The Section of Structural and Synthetic Biology at Imperial College London @imperialcollege
Joined May 2015
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Structural and Synthetic Biology retweeted
Jun 8
Our latest paper on cell-free EV engineering is out! @rkelwick @ajwebb1979 Amelie Heliot , Paul Freemont
Thank you @BBSRC @EPSRC @SynbiCITE @FutureBRH @ICStructBio @ImperialInfect @imperialcollege for support
#extracellularvesicles #engineeringbiology
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Structural and Synthetic Biology retweeted
Apr 26
Reflections from #ISEV2026 🇵🇷Great to see advances in the fields understanding of foundational and translational extracellular vesicle biology.
Thankful to @IsevOrg and our research funders including @bbsrc for the opportunity to attend and present @ImperialInfect @ajwebb1979
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Structural and Synthetic Biology retweeted
Apr 23
Having a great time at #ISEV2026 international conference on extracellular vesicles #EVs
Already attended fascinating talks on EV biogenesis and engineering.
Thanks to @BBSRC for funding our EV research and @IsevOrg for the opportunity to present tomorrow!
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Structural and Synthetic Biology retweeted
21 Sep 2025
Hollow-fibre biomanufacturing and cell-free engineering of HEK293 extracellular vesicles biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/… #biorxiv_synbio
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1 Sep 2025
New #schistosomiasis biosensor for #globalhealth research from @ICStructBio @ImperialInfect and @NHM_London “Species-specific detection of Schistosoma japonicum using the ‘SNAILS’ DNA-based biosensor”
@ajwebb1979 @rkelwick @Igniculus1 @PaulFreemont
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Structural and Synthetic Biology retweeted
11 Aug 2025
New paper from our lab on synthetic genome work in yeast is out - Iterative SCRaMbLE for Engineering Synthetic Genome Modules and Chromosomes. Exciting project led by Jane (Xinyu) Lu in our group, now online @NatureComms nature.com/articles/s41467-0…
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11 Aug 2025
We are offering comprehensive fellowship support
and an outstanding research environment @imperialcollege @ImperialInfect @ICStructBio
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4 Feb 2025
New research from @ImperialInfect and @NHM_London in pre-print “Species-specific detection of Schistosoma japonicum using the SNAILS DNA-based biosensor” @ajwebb1979 @rkelwick @Igniculus1 @PaulFreemont #schistosomiasis #globalhealth #ntd medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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Structural and Synthetic Biology retweeted
17 Sep 2024
Our focus article on #synbio #extracellularvesicles and #MISEV2023 is now published in Extracellular Vesicle @rkelwick @PaulFreemont @ajwebb1979 @imperialcollege @ImperialInfect @ICStructBio
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6 Aug 2024
Research Associate academic Job opportunity for a #Bioinformatician to join our section @PaulFreemont group at @ImperialInfect @imperialcollege @UKDRI to help clinical research projects on UTIs in #dementia imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-j…
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Structural and Synthetic Biology retweeted
28 Jun 2024
Check out our #cell-free extracellular vesicle engineering poster @Imperial_IMSE Engineering Biology Symposium. Our work is published in @ISEV_Journals #JExBio isevjournals.onlinelibrary.w… and @VesiclesAcids oaepublish.com/articles/evcn… @ajwebb1979 @PaulFreemont
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Structural and Synthetic Biology retweeted
8 Apr 2024
A HUGE congratulations to our brilliant team on winning this year’s University Challenge 🥳
We are now the most successful team in University Challenge history!
Suraiya, Adam, Sourajit and Justin - you have done #OurImperial community so proud! Well done!👏🏼💙
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Structural and Synthetic Biology retweeted
6 Apr 2024
Outer membrane vesicles (#OMVs) are attractive vehicles for delivering therapeutic agents because of their ability to interact with host #cells and their natural immunogenic properties. Check out our article which we published last year in @VesiclesAcids oaepublish.com/articles/evcn…
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Structural and Synthetic Biology retweeted
7 Mar 2024
📢 ICB-PhD position available with me, @YuvalElani and Karen Polizzi @imperialcollege 📢
@ImperialInfect @ImperialChemEng
3D printing, synthetic tissues, cellular control 🖨🫧🧫
Deadline: 7th May 2024 (reviewed as received)
Start date: Oct 2024
Apply: tinyurl.com/4r3we35j
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Structural and Synthetic Biology retweeted
7 Mar 2024
To celebrate #ImperialWomen, we talked to four women from four very different fields 💙
They're all at different career stages & have different experiences – showing there's no one way to be a scientist 🔗 bit.ly/3VexQ7w
#WomeninScience #InternationalWomensDay
ALT Title page: Voices from the lab: Four women in Natural Sciences reflect on their journey
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5 Mar 2024
Section colleague @rkelwick recently presented @imperialcollege hosted event to a @CanadianUK delegation to promote collaborations between Canada and the UK. The delegation was later hosted at an event at Canada House.
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30 Jan 2024
Reflecting upon World Neglected Tropical Diseases Day @imperialcollege scientists are helping to combat NTDs. Including a schistosomiasis DNA biosensor developed by @ajwebb1979 @rkelwick @PaulFreemont from our own section within @ImperialInfect imperial.ac.uk/news/251054/f…
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6 Nov 2023
Congratulations to Dr Kirsten Jensen from @ICStructBio @ImperialInfect @imperialcollege Kirsten is the latest winner of @Stratech_UK #winaipad competition - and was awarded with an iPad Pro! Kirsten is a senior research officer in @PaulFreemont group working as part of @UKDRI
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Structural and Synthetic Biology retweeted
6 Nov 2023
🏆Our Q3 ipad winner has been annouced 🏆
Congratulations to our latest winner of #winaipad
The lucky winner was Kirsten from @ICStructBio @ImperialInfect @imperialcollege 🥳🤩🙌
The next winner will be picked in Jan'24!
You can still enter: stratech.co.uk/40th-annivers… GOOD LUCK 🍀
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28 Jul 2023
RT @Yates_luke: Really pleased that the 4th instalment of our work to dissect the DNA damage response from @zhang_imperial is out in @PNASN…
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