Who We Are
Meet the team
The Foundry Team
Dr Rennos Fragkoudis – Facility Manager (from Nov 2019)
Dr Valentin Zulkower - Software Manager (and interim facility manager till Nov 2019)
Dr Nikolaos Pantidos – Research Technologist
Mr Scott Neilson - Lab Technician
Executive Board
Prof Susan Rosser – Co-Director and Co-founder
Dr Filippo Menolascina – Co-Director
Dr Giovanni Straquadanio – Co-Director
Dr Liz Fletcher – Operations Manager
Alumni
We are grateful to all of those who helped make the Foundry a success including:
Dr Patrick Cai
Fraser Morton
Sarah Zheng
Dr Ivan Yuan
Dr Hille Tekotte
Aitor Bleda
Isaac Luo
Dr Jane Paget
Dr Laura Milne
The Foundry is proud to be part of
An international consortium that aims to develop, promote, and support diverse types of non-commercial biofoundries.
International Gene Synthesis Consortium (IGSC)
An industry-led group of gene synthesis companies and organizations formed to design and apply a common protocol to screen both the sequences of synthetic gene orders and the customers who place them. It promotes the beneficial application of gene synthesis technology while safeguarding biosecurity.