ARC Centre of Excellence in Synthetic Biology

🎉 We're taking a short break from socials and will be back in January 2025! Thank you for an incredible year – see you soon! 💫

🌱 Twelve Seed Fund Grants Awarded for 2025! These grants will propel groundbreaking research, from horizontal gene transfer for crop resilience to leveraging AI for creating novel synthetic organelles. 🌾🤖 Congratulations to awardees Elena Colombi, Srikanth Kompella, PhD, Jordi Pérez-Gil, Selina Cao, Cagla Ergun Ayva, PhD, Rosemary Gillane, James Heffernan, Sheemal Kumar, Annie Sandrussi, PhD, Henry D. and Taylor Szyszka! 🎉👏 📖 Read the story here: https://lnkd.in/gwDuyD5E #CoESB #SeedFunding #GrantSuccess #OurPeople #SyntheticBiology #Innovation

🌟 Day 2 Highlights from #CoESB24 🌟 The day started with the Industry Career Mentorship Workshop, featuring insightful small-group discussions. A huge thanks to mentors Dr Laura Navone, Dr Josh Silverman, Dr Robert Speight, Prof Adam Perriman, Prof Robert Willows, Yoshiyuki Fujishima, Dr Joel Cherry and Dr Maciej Maselko. An inspiring Welcome to Country by Aunty Joyce set the tone, followed by a welcome by Centre Director Distinguished Professor Ian Paulsen and update on Centre activities and future plans by COO J-L Heylen. 🎙️ Opening Keynote: Associate Professor Harrison Steel from the University of Oxford discussed Cybergenetics: Synthetic Biology meets Robotics and AI. 🤖 🌿 Industry Talk: Dr Louise Brown of HydGene Renewables explored cost-effective green hydrogen production from biowaste. 🎤 EMCR Short Talks: Engaging presentations from Dr Ram Maharjan, Shai Strampel, Dr Ali Jahanian, Felicia Lie, Dr Miao Hu, Dr Huadong Peng (彭华栋), and Farzana Tasum Prity. 💬 EDI Panel: Finding Equilibrium: Juggling Career, Caregiving, and Personal Well-being in Research. Thank you to panellists: Dr Annie Sandrussi, PhD, Dr Angela Chilton, Dr Iniga George, Dr Tim McCubbin, Francisco Peralta and J-L Heylen. 🧪 Keynote: Dr Megan Frisk from Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) on synthetic biology's future in health. ✨ The day ended with a dynamic Poster Session showcasing cutting-edge research! 🖼️ #SyntheticBiology #CoESB #Collaboration #Networking Australian Research Council

🌟 Day 1 Highlights from #CoESB24 🌟 The day kicked off with an exciting EMCR Workshop on machine learning and artificial intelligence applications in synthetic biology, featuring keynote speeches by Dr Katharine Michie, Dr Raphaël Millière and Dr Ani (Anahit) Penesyan. 🤖🔬 This event was brought to you by the EMCR Committee. 👏 The energy continued with a dynamic Poster Session, showcasing innovative research across the Centre. 🖼️✨ The day concluded with a memorable Welcome Dinner sponsored by Australian Genome Foundry and IDEA Bio - Integrated Design Environment for Advanced biomanufacturing, bringing everyone together to connect and celebrate the start of the conference. 🍽️🎉 #SyntheticBiology #CoESB #Collaboration #Networking Australian Research Council

We had an incredible turnout of 228 attendees at this year's CoESB Annual Conference #CoESB24, held from 3–6 December at the Novotel Wollongong Northbeach. 🌊🎉 The event brought together members from all nine of our Centre's academic nodes for four vibrant days filled with inspiring keynote speeches, engaging industry presentations, interactive workshops, and collaborative Think Tank sessions. 💡🤝✨ A heartfelt thank you to our Conference Organising Committee, professional team, keynote and industry speakers, Events with Moore, and on-the-day volunteers for making this a resounding success! 🙌 Special thanks to our generous sponsors for their support. 🌟 💠Diamond Sponsors: Australian Genome Foundry IDEA Bio - Integrated Design Environment for Advanced biomanufacturing 🥇Gold Sponsors: Twist Bioscience and Decode Science 🥈Silver Sponsors: GenScript Asia Pacific/GenScript Shimadzu Scientific Australasia New England Biolabs More photos to come! Australian Research Council #CoESB #AnnualConference #Collaboration #SyntheticBiology

