Team:Macquarie Australia/Conference
From 2013.igem.org
Conference
Amp up how amazing we've been at leading synth bio for Aus, then lead into conference
Synthetic Biology and Bio-Engineering are inherently interdisciplinary fields. Our goal is to provide an intimate meeting where participants from a broad range of research areas including the biological sciences, medical sciences and engineering fields will have ample opportunity for interaction. We hope this meeting will encourage creative discussions about how we can use new biological tools to begin to solve some of the grand challenges facing us today. Speakers will introduce and define Synthetic Biology, what it can be used for, and what new tools are being developed to make biology easier to engineer. Presentations will also be given from the ‘second wave’ of younger synthetic biologists who will showcase their achievements from the 2013 international Genetically Engineered Machine ‘iGEM’ competition.
Program Sessions
- Synthetic Biology Explained
- Ethics and Intellectual Property
- Applications of Bio-engineering and Synthetic Biology
- Updates from MQ and USyd iGEM teams