@aelfick

Professor of Synthetic Biological Engineering

 Edinburgh
Joined February 2012
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Tamina Lebek@LebekTamina12 Jul 2024
Proud to see my PhD work published in @embojournal! We developed PUFFFIN, a cellular neighbour-labelling system, and demonstrated its effectiveness both in vitro and in vivo. In mESCs, PUFFFIN revealed that cells synchronise exit from naïve pluripotency with their neighbours.
The EMBO Journal@embojournal12 Jul 2024
Positive Ultra-bright Fluorescent Fusion For Identifying Neighbours (PUFFFIN) allows visualization and isolation of surrounding cells in culture, tissues, or embryos, for profiling non-cell-autonomous responses @_CellySally_ et al embopress.org/doi/full/10.10…
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preLights@preLights9 Oct 2023
PUFFFIN: Shining light on cell chat. ✨ Jennifer Ann Black (@jablack18) covers work from @LebekTamina, @matt_mala, @aelfick & @[email protected]. #preprint This preLight includes a response from the authors 👀 ⬇️ prelights.biologists.com/hig…

PUFFFIN: A novel, ultra-bright, customisable, single-plasmid system for labelling cell neighbourh...

PUFFFIN: Shining light on cell chat

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Now Online Transfection reflections: fit-for-purpose delivery of nucleic acids dlvr.it/Sr1jvZ
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Delighted to share our new comment piece in Nature Reviews Mol Cell Biology discussing the need to take another look at transfection technologies... doi.org/10.1038/s41580-023-0…

Transfection reflections: fit-for-purpose delivery of nucleic acids

Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology - Elfick and Wells-Holland promote a concerted effort to quantitatively characterize transfection methodologies.

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Could you be our next @royalsociety Entrepreneur in Residence? You will have access to a wide array of disruptive research in our School and sponsor/mentor students & staff as they create new startups and spin-outs. Express interest by 5pm, Weds 5 April: edin.ac/3SV7DIk
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DNA nanotechnology for photonics & electronics: in this new review, @kdunnresearch & @aelfick @EdinburghUni discuss the potential of DNA-based approaches to design novel transistors, quantum computing devices, electromagnetic materials, and biobatteries. go.acs.org/2ui
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Katherine Dunn@kdunnresearch23 Sep 2022
🧬💡Topical review ‘Harnessing DNA Nanotechnology & Chemistry for Applications in Photonics and Electronics’, by @aelfick & me. Now published in @BioconjChem doi.org/10.1021/acs.bioconjc… Thanks to @RicciLab & @GothelfLab for invitation to write for Chemistry of #dnanano special issue!
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Forgive the shameless promotion but our opinion piece on standards for mammalian synbio is now available online from Trends in Biotech authors.elsevier.com/sd/arti…
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Katherine Dunn@kdunnresearch8 Jun 2022
Now published (formerly pre-printed): Using ultraviolet absorption spectroscopy to study nanoswitches based on non-canonical DNA structures Link: doi.org/10.1016/j.bbrep.2022… Authors: Blair McCarte, Owen Yeung, Alex Speakman, @aelfick & me.
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Diego Oyarzún@doyarzunrod6 Jun 2022
🌎🌳🌎 Just launched The Science for Sustainability Hub, a network of Edinburgh scientists working on the greatest challenges faced by our planet. ed.ac.uk/science-for-sustain… Sustainable biotech, net zero, AI for social good , robotics, and many others. Follow us for more info.
Science for Sustainability Hub@Sci4SustEd6 Jun 2022
Excited to announce the launch of our new website: ed.ac.uk/science-for-sustain… Check it out to see the scientists @EdinburghUni working towards the UN Sustainable Development Goals #GlobalGoals #SDGs
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Looking for a mammalian synthetic biology PhD? Funding available for a “UK home” student - please get in touch
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BioRoboost@BioRoboost19 Oct 2021
With #synbio we aspire to being able to program biology by writing DNA scripts that our chassis will execute. How can we do this with yeast cells? Find out in this video by @aelfick, @DrLeoRios and Koray Malci from @EdinburghUni. youtu.be/DWZo9twjVfk
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BioRoboost@BioRoboost15 Sep 2021
Finishing the morning session of the final BioRoboost meeting with @aelfick from @EdinburghUni presenting WP3: beyond bacteria - standards for yeast and mammalian systems 🧫
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Dear SynBio folks: make sure to request a copy of this book to @ManuelPorcar1 or @BioRoboost. A great resource to inform the ongoing conversation on standards in SynBio and Biology in general 😀 – at Madrid, Spain
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Katherine Dunn@kdunnresearch5 Mar 2021
Our next #DNAnano webinar is on Mar 17th, 16:00 UK time. Tune in for fascinating talks from @DrJMStewart (@Caltech) and Paul Williamson (@DamionCorrigan group, @UniStrathclyde). Link here: blogs.ed.ac.uk/dnananotechwe… Looking forward to it, hope to see you there! All welcome🧬🙂
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Top tier meme xD Found on MMM :D
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Great to be UoE’s Engineering lead for this exciting new initiative ed.ac.uk/news/2020/new-centr…
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Great to see you beautifying engineering life😉
Engineering Life @engineeringlife.bsky.social@EngineerLife_12 Mar 2019
We've launched a new website! Doing Engineering (doingeng.sps.ed.ac.uk) lets you explore what engineers, social scientists, biologists, policy-makers and others said when we asked what image best-represented engineering. #SynBio #Engineering #EngineeringBiology #STS
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Chris@Mellingwood_STS21 Feb 2019
A week ago I passed my PhD viva. Nothing has changed but everything is different, you were right @rdjs_is! Thanks to @AndyBalmer @robinalwilliams @engelmal81 @HPSGlonk @aelfick and all at @EngineerLife_ esp. Jane and Pablo. Privileged! #sts #automation #syntheticbiology #frogs
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VACANCY@ Postdoc for automatic (re)design of synthetic promoters in @fmenolascina lab @SchoolOfEng_UoE Apply vacancies.ed.a.uk #046305
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