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Cambridge website for Synthetic Biology Resources
Compiled by Jim Haseloff at the University of Cambridge.
This site contains details of recent papers and activity in Synthetic Biology, with particular emphasis on: (i) development of standards in biology and DNA parts, (ii) microbial and (iii) plant systems, (iv) research and teaching in the field at the University of Cambridge, (v) hardware for scientific computing and instrumentation, (vi) tools for scientific productivity and collected miscellany.
SynBio calendar
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18 Feb
Winter q-bio Meeting
Technology is driving revolutionary changes in biology. Over the past decade, scientists and engineers have begun to define the path forward in the genomic era. Systems Biology has arisen...
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17 Mar
Precision Genome Engineering and Synthetic Biology: Designing Genomes and Pathways
Now that we know the sequences of many genomes, from a wide variety of organisms and even from individuals with unique characteristics, many researchers have turned to making intentional...
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09 Apr
Synthetic Biology and Conservation
The developments within synthetic biology promise to change the world in significant ways. Yet synthetic biology is largely unrecognized within conservation. The purpose of the meeting...
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09 Jun
Gordon Conference: Synthetic Biology
(Re-)constructing and Re-programming Life This conference will provide an in-depth discussion forum among practitioners of the various fields underlying Synthetic Biology. It aims to...
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09 Jul
BioBricks Foundation Synthetic Biology 6.0
The BioBricks Foundation is pleased to announce The BioBricks Foundation Synthetic Biology 6.0 Conference (SB6.0), which will take place on July 9-11, 2013 at Imperial College, London,...
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30 Jul
CSHL Course in Synthetic Biology
This course will focus on how the complexity of biological systems, combined with traditional engineering approaches, results in the emergence of new design principles for synthetic...
18 Feb - 23 Mar
09 Apr - 15 Jun
09 Jul - 13 Aug
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Synbio news:
- Novozymes Says Biofuel May Supply 90% of Its Revenue by 2030
- The Tortoise Beetle - Amazing Metallic Arthropods
- Scientists Attempt to Artificially Recreate Photosynthesis in Order to Develop Efficient Renewable Energy
- The light fantastic: Harnessing Nature's glow
- These Spiders Are Frightening and Beautiful At the Same Time
- The Brazilian Treehopper may be the strangest creature we've ever laid eyes on
- New challenges and opportunities for industrial biotechnology.
- The PLOS ONE Synthetic Biology Collection: Six Years and Counting.
- Top 10 Innovations 2012
- Design, implementation and practice of JBEI-ICE: an open source biological part registry platform and tools.
- Starbucks Swaps Crushed Parasitic Beetle Food Coloring for Tomat-O-Red Dye in Strawberry Drinks
- Genetic switchboard for synthetic biology applications.
- Video: Cambridge Researchers Use Legos to Build Artificial Bone in the Lab
- How Traditional Publishing Hurts Scientific Progress
- The State of the 2012 Advanced Biofuels Industry
- Beached Firefly Squid Light Up the Japanese Coast
- Alan Turing’s School Grades
- Newspaper: America’s Fastest Shrinking Industry
- The best new scientific idea in years [Video]
- Allylix bags BASF investment
- Analyzing and engineering cell signaling modules with synthetic biology.
- Plants: biofactories for a sustainable future?
- 14-Million-Year-Old Organisms?
- 2012 Dyson Awards Call for Entries, Seeking Solutions from Youthful Minds
- Integrating Anaerobic Digestion Into Our Culture: Stats, Reality and the Future
- Innovation at the intersection of synthetic and systems biology.
- Psychedelic Petri dishes turn lab work into a freakout session
- Neil deGrasse Tyson lays bare the decline of American science in 180 seconds
- Renewables funding going strong
- Synthetic biosystems for the production of high-value plant metabolites.
- Production of amorphadiene in yeast, and its conversion to dihydroartemisinic acid, precursor to the antimalarial agent artemisinin
- A transcription activator-like effector toolbox for genome engineering
- Synthetic biological approaches to natural product biosynthesis.
- Expanding the synthetic biology toolbox: engineering orthogonal regulators of gene expression.
