Synthetic Biology and Infection:  Lunch and Learn

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Synthetic Biology and Infection: Lunch and Learn

By Edinburgh Infectious Diseases

Date and time

Tue, 20 Sep 2016 12:30 - 13:30 GMT+1

Location

Room G.13 Roger Land Building

Alexander Crum Brown Road Kings Buildings Edinburgh EH9 3JQ United Kingdom

Description

**Please note new venue**

Room G.13 Roger Land Building, Alexander Crum Brown Road, Kings Buildings, EH9 3JQ (http://www.ed.ac.uk/maps/maps?building=roger-land-building#main-content)

The University of Edinburgh is home to the Centre for Synthetic and Systems Biology (more information at www.synthsys.ed.ac.uk), which has wide ranging expertise in synthetic biology and is home to the Edinburgh Genome Foundry, a national facility for genome assembly.

We are keen to explore how synthetic biology might accelerate research in infection and immunity.

  • Would the ability to engineer novel genetic systems into cells provide you with a unique perspective?
  • Would your research benefit from being able to access large (>10 Kbp) DNA constructs?
  • What would you build and why?

We are looking to build collaborations across infection and immunity and keen to better understand what your challenges are. Some examples of what you can do with synthetic biology:

  • Novel readouts of cellular pathway activity
  • Cell-free biosensors
  • Counting and memory devices
  • Cell ‘kill’ switches
  • Microbiome engineering
  • Human artificial chromosomes
  • Mini-chromosomes
  • T-cell engineering

Come along to this learning session and find out what synthetic biology can do for you!

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University of Edinburgh

Ashworth Laboratories

Charlotte Auerbach Road

Edinburgh EH9 3FL

email:  eid@ed.ac.uk, phone:  0131 651 3688

website:  http://www.ed.ac.uk/edinburgh-infectious-diseases

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