Engineering Biology IRC Newsletter

University of Cambridge Receives Four Engineering Biology Mission Awards and a Mission Hub Collaboration

Cambridge researchers led four successful bids for UKRI's new Engineering Biology Mission Awards, as well as collaborating on a Mission Hub Award. Their work will address challenges in the areas of clean growth, biomedicine and food systems.

Latest News

Explore the Cambridge Festival 2024
The Cambridge Festival runs from 14th-28th March with an eclectic mixture of over 350 events and activities. Take a look at our top picks from this year’s festival - from plant biomechanics to the fact and fiction of embryo editing.

Open Technologies Highlight: CellphoneDB
Hoping to improve our understanding of cell-to-cell communications, Dr Roser Vento-Tormo and her team have developed CellPhoneDB. This an open database of ligand-receptor-interactions and an accompanying analysis tool to help identify interactions in single-cell RNAseq data.

Cambridge iGEM Win Gold Medal
The University of Cambridge iGEM Team obtained a Gold medal in the 2023 International Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM). The team engineered a bacterial biofilm that can resist invasion from pathogenic bacteria in the hope of combating antimicrobial resistance.

Events

SynBio Society Workshop
Sun 25 Feb | 4pm
Dept. Genetics
Strategies for building computational models of biological systems

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ECRs Meet, Greet & Talks
Mon 18 March | 12pm-1pm
Postdoc Centre, Mill Lane
Rui Guan (MRC Toxicology Unit)

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Events

SCI EngBio Conference
29 Feb
London
Engineering Biology: Translation from Academia to Industry.

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GEM-2024
11 May
Vienna
Generative & Experimental Perspectives for Biomolecular Design Conference

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JOIN THE MEET UP GROUP

Events

Cafe Synthetique
Mon 4 March | 6-8pm
Panton Arms, Cambridge
Betty Chung (Dept. Pathology) & Sarah Guiziou (Earlham Institute)

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SynBio Boot Camp
23 Jul - 6 Aug
New York
Cold Spring Harbour Lab 2 week course in synthetic biology. Applications close 31st March

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Jobs, Opportunities & Events

Jobs
Head of Parasites and Microbes Programme - Wellcome Sanger Institute (apply by 3 March)
Research Assistant/Associate (Fixed Term) (apply by 10 March)
Research Associate- Hollfelder Group- Functional metagenomics, novel biocatalysts for a sustainable circular economy from ultrahigh throughput screening (Fixed Term) Close 1 March 24
Associate Professor / Assistant Professor - Dept Pharmacology (apply by 3 March)
Research Assistant/Post-doctoral Research Associate (Storer Lab) (apply by 29 Feb)
Research Assistant/Associate in Computational Neuroscience (apply by 10 March)
More jobs at www.jobs.cam.ac.uk
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Funding
2024 Milner Consortium Call (apply 11 March)
Pre-announcement: Restricted call: Future Leaders Fellowship, Round 9 (apply by 9 April)
2024 BMA Foundation grants open (apply by 1 March)
UK Parliament Thematic Research Leads 2024 – deadline 3 March
Restricted call: ESRC New Investigator Grants (internal selection apply by Midday Friday, 15th March 2024)
Restricted call: NERC Doctoral focal awards (internal deadline 29th February, 2024)
ABSW Media Fellowships - summer 2024
SBS Participatory Research Support Fund - This is a rolling call - apply anytime
Restricted call: UK - Germany Bilateral: Collaborative R&D Round 3 (internal deadline: 16th April, 2024)
The EPSRC IAA Knowledge Mobilisation Fellowship Scheme (apply by 26 February)
Restricted call: UK - Germany Bilateral: Collaborative R&D Round 3 (internal deadline: 16th April, 2024)
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PhD Positions, Internships and Entrepreneurship
College Research Associates Competition (apply by 21 March)
PhD Studentship: Synthetic Organic Chemistry (apply by 29 Feb)
EPSRC DTP Studentship (apply by 15 March)
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Other Seminars & Events
Building and Rebuilding Complex Tissues, 18 July 2024, Robinson College, Cambridge
Biomaker Meetups - Every 3rd Wed of Month
The Postdoc Academy - Various writing workshops, masterclasses and events
Milner Therapeutics Symposium 2024 - 2nd July
Cambridge Festival
Wellcome Connecting Science Synthetic Biology for Health
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If you have an opportunity to advertise to the Cambridge EngBio community, please contact the IRC Coordinator at coordinator@engbio.cam.ac.uk.

Image Credits
Header: Fernan Federici; Latest News: Ruiz-Gonzales et al. (2022) Biosensors 12, 447, https://doi.org/10.3390/bios12070447, Hanoi Institute of Science and Technology; Events: SynBioSoc, Cold Spring Harbour, GEM-2024, Society of Chemical Industry, iGEM, Cambridge Festival.

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