- Bio-Engineering Board Game Sounds Like More Fun Than Running a Monopoly
- New chemical reagent turns biological tissue transparent
- soma: multiple natures - fibrous tower for taiwan tower competition
- MIT and the future of open-source education
- Crank, bicycle, and waterwheel: hands-on with the OLPC XO 3.0 tablet
- Genetically engineered silkworms with spider genes spin super-strong silk
- The ocean floor is like a rainforest where feces and dead animals rain from the sky
- Top 10 Biofuels Predictions for 2012
- Scanadu developing a real-life medical tricorder
- WakaWaka solar led lamp aims to light up Kenyan school
- Synthetic Biology in industry
- Plant RNAs found in mammals
- Review: Rewiring cells
- Randall Kirk & Synthetic BIology
- Next step for the synthetic genome
- Synthetic Biology Institute Forum at Berkeley
- Software for programming microbes
- Rewiring Cells
- Classifying DNA assembly protocols for devising cellular architectures.
- Supporting the synthetic revolution
- Model Annotation for Synthetic Biology: Automating Model to Nucleotide Sequence Conversion.
- Exploiting plug-and-play synthetic biology for drug discovery and production in microorganisms.
- Opportunities for yeast metabolic engineering: Lessons from synthetic biology.
- Synthetic Toxicology: Where engineering meets biology and toxicology.
- Contrasts: Craig Venter and NSABB on synthetic biology
- DOE Requests $3.2 Billion for Renewable Energy, Efficiency in FY 2012
- Model Annotation for Synthetic Biology: Automating Model to Nucleotide Sequence Conversion.
- New Synthetic Biology competitions
- New E. chromi video
- The 50 Hottest Companies in Bioenergy for 2010-11 | Renewable Energy News Article
- Presidential Commission reports on Synthetic Biology
- Algal Fuels: Just around the Corner or 10 Years Away?
- Lux Research: Innovation Will Grow Biofuels Market
- Gold Nanoparticles Could Turn Trees into Streetlights
- iGEM2010 Jamboree
- GM profit boost to non-GM crops
- BBC News - Which country has the best brains?
- BBC News - Nobel prize winners warn against immigration cap
- Gibson Assembly Song
- DIYbio articles in Nature
- Tracking, tuning, and terminating microbial physiology using synthetic riboregulators.
- Structural synthetic biotechnology: from molecular structure to predictable design for industrial strain development.
- Amyris IPO
- Microfluidic approaches for systems and synthetic biology.
- How close are we to nitrogen-fixing cereals?
- The Purple Cauliflower Arises from Activation of a MYB Transcription Factor.
- Deletion of the Cel48S cellulase from Clostridium thermocellum.
- Next-generation protein-rich potato expressing the seed protein gene AmA1 is a result of proteome rebalancing in transgenic tuber.
- DIYbio NYC on the BioBus
- Synthetic Biology Faculty position
- Synthetic Biology worth $4.5B by 2015
- Obama and Synthetic biology
- Royal Society: Future Technologies
- EuroSYNBIO Projects
- MIT Registry
- Bio-Fab Ready to Distribute Building Blocks of Synthetic Life
- National Academies SynBio grants
- Synbio in Society webcast
- Shell's $billions to convert Brazilian biomass into fuel
- RNAi patent jolt
- White House Planning Policy Group
- Designer life discussion
- Amyris info
- Synthetic Biology and defense
- Science and Design
- A Design for Life
30
Jan
2012
It looks like a good start for 2012 with several companies closing some good funding this month.
New Zealand-based LanzaTech announced this week that it has bagged a total of US $55.8m in its series C round of financing led by the Malaysian Life Sciences Capital Fund. New investors include PETRONAS Technology Ventures Sdn Bhd and Dialog Group. Existing investors such as Khosla Ventures, Qiming Venture Partners and K1W1 -- I like this name =) -- participated in the round as well. LanzaTech said the compay raised a total of more than $85m to date.
The company also gave a small update on their $5m acquisition of a US cellulosic ethanol facility now dubbed "Freedom Pines Biorefinery" located in Soperton, Georgia, which was previously owned by Range Fuels. LanzaTech said, the facility will produce renewable fuels and chemicals from waste wood using their proprietary processing technology (industrial waste gas-to-fuel/chemicals via fermentation).
