Not sure if that's what @biochemsoc.bsky.social had in mind when asking us to share our conference experience with the tags #BiochemEvent and #SBUK2025, but here comes my humorous SKETCH of this week's London gathering

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Not sure if that's what @biochemsoc.bsky.social had in mind when asking us to share our conference experience with the tags #BiochemEvent and #SBUK2025, but here comes my humorous SKETCH of this week's London gathering

open.substack.com/pub/ksechkar...

In case you wanted to keep up with SynBio news but don't like the weekend read format, you can now classify my sketch as a weekday read instead

Thrilled to have attended this week's iGEM Jamboree - full of amazing teams, brilliant research and indomitable SynBio optimisim

But even if you couldn't come, you can still watch me embarass myself by trying to write it up as a satirical sketch (link in the next post)

Exciting times in UK EngBio governance!
-Debate on the House of Lords' EngBio report (we submitted evidence for that, wow!) shorturl.at/bJHUE
-New Science & Technology framework shorturl.at/cZkGG
-EngBio Aspirations Report shorturl.at/F9dj0
Won't post all my precious thoughts, but hope one is OK 1/6

NEW PREPRINT! Do you think we can do better when characterising resource competition properties of gene circuit modules? If no, think again; if yes, you’re in for a pitch how exactly we can do that – automated culturing, cybergenetic control and all! 1/
doi.org/10.1101/2025...

NEW PREPRINT! Do you think we can do better when characterising resource competition properties of gene circuit modules? If no, think again; if yes, you’re in for a pitch how exactly we can do that – automated culturing, cybergenetic control and all! 1/
doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Our paper on countering mutations in engineered cell populations has now been published with @royalsocietypublishing.org ! Come for our biomolecular controller that mitigates mutation spread, stay for resource-aware gene circuit design and modelling tools 1/10

doi.org/10.1098/rsif.2024.0602

Great to see the points highlighted by our lab’s submission – such as the need for long-term funding and developing robust standards – in the House of Lords Engineering Biology report! The work to make the UK a leader has been astutely laid out, now let’s get going
tinyurl.com/33xuh2er

#SBUK2024 conference : The Day After, or a few posters I saw

-Synthetic genes on the same plasmid compete for resources between themselves more than with chromosomal genes. Looks like something we should investigate - and @boccola.bsky.social from Imperial is

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Some exciting results to share! The MagLOV and related proteins from @andrewgyork.bsky.social and @mariaingaramo.bsky.social are quantum. We measured 4% optically detected magnetic resonance contrast in living bacterial cells at room temperature. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

The Biochemical Society's #SBUK2024 conference: Day 2

Starting in a few minutes with a session on Control Systems, which among other things includes 2 (two!) talks from our Steel Lab

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#SBUK2024 is about to begin! Let's see what exciting new research the next two days have in store... #BiochemEvent 1/many