Indra Roux

Excited to share our latest research in @NatureMicrobiol . We uncover hundreds of inhibitory interactions between common chemical pollutants and human gut bacteria. @kiran_r_patil @MRC_TU A thread🧵(1/10) nature.com/articles/s4156…

Due to increased interest we are extending the submission deadline for poster abstracts to 10 April! ⬇️Download poster submission form: engbio.cam.ac.uk/files/engbio_s…

Join us at the yearly EngBio IRC Symposium, bringing together the Cambridge Engineering Biology community for an afternoon of cutting-edge science, collaboration, and networking. We are inviting abstract submissions for posters and short talks, with exciting prizes!🛠️🧬

@DrWigley Great points @DrWigley, and cool application! We cover combinatorial exploration and metabolic modelling to help find the right bugs, and also adaptive laboratory evolution to optimise strains without the GE classification, a useful alternative easier on strain regulation indeed.

@IndraRoux is a big challenge. GE approaches may also have pushback for us 2/2

One of the biggest challenges in microbial biotechnology? Unlocking the potential of non-model microbes and synthetic communities! Glad to share our review with Sonja Blasche @SimoMozzachiodi @kiran_r_patil @MRC_TU🧵 (1/7) doi.org/10.1016/j.copb…

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REVIEW:Emerging functions of microbial consortia used for biotechnological applications such as food production, material synthesis, compound production and probiotic or therapeutic applications by Blasche et al. 👇 @IndraRoux sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Microbial communities can offer capabilities beyond single strains: open fermentation, high resilience, use of raw substrates. Realising their biotechnological potential will need tools,standards and cross-disciplinary research, we hope this review contributes to that direction(7

Lastly, we map future steps to make microbial communities more “technology ready”, from gaps in mechanistic understanding, to practical barriers -such as the lack of repositories for mixed-culture stocks of ‘type’ communities- (6/7)

🧬🧫 EngBio ECRs Meetup is back! 📅 Mon 16 Feb | ⏰ 12pm 📍 Postdoc Centre Mill Lane Two great talks on capsid proteins & RNA organelles in bacteria from Daniela Gjorgjevikj and Brian Ng 🎟️ Sign Up at buytickets.at/engineeringbio… #EngBio #ECRs #RNA #bacteria #CapsidProteins

New online! Pollutants disrupt gut microbiota nature.com/articles/s4157…

@NatureRevMicro Thanks for highlighting our recent article, open access at nature.com/articles/s4156…

Out Now! Surface expression of antitoxin on engineered bacteria neutralizes genotoxic colibactin in the gut bit.ly/4pXYrCe #Microbiology #Bacteria #Genotoxicity

I spent 1.5 years at MIT co-designing a new undergrad program in Genetic Engineering. The full report is now publicly available. It describes what needs to be built to educate the next generation, and why. Appendix II includes notes from interviews with 100+ biotech company CEOs and scientists about what they look for in new hires. Appendix III includes a huge analysis of all existing curricula in biotechnology and genetic engineering globally. It also features dozens of photos from my visits to biotechnology centers across the U.S., Europe, and Asia. Hopefully this will be a useful resource for educators looking to adapt or expand their curriculums, too.

Really nice conference, I attended in 2024 and had a great experience. One very cool thing about Wellcome events is that virtual delegates based in Lower and Middle-Income Countries can register for free. Highly recommend! #SynBio

New PhD student in the Willis Lab, Alex Chalk will be sharing his work on a new laboratory method called CLEAR-Time ddPCR that measures exactly what happens to DNA after gene editing.

EngBio ECRs Meetup is coming up next Monday 8 Dec. We have limited spaces left. Sign up to hear great talks from Alexander Chalk and Gareth Girling. Hope to see you there. Talk details and register here 👉buytickets.at/engineeringbio…