
The Great North Museum 31st January – 23rd March 2020
https://www.ncl.ac.uk/peals/exhibitions/evolutionorrevolution/
This exhibition of artworks made by Dr Marianne Wilde was part of a strand of public engagement work, led by Dr Ken Taylor, as part of the Synthetic Portabolomics project. The pieces reflected Marianne’s engagement with synthetic biology;
On the 19th of November 2019, an exhibition in the Great North Museum: Hancock opened celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Policy, Ethics and Life Sciences Research Centre (PEALS) and their engagement with artists from different fields.
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Workshop on Bio-Design for Portability (BD4P)
8 July 2019
Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge, UK
Organised by Paolo Zuliani.
The workshop consisted in five talks by synthetic biology experts that addressed both experimental and in silico (computational) problems related to bio-design portability.
Registration Deadline: 21st of July 2019
Designer Biology 2019
A joint conference organised by The European Federation of Biotechnology Polymer Biotechnology Section and the Bioengineering and Bioprocessing Section, hosted by the the Plant and Microbial Biology Group in the School of Natural and Environmental Sciences at Newcastle University 31st July – 2nd August 2019.
Artificial Life has historically been regarded by its adversaries as an academic “hobby” with little relation to real life. We feel that these days are past, as in fact, our interdisciplinary and constantly self-innovating discipline brings together a set of skills and perspectives with a unique potential to tackle some of the most pressing societal challenges of our times.
ALIFE 2019 – How Can Artificial Life Help Solve Societal Challenges?Read more
The Portabolomics Annual Review will take place on 30th of April 2019 in Newcastle upon Tyne.
The implications and impacts of a responsibility agenda for synthetic biology
The Event Space, ground floor, Urban Sciences Building, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.
Day 1: Thursday September 20th
12:00 – 13:00 Lunch and registration
13:00 – 13:15 Welcome and introduction (Natalio Krasnogor and Simon Woods)
13:15 – 14:45 Session 1.
The Portabolomics group together with the Interdisciplinary Computing and Complex Biosystems (ICOS) research group and the Centre for Synthetic Biology and the Bioeconomy (CSBB) is organising the AIMday AI for Biotechnology on 27th of June 2019 at Newcastle University to discuss specific industry challenges related to the development and adoption of AI technologies for enhanced decision making in Biotechnology.