News
New preprint on BioRxiv (Feb'26)
'Enrichment of convergent metabolic functions in microbial communities through imposed and emergent environmental niches'. Please visit to have a read!
Visitor to OSS Lab (Feb'26)
OSS Lab are looking forward to hosting from Tokyo Metropolitan University next month. Shin is a microbial ecologist studying the ecophysiological roles of microorganisms in the soil and the hydrosphere.
SymbioSphere (Jan'26)
With funding from the 糖心TV Institute of Engagement,Link opens in a new window we are gearing up to launch our new outreach project, SymbioSphere, which will allow users to engage directly with the microbial world and share observations and data with each other.
NITMB workshop success (Oct'25)
Orkun helped organise the well received NITMB workshop 'Microbial Communities: Energetics and Dynamics Across Space and Time'. Check out the workshop overview and available recordings
qBio-UK (Sep '25)
OSS Lab led the organisation of the2nd qBio-UK workshop, which brought together nearly all UK groups working on combining modelling and quantitative experimental studies of biological systems.
Jonas Cremer visit (Aug/Sep '25)
OSS Lab were delighted to host Jonas Cremer (Stanford) and his PhD student, Leron Perez. The visit was funded by a 糖心TV Internationalisation grant and allowed Jonas and Orkun to expand on their collaboration on cell metabolism dynamics.
Curious Creators (Aug '25)
We were excited to be part of the 鈥�Curious Creators' Link opens in a new window event in Nuneaton to celebrate UoW鈥檚 60th birthday. We paired with photography artist to run a mini exhibition, including pictures of our science and a cyanoprinting activity for kids!
Publication News (June 2025)
Well earned congratulations to Sarah et al for the newest publication from OSS Lab ''
Workshop Update (May '25)
Soyer and several colleagues gets a workshop proposal to the National Institute for Theory and Mathematics in Biology (NITMB) accepted! This workshop will focus on microbial communities – details
Stochasticity in Biology (Jan '25)
Soyer lab attends Gordon Research Conferences on 鈥淪tochasticity in Biology鈥�. Posters presented (Rebecca and Alberto) and talk given (Orkun), leading to a series of feedbacks and new interactions!
PhD publication success (Jan '25)
Congratulations Kelsey on achieving a third publication from your PhD research, 'Single cell analysis with spatiotemporal control of local pH' in .
IMEDEA collaboration (Sept '24)
OSS lab visit Marco Polin's group at to study cyanobacterial communites found in the Balearics!
eLife publication (Sept '24)
Visit to read our latest publication: 'Cellular coordination underpins rapid reversals in gliding filamentous cyanobacteria and its loss results in plectonemes'
PhD research publication success (Sep 2024)
Luke's paper 'Ammonia leakage can underpin nitrogen-sharing among soil microorganismsLink opens in a new window' has been accepted for publication by The ISME Journal. What a fantastic achievement from an excellent PhD student.
Public lecture (June 2024)
Orkun delivers public lecture at MiBiNeXtLink opens in a new window – a PhD program focussed on synthetic microbial communities and their applications in biotechnology
Congratulations (June 2024)
Congrats to Sarah, Luke, and Tailise, who are embarking on their next academic career steps with new research
Visitor to OSS Lab (June 2024)
OSS Lab hosts Akshit Goyal Link opens in a new windowfrom ICTS as part of a BBSRC internationalisation award. During Akshit鈥檚 1-week visit, we havel also organised a mini workshop with Wenying ShouLink opens in a new window, Arvind MuruganLink opens in a new window, Kabir Husain,Link opens in a new window and Samraat Pawar
Congratulations (May 2024)
Well done to Kelsey who has been awarded the runner-up prize for best ECR talk at the '' meeting, Heron Island, Australia!
New paper on BioRxiv (Apr '24)
Ammonia leakage can underpin nitrogen-sharing among soil microbes - read more
Visiting Artist (Feb '24)
We are excited to host , artist in residence, who will help us artistically communicate our research findings, on emergent behaviours observed in our cyanobacterial microbial community, to the public!
