The winners of the inaugural @arc-gov-au.bsky.social CoEs Creative Communication Competition have been announced! 2 of our members won prizes in the Drawing/painting/ sculpture category. Judges 1st Prize - Rashika Sood's 'The Reef Remembers' People's Choice - Jennifer Adami's 'Elli the E. coli'

🧬 Science Week is underway and our brilliant volunteer outreach team led by Dr Brodie Gillieatt of Macquarie University is having some great conversations about synthetic biology with children and adults alike. ✨ Thank you to our team of volunteers! @arc-gov-au.bsky.social

The winners of the inaugural @arc-gov-au.bsky.social Centres of Excellence Creative Communication Competition have been announced! 🥳 The People's Choice in the Comic/Graphic Novel/Zine category is Jasperine Phetchareun for 'From Waste to Wonders'. 🔎 Check it out here: bit.ly/4zr5YPy

✨ We're excited to announce our fifth keynote speaker for #coesb26, Prof @gavinhthomas.bsky.social! Gavin is a Prof. at the Department of Biology at the @york.ac.uk ac.uk, UK. We're looking forward to hearing from Prof Thomas soon! 📅 Registration opens this week! @arc-gov-au.bsky.social

We sponsored a session with Lauren Reinhardt of North Shore Speech Therapy at last week's @arc-gov-au.bsky.social Centres of Excellence Professional Staff Forum 🗣️💬 She reviewed our outreach products, including our card game Remediate!, and gave us a masterclass in storytelling for kids.

Last week our Professional Team presented at the @arc-gov-au.bsky.social Centres of Excellence Summit! Sessions on strategy, research comms, finance, and a showcase of our synthetic biology card game Remediate. Great to share knowledge and finally meet colleagues we usually only email!

Great to be part of today’s #ARTIC Workshop in Sydney, focused on strengthening Australia’s research translation ecosystem. Our Director shared Research Translation Highlights from our Centre. In 5 years, we've spun out 12 startup companies that have collectively raised $230m in venture capital.

📹 Highlights from our recent Biotech Entrepreneurship Workshop held at Macquarie University in partnership with @macsys.bsky.social. What an amazing day! @arc-gov-au.bsky.social

Centre members - the CoESB 2026 Grant Writing Retreat is filling up fast! 📝 3 days at Voco Kirkton Park, Hunter Valley: 1:1 mentoring with 3 expert grant mentors, peer feedback, dedicated writing time. Rego closes Fri 7 Aug 2026 👉 forms.cloud.microsoft/r/YzeEeLR7VY @arc-gov-au.bsky.social

Our Director Ian Paulsen gave the Plenary Lecture at the Yeast Products and Discovery '26 Conference in Brisbane last week. The talk covered his journey from a bacteriologist to yeast lover, including the Yeast 2.0 projects in his lab. 📸: Tim Macuga @arc-gov-au.bsky.social

This week we hosted a Biotech Entrepreneurship Workshop in Sydney, with @macsys.bsky.social. Researchers, founders, VCs and industry leaders came together for practical discussions on investment readiness, mentorship and translating science into commercial impact. 🎯 @arc-gov-au.bsky.social

We're pleased to announce Australian Genome Foundry and IDEA Bio as our Diamond Sponsors of the CoESB Annual Conference 2026 #CoESB6. 💎 Thank you both for your continued support! We can’t wait to see you in the Hunter Valley this December. @arc-gov-au.bsky.social

A great evening at Parliament House celebrating biomanufacturing in Australia with parliamentarians, ministerial staffers, industry partners and Centre researchers. More than 40 countries now have explicit national strategies for synthetic biology and biomanufacturing. Australia does not!

✨ We're excited to announce Associate Prof Emma Frow of Arizona State University as a keynote speaker at #coesb26! Emma's research focuses on the governance of emerging biotechnologies, and she has been studying and working alongside the synthetic biology community in the US and Europe since 2008.

