Table 1.

Interviewees by Research Field.

Institution	Department	Area of research
Imperial College London	Department of Medicine	Protein crystallography and synthetic biology
University of Aberdeen	School of Natural and Computing Sciences	Biochemical engineering of natural products
	Institute of Biological and Environmental Sciences	Environmental toxicity and bio-assays
University of Bath	Department of Biology & Biochemistry	Microbial metabolic engineering
University of Cambridge	Department of Plant Sciences	Plant synthetic biology and computational modeling
University College London	Department of Biochemical Engineering	Biochemical engineering of pharmaceuticals and biocatalysis
	Department of Biochemical Engineering	Biochemical engineering and synthetic biology of microorganisms
University of Edinburgh	MRC Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine	Network biology of cancer
	MRC Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine	Comparative genomics of model organism development
	School of Biological Sciences	Systems biology of plant circadian rhythms
University of Exeter	College of Life and Environmental Sciences	Plant cell signaling and bioenergy
University of Manchester	Faculty of Life Sciences	Cell signaling and imaging
	School of Computer Science	Computational and systems biology of metabolic signaling networks
	Faculty of Life Sciences	Small signaling molecules in microbes
	Faculty of Life Sciences	Computational biology for complex biological systems
University of Warwick	School of Life Sciences	Evolutionary systems biology and synthetic biology
	School of Engineering	Systems and control theory for synthetic biology
	Warwick Systems Biology Centre	Computational modelling and quantitative imaging of cell motion
University of York	Department of Biology	Biochemical engineering in plants
European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI)	NA	Chemoinformatics and metabolism
	NA	Bioinformatics of protein and RNA sequences
	NA	Population genomics and phenotyping