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Synthetic Biology and Infection: Lunch and Learn
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Room G.13 Roger Land Building
Alexander Crum Brown Road Kings Buildings Edinburgh EH9 3JQ United KingdomDescription
**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!
Organised by
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