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Ákos T Kovács @evolvedbiofilm.bsky.social · 8d

Two postdoc positions with @ajfedorec.bsky.social: one computational and one wetlab, for a 5 year grant on synthetic microbial communities

Research Fellow in Computational Synthetic Biology
www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

Research Fellow in Synthetic Biology
www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

#PostDoc

UCL – University College London

UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

www.ucl.ac.uk

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Alex Fedorec @ajfedorec.bsky.social · 9d

The advert for the second (wetlab) postdoc is now live www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

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Thomas Gorochowski @chofski.bsky.social · 14d

🥳Excited to share our latest collaborative work using whole-cell models and #AI to design genomes!🦠🧬 What a time to be alive! Project led by Ioana Gherman, with Kieren Sharma, Joshua Rees-Garbutt, Claire Grierson, Lucia Marucci, Wei Pang & Zahraa Abdallah #synbio authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

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Alex Fedorec @ajfedorec.bsky.social · 14d

Ioana was super generous last year helping one of my masters students use this for a project

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LondonSynbioNetwork @londonsynbio.bsky.social · 21d

🎉 London SynBio Network is back! Join us on 25th of September.

🧬 Surpassing Nature – Metabolic engineering for novel biological CO2 fixation routes
Ari Satanowski

💐 Open Flower: designer flowers for art and education
Nick Desnoyer

➡️ Register at: events.humanitix.com/london-synbi...

London SynBio Network 10

London SynBio afterwork talks and networking event on Thursday 25th of September

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Alex Fedorec @ajfedorec.bsky.social · 27d

The advert for the first of these positions (computational/mathematical synbio) is live!

www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

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Alex Fedorec @ajfedorec.bsky.social · 28d

Only 2 days left to submit abstracts and get the early registration discount!

#synbio

Biochemical Society @biochemsoc.bsky.social · Jul 29

Join us in London for the 10th anniversary of SynBio UK, the premier conference for synthetic and engineering biology. Submit your abstract for consideration as a poster or oral communication and register before 12 September to save £50 🧪 : www.eventsforce.net/biochemsoc/2...

Scientific Meeting Synthetic Biology UK London, UK 12-13 November 2025 Earlybird deadline 12 September 2025

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Engineering Biology Interdisciplinary Research Centre @engbioirc.bsky.social · Sep 4

SynBio UK London 2025. Submit your abstract and register before 12 September for earlybird discount.

Biochemical Society @biochemsoc.bsky.social · Jul 29

Join us in London for the 10th anniversary of SynBio UK, the premier conference for synthetic and engineering biology. Submit your abstract for consideration as a poster or oral communication and register before 12 September to save £50 🧪 : www.eventsforce.net/biochemsoc/2...

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Biochemical Society @biochemsoc.bsky.social · Jul 29

Join us in London for the 10th anniversary of SynBio UK, the premier conference for synthetic and engineering biology. Submit your abstract for consideration as a poster or oral communication and register before 12 September to save £50 🧪 : www.eventsforce.net/biochemsoc/2...

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Alex Fedorec @ajfedorec.bsky.social · Aug 15

A scientist so dedicated they used up all their own hair on this project

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Alex Fedorec @ajfedorec.bsky.social · Aug 13

- 3.5 year postdoc developing mathematical and computational (machine learning) approaches for designing synthetic communities and learning about their structure from data
- 18 month research associate developing lab automation approaches for accessible, high-throughput co-culturing.

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Alex Fedorec @ajfedorec.bsky.social · Aug 13

- 3 year (+ 2 years possible) postdoc developing the molecular and microbiology tools for rapid, modular assembly of synthetic communities

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Alex Fedorec @ajfedorec.bsky.social · Aug 13

I'm going to be advertising for a few positions in my group in the next couple of months for a big project on synthetic microbial communities.

I would love to hear from you if you are interested and I'd also appreciate if everyone could share this far and wide!

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Alex Fedorec @ajfedorec.bsky.social · Jul 17

And of course there will be loads of time for catching up with (and meeting new) friends and colleagues!

Alex Fedorec @ajfedorec.bsky.social · Jul 17

We are also lucky enough to host a panel session on the Policy and Innovation Landscape with incredible R&D thought leaders and policy experts.

For Early Career attendees, we have a careers panel session with academics and industry scientists covering a diversity of backgrounds and career paths.

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Alex Fedorec @ajfedorec.bsky.social · Jul 17

We have an amazing selection of invited speakers - Karen Polizzi, Brenda Parker, Andreas Walther, Lucia Marucci, John Heap, Sarah Guiziou, Dongsoo Yang, Scott Allen, Dana Heldt, and Rodrigo Ledesma-Amaro, PhD

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Alex Fedorec @ajfedorec.bsky.social · Jul 17

#synbio folks, come and join us for the 10th annual Biochemical Society Synthetic Biology UK conference in London this November.

www.eventsforce.net/biochemsoc/f...

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Alex Fedorec @ajfedorec.bsky.social · Jun 25

Do you know how they get past the no-mans land between 50um diffusion limit and the 300um size threshold?

Alex Fedorec @ajfedorec.bsky.social · May 12

Join us in London (12-13 November) for the 10th anniversary of SynBio UK, the premier conference for synthetic and engineering biology.

Organised this year by @biochemsoc.bsky.social and colleagues at @ucl.ac.uk.

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#synbio

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LondonSynbioNetwork @londonsynbio.bsky.social · Apr 16

Join us Apr. 24th, 6pm @ Imperial Royal School of Mines

🦠 Microbial consortia for plastic upcycling
Javier Molpeceres (CIB-CSIC)

🧑‍🔬‍🔬 OpenCloning: a credible Open Source alternative to SnapGene and Benchling that supports automation
Dr. Manuel Lera Ramirez (UCL)

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London SynBio Network 8

London SynBio afterwork talks and networking event on Thursday 24th of April

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Alex Fedorec @ajfedorec.bsky.social · Mar 10

This is a really crushing piece on the way in which disability is vilified and the government perspective that productive work is the only thing of moral value

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

There is a shameful tradition of demonising disabled people. Why is Labour reigniting it? | Frances Ryan

Ministers run away from a wealth tax and then concoct a punitive benefits system. They have made that choice and it’s immoral, says Guardian columnist Frances Ryan

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Thomas Gorochowski @chofski.bsky.social · Feb 1

Looking for a #PhD that is at the intersection of #biodesign, #synbio, #openendedness, #evolution? Look no further. Great supervisory team too 😉

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Alex Fedorec @ajfedorec.bsky.social · Jan 24

My department @ucl-cdb.bsky.social, is looking to hire a lecturer (assistant prof equivalent) in computational cell biology

www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

UCL – University College London

UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

www.ucl.ac.uk

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Alex Fedorec @ajfedorec.bsky.social · Jan 22

I got reviewer comments back for a big grant today. Is "in E. Coli" going to be the new "in mice" for synthetic biology work?

I should say it's a fair comment for my synthetic community work, but this proposal is already so extensive that to then say we'll include more species feels crazy

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Alex Fedorec @ajfedorec.bsky.social · Jan 15

NERC funded PhD project with Tom Fayle and myself to study the impacts of anthropogenic change on ecosystems using synthetic microbial communities and agent based modelling

www.trees-dla.ac.uk/projects/exp...
Short deadline (20th Jan)

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Exploring the impacts of anthropogenic change on networks using microbial microcosms | TREES DLA

Humans are rapidly altering natural ecosystems, often resulting in fragmentation of remaining habitats. While consequent reductions in species richness and changes in composition are now well document...

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