Projects

Current and former projects of the Chris French Laboratory.

Current projects

Former projects

SynBICITE - Novel Materials for Defence Applications Generated by Synthetic Biology (Edinburgh Research Explorer page).

Accelerating industrial metabolic engineering using YeastFAB (NCBI National Library of Medicine website).

An Infrastructure for platform technology in synthetic biology (Edinburgh Research Explorer page).

Protein-mediated tooth remineralisation as prevention and treatment of dental caries.

Institutional Translational Partnership Award: University of Edinburgh (Edinburgh Research Explorer page).

Development of novel methods for high throughput screening of recombinant constructs for conversion of cellulosic biomass to useful products: Marcos Valenzuela.

Modular Cell-free systems using an Adaptable DNA-Logic as core processing machinery: Felipe A. Millacura.

Biosensors for use in developing nations: Christopher Nwankwo.

Novel approaches to radiotherapy using engineered proteins: Dr. Jon Stanley.

Cellulect: A Synthetic Biology Platform for the Optimization of Enzymatic Biomass Processing (Edinburgh Research Explorer page).

Combinatorial assembly of gene cassettes for cellulose degradation: Dr. Chao-Kuo Liu.

Conversion of green algal polysaccharides to biofuels: Dr. Alejandro Salinas-Vaccaro.

Enzyme engineering for cellulose degradation: Dr. Kwabena Duedu.

Artifical consortia for conversion of biomass to useful products: Dr. Craig Munns.

Arsenic Biosensor Consortium: Dr. David Radford (Archived website accessed via Wayback Machine).

Novel biosensor formats: Dr. Jan Oltmanns.

Markerless genome editing in E. coli and related bacteria: Kuan Meng (Evan) Lee.

Novel methods for DNA assembly: PaperClip: Dr. Maryia Trubitsyna.

Rapid electrical detection of bacterial growth: Dr. Uros Zupancic.

A synthetic model system for biosynthesis of starch-like polysaccharides: Dr. Joe White.

13TSB_SynBio – production of chitosan in microorganisms (UK Research and Innovation website).

A whole-cell arsenic biosensor with visual readout for use in the field (Edinburgh Research Explorer).

Bacteriohemerythrins: C. French (OpenWetWare website).

Making a broad host range BioBrick vector: EDiGEM2007 team and C. French (OpenWetWare website).

Phytoremediation of organic pollutants (Edinburgh Research Explorer).

GenBrick vector preparation.

Genabler assembly page.

Actin-like proteins in magnetotactic bacteria (Jen).

Biosensors (Nimisha).

Bacillosensors (Nimisha).

Further development of biosensor.

Cellulose degradation (Sahreena).

Role of exopolysaccharides in cell aggregation (Gary) (NCBI National Library of Medicine website).

Magnetotaxis genes in magnetic vibrio MV1 (Denis).

Chris's online lab book.

Sahreena's results.

Chakuo's results.

Carotenoid pigment project.

Vanillin project.

Project CEDAR (cell division activity reporter): Pradeep.

Project AHAB.

Project BALTIC: BioBrick assembly by ligation of triple-digested components.

Project BABEL.

BABEL2: Son of Babel.

Project MABEL: mutagenesis by blunt-ended ligation.

Lab BioBrick Notes.

Hons Projects 2010.

Nimisha's Nanoparticle Project.

Chao Kuo's Project.