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Five Minutes with…Evan Gibbs
Tell us about your field of research My area of research focuses on small molecule production in microorganisms. I am using biosensors in massive mutant libraries combined in concert with...
Redefining the popular view of microbes
By Anahit Peneysan Macquarie University node When I present a lecture to a general audience, I often start with the same slide. It is a blank slide, and I ask...
Synthetic Biology Helps Reveal Coronavirus Outbreak 20,000 Years Ago
CoESB Chief Investigator Professor Kirill Alexandrov (QUT) is part of a team of international researchers that has discovered a coronavirus epidemic broke out in the East Asia region more than...
Biosensors to be a winemaker’s aide
Chief Investigator Professor Kirill Alexandrov is leading a collaborative research project to mitigate the impacts of bushfire smoke on wineries and vineyards. Professor Kirill Alexandrov (QUT), Professor Markus Herderich (Australian Wine Research Institute,...
Shedding a light on microbial dark matter
A new body of research, published in Nature Communications, suggests synthetic biology could help to better characterise complex microbial communities, unlocking their potential for industrial and medical biotechnology. Communities...
Q&A with Jacqueline Dalziell
Jacqueline Dalziell has joined Wendy Rogers at Macquarie University as one of our latest Centre recruits. Tell us about your academic background My undergraduate studies were in Sociology and Gender...
DNA technology rewriting our understanding of life
We are witnessing an evolutionary transition of "similar magnitude" to events of billions of years ago, says the Centre's Professor Michael Gillings in this fascinating interview with Faculti Advances in...
Using genes to improve conversion of greenhouse gases
Greenhouse gas waste from factories could be turned into environmentally-friendly chemicals and fuels under an international project seeking to better understand the gene function of bacteria. Dr Esteban Marcellin, theme...
The future of synthetic biology
We are now at the point when technology can allow information to flow from digital systems into living organisms and systems, and biological devices are being reimagined as advanced cyber-physical...
He’s a jolly good Fellow
The Australian Academy of Science has honored the inclusion of Centre Director Ian Paulsen as a Fellow with the making of this video and a story on his vision for...
ARC Centre of Excellence in Synthetic Biology soft launches
With the snip of an orange ribbon, the ARC Centre of Excellence in Synthetic Biology has been declared open. More than 130 people attended a virtual soft launch, including Chief...
Prestigious grant wins for Centre researchers
Six Centre node researchers have been successful in the latest round of Australian Research Council grants. Recipients of ARC Discovery Project grants are Professor Kirill Aleksandrov of Queensland University of...
LIFE REIMAGINED
We are a world-leading research centre whose goal is to take us beyond what any single, existing microbe on earth can do.