Our Mission

To develop the foundational multidisciplinary tools needed to de-risk environmentally focused engineering biology and ultimately support its future deployment into real-world ecosystems.

CYBER Mission

Objectives

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De-Risk Environmental Synthetic Biology

Create ecological wind tunnels that mimic real-world complexity to assess the safety of engineered organisms.
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Programmable Cynanobacteria

Develop high-throughput experiments to create the genetic toolkits needed to reprogram environmentally important microbes.
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AI for Engineering Biology

Accelerate reliable cellular reprogramming by learning from diverse experimental data sets.
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Improved Cyber-Bio Security

Enable the traceability of engineered cells in natural environments to ensure trustworthiness.
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Biological Standards & Metrology

Demonstrate the power of rigorous applications of standards and metrology for biological engineering.
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Community Building

Establish the teams and connect to the people able to ensure the long-term benefits of this research are realised.