Just home from a cracking couple of days down at the @aria-research.bsky.social Programmable Plants creator event down in Harrogate. Really interesting sessions working with amazing plant scientists on bold bets, visions for the 2050 and how to translate our work into real world impact! #gainsbio
Great talk by Sarah Guiziou on all of the amazing things integrases can be used for to study and engineer plant roots. And how to engineer root-microbe interactions #sbuk #sbuk2025
Really impressive talk on artificial cells and all the behaviours that can be built up inside them using DNA by @waltherlab.bsky.social #sbuk2025 #sbuk
Policy and Innovation Panel discussion underway. Lots of questions from the audience. No easy answers to solving the training, policy, scale up and engagement challenges that still exist around Engineering Biology #sbuk2025 #sbuk
Brilliant to have @rochelleaw.bsky.social back in the UK and starting up her group at Nottingham. Doing really cool cell-free glycosylated protein production. #sbuk #sbuk2025
Ciarán Kelly
Ciarán Kelly
Ciarán Kelly
Ciarán Kelly
Ciarán Kelly
Matt Rogan talking us through the engineering of Geobacillus this morning #sbuk2025 #sbuk
Delighted to be one of the 14 Seed Creators in the @aria-research.bsky.social Programmable Plants opportunity space!
Delighted to announce that we are one of 14 ARIA Seed Creators in the Programmable Plants space!
We're engineering bacteria as smart conduits between the plant & environment, reprogramming crops in the field, to respond appropriately to moderate stress.
www.northumbria.ac.uk/about-us/new...
New preprint out today: doi.org/10.1101/2025...
In it we tackle making our favourite plant-growth promoting bacterium engineerable, with lots of useful genetic tools #synbio #syntheticbiology #engineeringbiology
Ciarán Kelly
Ciarán Kelly
Azospirillum brasilense is an important plant-growth promoting bacterium found in the rhizosphere and used extensively in commercial agriculture. It is an attractive candidate for use in the developme...
With the global population expected to reach 10 billion by 2050 and crop yields declining annually, a team of academics from Northumbria University is developing a revolutionary new approach to food s...
From landmine-clearing plants to leveraging stochasticity in synthetic biology, discover the opportunity seeds we’re funding in Programmable Plants 🌱 link.aria.org.uk/PPoppseeds
Programmable plants could secure our future on Earth, providing not just food, but a sustainable and thriving biosphere for future generations. We're offering up to £500k for proposals in this area.