📢 Attention Centre members! 📢 Entries are now open to the @arc-gov-au.bsky.social Centres of Excellence Creative Communication Competition. 🏆 Win up to $400 in gift cards! - Plus, bragging rights for life 🙌 📅 Entries close 31 July 2026 Enter now: scienceart.com.au

What happens when strong science meets the right environment? Expand the reach and relevance of your work at our upcoming Biotech Entrepreneurship Workshop, co-hosted with @macsys.bsky.social, an event that combines short talks with two extended mentorship sessions. @arc-gov-au.bsky.social

Join us in congratulating the first recipients of our CoESB CRITICAL Seed Grant: Seraj Kotagama, Taylor Szyszka, Alexandra Coram and Claudia Bruinsma! 👏 @arc-gov-au.bsky.social @taylorszyszka.bsky.social

Join us in welcoming Prof Ron Milo as a keynote speaker at #CoESB26! ✨ At Weizmann Institute, Prof Milo harnesses the tools of systems biology to find solutions to the challenges of sustainability. We look forward to hearing from him in December! @milolabwis.bsky.social @arc-gov-au.bsky.social

Join us in welcoming Assistant Professor Feiran Li to #CoESB26 as a keynote speaker! Dr Feiran Li is an Assistant Professor at Shenzhen International Graduate School (SIGS), Tsinghua University, specialising in constraint-based modeling, machine learning, and synthetic biology. Look forward to it!

✨We're pleased to announce our first keynote speaker of #CoESB26! Dr Guokun Wang is a Professor at Tianjin Institute of Industrial Biotechnology. His research focuses on the synthetic biology-driven microbial production of functional nutrients, such as starches, proteins and functional polyphenols.

Congratulations to fresh MRes graduates Joy Abou Chebel and Nicholas Bersée, and PhD graduate Andrey Giovanni Gomes de Oliveira from our synbio lab at Macquarie University! 🎓🧬 📷: Paige Erpf

Dr Elena Eremeeva and Micaela Belen Sequeira from our QUT node presented their research at Aptamers 2026 and Oligo 2026 conferences in Oxford, UK. We're incredibly proud of our researchers representing the Centre on the world stage. ✨ #AptOx26

As part of Science Meets Parliament 2026, centre members Alex Coram and Bini Zhou went on a Parliament House beekeeping tour! They tasted the honey made by the parliamentary bees, with a reusable cassette frame, and a micro honey harvester, both Australian innovations from startup Hivekeepers!

Four Centre members attended Science Meets Parliament at Parliament House in Canberra last week. Stay tuned for the full report! @scienceau.bsky.social

Great to welcome representatives from @idtdna.bsky.social to Macquarie University last week for a tour of our Centre and Australian Genome Foundry. We discussed a variety of ways to engage with synthetic biology at Macquarie. Looking forward to future collaboration. 🤝

Learn how one confronting film inspired a biotech startup to tackle a problem devastating the world’s rainforest 🌴⬇️ Download our Annual Report here: coesb.com.au/annual-repor...

Download our 2025 Annual Report The theme Rising Stars, Real World Impact captures the Centre’s evolution from fundamental science to real-world outcomes, showcasing how our synthetic biology discoveries are providing solutions for Australia’s emerging bioeconomy. coesb.com.au/annual-reports

Great turnout at today’s CoESB Local Startup & Industry Networking Lunch held at Macquarie University. Supporting the local Synbio ecosystem with the opportunity for startup founders, researchers and industry leaders to meet and exchange ideas over lunch and drinks. Thanks to all who attended!

Founded by Centre Associate Investigator Dr Laura Navone, navbio is a specialised biotechnology consultancy that provides expert guidance to navigate the complexities of engineering biology for the circular economy. Get in touch at laura.navone@navbio.com.au 🔗 Learn more: navbio.com.au

@danfulvi.bsky.social from our Western Sydney University node was a guest on the panel at the STS Network Inaugural event: Why (Australian) STS Now? The panel, which included five other scholars, discussed the role of technology, knowledge and culture in shaping contemporary societies. 💡