solutions. The Future BRH led by Professor Nigel, based at...
Metabolic Perceptrons for Neural Computing in Biological Systems
Tremendous progress has recently been made in machine learning including deep learning such that machine learning is now used in many tasks that affect our daily life and is currently making strives regarding our health. Yet, little has been done to interface machine learning with biological...
SYNBITECH2019
Building a multibillion-dollarsynthetic biology industry. Engineering the future with Synthetic Biology. Currently a multi-million dollar industry set to be come a multi-billion dollar industry. The leading synthetic biology conference of 2019 is taking place in London, UK. A diverse panel of...
SHIKIFACTORY: A new EU partnership to deliver high-value compounds
The SYNBIOCHEM Centre is part of an exciting new H2020 EU collaboration, ShikiFactory 100, worth 8 million Euros. This project gathers together 11 partners from 7 countries with the aim to produce over 100 high value compounds from the shikimate pathway, a hub of cell metabolism,...
New biosynthetic pathway for the production of structurally unique antibiotic malonomycin
The Micklefield Lab's latest paper has just been published in Nature Catalysis. The paper describes the discovery of a new biosynthetic pathway, with a highly unusual carboxylase enzyme (MloH), producing a structurally unique antibiotic malonomycin. The new findings might lead to...
International Research Alliance for Antibiotic Discovery and Development Network
SYNBIOCHEM Co-director Eriko Takano is a founding participant in this new network which is one of eight networks awarded funding within the JPIAMR 2018 call for transnational networks “Building the Foundation of the JPIAMR Virtual Research Institute”. Each funded network will receive €50,000 to...
New partnership with SynbiCITE
SynbiCITE launches new five-year strategy. Dedicated to promoting the adoption and use of synthetic biology by industry, SynbiCITE has announded the launch of a new 5-year strategy underpinned by a new £5M grant from UK Research and Innovation and other sources. SynbiCITE 2.0 aims to expand and...
Launch of an IB infra-structure strategy: European recognition for the IBISBA project
IBISBA: Industrial Biotechnology and Synthetic Biology Accelerator SYNBIOCHEM is part of IBISBA 1.0, a H2020 funded infrastructure project that aims to create a pan-European network of research infrastructures that will support research in industrial biotechnology. This project brings together...
Responsible Research and Innovation – A Manchester Perspective.
What is Responsible Research and Innovation? Barbara Ribeiro and Philip Shapira have written a short briefing paper that provides an overview of responsible research and innovation (RRI), with concise highlights about principles of responsibility, the emergence of RRI in the UK and Europe, the...