SynBio Fund

Optimising a microfluidic chemostat for experiments using cyanobacteria, including growth and feeding channels.

Identifying, screening and optimising a novel recombinase toolkit for mammalian cells.

Developing a series of plasmids and a method to rapidly increase production of cyanobacterial mutants with multiple alterations.

Developing fluorescence and phase contrast functions in a low-cost, 3D-printed microscope and demonstrating its use in an incubator.

Continued development of a flexible, low cost, live-imaging platform for long term monitoring of cell behaviour in vitro

Finding, testing and generating optimised bioluminescent reporter vectors for use in various organisms.

This project aims to develop a rigorous design-modeling web-based tool for synthetic biology using a novel design methodology that has been recently developed in the Control Group (Engineering Department).

DIY Biolab plan to build and document open hardware for molecular biology.

Engineering of self­ cloning brewer’s yeast for novel terpene profiles in beer.