• Dec 2017; A synthetic biology special issue of Current Opinion in Chemical Biology edited by Tom and Mike Jewett is now out.
• Nov 2017; Charlie and Rodrigo will both be presenting at SBUK 2017 in Manchester
• Oct 2017; Tom and Olivier will both be presenting at CRI Paris’ 10Y iGEM even
• Sep 2017; Welcome Dr. Rodrigo Ledesma-Amaro, who will run his IC Research Fellowship from our group.
• Aug 2017; Our latest work on burden is up on BioRxiv – exciting preprints from Olivier and Francesca
• July 2017; Charlie and Viv will be attending the Synthetic Biology Gordon Conference in Maine, USA.
• June 2017; Olivier, Ben, Will, Marcus and Glen will all be presenting posters at SB7.0 in Singapore, while George will be presenting his poster at SEED 2017 in Vancouver.
• May 2017; Ali’s paper on Penicillin Biosynthesis in Yeast is published in Nature Communications.
• Apr 2017; Tom, Glen, Marcus & George will all be attending SynBioBeta UK 2017
• Mar 2017; Charlie’s ACS SynBio paper on Programming Extracellular Protein Conjugates is online
• Feb 2017: Tom will be at the Royal Society on Feb 8th for Synthetic Biology: Does Industry Get It?
• Jan 2017: Saying goodbye to Maureen, Rob and Dr Tim – thanks for all the great work.

• Dec 2016: Viv, Glen, Marcus & Tom will all be at the IET Synthetic Biology Conference
• Nov 2016: Olivier & Tom will be at the SBUK 2016 Conference in Edinburgh.
• Oct 2016: The ACS Synthetic Biology in Europe Special Edition is out.
• Sep 2016: All change – saying goodbye and thanks to Carlos, Ben Reeve, Alicia, Jack and Sabine.
• Aug 2016: Olivier & Franci’s Current Opinions review on Burden & Resource Use is published
• July 2016: Ben Reeve’s paper on a Modular Toolkit for Thermophile Synthetic Biology is out
• June 2016: Ben & Maureen’s GC-Preps Genomic DNA protocol paper is out in Scientific Reports
• May 2016: Ali & Will’s review on Natural Product Biosynthesis is now online in ADDR
• Apr 2016: We’ve been awarded an EPSRC/DSTL grant to make awesome materials by Synthetic Biology
• Mar 2016: Tom will be attending to Society for General Microbiology Annual Conference in Liverpool on the 23rd
• Feb 2016: Ben Blount will be presenting at the Applied Synthetic Biology in Europe conference in Lisbon on the 24th
• Jan 2016: Our student Michael Florea won 1st prize in Young Estonia Scientist of the Year

• Dec 2015: Tom is presenting at the Pearl Seiden conference in Haifa and at IHES in Paris
• Nov 2015: Tom will be presenting at the Royal Society/NAS Sackler Forum Meeting on Synthetic Biology on the 16th
• Oct 2015: The YouTube video of Tom’s World Economic Forum talk in Dalian, China is now online to watch.
• Sep 2015: Ben, Francesca, Charlie, Will and Tom will all be presenting at Synthetic Biology UK 2015 in London Sept 1-3

• Sep 2015: Ben, Francesca, Charlie, Will and Tom will all be presenting at Synthetic Biology UK 2015 in London Sept 1-3

• Aug 2015: Tom will be attending the YEASTCELL Summer School in Frankfurt this month.

• Jul 2015:Dejana, Tom and Rob are presenting at the 2015 Synthetic Genomes Conference in New York on the 16th.

• Jun 2015: Our paper on DNA Assembly Methods and Standards is out in Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology

• May 2015: Check out the recap of our recent PLoS SynBio webchat

• Apr 2015: Francesca & Rhys’ paper on measuring burden and optimising constructs design is online at Nature Methods

• Mar 2015: Our work on engineered yeast was presented to BBSRC CEO Jackie Hunter & UK Chief Scientist Mark Wolpert and will be presented at BYG2015 on March 26

• Feb 2015: Both Arturo and Elena passed their PhD vivas. Well done guys!

• Jan 2015: Francesca presents on 26th at Lorentz Centre workshop on Integrative Cell Models

• Dec 2014: Ben Reeve is presenting Aqualose at Biofabricate in New York
• Nov 2014: Our awesome iGEM team Aqualose is 2nd best in the world. Congratulations!
• Oct 2014: Welcoming 3 lab new members: Charlie Gilbert, Will Shaw and Robert Chen.
• Sep 2014: Ben Reeve’s book chapter on Synthetic Biology & Bioluminescence is out
• Aug 2014: Dejana’s paper on the Sc2.0 synthetic yeast project is in Bioessays
• Jul 2014: Francesca and Tom are both speakers at the SEED2014 Conference in L.A. on 15th July.
• Jun 2014: Ollie’s GeneGuard Plasmid System paper is published inACS Synthetic Biology.
• May 2014: Tom has been awarded a prestigious EPSRC Engineering Fellowship from 2015 to 2020.
• Apr 2014: The SB6.0 Issue of ACS Synthetic Biology is now out, edited by Tom and Yizhi Cai.
• Mar 2014: Arturo’s paper on R2o DNA Designer Software is out in ACS Synthetic Biology
• Feb 2014: Read about how our Sc2.0 project is a landmark in UK genomics research.
• Jan 2014: Arturo and Tom will both be speaking at the Symposium on Synthetic Biology on Jan 10th.

