Tom Ellis
@proftomellis.bsky.social
Synthetic Biology & Synthetic Genomics @ Imperial College London and the Sanger Institute. Bilingual in English and DNA. Views are either my own or my microbes'
Most interesting point was a decision to not allow any school teams. Why? High school teams with impressive coaching and funding from China have become a mainstay in iGEM, but their participation often feels more like a private business model for CV points than genuine projects.
November 11, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Most interesting point was a decision to not allow any school teams. Why? High school teams with impressive coaching and funding from China have become a mainstay in iGEM, but their participation often feels more like a private business model for CV points than genuine projects.
Recommendation letters are academia's cryptocurrency. Panels mostly don't care what you actually write, they just want 'proof of work'.
November 7, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Recommendation letters are academia's cryptocurrency. Panels mostly don't care what you actually write, they just want 'proof of work'.
In the paper, @jazzsynbio.bsky.social
looks at how microbe and host engineering helps study holobionts of interests and the engineering challenges for going further. He gives a spotlight to some cool systems like lichen and hydra that could have future applications. www.cell.com/trends/biote...
looks at how microbe and host engineering helps study holobionts of interests and the engineering challenges for going further. He gives a spotlight to some cool systems like lichen and hydra that could have future applications. www.cell.com/trends/biote...
New articles: Trends in Biotechnology
www.cell.com
October 23, 2025 at 10:09 AM
In the paper, @jazzsynbio.bsky.social
looks at how microbe and host engineering helps study holobionts of interests and the engineering challenges for going further. He gives a spotlight to some cool systems like lichen and hydra that could have future applications. www.cell.com/trends/biote...
looks at how microbe and host engineering helps study holobionts of interests and the engineering challenges for going further. He gives a spotlight to some cool systems like lichen and hydra that could have future applications. www.cell.com/trends/biote...
Holobionts are fascinating, and a topic of study for the
@leverhulme.ac.uk Centre for Holobiont Research
here at @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social - broadly speaking they are a host organism whose life cycle is dependent on a community of other organisms, often microbes.
@leverhulme.ac.uk Centre for Holobiont Research
here at @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social - broadly speaking they are a host organism whose life cycle is dependent on a community of other organisms, often microbes.
October 23, 2025 at 10:09 AM
Holobionts are fascinating, and a topic of study for the
@leverhulme.ac.uk Centre for Holobiont Research
here at @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social - broadly speaking they are a host organism whose life cycle is dependent on a community of other organisms, often microbes.
@leverhulme.ac.uk Centre for Holobiont Research
here at @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social - broadly speaking they are a host organism whose life cycle is dependent on a community of other organisms, often microbes.
Reposted by Tom Ellis
Latest issue of curated #engineeredlivingmaterials feed:
biomed.news/bims-enlima/... #ELMs
via @biomednews.bsky.social
includes research on: boolean logic-gated protein presentation (h/t @coledeforest.bsky.social), bacterial grown living materials (h/t @proftomellis.bsky.social) & more 🧪
biomed.news/bims-enlima/... #ELMs
via @biomednews.bsky.social
includes research on: boolean logic-gated protein presentation (h/t @coledeforest.bsky.social), bacterial grown living materials (h/t @proftomellis.bsky.social) & more 🧪
Boolean logic-gated protein presentation through autonomously compiled molecular topology - Nature Chemical Biology
Programming stimulus responsiveness into living systems enables advanced biocomputation. Here, the authors autonomously compile proteins with defined topology that can be site-specifically tethered to and conditionally released from biomaterials and cells following user-specified Boolean logic.
www.nature.com
October 12, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Latest issue of curated #engineeredlivingmaterials feed:
biomed.news/bims-enlima/... #ELMs
via @biomednews.bsky.social
includes research on: boolean logic-gated protein presentation (h/t @coledeforest.bsky.social), bacterial grown living materials (h/t @proftomellis.bsky.social) & more 🧪
biomed.news/bims-enlima/... #ELMs
via @biomednews.bsky.social
includes research on: boolean logic-gated protein presentation (h/t @coledeforest.bsky.social), bacterial grown living materials (h/t @proftomellis.bsky.social) & more 🧪
Loved the bit about ‘See It Say It Sorted.’ My 4 year old is convinced it is “See It Say It Sausage” and even shouts that on the train when the announcement is made. I can never unhear it.
October 8, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Loved the bit about ‘See It Say It Sorted.’ My 4 year old is convinced it is “See It Say It Sausage” and even shouts that on the train when the announcement is made. I can never unhear it.
astly I also want to shout-out to Morgane Boone and Nico Callewaert whose SECRiFY project at VIB Ghent gave us lots of the inspiration for this work. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
August 19, 2025 at 7:30 PM
astly I also want to shout-out to Morgane Boone and Nico Callewaert whose SECRiFY project at VIB Ghent gave us lots of the inspiration for this work. www.nature.com/articles/s41...