The full potential of Synthetic biology will not be realised until many research challenges have been met. Synthetic biology research can be split broadly into three categories:

• new approaches, technologies and tools
• the application of synthetic biology
• the ethical, legal and social implications of synthetic biology

Synthetic biology is a developing field. We're active in all three of these categories.

Our research themes

We've established 10 themes that underpin Synthetic Biology research at Newcastle:

• Agriculture and Food
• Bioprocessing
• Computational Design and Automation
• Energy
• The Environment
• Ethical, Legal and Social Implications
• Fine and Speciality Chemicals
• In Vivo Computation
• Medicines and Healthcare
• Sensors

Research output

The groups in the Centre are involved in a range of projects. These are funded by a number of major research funders.

Our researchers produce software and data repository resources.

We encourage interdisciplinary collaboration. Our Research Seminars are a regular series of talks by Principal Investigators. They showcase current research and generate new ideas.