Faculty position at Colorado State

Mon, 19 Jul 2010 17:03:45 +0100

Synthetic Biology: Chemical/Biological Engineering Faculty Position, Colorado State University

The Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at Colorado State University seeks applications and nominations for a tenure-track chemical/biological engineering faculty position at the assistant professor level. Successful candidates will develop well-funded research programs and actively participate in education and scholarship activities. This position is specifically targeted to candidates who would focus their research in the area of bioenergy. Applicants with interests and expertise in synthetic biology, including protein and metabolic engineering, are particularly encouraged. Applications from candidates with the ability to advance the Department's commitment to diversity and multiculturalism through research, teaching...

Obama and Synthetic biology

Tue, 29 Jun 2010 20:14:23 +0100

Congress, Obama Take Sudden Interest in Synthetic Biology

BBSRC, EPSRC fund £1.5M for synthetic biology projects under EuroSYNBIO Programme

19. May 2010 08:09

Four new projects, announced today, will develop biological methods that offer a new approach to antibiotic production, power generation for extremely small mechanical components, new classes of medicines and innovative techniques to study...

Bio-Fab Ready to Distribute Building Blocks of Synthetic Life

Mon, 17 May 2010 23:11:55 +0100

National Academies' Grants to Spur Synthetic Biology

From

White House Planning Policy Group

Wed, 21 Apr 2010 08:00:11 +0100

White House Planning Policy Group on Emerging Technologies

DESIGNER LIFE: SCOTLAND’S NEXT INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION?

Synthetic Biology and defense

Sun, 18 Apr 2010 18:50:33 +0100

Pentagon turns to 'softer' sciences

US defence research to focus more on biology, cybersecurity and social sciences to help win conflicts.

Sharon Weinberger

News from the Wellcome Trust blog

by Mun-Keat Looi, 6 April 2010: see: http://wellcometrust.wordpress.com/2010/04/06/science-and-design/

A design for life

Edd McCracken (Sunday Herald, Scotland)

Where will synthetic biology lead us?

New Yorker article by Michael Specter

Synthetic Aesthetics is a new program to bring synthetic biologists together with designers and artists. Apply now to get a grant that could help you become a better designer of living things.

In August 2009, Scottish Enterprise invested £2.4 million to develop a solution for DNA assembly by early 2011.

Nicolas Peyret

Synthetic Biology: What's in a name?

Nature Biotechnology 27, 1071 - 1073 (2009)

Abstract

Defining an emerging field can be challenging. Nature Biotechnology asked 20 experts for their views on the term 'synthetic biology'.

Industry Forms Association to Address Opportunities and Challenges of Synthetic Biology

President Obama Hopes to Jumpstart Science and Technology Education With New Initiative: "
Through Educate to Innovate, the White House hopes to return American science and technology learning to prominence
Elmo and Big Bird may represent old school learning compared to video games, but both Sesame Street and video game programmers have joined forces as part of a new White House initiative aimed at promoting science, engineering and math both in and out of the classroom.

Noting that for decades academic achievement among math and science students has been 'losing ground' in the U.S.,...

Quiet gene circuit is more fragile than its noisy peer.

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 09:47:00 +0100

Quiet gene circuit more fragile than its noisy peer. Cell. 2009 Oct 30;139(3):460-1. Bollenbach T, Kishony R. Department of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School, 200 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA. Why is a particular architecture for a pathway chosen over seemingly equivalent alternatives? Cağatay et al. (2009) use a synthetic biology approach to show that fluctuations--or noise--in protein levels may play a key role in determining which network design is selected during evolution. Comment on: Cell....

Hacking DNA

Sat, 03 Oct 2009 22:01:05 +0100

Hacking DNA
Bioengineering technology is maturing, and so is its vocabulary

From: http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/at-work/innovation/hacking-dna

Synthetic Biology news from www.synbio.org.uk

Faculty position at Colorado State

Obama and Synthetic biology

Congress, Obama Take Sudden Interest in Synthetic Biology

BBSRC, EPSRC fund £1.5M for synthetic biology projects under EuroSYNBIO Programme

Bio-Fab Ready to Distribute Building Blocks of Synthetic Life

National Academies' Grants to Spur Synthetic Biology From White House Planning Policy Group Wed, 21 Apr 2010 08:00:11 +0100

White House Planning Policy Group

White House Planning Policy Group on Emerging Technologies

Synthetic Biology and defense

Pentagon turns to 'softer' sciences

A design for life

Where will synthetic biology lead us?

New Yorker article by Michael Specter

In August 2009, Scottish Enterprise invested £2.4 million to develop a solution for DNA assembly by early 2011.

Synthetic Biology: What's in a name?

Abstract

Industry Forms Association to Address Opportunities and Challenges of Synthetic Biology

Quiet gene circuit is more fragile than its noisy peer.

Hacking DNA