Co-founder & CTO at Modern Synthesis. Growing materials from microbes and scaling the circular bioeconomy. Learning the ropes of fatherhood.
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🌟Discover UKRI-funded innovation in Sustainable Textile Production!🌟
🦠 👗💼 @ProfTomEllis is leading a collaboration between Imperial College London and Northumbria University to investigate the applications of bacterial cellulose as a sustainable alternative to dyed leather!
Ben Reeve retweeted
Great look at the work Ben, Jen and team (@SynBioBen) at Modern Synthesis are doing. I love how lux the material can look.
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London-based biotech startup Modern Synthesis creates sustainable alternatives to traditional fabrics, curbing emissions and plastic pollution associated with the fashion industry. 🌎💡
📹 Take a look at their @CNN video feature below ⬇️
@SynBioBen
bit.ly/44BFeg3
Ben Reeve retweeted
We're hiring! We're taking another big leap in using synthetic biology to engineer materials - this time for sustainable food and textiles. In the next few weeks, we've up to 4 postdoc positions opening up. I'd love to hear from anyone interested in joining us this year. Pls RT🔁
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Such a great founder feature on Jen Keane, CEO of @collabfund portfolio company Modern Synthesis. She's spent her entire career working on biomaterials, and even grew her own shoe using bacteria and nanocellulose. Read more about her, the manufacturing process spearheaded by @SynBioBen , how they hit price parity, and what keeps her at night: agfundernews.com/meet-the-fo…
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Today’s review marks a huge step forward for UK spinout founders 🇬🇧
It adopts almost all of the policy reform proposals I made via @spinoutfyi and have been pushing on for 2 years.
A few thoughts on why this is a big day for the ecosystem and UK science&tech below:
Ben Reeve retweeted
🤩 #SynbiTECH2023 is just 3 weeks away! 🤩 If you haven't secured your ticket yet, view the brilliant line-up of SynBio stars and register here:
synbitech.com/
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Share your ideas with innovators driving the synbio revolution at #SynbiTECH2023. With a conference programme packed with networking opportunities, SynbiTECH is the perfect event to collaborate with pioneers in the industry.
Secure your place now: synbitech.com/book-your-tick…
Ben Reeve retweeted
📢 The 2023 Founder-led Biotech Tour
In November, we're teaming up with 50+ founders to bring the community together in four cities.
SF: 11/2
Boston: 11/7
NYC: 11/9
London: 11/13
+ virtual events including co-founder matching, speed networking, and more.
Ben Reeve retweeted
We don’t have time. We need to deploy, deploy, deploy every technology we can now and continue developing technologies that will have a bigger decarb impact a few more years out. Then when those are at scale - we need to deploy, deploy, deploy them. We need more.
Ben Reeve retweeted
In our work on engineered living materials, a question we ask ourselves is ‘How can we use synthetic biology to make materials more sustainable?’ In our new preprint, Marcus Walker @Marcus_waal answers this with ‘Bacterial Black Sheep’.
How? Read on… 🧵⬇️
biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
Ben Reeve retweeted
I took this photo! (12 years ago, shivering in the cold-room because it was the only place we could get properly dark)
The wacky history of glow-in-the-dark plants 🌱
A few years ago, "Glowing Plants" raised $484,000 on Kickstarter. Backlash followed and the platform banned gene-editing projects.
The original company died in 2017, but others took their place.
These are the highlights. 🧵
Ben Reeve retweeted
New performance materials are coming.
Many are biomanufactured and some are scaling very fast. Their superior properties have enormous potential to improve a vast range of products.
tsungxu.com/performance-biom…
Ben Reeve retweeted
Excited for Jen Keane and @SynBioBen at Modern Synthesis for being profiled in @Nature.
"Their goal is to produce a new class of material that will replace animal- and petrochemical-made sneakers with a biodegradable, yet durable, alternative."
nature.com/articles/s41587-0…
Ben Reeve retweeted
Rule of thumb for startups: plan execution ahead for as long as your startup has existed.
If you've been around for 2 weeks, you should be entirely focused on the next 2 weeks. Around for 3 months, focus on next 3 months. 2 years, 2 years. 5 years, 5 years.
Ben Reeve retweeted
We're proud to back Modern Synthesis, which is working to replace animal- & petrochemical-derived materials & help the fashion industry lower its CO2 footprint by developing a new category of materials.
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One of the coolest things we do at @collabfund is look at materials. Jen Keane and Ben Reeve are growing an entirely new sustainable textile from microbes. agfundernews.com/modern-synt…
Ben Reeve retweeted
OpenAI have released new versions of GPT-3 that are much more instructable by allowing editing and insertion. This is really going to change the world
Ben Reeve retweeted
Enter our Chemistry For the Environment poster competition by tweeting your poster with #chem4env. Full details at envchemgroup.com/Chem4Env.ht…. Please RT @EnvSciRSC @RoySocChem
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Chemistry FOR the environment: The next ten years represent our last chance to reverse the highly damaging effects our industrialised societies have had on our environment. Please visit envchemgroup.com/Chem4Env.ht… to register your interest in this meeting
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We are finally live for people to apply for our 2 postdoc positions in Synthetic Genomes. The start of a very ambitious UK project with lots of opportunities. Pls RT go.nature.com/3okPynC
