Reports of the following events have recently been added:
iGEM 2009 Jamboree — MIT (Cambridge, Massachussetts), 30 October to 2 November 2009
SynBioStandards Network meeting — Imperial College London, 17 September to 18 September 2009
Tuesday 16 March to Wednesday 17 March 2010
Workshop
This workshop is being hosted by the Research Councils, and is intended to bring together members from the various UK networks in synthetic biology.
Thursday 18 March to Monday 22 March 2010
Symposium
Nottingham
This symposium is sponsored by the SynBioNT network (Synthetic Biology Network for Modelling and Programming Cell-Chell Interactions).
Please contact Nicholas Poxon by Feb 8 if you would like to submit an abstract or participate in the symposium.
Monday 22 March 2010
Workshop
Nottingham
This workshop forms the social science strand of the SynBioNT network meeting. The theme will be on how we can create multidisciplinary collaboration between bioscientists, engineers, social scientists and others working on ethics/ public engagement. In order to address these challenges, the workshop will be organised around three activities: 1) A open discussion with biological and computers scientists and engineers about what they (and we) hope to get out of working together; 2) Updating each other about current collaborations, research and engagement activities; 3) A themed set of papers on the conceptual, normative and practical issues raised by creating collaborations in synthetic biology.
Tuesday 30 March to Wednesday 31 March 2010
Conference
Wellcome Trust Conference Centre, Cambridge
Tuesday 13 April 2010
Public debate
Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh · 19.00-22.00
This public debate is part of the 2010 Edinburgh International Science Festival.
‘Synthetic life’ will develop radically over the next decade, with Scotland at the forefront of this exciting scientific breakthrough. Can this technology solve the challenges of the modern world and become a great source of wealth for Scotland?
Featuring renowned chemist and synthetic biology expert Professor Ben Davis (Oxford University) and Dr Jim Haseloff (Cambridge University) with Rhona Allison, Director of Life Sciences at Scottish Enterprise and Richard Holloway, former Bishop of Edinburgh, this debate will explore the potential of synthetic life and the ethical questions it raises.
Chaired by Quentin Cooper, BBC Radio Science Correspondent.
Monday 14 June to Tuesday 15 June 2010
Workshop
Anaheim Convention Center Anaheim, California
The International Workshop on Bio-Design Automation (IWBDA) brings together researchers from the synthetic biology, systems biology, and design automation communities. The focus is on concepts, methodologies, and software tools to enable the computational analysis of biological systems and the synthesis of novel biological functions.
Abstracts (500-1000 words) are due by 5 April 2010.
Monday 12 July to Wednesday 14 July 2010
Workshop
St Anne's College, Oxford
This is the second annual meeting of the RoSBNet network in synthetic biology