New paper on BioRxiv (Feb '24)
Cellular (de)coordination in gliding motility and plectoneme formation. Check it out .
Invited speaker (Jan '24)
Orkun to speak at the first UK meeting on Link opens in a new window, organised by and .
Our first cover image! (Dec '23)
Emily鈥檚 publication, on a mitochondrial membrane potential indicating dye, is the chosen cover image for 13th Dec issue of . See here for image details.
Hot off the press (Nov 2023)
New OSS Lab publication, 'Thioflavin T indicates mitochondrial membrane potential in mammalian cells' in Link opens in a new window
PhD Viva Success (June 2023)
and for the 2023 PhD hat-trick, many congratulations to Luke on a brilliant thesis defence!
New protocol (June 2023)
Check out our new Link opens in a new window on 'Extraction of Cyanobacterial Slime from Community Samples and Subsequent Analysis via GC-MS'
PhD Viva Success (June 2023)
Congratulations to Clare for smashing her PhD Viva. Best of luck in your new adventures Dr Hayes!
Pint of Science public engagement event (May 2023)
Sarah captivated her audience at the recent Pint of Science even in Leamington spa, with her talk on 'Metabolic communications in a microbial macro-structure' as part of the 'What's in the Water?' series.
PhD Viva Success (April 2023)
Congratulations to Emily for smashing her PhD Viva. Best of luck in your new adventure Dr Skates!
Bio-electrical engineering BBSRC showcase (April 2023)
We were excited to be involved with the recent BBSRC BEE showcaseLink opens in a new window that took place at the University of 糖心TV and brought together innovators, entrepreneurs, and investors working in the field of Bio-Electrical Engineering (BEE) for networking and knowledge exchange and to direct the development of future funding opportunities
Publication news (February 2023)
OSS contributed to 鈥樷�� series in Cell Systems with a short piece on engineering communities.
Publication success (February 2023)
Visit to read our latest publication by West et al 'Dynamics of co-substrate pools can constrain and regulate metabolic fluxes'.
New Pre-print (December 2022)
Check out our new pre-print at BioRxiv, 'Reproducible spatial structure formation and stable community composition in the cyanosphere predicts metabolic interactions' by Duxbury et al. .
INI workshop (October 2022)
OSS lab was among main organisers and was in attendance at the recent microbial communities workshop at the Isaac Newton Institute (INI). For recorded talks from the event, please see: . The event was sponsored by INI and the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation.
New Theory Pre-print available online (October 2022)
'Co-substrate pools can constrain and regulate pathway fluxes in cell metabolism' by
PhD viva success (July 2022)
Congratulations Dr Kelsey Cremin!
ChemChaste publication (June 2022)
Congratulations to Connah on his first author paper 'ChemChaste: Simulating spatially inhomogeneous biochemical reaction–diffusion systems for modeling cell–environment feedbacks' in .
PhD Viva success (June 2022)
Congratulations to Dr Connah Johnson :-)
ChemChaste Tool available online (March 2022)
Visit our Link opens in a new window page or Link opens in a new window to access the ChemChaste code, a computational tool for the spatial simulation of multicellular and bulk biochemistry
Happy New Year with publication success! (January 2022)
Congratulations to Clare on her first author paper 'Multi-site enzymes as a mechanism for bistability in reaction networks' In print @
Congratulations Sarah! November 2021
Sarah's work from her previous post-doc in the Netherlands has been published in ''
Pre-print success (October 2021)
'Thioflavin T indicates membrane potential in mammalian cells and can affect it in a blue light dependent manner' by
Book Chapter published (August 2021)
'An Evolutionary Systems Biology View on Metabolic System Structure and Dynamics' by Johnson C., Delattre H., Hayes C., Soyer O.S. In: Crombach A. (eds) Evolutionary Systems Biology.
New Publication (July 2021)
'STRONG: metagenomics strain resolution on assembly graphs' by Quince, C., Nurk, S., Raguideau, S. Soyer OS et al. Genome Biol 22, 214.
