Abstract

Come and watch the SynBio Fund applicants pitch their ideas to get £5000 for open, interdisciplinary and innovative projects to engineer biology, followed by drinks and nibbles.

More info on the SynBio Fund: http://www.synbio.cam.ac.uk/synbiofund

Timetable

14:00 Introduction

14:10 SynBio Student Society

14:20 SynBioHub: Patent information system for synthetic biology

14:30 Synthesis of novel optimised lux reporters for eukaryotic systems

14:40 CamOptimus: Self-contained user-friendly multi-parameter optimisation platform for non-specialist experimental biologists

14:50 Reliable IP-free system for inter-chassis transfer of the high molecular weight DNA

15:00 A piezoelectric bio-platform to image and stimulate cellular interactions

15:10 Interactive web-based software tool for biological circuit design

15:20 Tea Break

15:40 Development of a microfluidic device for high-throughput analysis of genetic circuits in plant protoplasts.

15:50 Bio-Hackathon

16:00 Low cost solution for high throughput bacterial electrotransformation

16:10 CELLUWIN : 3D printing for cellulose

16:20 Organotypic cultures as tools for functional screening of drugs to promote oligodendrocyte differentiation and CNS myelination.

16:30 Final comments

16:45 Drinks and nibbles in the tea room