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) hardware for scientific computing and instrumentation, (v) tools for scientific productivity and (vi) collected miscellany.

The site also contains details of Synthetic Biology research and teaching at the University of Cambridge, including the annual iGEM team run by Jim Ajioka, Jim Haseloff and Gos Micklem in Cambridge.

www.synbio.org.uk

SynBio calendar

04 Jun

Fourth International Workshop on Bio-Design Automation (IWBDA)

The Fourth International Workshop on Bio-Design Automation (IWBDA) at DAC will bring together researchers from the synthetic biology, systems biology, and design automation communities....
06 Jun

New Phytologist Workshop: Synthetic Biology

The overall goal for the workshop is to bring together scientists working in the highly interdisciplinary field of synthetic biology to present cutting-edge research aligned with three...
20 Jun

GCAT Synthetic Biology Workshop

GCAT is pleased to announce a synthetic biology faculty workshop for the summer of 2012 (June 20-22) hosted by HHMI’s Science Education Alliance (SEA). The goal of this workshop...
25 Jun

enGENEious: Evolving Life for Future Technologies

A student and post-doc organised conference: they have invited the world's leading scientists to highlight the recent advances in microbial engineering, along with discussing the challenges...
30 Jul

BioBuilding 2012 workshop

A week long, professional development class will prepare educators to bring biological engineering and synthetic biology into their classrooms and laboratories. The workshop will include...
24 Sep

Synthetic Biology meeting in Cambridge, UK
02 Nov

iGEM2012 World Championship Jamboree

Finals for the international Genetically Engineered Machine Competition.
26 Nov

CSH Asia Conference: Synthetic Biology

The 2nd CSH Asia Synthetic Biology meeting will be held at the Suzhou Dushu Lake Conference Center in Suzhou, China, located approximately 60 miles west of Shanghai.
09 Jun

Gordon Conference: Synthetic Biology

(Re-)constructing and Re-programming Life

04 Jun - 09 Jun

20 Jun - 27 Jun

30 Jul - 28 Sep

02 Nov - 01 Dec

09 Jun - 15 Jun

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1 Feb 2012

CUPP Computing’s PunkThis board puts Android on any laptop

Want to double, triple, even quadruple the battery life of your laptop? Want to swap out the stale Windows software with a more flexible operating system known as Android? That’s the promise of an impending product from niche tech company CUPP Computing. Called the PunkThis board, it is easily installed into any laptop and brings a fully functional Android interface to the machine.

The PCB measures in at 2.5 inches and contains a complete minicomputer, including a 1 GHz ARM processor, 512 MB of RAM, a WiFi radio, mSata slot, and two microSD card ports. But what’s cool about it is the way it interacts with the other components that are already in your laptop, so you still have full access to USB ports, keyboard/mouse HDMI output, and all the other neat functionality that Android tablets don’t necessarily have.

Switching between your built-in Windows and the custom Android UI is easy as pie, or more specifically, a hotkey. So, in other words, it’s pretty darn cool. When can people actually expect to buy it? Unfortunately, that little detail remains unclear. The company has been unreliable in the past but says it is on the way soon. When it is available, it’ll cost less than $200. Sold.

[via IBTimes]

CUPP Computing’s PunkThis board puts Android on any laptop is written by Mark Raby & originally posted on SlashGear.

CUPP Computing’s PunkThis board puts Android on any laptop

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