Welcome to the Chris French Laboratory

Research interests

Professor Chris French and two research students looking at a petri dish inside a lab

We are interested in Synthetic Biology, a discipline at the interface of biology and engineering.

Publications

Schematic from the Valenzuela-Ortega, M. & French, C.E. (2019) article.

See all our publications as part of the Chris French group.

People

Professor Chris French with his research group standing in front of Roger Land Building

View the list of current and former researchers in the lab.

Projects

A number of jars with chemicals on a window sill with the view of trees outside of the window.

View all current and former projects of the research group.

Protocols

Member of Chris French Lab holding a petri dish

Read protocols written by the Chris French group.

News

Schematic from Duedu and French 2017 article titled Characterisation of novel biomass degradation enzymes from the genome of Cellulomonas fimi

Browse the key events and milestones in the Chris French Lab.

Funding agencies

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Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC)
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EastBio (East of Scotland Bioscience Doctoral Training Partnership)
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Petroleum Technology Development Fund (PTDF)
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Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC)
IBioIC logo
Industrial Biotechnology Innovation Centre (IBioIC)
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Comisión Nacional De Investigación Científica Y Tecnológica (Conicyt)
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The Microbiology Society
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SynthSys - Centre for Synthetic and Systems Biology
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SynbiCITE: Synthetic Biology Accelerator
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Islamic Development Bank (IsDB)

Lab location

Roger Land Building

The King's Buildings, University of Edinburgh

Edinburgh, EH9 3JQ

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