{"id":55,"date":"2026-03-10T13:27:54","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T13:27:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk\/groups\/robertson\/?page_id=55"},"modified":"2026-03-10T13:34:22","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T13:34:22","slug":"news","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk\/groups\/robertson\/news\/","title":{"rendered":"News"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>February 2026<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The lab has moved from the 3rd to the 2nd floor of the <a href=\"https:\/\/mrclmb.ac.uk\/\">LMB<\/a>!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>October 2025<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Welcome to <a href=\"https:\/\/www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk\/groups\/robertson\/people\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"16\">Rodrigue<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk\/groups\/robertson\/people\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"16\">Angus<\/a>, two new PhD students in the lab!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>August 2025<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Check out news and views about Syn57, a recoded <em>E. coli <\/em>genome that Wes helped design and synthesize. This work started as a postdoctoral project in the Chin lab, and it finished after he started his independent group. Articles: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2490640-e-coli-genome-has-been-remade-with-101000-changes-to-its-dna\/\">New Scientist<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/07\/31\/science\/dna-genetics-engineering-microbes.html\">New York Times<\/a><\/em>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>February 2025<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The lab is excited to be part of the <a href=\"https:\/\/aria.org.uk\/opportunity-spaces\/programmable-plants\/synthetic-plants\/meet-the-creators\/?cardId=synplastome\">Synplastome 2.0 team<\/a>, part of an innovative <a href=\"https:\/\/aria.org.uk\/\">ARIA<\/a> research project to create programmable, synthetic plastid genomes for the sustainable and accessible production of valuable compounds for healthcare, manufacturing, and agriculture. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>October 2024<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Welcome to <a href=\"https:\/\/www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk\/groups\/robertson\/people\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"16\">Dhriti<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk\/groups\/robertson\/people\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"16\">Gonzalo<\/a>, the first new members of the lab!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>February 2026 The lab has moved from the 3rd to the 2nd floor of the LMB! October 2025 Welcome to Rodrigue and Angus, two new PhD students in the lab! August 2025 Check out news and views about Syn57, a recoded E. coli genome that Wes helped design and synthesize. This work started as a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-55","1":"page","2":"type-page","3":"status-publish","5":"entry"},"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk\/groups\/robertson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/55","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk\/groups\/robertson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk\/groups\/robertson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk\/groups\/robertson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk\/groups\/robertson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk\/groups\/robertson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/55\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":244,"href":"https:\/\/www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk\/groups\/robertson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/55\/revisions\/244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk\/groups\/robertson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk\/groups\/robertson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}