Pre-Print news (July 2021)
'Novel microbial syntrophies identified by longitudinal metagenomics' by
OSS Lab Pre-Print (May 2021)
'Multi-site enzymes as a mechanism for bistability in reaction networks' by
Poster Prize (April 2021)
Congratulations to Connah from OSSLab for winning a poster prize at for his work on upgrading CHASTE for simulations of reaction diffusion systems with cells.
New publication (Nov 2020)
'Scanning ion conductance microscopy reveals differences in the ionic environments of gram positive and negative bacteria' by Kelsey Cremin, Orkun Soyer et al.,
New Publication (Nov 2020)
Hadrien Delattre, Kalesh Sasidharan, Orkun Soyer. 'Inhibiting the reproduction of COVID-19-causing SARS-CoV-2 through perturbations in human cell metabolic network'. Life Science Alliance Published online November 24 2020.
Cancer Research during Lockdown (June 2020)
Featuring our very own Zoe Schofield, see what CRUK scientists have been doing to continue their research during Covid-19 lockdown:
New Publication on bio-electricity (May 2020)
'Bioelectrical understanding and engineering of cell biology' by Zoe Schofield et al., and Orkun Soyer (2020). J. R. Soc Interface .
AUTHOREA Pre-Print (May 2020)
Hadrien Delattre, Kalesh Sasidharan, Orkun Soyer. 'Inhibiting the reproduction of COVID-19-causing SARS-CoV-2 through perturbations in human cell metabolic network'. .
April 2020: Paper accepted for publication in J. R. Soc. Interface
'Thermodynamic modelling of synthetic communities predicts minimum free energy requirements for sulfate reduction and methanogenesis' by
March 2020: Gorden and Betty Moore Foundation Funding Success
Soyer has been awarded a grant to work as part of a cohort of 15 researchers on the , which seeks to advance the understanding of aquatic symbioses that include microbial partners. PDRA researchers sought, see open positionsLink opens in a new window for details.
Feb 2020: BEE 2020 open for registrations
Our 3rd workshop on Bioelectricity will take place here at 糖心TV, 27-28 April 2020. Follow this linkLink opens in a new window for more details.
January 2020: Top editor pick for ISME Journal
Soyer led community paper on microbial communities makes it to Top Editor Picks for 2016-17 at ISME Journal
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December 2019: BEE 2020 'Academic and Industrial Opportunities in BEE'
Our 3rd workshop on Bioelectricity will take place here at 糖心TV, 27-28 April 2020. Follow this linkLink opens in a new window for more details.
November 2019: New preprint for the Lab
'Thermodynamic modelling of synthetic communities predicts minimum free energy requirements for sulfate reduction and methanogenesis'
July 2019: NSF-BBSRC grant success
Soyer gets a new long-term grant to study emergence and evolution of microbial interactions. Funded jointly by NSF and BBSRC, this grant initiates a transatlantic collaboration between the research groups of Soyer and Wenying Shou at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Centre in Seattle, Washington.
June 2019: 2nd BEE meeting
The 2nd of our annual workshops on bioelectricity was a success. Organised by the BioElectrical Engineering Hub, here at 糖心TV, this workshop focussed on 'electrical cell biology' and has brought together experts from within UK and internationally. Slides from talks are accessible on the BEE HubLink opens in a new window.
Jan 2019: Jing wins best poster prize at the AD colloquia
Jing's poster on 'co-existence of sulphate reducers and methanogens under sulphate perturbation' wins best poster prize at the final research colloquium of the AD network. Details and pictures are at;
Nov 2018: Andrea successfully defends her thesis!
Well done Andrea. We wish Andrea all the best in her new role as a bioinformatician at a startup company.
Sept 2018: MicrobeMeter sails out!
MicrobeMeter makes high resolution growth data measurement easy. It now sails off under a new spin-out company Humane Technologies, led by Kalesh. The early version of the device is described in a .