• Dec 2013: Tom Ellis will be the guest speaker at the Henrietta Barnett School on Dec 17th.
• Nov 2013: Tom, Francesca and Ollie will all be attending Towards Next Generation Synthetic Biology in Warwick
• Oct 2013: Arturo’s paper on modular overlap DNA assembly is published in Nucleic Acids Research
• Sep 2013: Rhys’s model that captures translation burden is now up on ArXiv QBio
• Aug 2013: Our paper on Spinach RNA aptamer for characterising gene expression is now out in ACS Synthetic Biology
• Jul 2013: We are looking forward to welcoming the synthetic biology world to Imperial for the SB6.0 Conference and the 2nd annual synthetic yeast genome meeting.
• Jun 2013: Our PNAS paper from our collaboration with Xiao Wang’s lab at ASU is published
• May 2013: Tom Ellis will be speaking at the GARNET Synthetic Biology workshop on May 22nd.
• Apr 2013: Ollie’s review on Building-in Biosafety for Synthetic Biology is published online in Microbiology.
• Mar 2013: Ben Blount and Tom Ellis will be speaking at the British Yeast Group Meeting, Nottingham, Mar 20th.
• Feb 2013: Welcoming Joshua Smit, Joachim de Jonge and Thomas Hargest to the Ellis Lab
• Jan 2013: Welcoming Dr Francesca Ceroni to our group.

• Dec 2012: Tom Ellis will be speaking to Kent Fungal Group on Dec 10th
• Nov 2012: Tom Ellis will be speaking at Trinity College Science Society in Cambridge on Nov 13th
• Oct 2012: Welcoming Ollie Wright to the lab, and welcoming back Tim and George for PhDs
• Sep 2012: Tom Ellis will be speaking on 19th Sept at the CRICK Systems and Synthetic Biology Event in London.
• Aug 2012: We’re all glued to the Olympics. The Triathlon comes right by us. Work?
• Jul 2012: Our article on yeast fractal growth is in the Leverhulme Trust Newsletter
• Jun 2012: Our GEN Magazine interview on synthetic biology is out. Several of us will also be at the enGENEiousmeeting in Oxford on 25-26 June
• May 2012: Ben Reeve will be exhibiting our synbio work at the Imperial Festival on Fri-Sat 11-12 May.
• Apr 2012: The Ellis Lab sign-up to make Synthetic Yeast Chromosome XI at the 1st Sc2.0 International Meeting.
• Mar 2012: Our paper on promoter libraries and orthogonal TAL-effector-based regulation is published in PLoS One. Official press release is here.
• Feb 2012: Our review Construction of synthetic regulatory networks in yeast is published by FEBS Letters
• Jan 2012: Ben Reeve awarded ‘Bioengineer of the year’ at the Department Christmas Dinner

• Dec 2011: Awarded a Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation grant for Rapid Protease Detection using Synthetic Biology.
• Nov 2011: Tom Ellis will be speaking on 2nd Nov at 17th IBC 2011 Conference in Beijing, China.
• Oct 2011: Welcoming PhD candidate Ben Reeve to the group.
• Sep 2011: Tom Ellis will be speaking on 2nd Sep at IEEE’s EMBC 2011 Conference in Boston, USA.
• Aug 2011: Check out the Imperial iGEM team 2011, working to make roots grow better where needed.
• Jul 2011: Fabio Chizzolini has successfully defended his MSc Thesis at Padova University, getting 100{5fd7e7247d09ddd2d7e8659e71d7f7d6e1b5957dd80dbd6b8b1bb07da6dacf40} cum laudae.
• Jun 2011: Tom Ellis, Arturo Casini and Ben Blount will all be at SB5.0, Stanford Uni, June 15th to 17th
• May 2011: Our review on DNA Assembly has been featured in Nature and Nature Methods
• Apr 2011: We have created a GFP variant expressing stably in a Thermophile for promoter characterisation in high-temperature organisms It REALLY glows.
• Mar 2011: Talks of our research are being used in an interactive artwork: Public Misunderstandings of Science currently at Lab Life at The Lighthouse, Brighton.
• Feb 2011: E.Chromi project with James King and Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg, nominated for UK Design Museum’s 2010Design Of The Year.
• Jan 2011: Critical Review of DNA ASSEMBLY methods published online at Integrative Biology. PDF is available here.

• Dec 2010: Speaking at the International Conference on Synthetic Biology at Genopole, Evry, France – Dec 15th/16th.
• Nov 2010: Talking at Imperial College’s Autumn Symposium on Systems and Synthetic Biology on 11th November and atTD Bioinformatics at SCK.CEN in Mol, Belgium on 19th November
• Oct 2010: Welcoming Ben Blount, Rhys Algar, Arturo Casini and Elena Martinez-Klimova to the group
• Sep 2010: Attending Synthetic Biology and Open Source: Normative Cultures of Biology at BIOS @ LSE, London
• Aug 2010: Helping Imperial’s 2010 iGEM team – Parasight
• Jul 2010: Writing a review on gene-to-genome DNA assembly methods
• Jun 2010: Attended the 2nd International Workshop on Bio-Design Automation at DAC in Anaheim, California
• May 2010: Talking at Nature Live! on Thurs 27th 7pm at the Natural History Museum, London