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LGBT+ STEM researchers for Cambridge Science Festival

15 November 2018

Following the success of their events at this year’s festivals, OUT THINKERS is back for 2019 Cambridge Science Festival. This event will celebrate Cambridge’s LGBT+ scientists, engineers and mathematicians. The organisers are looking for researchers to take part – anyone from PhD students to postdocs to lab and group leaders.

Open Science Hardware in the Developing World

21 August 2018

In the developing world it’s difficult to get and maintain the hi-tech equipment we associate with modern laboratories. But could open-science hardware provide a lifeline? Rachel Brazil of PhysicsWorld investigates, highlighting several members of our synthetic biology community!

Biomaker Fayre: Call for Exhibitors! (Saturday 27 October 2018)

30 July 2018

If you have an interesting project using open technologies, created as part of the Biomaker Challenge, or independently, you are invited to exhibit it at the Biomaker Fayre during Open Technology Week.

[3-minute survey] What’s in the Cam? Share your experiences with our river!

14 June 2018

It's summer, it's May Bumps, let's have a bath... and year by year, Cambridge rowers, swimmers and punters obtain serious infections associated with pathogens from the Cam’s water! What are these bugs, and where do they come from? A detailed information and research framework that targets the involved microbial culprits is still lacking.

Open Cell launches shipping container labs at Shepherd's Bush Market to accelerate biotech start-up businesses

7 June 2018

Co-founder and SynBio SRI Steering committee member Helene Steiner conceived the idea for Open Cell while working in Microsoft Research and also moonlighting as a lecturer in the Royal College of Art. Open Cell has joined forces with regeneration specialist, U+I, and the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham to launch Bio Lab – a biolab to offer affordable spaces at the Old Laundry Yard in Shepherds Bush Market. A first for London, phase one of Bio Lab will provide 20 low cost, start-up studios in shipping containers, in which innovators and entrepreneurs can build, test and demonstrate biotech focused innovations.

Apply for Development i-Teams by Tuesday May 1st: Adapting Polar Science for the Developing World

19 April 2018

Have you ever wondered how new ideas can help people in the developing world? Are you interested in what Cambridge can do to help? If so, then our Development i-Teams programme is for you!

Free Broadcast Interview Training for Cambridge academics, staff and students

6 March 2018

Interviews can help audiences make sense of even the most complicated topics, cutting through the confusing complexity and making them relevant to everyday lives. The Office of External Affairs and Communications is now providing broadcast interview training to academics, staff and students at the University for free.

Announcing CamMed 3D group- exciting new ventures in all things 3D printing

5 March 2018

Media Studio, Cambridge University Hospitals’ comprehensive photography, video and graphic design service is pleased to announce two new ventures with the aim of encouraging innovation in and around Cambridge in all things 3D.

New paper out now! Programmed hierarchical patterning of bacterial populations

23 February 2018

First author Christian Boehm, who earned his PhD in the Haseloff Lab and is the founder of the European Association of Synthetic Biology Students and Postdocs, reflects on the significance of this latest publication.

New report from the OpenPlant IP Working Group! Towards an Open Material Transfer Agreement

15 February 2018

The OpenPlant Intellectual Property (IP) Working Group was formed to examine IP norms and policies that impede innovation in plant synthetic biology. The result was the development of the Open Material Transfer Agreement (OpenMTA), a legal tool for sharing DNA parts and other biological materials that allows IP-free sharing of foundational tools while promoting the scaling and commercialisation of novel advanced technologies.

LGBT+ STEM researchers for Cambridge Science Festival

Open Science Hardware in the Developing World

Biomaker Fayre: Call for Exhibitors! (Saturday 27 October 2018)

[3-minute survey] What’s in the Cam? Share your experiences with our river!

Open Cell launches shipping container labs at Shepherd's Bush Market to accelerate biotech start-up businesses

Apply for Development i-Teams by Tuesday May 1st: Adapting Polar Science for the Developing World

Free Broadcast Interview Training for Cambridge academics, staff and students

Announcing CamMed 3D group- exciting new ventures in all things 3D printing

New paper out now! Programmed hierarchical patterning of bacterial populations

New report from the OpenPlant IP Working Group! Towards an Open Material Transfer Agreement

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