Cafe Synthetique

Getting Hands-on with Engineering Biology: Team Projects for Real-World Applications

with Hadrien Peyret (John Innes Centre) and Jarrod Shilts (Expression Edits)

Café Synthetique is the monthly meetup for the Cambridge synthetic and engineering biology community with informal talks, discussion and pub snacks. Kindly sponsored by Cambridge Consultants. We meet monthly at the Panton Arms to share the latest developments in engineering biology and related approaches and techniques...

Monday 2 October, 6pm - Dr Diana Fusco, Assitant Professor, Dept of Physics, Cambridge Crispr-trapping bacteriophages to shine the light on phage-bacteria interactions at single-cell resolution. Despite the long history and wide-spread use of bacteriophage-derived molecular biology tools in molecular biology and...

We are back on Monday 4 September with Dr Alex Borodavka Royal Society and Sir Henry Dale Fellow Department of Biochemistry 'Viruses: Elegance in Their Simplicity, or Simply Bad News Wrapped in Protein?' Bio: Alex earned his BSc in Biochemistry and pursued his MSc in Microbiology and Virology at Kyiv National University...

We are back on Monday 3 July with Dr Mark Kotter, NIHR Clinical Scientist, University of Cambridge/CEO bit.bio "Reprogramming human cells - from academia to scale up” Mark is a stem cell biologist and neurosurgeon at the University of Cambridge. Aged nineteen, he decided to pursue a career in medicine to serve others and...

We are back on Monday 5 June with Dr Kirsty MacLellan-Gibson, Babraham Institute. Title: Volume Electron Microscopy: What is it and how can it help me? Nature have named Volume Electron Microscopy as one of the seven technologies to watch in 2023; but what is it and how can it help you? VolumeElectron Microscopy (vEM) is...

Cafe Synthetique - Join us at the Panton Arms | Mon 3 April | 6pm We are back on Monday 3 April with Lorenzo Di Michele, Royal Society University Research Fellow, Asst. Professor in Biotechnology, Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology. Building synthetic cells with DNA (just not how you would expect)...

We are back on Monday 6th March 6-8pm with Prof.Laura Machesky giving a talk on "Models of the cancer metastatic niche" Description: Cancer metastasis is responsible for the vast majority of deaths from cancer. There are very few options for treating metastasis and it is difficult to even design clinical trials for...