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Amino One Personal Bioreactor demonstration - making synthetic biology accessible to school students

Friday, 3 June, 2016 - 13:30 to 14:30

The Amino One is a laptop sized Personal Bioreactor and Transformation station that is friendly to use, accessible, and contained. It makes learning and prototyping with genetic engineering and cells accessible to students and teachers.

Technology for the Bottom Billion Workshop - Call for Contributions

18 May 2016

Cambridge is a global leader in science and technology, and advances pioneered in Cambridge have impacted significantly on the lives of the world’s poorest and most marginalised people. This workshop brings together people who are evolving innovative technological responses to challenges faced by people who live on less than $2 per day.

Cambridge Postdoc Enterprise competition: now open for entries

3 May 2016

Cambridge Postdoc Enterprise competition: now open for entries! Are you a postdoc interested in starting a company to commercialise your research? Now's the time to start your entrepreneurial journey. Win funding for your idea of up to £20k Receive mentoring and support Network with like-minded postdocs Pitch to high-...

Open Source in SynBio - connecting the active community

29 April 2016

The BioBricks Foundation and other partners are seeking to connect people who are active in Open Source Synthetic Biology, for research and community building.

Workshop on Genotype Phenotype Maps 2016 Announcement

Thursday, 8 September, 2016 - 09:00 to Friday, 9 September, 2016 - 18:00

The organisers of IWGPM 2016 are inviting scientists from biology, physics, mathematics, computer science, and related fields to participate in the International Workshop on Genotype-Phenotype Maps 2016, to be held at the Sainsbury Laboratory, University of Cambridge from 8-9 September 2016. Both talks and posters are welcome.

UK Commons Select Committee call for 'GM and gene editing' evidence check

8 April 2016

The UK Commons Science and Technology Select Committee invites views on the strength of the evidence in relation to GM and gene editing.

Cambridge Plant Synthetic Biologist wins 2016 Wellcome Trust Image Award

31 March 2016

Fernán Federici, OpenPlant Fellow at the University of Cambridge and Director of the Synthetic Biology Lab at Pontificia Universidad Católica in Chile has been awarded a Wellcome Trust Image Award for his micrograph of maize leaves, shot in the Department of Plant Sciences in collaboration with Professor Jim Haseloff.

Complex design practices: learning from Synthetic Biology and Swarm Robotics

30 March 2016

Dr Chih-Chun Chen and Dr Nathan Crilly investigate the premise that design and engineering principles can be applied to biological entities and ask what synthetic biology could learn from and contribute to other groups tackling complex design problems

Open Technology Week, Cambridge, 8-15 June 2016

17 March 2016

Open Technology Week will take place across the city between 8-15 June 2016, culminating in a gathering and open source maker faire at the Cambridge University Engineering Department on 15 June.

Open Source Hardware from the PLOS SynBio Community

7 March 2016

Tobias Wenzel, University of Cambridge, talks through the potential of open source hardware in synthetic biology, highlighting several Cambridge-based projects. Tobey received a SynBio and OpenPlant Fund grant for his work on in this area.

Amino One Personal Bioreactor demonstration - making synthetic biology accessible to school students

Technology for the Bottom Billion Workshop - Call for Contributions

Cambridge Postdoc Enterprise competition: now open for entries

Open Source in SynBio - connecting the active community

Workshop on Genotype Phenotype Maps 2016 Announcement

UK Commons Select Committee call for 'GM and gene editing' evidence check

Cambridge Plant Synthetic Biologist wins 2016 Wellcome Trust Image Award

Complex design practices: learning from Synthetic Biology and Swarm Robotics

Open Technology Week, Cambridge, 8-15 June 2016

Open Source Hardware from the PLOS SynBio Community

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