Louise Horsfall
Contact details
- Tel: +44 (0)131 650 5363
- Email: Louise.Horsfall@ed.ac.uk
- Web: The Horsfall Group
Address
- Street
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Roger Land Building G18
University of Edinburgh,
The King’s Buildings,
Alexander Crum Brown Road, - City
- Edinburgh
- Post code
- EH9 3FF
Background
2020 Chair of Sustainable Biotechnology, University of Edinburgh
2016 Senior Lecturer in Biotechnology, University of Edinburgh
2012 Lecturer in Biotechnology, University of Edinburgh
2010 Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Glasgow
2007 Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Leeds
2007 Doctorat en Sciences, Universite de Liege, Belgium
2004 DEA en Sciences, Universite de Liege, Belgium
2002 MChem, University of Oxford
Postgraduate teaching
Programme Director for the MSc in Synthetic Biology & Biotechnology
Research summary
- Synthetic biology
- Biotechnology
- Novel enzymes
- Protein engineering
- Directed evolution
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Roadmap for a sustainable circular economy in lithium-ion and future battery technologies
(96 pages)
In:
JPhys Energy, vol. 5
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1088/2515-7655/acaa57
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Palladium nanoparticles from desulfovibrio alaskensis G20 catalyze biocompatible sonogashira and biohydrogenation cascades
In:
JACS Au
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1021/jacsau.2c00366
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print) -
Selective bacterial separation of critical metals: Towards a sustainable method for recycling lithium ion batteries
(11 pages)
In:
Green Chemistry, vol. 24, pp. 8512-8522
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/D2GC02450K
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print) -
Synthetic biology landscape in the UK
(5 pages)
In:
Biotechnology Notes, vol. 3, pp. 70-74
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biotno.2022.07.002
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print) -
Pore dynamics and asymmetric cargo loading in an encapsulin nanocompartment
In:
Science Advances, vol. 8
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abj4461
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print) -
Micellar catalysis of the Suzuki Miyaura reaction using biogenic Pd nanoparticles from Desulfovibrio alaskensis
(5 pages)
In:
Green Chemistry, pp. 8886-8890
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/D1GC02392F
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print) -
New methods for the synthesis of spirocyclic cephalosporin analogues
In:
Molecules, vol. 26
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/molecules26196035
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print) -
Synthetic biology approaches towards the recycling of metals from the environment
In:
Biochemical Society Transactions
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1042/BST20190837
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Review article (Published) -
High resolution fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance mass spectrometry (FT-ICR MS) for the characterisation of enzymatic processing of commercial lignin
(8 pages)
In:
New Biotechnology, vol. 52, pp. 1-8
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nbt.2019.03.001
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Understanding the role of SilE in the production of metal nanoparticles by Morganella psychrotolerans using MicroScale Thermophoresis
In:
New Biotechnology, vol. 55, pp. 1-4
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nbt.2019.09.002
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print) -
Shotgun proteomic analysis of nanoparticle-synthesizing Desulfovibrio alaskensis in response to platinum and palladium
In:
Microbiology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.000840
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print) -
Production of Biogenic Nanoparticles for the Reduction of 4-Nitrophenol and Oxidative Laccase-Like Reactions
(9 pages)
In:
Frontiers in Microbiology, vol. 10
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2019.00997
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Synthetic Biology for the development of bio-based binders for greener construction materials
(12 pages)
In:
MRS Communications
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1557/mrc.2019.39
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print) -
Room temperature bioproduction, isolation and anti-microbial properties of stable elemental copper nanoparticles
(7 pages)
In:
New Biotechnology, vol. 40, pp. 275-281
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nbt.2017.10.002
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
The contribution of microbially-produced nanoparticles to sustainable development goals
In:
Microbial biotechnology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/1751-7915.12788
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Review article (E-pub ahead of print) -
Characterisation of a new family of carboxyl esterases with an OsmC domain
In:
PLoS ONE, vol. 11
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0166128
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Nickel and platinum group metal nanoparticle production by Desulfovibrio alaskensis G20
(5 pages)
In:
New Biotechnology, vol. 32, pp. 727-731
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nbt.2015.02.002
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Construction of a modular arsenic resistance operon in E. coli and the production of arsenic nanoparticles.
(11 pages)
In:
Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology, vol. 3
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3389/fbioe.2015.00160
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Exploring the potential of metallic nanoparticles within synthetic biology
In:
New Biotechnology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nbt.2014.03.004
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Fusion of pyruvate decarboxylase and alcohol dehydrogenase increases ethanol production in escherichia coli
(3 pages)
In:
ACS Synthetic Biology, vol. 3, pp. 976-978
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1021/sb500020g
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published)