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How can we share solutions to complex systems problems across domains and application areas?

16 March 2017

What do power networks, transportation hubs, weather patterns, commercial organisations and swarming robots have in common? Chih-Chun Chen and Nathan Crilly at the Cambridge Engineering Design Centre have published ‘A primer on the design and science of complex systems’, following on from work examining complexity in synthetic biology and swarm robotics.

New Report Release Webinar from National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (March 9, 2017)

16 March 2017

Preparing for Future Products of Biotechnology, a consensus report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, was released on Thursday, March 9, 2017.

John Innes Centre announces EMBO practical course: "Multilevel Modelling of Morphogenesis"

28 February 2017

"Multilevel Modelling of Morphogenesis" Venue: John Innes Centre, Norwich, UK Course Duration: 16 – 28 July 2017

Cambridge Synthetic Biology Meetup group reaches 500 members

15 February 2017

Cambridge Synthetic Biology Meetup is a group for people interested in Synthetic Biology and open technologies: the DNA-based reprogramming and computational modelling of living systems and low-cost hardware for biological instrumentation.

Professor Alison Smith featured on BBC's The Life Scientific

1 February 2017

Alison Smith, Professor of Plant Biochemistry in the Department of Plant Sciences, whose research interests include algal synthetic biology, has been featured on the BBC's The Life Scientific.

Open research training for PhD students in sciences, technology, engineering and mathematics (14 Feb - 7 Mar 2017)

31 January 2017

The Office of Scholarly Communication is offering a series of courses in open research training for PhD and graduate students at the University of Cambridge.

Open Innovation with Large Bioresources: a workshop report

25 January 2017

The Synthetic Biology SRI and OpenPlant, CSaP, Public Policy SRI and Faculty of Law co-organised a workshop held on 28 January 2016 on the openness of large bioresources in synthetic biology and genomics. The resulting report by Dr John Liddicoat and Dr Kathy Liddell has now been published on SSRN.

WIRED UK cover beautiful bioluminescent dress supported by SynBio Fund

24 January 2017

A science-fashion collaboration between researchers in the Department of Plant Sciences and the Royal College of Art has appeared in the Februrary edition of WIRED UK.

Ten projects awarded £5000 OpenPlant Fund grants to develop open technologies for plant or cell-free synthetic biology

21 December 2016

Congratulations to the successful ten teams who will be working on projects as diverse as microfluidic devices for cyanobacteria to light sheet microscopy for algae to open teaching resources for genetic circuit fabrication.

WaterScope named in Nominet Trust 100: 2016’s most inspiring examples of tech for good

21 December 2016

WaterScope is a social enterprise making use of an open-source 3D-printed microscope designed by Dr Richard Bowman, who received a SynBio Fund to support his work in 2015. They have been named as one of the Nominet Trust's 100 most inspiring examples of tech for good in 2016.

How can we share solutions to complex systems problems across domains and application areas?

New Report Release Webinar from National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (March 9, 2017)

John Innes Centre announces EMBO practical course: "Multilevel Modelling of Morphogenesis"

Cambridge Synthetic Biology Meetup group reaches 500 members

Professor Alison Smith featured on BBC's The Life Scientific

Open research training for PhD students in sciences, technology, engineering and mathematics (14 Feb - 7 Mar 2017)

Open Innovation with Large Bioresources: a workshop report

WIRED UK cover beautiful bioluminescent dress supported by SynBio Fund

Ten projects awarded £5000 OpenPlant Fund grants to develop open technologies for plant or cell-free synthetic biology

WaterScope named in Nominet Trust 100: 2016’s most inspiring examples of tech for good

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