Synthetic Biology UK 2022 (SBUK 2022) will be hosted in Newcastle this year! Please  mark your calendar for 7th and 8th of November 2022. Host of the conference will be the Biochemical Society. Please find the program of the conference here.

Synthetic Biology UK 2022

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This includes a ‘workin progress’ exhibit relating to Portabolomics that Dr Marianne Wilde has been working on with Grace and Giorgio, two of our PhD students.

Cyanobacterium Synechococcus elongatus PCC7942/BG11+ Agar/Glass Petri Dish

Artist Marianne Wilde in collaboration with Giorgio Lai, PhD student in the Yuzenkova Laboratory.

Bacillus subtilis / Nutrient Agar / Glass Petri Dish

Artist Marianne Wilde in collaboration with Grace Georgina Goldsmith MRes, PhD student in the Daniel Laboratory.

You can find the exhibition on the first floor ‘Galleria’ space and is free and open to anyone during normal museum opening hours, so please come along.

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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. The opening talk presented novel methods for characterising the interaction between genetic circuits and host cell (Gorochowski). The following talk focussed on reproducibility and comparability of measurements (Beal). The third experimental talk introduced new reporter systems for sensing stress in the cell, including the metabolic burden (Smith). In the computational domain, we started with a presentation of efficient algorithms for multi-objective metabolic engineering based on a game-theoretic approach (Jiang), and we concluded with a talk on heuristics for selecting scaffold sequences for in-cell DNA origami folding (Shirt-Ediss).

The workshop attracted about a dozen researchers from institutions in Denmark, South Korea, UK, and USA.

The workshop was sponsored by the EPSRC Portabolomics project.

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. The theme “How can Artificial Life help to solve Societal Challenges” will run through the conference in the shape of keynote presentations and satellite events that apply Artificial Life principles to research on sustainable technologies, bioremediation, urban development and environmental planning, alternative societies a.s.o.

But more than merely theming presentations, ALIFE2019 in Newcastle plans to revisit the very way academic conferences are run: a balanced amount of remote talks as well as broadcasting of presentations in order to reduce CO₂emissions, carbon-offset bursaries that allow participants to diminish their ecological footprint, locally sourced catering – these are just a few of the ideas that the organisers will explore, so that us academics can realise some of the change we are advocating for.

For more information, please visit https://2019.alife.org.

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. Responsible Research and Innovation: its place in and for science and society. (Chair: Natalio Krasnogor)

13:20 – 13:50      John Goddard: Responsible Research and Innovation and the Civic University

13:50 – 14:20      Anil Wipat: Responsible research from the practitioner perspective

14:20 – 14:45      Discussion

14:45 – 15:00      Break for refreshments

15:00 – 15:15       Symposium photograph

15:15 – 17:15      Session 2: Sites of reflection: practice and profits of a responsible research environment. (Chair: Darian Meacham)

15:20 – 15:50      Richard Owen: Institutionalising Responsible Innovation

15:50 – 16:20      Michael Reinsborough: Engaged social science methods for laboratory practice complemented with historical perspective and inclusive stakeholder engagement

16:20 – 16:50      Susan Molyneux-Hodgson: Experiments in mutuality

16:50 – 17:15      Discussion

 

Dinner 19:00 for 19:30

El Coto. 21 Leazes Park Road, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 4PF

 

Day 2: Friday September 21st