SpannerPlantLogo140Cambridge 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. 
 
Similar to the Cambridge-based Raspberry Pi and OpenLabTools initiatives, we promote the use of low cost and open source tools - in our case for use in biological engineering.
 

SynBio calendar

  • 21 May
    05:00 AM to 05:00 AM

    This meeting will introduce and showcase the many and varied applications of synthetic biology at the molecular, cell, and whole plant level to introduce synthetic biology to a broad UK plant science base.

  • 29 May

    With their provenance as an excellent source of pharmaceutical, neutraceutical and health promoting chemistries, plant natural products are an attractive target for biotechnological development for industrialization

  • 09 Jun
    12:00 AM to 12:00 AM

    (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 pin-point the challenges,

  • 10 Jun
    12:00 AM to 12:00 AM

    Algae Innovation Center (AIC) Lolland commenced in 2010 as a project between Green Center, Roskilde University and Aalborg University with the aim of identifying and researching the potentials of using

  • 16 Jun
    12:00 AM to 12:00 AM

    The conference will focus on frontiers in biological design, synthetic biology and processing, bringing together the top academic, industrial and governmental researchers from both the East and the West. Specific

  • 23 Jun
    12:00 AM to 12:00 AM

    A hands-on Summer Course of advanced Genetic Engineering of Bacteria at the onset of the SynBio era.

  • 25 Jun
    12:00 AM to 12:00 AM

    GCAT-alog is freezer management software, optimized for use by synthetic biologists. GCAT-alog is freely available to use though no support other than the user manual is available.The tools can be accessed

  • 29 Jun
    12:00 AM to 12:00 AM

    This week-long summer school provides advanced training in history of the life sciences, a lively international field that offers a long-term perspective on some of the most significant ideas, practices

  • 09 Jul
    12:00 AM to 12:00 AM

    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, UK. This meeting

  • 10 Jul

    SynBioBeta is a forum to bring together synthetic biology startups as well as other stakeholders in the ecosystem. This evening event will be held during the BioBricks Foundation SB6.0 Conference. The

21 May - 30 May
09 Jun - 12 Jun
16 Jun - 07 Jul
25 Jun - 07 Jul
09 Jul - 11 Jul

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Synthetic biosystems for the production of high-value plant metabolites.

Synthetic biosystems for the production of high-value plant metabolites.: "Publication Date: 2011 Dec 29 PMID: 22209518
Authors: Facchini, P. J. - Bohlmann, J. - Covello, P. S. - De Luca, V. - Mahadevan, R. - Page, J. E. - Ro, D. K. - Sensen, C. W. - Storms, R. - Martin, V. J.
Journal: Trends Biotechnol

Plants display an immense diversity of specialized metabolites, many of which have been important to humanity as medicines, flavors, fragrances, pigments, insecticides and other fine chemicals. Apparently, much of the variation in plant specialized metabolism evolved through events of gene duplications followed by neo- or sub-functionalization. Most of the catalytic diversity of plant enzymes is unexplored since previous biochemical and genomics efforts have focused on a relatively small number of species. Interdisciplinary research in plant genomics, microbial engineering and synthetic biology provides an opportunity to accelerate the discovery of new enzymes. The massive identification, characterization and cataloguing of plant enzymes coupled with their deployment in metabolically optimized microbes provide a high-throughput functional genomics tool and a novel strain engineering pipeline.

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(Via Trends in biotechnology.)