Tom Ellis

Tom Ellis is Professor of Synthetic Genome Engineering at Imperial College London. He has a degree in Biochemistry from Oxford University and a PhD from Cambridge University. After university Tom worked at a biotech spin-out company in London and then as a research postdoc in Boston before starting his own group at Imperial. His group researches synthetic biology, treating DNA as the programming language for life. By rewriting genomes, his team directs cells to do new tasks useful for modern biotechnology and are building a future where microbes are custom designed to help us and our planet thrive together.