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Opportunities for IB & SynBio in the new Innovate UK funding competitions!

18 May 2016

Innovate UK has recently published its new Delivery Plan, outlining the main ways in which it will invest around £561M in helping businesses to innovate and grow in the financial year 2016 to 2017. Register to webinar - held on 20th May 2016 from 12:30 to 14:30 (BST)

The Biotechnology Young Entrepreneurs Scheme (Biotechnology YES)

3 May 2016

Biotechnology Yes (BBSRC). For PhDs and Postdocs. Deadline 22 May 2016.

Cambridge Postdoc Enterprise competition: now open for entries

3 May 2016

Cambridge Postdoc Enterprise competition: now open for entries! Are you a postdoc interested in starting a company to commercialise your research? Now's the time to start your entrepreneurial journey. Win funding for your idea of up to £20k Receive mentoring and support Network with like-minded postdocs Pitch to high-...

Open Source in SynBio - connecting the active community

29 April 2016

The BioBricks Foundation and other partners are seeking to connect people who are active in Open Source Synthetic Biology, for research and community building.

UK Commons Select Committee call for 'GM and gene editing' evidence check

8 April 2016

The UK Commons Science and Technology Select Committee invites views on the strength of the evidence in relation to GM and gene editing.

8th International Workshop on Bio-Design Automation (IWBDA), Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, August 16-18, 2016

6 April 2016

The Eighth International Workshop on Bio-Design Automation (IWBDA) at Newcastle upon Tyne in the UK will bring together researchers from the synthetic biology, systems biology, and design automation communities to discuss concepts, methodologies and software tools for the computational analysis and synthesis of biological systems.

Cambridge Plant Synthetic Biologist wins 2016 Wellcome Trust Image Award

31 March 2016

Fernán Federici, OpenPlant Fellow at the University of Cambridge and Director of the Synthetic Biology Lab at Pontificia Universidad Católica in Chile has been awarded a Wellcome Trust Image Award for his micrograph of maize leaves, shot in the Department of Plant Sciences in collaboration with Professor Jim Haseloff.

Complex design practices: learning from Synthetic Biology and Swarm Robotics

30 March 2016

Dr Chih-Chun Chen and Dr Nathan Crilly investigate the premise that design and engineering principles can be applied to biological entities and ask what synthetic biology could learn from and contribute to other groups tackling complex design problems

Open Technology Week, Cambridge, 8-15 June 2016

17 March 2016

Open Technology Week will take place across the city between 8-15 June 2016, culminating in a gathering and open source maker faire at the Cambridge University Engineering Department on 15 June.

Open Source Hardware from the PLOS SynBio Community

7 March 2016

Tobias Wenzel, University of Cambridge, talks through the potential of open source hardware in synthetic biology, highlighting several Cambridge-based projects. Tobey received a SynBio and OpenPlant Fund grant for his work on in this area.

Opportunities for IB & SynBio in the new Innovate UK funding competitions!

The Biotechnology Young Entrepreneurs Scheme (Biotechnology YES)

Cambridge Postdoc Enterprise competition: now open for entries

Open Source in SynBio - connecting the active community

UK Commons Select Committee call for 'GM and gene editing' evidence check

8th International Workshop on Bio-Design Automation (IWBDA), Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, August 16-18, 2016

Cambridge Plant Synthetic Biologist wins 2016 Wellcome Trust Image Award

Complex design practices: learning from Synthetic Biology and Swarm Robotics

Open Technology Week, Cambridge, 8-15 June 2016

Open Source Hardware from the PLOS SynBio Community

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