Congratulations to Stephen and the lab for securing one of the European Council's (ERC) 2024 Consolidator Grants. The €2M grant for the MICROCHEMIST project will help to accelerate the transition towards the environmentally-friendly production of chemicals. Read the press release here.

Stephen is awarded the early career Chemistry Biology Interface 2023 Norman Heatley Award from the Royal Society of Chemistry for his work on the development of chemical tools and microbial biocatalysts for sustainable synthesis. Read more here.

Stephen has been awarded the 2023 Colworth Medal from the Biochemical Society for his research in microbial chemistry and chemical biology. The medal will be presented his lecture at a Biochemical Society sponsored conference this year. link

Trash to Treasure: Listen to Stephen's recent podcast on Apple Podcasts here

The lab publishes an article with the Microbiology Society as part of their 75th Anniversary: A Sustainable Future series as a Circular Economy Case Study. You can read the article here.

Congratulations to 3rd year PhD student Jack who won poster prizes recently at the RSC Chemical Biology and Bioorganic Chemistry Postgraduate Symposium and Applied Synthetic Biology in Europe V (ASBE V) conferences. Well done Jack! You can find a link to his graduate work here.

Stephen has been awarded UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship! This is a huge boost for our lab's research, which we will use to launch the MICRO-CAT project 2020. This ambitious project aims to construct new modified microbial cells that can produce an increased range of indutsrial chemicals from sustainable feedstocks using a unique combination of synthetic biology and synthetic chemistry. With this comes funding for two PDRAs and a research technician from 2020.