Tom Ellis
@proftomellis.bsky.social
Synthetic Biology & Synthetic Genomics @ Imperial College London and the Sanger Institute. Bilingual in English and DNA. Views are either my own or my microbes'
Agar plate maker?
November 19, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Agar plate maker?
Thank you to my home department back in London and the generous support of the Leverhulme Trust for making this exciting sabbatical possible @leverhulme.ac.uk @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social
November 18, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Thank you to my home department back in London and the generous support of the Leverhulme Trust for making this exciting sabbatical possible @leverhulme.ac.uk @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social
What were these killjoy editors thinking? This is an amazing intro! Someone should feed this into an AI video generator and make it a clip.
November 13, 2025 at 4:09 PM
What were these killjoy editors thinking? This is an amazing intro! Someone should feed this into an AI video generator and make it a clip.
Most interesting point was a decision to not allow any school teams. Why? High school teams with impressive coaching and funding from China have become a mainstay in iGEM, but their participation often feels more like a private business model for CV points than genuine projects.
November 11, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Most interesting point was a decision to not allow any school teams. Why? High school teams with impressive coaching and funding from China have become a mainstay in iGEM, but their participation often feels more like a private business model for CV points than genuine projects.
Recommendation letters are academia's cryptocurrency. Panels mostly don't care what you actually write, they just want 'proof of work'.
November 7, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Recommendation letters are academia's cryptocurrency. Panels mostly don't care what you actually write, they just want 'proof of work'.
In the paper, @jazzsynbio.bsky.social
looks at how microbe and host engineering helps study holobionts of interests and the engineering challenges for going further. He gives a spotlight to some cool systems like lichen and hydra that could have future applications. www.cell.com/trends/biote...
looks at how microbe and host engineering helps study holobionts of interests and the engineering challenges for going further. He gives a spotlight to some cool systems like lichen and hydra that could have future applications. www.cell.com/trends/biote...
New articles: Trends in Biotechnology
www.cell.com
October 23, 2025 at 10:09 AM
In the paper, @jazzsynbio.bsky.social
looks at how microbe and host engineering helps study holobionts of interests and the engineering challenges for going further. He gives a spotlight to some cool systems like lichen and hydra that could have future applications. www.cell.com/trends/biote...
looks at how microbe and host engineering helps study holobionts of interests and the engineering challenges for going further. He gives a spotlight to some cool systems like lichen and hydra that could have future applications. www.cell.com/trends/biote...
Holobionts are fascinating, and a topic of study for the
@leverhulme.ac.uk Centre for Holobiont Research
here at @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social - broadly speaking they are a host organism whose life cycle is dependent on a community of other organisms, often microbes.
@leverhulme.ac.uk Centre for Holobiont Research
here at @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social - broadly speaking they are a host organism whose life cycle is dependent on a community of other organisms, often microbes.
October 23, 2025 at 10:09 AM
Holobionts are fascinating, and a topic of study for the
@leverhulme.ac.uk Centre for Holobiont Research
here at @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social - broadly speaking they are a host organism whose life cycle is dependent on a community of other organisms, often microbes.
@leverhulme.ac.uk Centre for Holobiont Research
here at @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social - broadly speaking they are a host organism whose life cycle is dependent on a community of other organisms, often microbes.