Uploaded July 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Join members from the team leading the ELEMENTAL Hub as they provide an overview of their expansive engineering biology
programme.

You can expect to learn more about:

- the aims and objectives of this UKRI Engineering Biology Mission Hub
- research and innovation activities taking place across the consortium
- opportunities to engage with the programme

Timestamps:
00:00:00 – Introduction to UKRI Engineering Biology Mission Hubs programme – Dr Tom Pearson
00:03:30 – Introduction to Elemental Hub – Dr Liz Rylott
00:10:09 – Spotlight 1: Enzyme-based metal/metalloid biosensors – Professor Joanne Santini
00:20:31 – Spotlight 2: Biorecovery – designing efficient and effective method for metal biorecovery and biorecycling – Professor Jon Lloyd
00:32:29 – ELEMENTAL Spotlight 3: Biorecovery – improving metalation in fermentations – Professor Martin Warren
00:41:13 – Early Career Researcher perspective – Dr Ana Santos
00:46:48 – Elemental and the wider community – Dr Peter Chivers
00:55:40 – Q&A

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