Feng Jianhui: Mechanism of assembly of biological materials inside cells
One of the future impacts of synthetic biology will be biosynthetic production in microbes of materials such as silk or composites that...
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Centre for Young Synbio Scientists
Maryam Sabzevari: Reinforcement learning for microbial strain design
Post-docoral researcher Maryam Sabzevari’s research deals with using artificial intelligence (AI) to design cell factories. Synthetic...
Taru Koitto: Expansin-like proteins for bio-based materials engineering
Taru Koitto working in her lab at Aalto University Lignocellulose and chitin, the most abundant polysaccharide resources in the world,...
Anna Ylinen: New Bioplastics with Microbes
Research scientist Anna Ylinen is doing her doctoral thesis at the Center for Young Synbio Scientists on microbial bioplastics. They can...
Robert Pylkkänen: Making Wood Without Trees – Even In Space!
Last year, for the first time ever, Japanese scientists were able to produce nanocellulose in space. In layman's terms, they managed to...
Natalia Kakko: The Living Cell Factory
To stay competitive, industries need to increase their productivity. Typically this is done by improving the process of manufacturing,...
Pezhman Mohammadi: A dental revolution? Super strong materials inspired by nature
Tooth implants, although a great improvement over false teeth, are far from perfect. Expensive and time-consuming to manufacture, they...
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