Cafe Synthetique

Café Synthetique is the monthly meetup for the Cambridge synthetic biology community with informal talks, discussion and pub snacks.

Café Synthetique is the monthly meetup for the Cambridge synthetic biology community with informal talks, discussion and pub snacks.

Café Synthetique is the monthly meetup for the Cambridge synthetic biology community with informal talks, discussion and pub snacks.

Biomakespace, SciArt in Cambridge, Art & Science Soirée, and the SynBio SRI invite creative thinkers and tinkerers to connect with scientists, engineers, artists and designers engaged in DIY science. Join us at Othersyde Bar at The Engineer's House for an exciting evening of speed meets, snap-talks, hands-on demos, and unexpected encounters. Drink, nibble, invent.

Dr Sam Brockington will discuss harnessing the network of global botanic gardens for metabolic engineering and synthetic biology. Andre Holzer (Dept. of Plant Sciences) and Max Stammnitz (Dept. of Veterinary Medicine)) will present their work on Puntseq, a citizen science project that uses a real-time portable DNA analyser to quantify microbial pathogens within the Cam. https://www.puntseq.co.uk/

This month, we'll be joined by two interdisciplinary teams that have developed low-cost, open-source biosensors as part of the Biomaker Challenge. Both teams have taken their projects beyond the four-month challenge- come check out their prototypes and learn more about how they work!

Café Synthetique is the monthly meetup for the Cambridge synthetic biology community with informal talks, discussion and pub snacks.

This month's Cafe Synthetique is curated by the Cambridge University Synthetic Biology Society (SynBioSoc https://cusbs.soc.srcf.net/ ). Join us for talks that will introduce synthetic biology and its project-based applications. It will also be a great opportunity to meet new members of the Cambridge undergraduate synthetic biology community!

This month, we'll be learning about the responsible governance of genetic engineering and gene drives from Catherine Rhodes (Academic Project Manager at CSER) and Sam Weiss Evans (CRASSH visiting fellow, http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/people/profile/samuel-weiss-evans. ) More info to come!

This month, we'll be hearing from the directors of Biomakespace - Cambridge's first community based, open access biology and prototyping space.