@RifaieGrahamLab

Lecturer/Assistant Professor in Chemistry @QMUL. Interested in Polymers, Systems Chemistry, and Synthetic Biology

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Joined June 2018
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🚨 MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship Opportunity – Synthetic Cells & Polymersomes (London) I am looking for outstanding and highly motivated postdoctoral candidates to apply with me for a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowship at Queen Mary University of London.
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Rodrigo Ledesma-Amaro@LedesmaAmaroJun 12
Happy to share our latest work on C1. Engineering Yarrowia to grow on formate as sole carbon source and produce useful molecules 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼
Nature Synthesis@NatureSynthesisJun 12
Now online and open access: Article by William Newell, Piotr Hapeta, David Bell & Rodrigo Ledesma-Amaro @LedesmaAmaro Engineering de novo formatotrophy in the non-model yeast Y. lipolytica nature.com/articles/s44160-0…

Engineering de novo formatotrophy in the non-model yeast Y. lipolytica

Nature Synthesis - Yarrowia lipolytica is a non-model yeast of considerable industrial interest. Here metabolic modelling and directed evolution are used to create a strain of Y. lipolytica that is...

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Nature Synthesis@NatureSynthesisJun 12
Now online and open access: Article by William Newell, Piotr Hapeta, David Bell & Rodrigo Ledesma-Amaro @LedesmaAmaro Engineering de novo formatotrophy in the non-model yeast Y. lipolytica nature.com/articles/s44160-0…

Engineering de novo formatotrophy in the non-model yeast Y. lipolytica

Nature Synthesis - Yarrowia lipolytica is a non-model yeast of considerable industrial interest. Here metabolic modelling and directed evolution are used to create a strain of Y. lipolytica that is...

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MSCA Fellowships offer: • Competitive salary + mobility allowance • Strong support for career development and training • International and interdisciplinary networking opportunities 📅 Deadline: 10 September 2026 (please get in touch early to prepare a strong application)
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If you are interested, feel free to message me or send your CV and a short statement of research interests.
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Sebastien Perrier@SebPerrier29 Mar 2025
Interested in light-mediated RAFT? Check out what the experts recommend in this User Guide by @CyrilleBoyer61, Matthias Hartlieb, @KonkolGroup, @QiaoGreg, @Brent_Sumerlin, with now Dr @MagdaBeres (and me 🙂) in ACS Polymers Au @MacroJrnls_ACS - for free! pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs…

RAFT with Light: A User Guide to Using Thiocarbonylthio Compounds in Photopolymerizations

Abstract. This perspective offers an in-depth guide to photopolymerizations mediated with thiocarbonylthio compounds, with a particular focus on photoinife

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Some of our representative work: 🔬 Nature Chem – Synthetic cells for polymerization (nature.com/articles/s41557-0…) 🧪 Nat Comms – Polymer-based artificial systems (nature.com/articles/s41467-0…)
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Baihao Shao@shaobaqian3 Aug 2024
In our report @ScienceMagazine (bit.ly/4fpiyEJ), we @aprahamian used a U-tube as a filtration system & showed how a photoswitchable hydrazone-based anion receptor can be applied in the active pumping of KCl against a gradient (video is a simplistic rendering of process)
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David Peeler@d_jpeeler2 Mar 2025
Our article "Nanoscale Biodegradable Printing for Designed Tuneability of Vaccine Delivery Kinetics" is available online at Advanced Materials! advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley… Major shout to my co-first author @RJSun13 and all our wonderful collaborators who helped realize this dream!
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Please get in touch if you would like to conduct a Royal Society Newton International Fellowship in my group @QMUL. The topic would be either on polymer-based Synthetic Cells or polymerization reactions for disease diagnostics. Details of the scheme and relevant papers below:
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royalsociety.org/grants/newt… nature.com/articles/s41557-0… nature.com/articles/s41467-0… Sharing the post would be appreciated, thank you!

Newton International Fellowships | Royal Society

This fellowship is for non-UK scientists who are at an early stage of their research career and wish to conduct research in the UK.

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Stephen Fielden@FieldenStephen4 Nov 2024
The newly launched Fielden Research Group (fieldengroup.net/) has two open funded PhD studentships! @UoBChemistry Group members will learn loads, from organic synthesis to microscopy. Please get in touch if you'd like to know more. RT much appreciated! Details below:
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Our last paper is out @NatureComms 📢 We used #synbio to create synthetic communities of Yarrowia and Yarrowia-cerevisiae 👯 Cross-feeding controlled population dynamics📈 Division of labour improved #sustainable #bioproduction 🏆 Full article: nature.com/articles/s41467-0…

Engineered cross-feeding creates inter- and intra-species synthetic yeast communities with enhanced...

Nature Communications - Microorganisms can be engineered to sustainably produce a variety of products including fuels, pharmaceuticals, materials, and food. This work reports the design and...

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Stephen Fielden@FieldenStephen25 Oct 2024
Pleased to see this comment nature.com/articles/s41570-0… published, where @ANBismillah and I discuss our experiences of living with multiple sclerosis (MS) and working in academia. Free to access link here: rdcu.be/dX6Xc @NatRevChem

Holding your nerve in academia whilst managing multiple sclerosis

Nature Reviews Chemistry - Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a degenerative disease of the central nervous system. Two early-career researchers in supramolecular chemistry share their experiences of...

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