@swallacelab.bsky.social
Combining Biocompatible Chemistry + Synthetic Biology to enhance microbes' abilities to make chemicals sustainably. Vibrant research team at the University of Edinburgh. All views our own.
The Wallace Lab is expanding in 2026, with five new Postdoctoral Research Associate positions now open. If you're passionate about engineering biology for sustainability, we'd love to hear from you! 🧬 ♻️
Deadline: 12th November 2025, details below ⬇️
Positions 4 & 5: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPD673/p...
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Position 3: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPD718/p...
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Positions 1 & 2: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPD689/p...
29.10.2025 12:37 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0These roles offer a fantastic opportunity to collaborate with leading UK and international research teams, engage with over 50 industry partners, and help drive the transition to a circular, bio-based chemical future. Check out the adverts below, or get in touch with Stephen directly ⬇️
29.10.2025 12:36 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0⚙️ Bioprocess scale-up in waste-to-chemical microbial systems, spanning diverse waste streams, microbial chassis, and bioreactor designs - driving industrial translation within the C-Loop Sustainable Manufacturing Hub [2 positions].
29.10.2025 12:36 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Our open positions focus on:
🧬 Biological upcycling of plastic waste into sustainable industrial chemicals for applications in healthcare, nutrition, and materials - as part of the P3EB Mission Hub and CIRCBIONET UK-Singapore consortium [3 positions].
The Wallace Lab is expanding in 2026, with five new Postdoctoral Research Associate positions now open. If you're passionate about engineering biology for sustainability, we'd love to hear from you! 🧬 ♻️
Deadline: 12th November 2025, details below ⬇️
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@edinburghbiology.bsky.social @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social @edinburghchem.bsky.social @edinnovations.bsky.social @ukri.org
Edinburgh press release📣: www.ed.ac.uk/news/microbe...
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News&Views🔍: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
23.09.2025 11:11 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Links below to the News & Views (thanks Matthew Chang and colleagues!), and The Guardian article. (4/n)
23.09.2025 11:11 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0This represents something powerful: a hybrid metabolic pathway that neither biology nor chemistry could achieve alone.
Beyond advancing circular and sustainable chemical manufacturing, we hope this sparks new directions at the interface of chemical and biological synthesis. (3/n)
We discovered that phosphate inside living cells catalyses a biocompatible Lossen rearrangement - a classic chemical reaction never before seen in nature. Add a few enzymes using engineering biology, and the result: paracetamol 💊 from plastic waste🗑️ (2/n).
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Ever wondered where your paracetamol comes from? Spoiler: crude oil. In this study – led by Nick Johnson from our lab in collaboration with @astra-zeneca.bsky.social – we show how biology and chemistry can work together to create a more sustainable alternative. (1/n)
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
🚀 Our new lab website is live! Visit wallacelab.bio to learn more about our team, our mission, and our latest work. Most importantly, get in touch to explore opportunities to connect and collaborate.
The future of chemistry is microbial.
Great news – this paper has now been published in ACS Catalysis! Huge congratulations again to Wylan (@chaoticmetazoan.bsky.social), and thanks to our collaborators in the Wallace Lab (@swallacelab.bsky.social)
Check it out here: pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
From the same team that made vanilla for ice cream using E.coli that digest plastic waste.
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Prof. Stephen Wallace: “What this technology shows is that by merging chemistry and biology in this way for the first time, we can make paracetamol more sustainably and clean up plastic waste from the environment at the same time.” www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
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This is wild!
Engineering E. coli bacteria to turn plastic waste into paracetamol (Tylenol)
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Scientists at @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social have succeeded in turning plastic bottles into paracetamol, a study in Nature Chemistry shows. ➡️ edinburgh-innovations.ed.ac.uk/news/microbe...
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