Applications are now open for the Biomaker Challenge 2021, which will support and fund small interdisciplinary teams of researchers to develop projects and prototypes which explore open technologies and resources focused on ‘Plants, Soil and the Environment’.

Exploring the Impact of Terminators on Transgene Expression in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii with a Synthetic Biology Approach

Katrin Geisler, Mark A Scaife, Paweł M Mordaka, Andre Holzer, Eleanor V Tomsett, Payam Mehrshahi, Gonzalo I Mendoza Ochoa, Alison G Smith.

Life (Basel) 2021 Sep 14;11(9):964

https://doi.org/10.3390/life11090964

Construction of DNA Tools for Hyperexpression in Marchantia Chloroplasts

Eftychios Frangedakis, Fernando Guzman-Chavez, Marius Rebmann, Kasey Markel, Ying Yu, Artemis Perraki, Sze Wai Tse, Yang Liu, Jenna Rever, Susanna Sauret-Gueto, Bernard Goffinet, Harald Schneider, Jim Haseloff.

ACS Synth Biol. 2021 Jul 16;10(7):1651-1666

https://doi.org/10.1021/acssynbio.0c00637

Subtelomeric assembly of a multi-gene pathway for antimicrobial defense compounds in cereals

Li Y, Leveau A, Zhao Q, Feng Q, Lu H, Miao J, Xue Z, Martin AC, Wegel E, Wang J, Orme A, Rey MD, Karafiátová M, Vrána J, Steuernagel B, Joynson R, Owen C, Reed J, Louveau T, Stephenson MJ, Zhang L, Huang X, Huang T, Fan D, Zhou C, Tian Q, Li W, Lu Y, Chen J, Zhao Y, Lu Y, Zhu C, Liu Z, Polturak G, Casson R, Hill L, Moore G, Melton R, Hall N, Wulff BBH, Doležel J, Langdon T, Han B, Osbourn A.

Nat Commun. 7;12(1):2563

https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-22920-8

Rapid and Modular DNA Assembly for Transformation of Marchantia Chloroplasts

Eftychios Frangedakis, Kasey Markel, Susana Sauret-Gueto, Jim Haseloff.

Methods Mol Biol. 2021;2317:343-365

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-0716-1472-3_21

The bundle sheath of rice is conditioned to play an active role in water transport as well as sulfur assimilation and jasmonic acid synthesis

Lei Hua, Sean R Stevenson, Ivan Reyna-Llorens, Haiyan Xiong, Stanislav Kopriva, Julian M Hibberd.

Plant J 2021 Jul;107(1):268-286

https://doi.org/10.1111/tpj.15292

Postdoc-level position available at Cambridge Science Park startup Nuclera. Working to develop a cell-free protein synthetis platform for a desktop bioprinter.