Ben Blount
@BABlount
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Assistant Professor at the University of Nottingham working on synthetic genomics. Views are my own.
Joined May 2018
RT @johntheap: We're recruiting for 3 funded PhD studentships! Join the GlycoCell UKRI Engineering Biology Mission Hub & use Engineering Bi…
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PhD studentships, technical and Hub Chief of Staff positions to follow shortly!
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RT @johntheap: Delighted our GlycoCell Engineering Biology Mission Hub has been funded by @UKRI_News @BBSRC Technology Missions Fund! So ex…
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I’m delighted to be part of the GlycoCell UKRI Engineering Biology Hub. We’ll be using synthetic genomics to develop new therapeutics/diagnostics and enable microbes to make advanced biomedicines. My lab will be recruiting a postdoc and PhD student soon!
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RT @jomcinerney: We were awarded a grant to use machine learning & synth biology to predict how to make successful synthetic genomes. We’ll…
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RT @johntheap: @jomcinerney Very exciting to have this @BBSRC investment in our collaboration and novel approach applying AI/ML to Engineer…
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RT @UoNPressOffice: Scientists @BABlount @UoNLifeSci & @ProfTomEllis @Imperialcollege are poised to create the most advanced “synthetic” o…
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RT @Yu_Jeremy_Zhao: Wow! A yeast cell with multiple synthetic chromosomes! A picture taken at @nyulangone. Read more about our story in Cel…
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We finally finished our synthetic chromosome! @ProfTomEllis @glen_gowers I'm just going to collapse in this corner now...
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RT @ProfTomEllis: Happy Sc2.0 day. 10 new papers published today in Cell Genomics, Cell and Molecular Cell. Telling the story of 8 more com…
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RT @SynGenome: It's Sc2.0 day! 10 new papers to check out in Cell, Molecular Cell, and Cell Genomics! @ProfTomEllis @JefBoeke @ChantalSHEN…
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We’ve got a technical post open to join our team for a project mining natural and synthetic microbial diversity:
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I'm delighted to have written a @NatureNV piece describing some great new work led by @geochurch on modifying E. coli synthetic genome cells for improved biocontainment and resistance to phage infection
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RT @ProfTomEllis: We made a synthetic yeast chromsome! @BABlount and I just posted a preprint @biorxiv describing our contribution to Sc2.0…
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After a decade of hacking away at the molecular coalface, we've finally completed and preprinted chromosome XI of the Sc2.0 yeast @SynGenome. We’ve been celebrating so much that even the chromosome has been throwing shapes...
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RT @johntheap: Out today in @NatureComms! Our work using artificial selection pressure to rapidly search libraries of millions of variants…
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