The final Portabolomics meeting follows the Synthetic Biology UK 2022 conference where our Scientists will present their work in oral and poster presentations.

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

For more information, please go to

https://jobs.ncl.ac.uk/job/Newcastle-Research-Assistant-Associate-in-Computational-DNARNA-Nanotechnology/585955801/

or write directly to sara.friedl@newcastle.ac.uk.

For more information, please have a look at

https://jobs.ncl.ac.uk/job/Newcastle-Senior-Research-Associate-in-Synthetic-Biology/587792601/

or please write directly to sara.friedl@newcastle.ac.uk.

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.

(https://portabolomics.ico2s.org/dr-paolo-zuliani/)

EPSRC 5-year program grant: Synthetic Portabolomics

“Leading the way at the crossroads of the Digital and the Bio-Economies”

Advent Post-Doc Formal Verification of SynBio Models

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.

How it works:

Academic Industry Meeting day, or AIMday™, is centred around focused workshops that address key technology questions put forth by industry. The questions are submitted around a central theme (in this case AI for Biotechnology) which is then discussed and brainstormed jointly between industry participants and academics thus leveraging multidisciplinary expertise from across the University.

Thus:

• Each question or challenge on the topic of AI in Biotechnology submitted by a company is tackled by a group of academics, with the aim of finding a pathway to a solution.
• The AIMday™ workshop format is unique, tried-and-tested: One question, One hour, One group of academic experts tackling it.

To register for the AIMday event as industry/other organisation, at least one question needs to be submitted in advance of the meeting.

For more information and to register, please visit our AIMday website

http://aimday.se/ai-for-biotechnology-newcastle-2019/

The academic mixture that will be available at the AIM day has world leading expertise in the areas Computing Science, AI, Data analytics, Data Mining, Computational Modeling, Synthetic Biology, Biotechnology, Nanotechnology, Molecular Microbiology and Responsible Innovation.

With this AIM day we seek to help companies improve their product performance, reduce failure, optimise workflows and consider more innovative approaches to their core business with the help of academic expertise in AI and biotechnology.

Registration for companies is now open and will close on Thursday 05th May 2019 at 12 midnight.

Registration for academic scientists will open Saturday 06th May 2019 12 noon and closes Thursday 19th June 2019 at 12 midnight.

Registration for all participants is free of charge.

The 19^thPEALS International Symposium will take place in Newcastle University’s award winning Urban Sciences Building on September 20-21 2018.  This invitation-only event is being organised by Ken and Simon as part of their contribution to the Synthetic Portabolomics project.

The symposium will follow the tried and tested PEALS format of bringing together policymakers, practitioners and academics from different disciplines, and from across Europe and the UK, to explore Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) in synthetic biology and wider biosciences. Topics for discussion include:

• The place of RRI in science and society
• How scientists can make time and spaces to reflect on their work and anticipate its impacts, positive and negative, on stakeholders and wider society
• What meaningful actions and engagement might look like
• The governance and legal aspects of a responsible innovation agenda
• The Implications of RRI on both the transfer of knowledge from academia to industry and industrial development of potential marketable products.

Participants are drawn from the UK Synthetic Biology Leadership Council, UK Department for International Trade, Doulix/Explora Biotech (Venice), Bac2Code, Centre for Process Innovation, the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council and the Universities of Antwerp, Bristol, Edinburgh, Exeter, Maastricht, Manchester and Newcastle.

You can find the Peals 19^thInternational symposium programme here.