Professor of Synthetic Biological Engineering
Joined February 2012
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Alistair Elfick retweeted
12 Jul 2024
Proud to see my PhD work published in @embojournal! We developed PUFFFIN, a cellular neighbour-labelling system, and demonstrated its effectiveness both in vitro and in vivo. In mESCs, PUFFFIN revealed that cells synchronise exit from naïve pluripotency with their neighbours.
12 Jul 2024
Positive Ultra-bright Fluorescent Fusion For Identifying Neighbours (PUFFFIN) allows visualization and isolation of surrounding cells in culture, tissues, or embryos, for profiling non-cell-autonomous responses
@_CellySally_ et al
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Alistair Elfick retweeted
9 Oct 2023
PUFFFIN: Shining light on cell chat. ✨
Jennifer Ann Black (@jablack18) covers work from @LebekTamina, @matt_mala, @aelfick & @CellySally@biologists.social. #preprint
This preLight includes a response from the authors 👀 ⬇️
prelights.biologists.com/hig…
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Alistair Elfick retweeted
21 Jun 2023
Now Online Transfection reflections: fit-for-purpose delivery of nucleic acids dlvr.it/Sr1jvZ
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11 Jul 2023
Delighted to share our new comment piece in Nature Reviews Mol Cell Biology discussing the need to take another look at transfection technologies... doi.org/10.1038/s41580-023-0…
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Alistair Elfick retweeted
8 Mar 2023
Could you be our next @royalsociety Entrepreneur in Residence?
You will have access to a wide array of disruptive research in our School and sponsor/mentor students & staff as they create new startups and spin-outs.
Express interest by 5pm, Weds 5 April: edin.ac/3SV7DIk
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Alistair Elfick retweeted
13 Oct 2022
DNA nanotechnology for photonics & electronics: in this new review, @kdunnresearch & @aelfick @EdinburghUni discuss the potential of DNA-based approaches to design novel transistors, quantum computing devices, electromagnetic materials, and biobatteries. go.acs.org/2ui
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Alistair Elfick retweeted
23 Sep 2022
🧬💡Topical review ‘Harnessing DNA Nanotechnology & Chemistry for Applications in Photonics and Electronics’, by @aelfick & me. Now published in @BioconjChem doi.org/10.1021/acs.bioconjc… Thanks to @RicciLab & @GothelfLab for invitation to write for Chemistry of #dnanano special issue!
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5 Jul 2022
Forgive the shameless promotion but our opinion piece on standards for mammalian synbio is now available online from Trends in Biotech
authors.elsevier.com/sd/arti…
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Alistair Elfick retweeted
8 Jun 2022
Now published (formerly pre-printed): Using ultraviolet absorption spectroscopy to study nanoswitches based on non-canonical DNA structures Link: doi.org/10.1016/j.bbrep.2022…
Authors: Blair McCarte, Owen Yeung, Alex Speakman, @aelfick & me.
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Alistair Elfick retweeted
6 Jun 2022
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Just launched The Science for Sustainability Hub, a network of Edinburgh scientists working on the greatest challenges faced by our planet.
ed.ac.uk/science-for-sustain…
Sustainable biotech, net zero, AI for social good
, robotics, and many others.
Follow us for more info.
6 Jun 2022
Excited to announce the launch of our new website: ed.ac.uk/science-for-sustain…
Check it out to see the scientists @EdinburghUni working towards the UN Sustainable Development Goals #GlobalGoals #SDGs
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26 May 2022
Looking for a mammalian synthetic biology PhD? Funding available for a “UK home” student - please get in touch
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Alistair Elfick retweeted
19 Oct 2021
With #synbio we aspire to being able to program biology by writing DNA scripts that our chassis will execute. How can we do this with yeast cells? Find out in this video by @aelfick, @DrLeoRios and Koray Malci from @EdinburghUni.
youtu.be/DWZo9twjVfk
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Alistair Elfick retweeted
15 Sep 2021
Finishing the morning session of the final BioRoboost meeting with @aelfick from @EdinburghUni presenting WP3: beyond bacteria - standards for yeast and mammalian systems 🧫
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Alistair Elfick retweeted
31 Aug 2021
Dear SynBio folks: make sure to request a copy of this book to @ManuelPorcar1 or @BioRoboost. A great resource to inform the ongoing conversation on standards in SynBio and Biology in general 😀
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Alistair Elfick retweeted
5 Mar 2021
Our next #DNAnano webinar is on Mar 17th, 16:00 UK time. Tune in for fascinating talks from @DrJMStewart (@Caltech) and Paul Williamson (@DamionCorrigan group, @UniStrathclyde). Link here: blogs.ed.ac.uk/dnananotechwe… Looking forward to it, hope to see you there! All welcome🧬🙂
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Alistair Elfick retweeted
16 Dec 2020
Top tier meme xD Found on MMM :D
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1 Jun 2020
Great to be UoE’s Engineering lead for this exciting new initiative ed.ac.uk/news/2020/new-centr…
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12 Mar 2019
Great to see you beautifying engineering life😉
We've launched a new website! Doing Engineering (doingeng.sps.ed.ac.uk) lets you explore what engineers, social scientists, biologists, policy-makers and others said when we asked what image best-represented engineering.
#SynBio #Engineering #EngineeringBiology #STS
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Alistair Elfick retweeted
21 Feb 2019
A week ago I passed my PhD viva. Nothing has changed but everything is different, you were right @rdjs_is! Thanks to @AndyBalmer @robinalwilliams @engelmal81 @HPSGlonk @aelfick and all at @EngineerLife_ esp. Jane and Pablo. Privileged! #sts #automation #syntheticbiology #frogs
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Alistair Elfick retweeted
13 Dec 2018
VACANCY@ Postdoc for automatic (re)design of synthetic promoters in @fmenolascina lab @SchoolOfEng_UoE Apply vacancies.ed.a.uk #046305
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