A team of eight students and postdocs from across all five schools have been exploring potential global health applications of cell-free synthetic biology as part of the Development i-Teams programme - come and hear their conclusions!
Join the Centre for Global Equality and the Institute for Manufacturing to hear the final presentations of the Michaelmas Term Development i-Teams programme who have spent over a month exploring applications of emerging technologies in development.
Finger buffet from 6.30pm followed by presentations at 7pm.
This term's projects are:
- Establishing sustainable community cloud infrastructures in the developing world;
- Exploring potential global health applications of cell-free extracts for rapid, low-cost, paper-based diagnostics;
- Farming and processing microalgae to address Vitamin B12 deficiency.
For details of the projects, and other information about i-Teams, please see http://iteamsonline.org
For more information about the Centre for Global Equality, please see http://centreforglobalequality.org
Date:
Tuesday, 22 November, 2016 - 18:30 to 21:30
Event location:
Institute for Manufacturing, 17 Charles Babbage Road, Cambridge, CB3 0FS