Alex Fedorec

I’m excited to announce the launch of my lab at EPFL in Jan 2026 🎉. We’ll combine evolution & synthetic biology to study and (re)engineer bacterial communication.
I’m recruiting PhD students to start in the first semester of 2026.
Apply via EPFL PhD programs by Nov 1
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Tom Fayle (www.tomfayle.com/index.htm) and I have a funded PhD project available on the NERC TREES programme to use synthetic microbial communities and agent-based modelling to explore anthropogenic impacts in ecosystems

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Book cover at the link below

Also our new book came out! It's technically a textbook, but should be a good primer for anyone trying to work out how to understand synbio in society using an approach

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#synbio #engbio #sts #governance

1 week left to apply for a postdoctoral position in my group to lead the experimental component of a 5 year BBSRC project on synthetic microbial communities

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London SynBio Network 11 London SynBio afterwork talks and networking event on Thursday 23rd of September

Oct. 23, 6pm at UCL 🥳! Excited for:

🧬 Dirk Benzinger (Briscoe Lab)
Dissecting and engineering cellular signal processing with synthetic biology and optogenetics

🌍 Brooke Wain (Jimenez Lab)
Biocatalytic recycling of plastic: industrial viability and limitations
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Lost Science is a new NYT series of accounts from scientists who have lost their jobs or funding. You can send your story to the Times here www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/c...

UCL – University College London UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

Two postdoc positions with @ajfedorec.bsky.social: one computational and one wetlab, for a 5 year grant on synthetic microbial communities

Research Fellow in Computational Synthetic Biology
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Research Fellow in Synthetic Biology
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#PostDoc

The advert for the second (wetlab) postdoc is now live www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

🥳Excited to share our latest collaborative work using whole-cell models and #AI to design genomes!🦠🧬 What a time to be alive! Project led by Ioana Gherman, with Kieren Sharma, Joshua Rees-Garbutt, Claire Grierson, Lucia Marucci, Wei Pang & Zahraa Abdallah #synbio authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

Ioana was super generous last year helping one of my masters students use this for a project

London SynBio Network 10 London SynBio afterwork talks and networking event on Thursday 25th of September

🎉 London SynBio Network is back! Join us on 25th of September.

🧬 Surpassing Nature – Metabolic engineering for novel biological CO2 fixation routes
Ari Satanowski

💐 Open Flower: designer flowers for art and education
Nick Desnoyer

➡️ Register at: events.humanitix.com/london-synbi...

The advert for the first of these positions (computational/mathematical synbio) is live!

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Only 2 days left to submit abstracts and get the early registration discount!

#synbio

SynBio UK London 2025. Submit your abstract and register before 12 September for earlybird discount.

Scientific Meeting Synthetic Biology UK London, UK 12-13 November 2025 Earlybird deadline 12 September 2025

Join us in London for the 10th anniversary of SynBio UK, the premier conference for synthetic and engineering biology. Submit your abstract for consideration as a poster or oral communication and register before 12 September to save £50 🧪 : www.eventsforce.net/biochemsoc/2...

A scientist so dedicated they used up all their own hair on this project

- 3.5 year postdoc developing mathematical and computational (machine learning) approaches for designing synthetic communities and learning about their structure from data
- 18 month research associate developing lab automation approaches for accessible, high-throughput co-culturing.

- 3 year (+ 2 years possible) postdoc developing the molecular and microbiology tools for rapid, modular assembly of synthetic communities

I'm going to be advertising for a few positions in my group in the next couple of months for a big project on synthetic microbial communities.

I would love to hear from you if you are interested and I'd also appreciate if everyone could share this far and wide!

And of course there will be loads of time for catching up with (and meeting new) friends and colleagues!

We are also lucky enough to host a panel session on the Policy and Innovation Landscape with incredible R&D thought leaders and policy experts.

For Early Career attendees, we have a careers panel session with academics and industry scientists covering a diversity of backgrounds and career paths.

We have an amazing selection of invited speakers - Karen Polizzi, Brenda Parker, Andreas Walther, Lucia Marucci, John Heap, Sarah Guiziou, Dongsoo Yang, Scott Allen, Dana Heldt, and Rodrigo Ledesma-Amaro, PhD

#synbio folks, come and join us for the 10th annual Biochemical Society Synthetic Biology UK conference in London this November.

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Do you know how they get past the no-mans land between 50um diffusion limit and the 300um size threshold?

Join us in London (12-13 November) for the 10th anniversary of SynBio UK, the premier conference for synthetic and engineering biology.

Organised this year by @biochemsoc.bsky.social and colleagues at @ucl.ac.uk.

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#synbio

London SynBio Network 8 London SynBio afterwork talks and networking event on Thursday 24th of April

Join us Apr. 24th, 6pm @ Imperial Royal School of Mines

🦠 Microbial consortia for plastic upcycling
Javier Molpeceres (CIB-CSIC)

🧑‍🔬‍🔬 OpenCloning: a credible Open Source alternative to SnapGene and Benchling that supports automation
Dr. Manuel Lera Ramirez (UCL)

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There is a shameful tradition of demonising disabled people. Why is Labour reigniting it? | Frances Ryan Ministers run away from a wealth tax and then concoct a punitive benefits system. They have made that choice and it’s immoral, says Guardian columnist Frances Ryan

This is a really crushing piece on the way in which disability is vilified and the government perspective that productive work is the only thing of moral value

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Looking for a #PhD that is at the intersection of #biodesign, #synbio, #openendedness, #evolution? Look no further. Great supervisory team too 😉

UCL – University College London UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

My department @ucl-cdb.bsky.social, is looking to hire a lecturer (assistant prof equivalent) in computational cell biology

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I got reviewer comments back for a big grant today. Is "in E. Coli" going to be the new "in mice" for synthetic biology work?

I should say it's a fair comment for my synthetic community work, but this proposal is already so extensive that to then say we'll include more species feels crazy