🌟 We are super proud to announce two members from the Centre have been named Superstars of STEM for 2025/2026: Associate Investigator Dr Laura Navone of Eden Brew and Dr Paige Erpf of Macquarie University. The program, organised by Science & Technology Australia, empowers participants to share their story and their work with general audiences by equipping them with advanced communications skills and an understanding of traditional media, social media and storytelling. 🔬💬 Congratulations to all the Superstars of STEM! Read the story here 👉 https://lnkd.in/gkDaVaBa #CoESB #SuperstarsofSTEM #WomeninSTEMM #OurPeople #SyntheticBiology #SyntheticBiologist #ScienceCommunications Macquarie University Natural Sciences

Hi everyone, We are excited to invite you to our #second #PrecisionPint at Hiker Brewing! Join us on Thursday, 19 December 2024, to learn more about beer and #fermentation while enjoying a local brew. The master brewer will guide you through the beer brewing #process, and UQ #researchers will discuss their work on #precisionfermentation and bioreactor modelling. Come join us for an open, relaxed discussion on how this technology is revolutionizing the world of #food and #beverages. Event Details: Date: 19 December 2024 at 5pm Location: Hiker Brewing, 81 Pentex Street Salisbury 4107 Please RSVP by scanning the QR code on the poster or via link: https://lnkd.in/gEumNgYr We look forward to seeing you there! Best regards, IDEA Bio

✨Our students shone once again in the ARC Centre of Excellence in Synthetic Biology Annual Conference by winning the following awards🏆 : • Poster Prize (People’s Choice): Micaela Belen Sequeira • Best Talk (First Prize): Roxane Mutschler • Outreach Excellence: Mica Fiorito • Mid-Term Review Stars: Francisco Peralta and Mica Fiorito #QUT #QUTResearch #QUTScience #HDRexcellence #syntheticbiology

Greetings from #Wollongong in the down under! Fantastic and responsive audience at the ARC Centre of Excellence in Synthetic Biology Annual Meeting. I shared the advancements of our #CRP22 programme on: 🧫PET-degrading enzyme screening using our #nPET proprietary technology by Keerthi sundar Pinchi Rupali Reddy 🦠Engineering of #cyanobacteria to convert CO2 to PET-degrading enzymes by Sara Kabirnataj Parth Patankar 📚Engineering of cellulose-producing bacteria #Komagateibacter to convert #plastic2paper by Jingyuan Wang More than 200 attendees with a nice balance between industry and academic talks by scientists 👩🔬👨🔬🧑🔬from different career stages - not to mention the scientific comedians 🎭 Thanks @IanPaulsen for the invitation and Stephanie Sng and @Thi Huynh for the hospitality!

Awesome first day at #CoESB2024. A series of talks addressing the key challenges around commercialising synthetic biology-based innovation today at the ARC Centre of Excellence in Synthetic Biology annual conference in Wollongong, and a call out for the Wild Yeast Zoo from Director Ian Paulsen as a new affiliate of the centre. Louise Brown from HydGene Renewables addressed how they are getting from lab to market with local use of agricultural and other biological "waste", and Ali Jahanian laid out the key engineering issues with scaling biomanufacturing. A great introduction to our Think Tank discussion on transdisciplinarity and the difficulties around scaling in this vital and growing sector. #SyntheticBiology #InnovationToMarket #Biomanufacturing #Transdisciplinarity #Bioeconomy