Simon is attending Evidence Week (6th to 8th July 2026) at the UK Houses of Parliament, presenting our research evidence on engineering biology, producing the medicines and chemicals of the future, to help parliamentarians scrutinise government policy in this area. The event is run with Sense about Science.

Linying Sun entered the Faculty of Natural Sciences research image competition (1st July 2026) and was voted into the top 7.

The group is delighted to be a partner of AIMARIA, a recently funded EU Horizon consortium led by Professor Rahmi Lale (NTNU, Norway), bringing together international partners to advance engineering biology.

Simon visited KAIST and KRIBB as part of the UK to South Korea engineering biology collaboration and gave a short talk.

Simon gave an invited talk at the Institute of Structural and Molecular Biology, hosted by Professor Saul Purton (21st January 2026).

Alex Butulan grabs the 1st Prize Poster at the annual Syngenta Biological Sciences and Product Safety Collaboration Event, where all the Syngenta-academic PhD students present posters and final year talks

Dr Agata Kennedy passes her PhD viva on indole biosynthesis with minor corrections, examined by Prof. Klaus Pors (University of Bradford) and Dr. Becky Hall (University of Kent)

The Moore group relocate to the Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London

Dr Lewis Tanner gives a talk at the Metabolic Engineering conference in Rotterdam

End of year celebrations at the University of Kent

Simon gives an invited talk in Cancun, Mexico

Guy Griffin spends 6 weeks as an internship on the Biochemical Society Eric Reid for Methodology project working on antimicrobial resistance biosensors

The group take to the badminton court

Meal out at A La Turka

Moore Group 1.0 – The Wheel of Time turns, and ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend. Legends fade to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth comes again. In one Age, called the third age by some, an Age yet to come, an age long pass, a wind rose in the Mountains of Mist. The wind was not the beginning. There are neither beginnings or endings to the turning of the Wheel of Time. But it was a beginning – Robert Jordan, The Wheel of Time