Another recent news is advanced fuel developer KiOR closing a $75m four-year term loan with a lender group comprised of an affiliate of Vinod Khosla and two Canadian corporations owned by pension fund clients of Alberta Investment Management Corp.
Waste CO2-to-fuel/chemicals developer Joule has also closed a $70m funding this month bringing a total funding round of more than $110m to date. The company did not disclose funding sources.
The proceeds will be applied towards the build-out and operation of a Joule facility located in Hobbs, New Mexico and slated for commissioning in the summer of 2012. Joule was founded by venture capital firm Flagship Ventures in 2007.
Zeachem also announced yesterday that it has been selected by the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) for a $232.5m loan guarantee under the 9003 Biorefinery Assistance Program. The conditional loan enables the financing and construction of ZeaChem's first commercial-scale cellulosic biorefinery in Boardman, Oregon, with a capacity of 25m gal/year enabling the production of cellulosic ethanol and acetic acid/ethyl acetate using woody biomass.
On Wednesday, Canadian renewable chemical firm EcoSynthetix secured a $2.1m funding from Sustainable Development Technology Canada (SDTC). The funding will support EcoSynthetix's project for further development of its EcoMer® bio-based monomer platform.
The blog also received news from Bioformix CEO Adam Malofsky that the company closed a $13m funding from GM Ventures this month and is waiting to close another funding from a big Japanese multinational company soon.
Also this year, we had BASF investing $30m in cellulosic sugar developer Renmatix; Agilyx secured $25m in its series C funding; DSM investing $250m in cellulosic ethanol via its joint venture with US developer POET; US biodiesel company Renewable Energy Group targeting $100m via its IPO filing; DuPont investing in biomass sorghum developer NextSteppe (undisclosed amount); and another sorghum developer Chromatin has been awarded $5.7m grant from the US DOE.
I've compiled a rough list of last year's financing rounds and IPOs. Hopefully, this will be useful to you.
| 2011 Renewable Chemicals Financing | ||
| IPO | Companies | Capital Raised |
| 2/9/2011 | Gevo | $123.3m |
| 5/27/2011 | Solazyme | $227.2m |
| 6/24/2011 | KiOR | $150m |
| 8/4/2011 | EcoSynthetix | $101.6m |
| IPO | Companies Filed | Target |
| 5/2011 | Myriant | $125m |
| 8/2011 | Genomatica | $100m |
| 9/2011 | Elevance | $100m |
| 10/2011 | BioAmber | $150m |
| 12/2011 | Coskata | $100m |
| 9/2011 | Fulcrum BioEnergy | $115m |
| 7/2011 | Cathay Industrial | withdrawn in August |
| Companies | Financing Amount |
| Agilyx | $47m (series B and C) |
| Avantium | $35.9m |
| BioAmber | $45m (series B) |
| Cereplast | $12.5m (private) |
| Cobalt Technologies | $20m (series D) |
| Dyadic | $3m (private) |
| Elevance | $50m (private) |
| Enerkem | $105m (series C) |
| Fulcrum Bioenergy | $75m (series C) |
| Genomatica | $45m (series D) |
| Gevo | $17m (Lanxess) |
| $5m (USDA grant) | |
| Global Bioenergies | $1.98m (Synthos) |
| $9.3m (IPO) | |
| LS9 | $9m (DOE grant) |
| Materia | $17m |
| Metabolix | $6m (DOE grant) |
| Myriant | $60m (PTTGC) |
| NatureWorks | $150m (PTTGC) |
| NextSteppe | $14m (series B) |
| OPXBio | $41.2m (series C) |
| Plaxica | $7.8m |
| Rivertop Renewables | $3.5m (MonTEC grant) |
| $1.5m (venture capital) | |
| Siluria | $20m (series B) |
| Verenium | $16m (loan) |
| Zeachem | $24m (series C) |
| $40m (USDA grant) |
Source: Company Reports
Renewables funding going strong: "
(Via ICIS Green Chemicals.)
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