Alexander Darlington
apsduk.bsky.social
Alexander Darlington
@apsduk.bsky.social
RAEng Research Fellow and Assistant Prof. in Control and Engineering Biology developing gene circuit design frameworks.
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Modelling dynamic host-pathway interactions at the genome scale with machine learning
doi.org/10.1016/j.ym...
June 27, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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When talk to colleagues, I see a growing interest in the central question of this paper: what if we’ve been designing genetic circuits the wrong way? After all, natural networks *look* very different. This work, which has gone somewhat unnoticed, is one of my favourites! doi.org/10.1162/isal...
March 26, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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Pseudomonas putida joins the Olympus of effective Cell Factories www.nature.com/articles/s41... Not any longer *a promising platform* for metabolic engineering, but a phenomenal, consolidated chassis for programming degradation and synthesis of amazing molecules 😃!
Comprehensive evaluation of the capacities of microbial cell factories - Nature Communications
Constructing an efficient microbial cell factory still requires exploring and selecting various host strains, as well as identifying the best-suited metabolic engineering strategies, which demand sign...
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March 25, 2025 at 8:10 AM
Great start of the year meal with the lab!
January 13, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Are you looking looking to engineer chemical production in batch cultures? In our recent paper with
Ahmad Mannan we show show to design genetic circuits to enhance productivity!
Link: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Design principles for engineering bacteria to maximise chemical production from batch cultures - Nature Communications
Engineering microbial cell factories for chemical manufacture remains challenging due to trade-offs between production and growth. Here, the authors uncover how to design genetic circuits in...
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January 13, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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Really happy to contribute to this fantastic work led by Harman Mehta in collaboration with Rodrigo Ledesma and
@gbstan.bsky.social!! Harman demonstrates that a microbial biosynthetic pathway can be more efficient if divided between two strains 👏🎉🎊 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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January 11, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Are you heading to Synthetic Biology UK? #BiochemEvent #SBUK2024 Unfortunately I am teaching but you can check out three posters from the group! Go and say hi!
November 26, 2024 at 1:46 PM
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4 PhD positions available in my lab. All membranes / biotech focussed with interdisciplinary friends and industry.

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Alan Goddard on LinkedIn: #biotechnology #biotech #phd #aston #industry #microbes #membranes
4 PhDs available in my lab! 1. Midlands Integrative Biosciences Training Partnership https://lnkd.in/etB6FMqC 2. Aston Institute for Membrane…
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November 22, 2024 at 8:55 AM
What happens if you delete the resource-expensive flagella? Published today doi.org/10.1111/1751-7…, Juhyun Kim’s group shows such deletions can create a flexible P putida cell factory!
https://doi.org/10.1111/1751-7…
November 21, 2024 at 11:10 PM
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Risk-averse optimization of genetic circuits under uncertainty
doi.org/10.1101/2024...
November 15, 2024 at 6:20 PM