SYMIKRO Conference

On April, 24 we visited the third SYNMIKRO (Center for Synthetic Microbiology) conference in Marburg. This symposium was under the headline “From biological diversity to microbial cell factories”. For almost all of us it was the first scientific conference and we all enjoyed a great day with highly interesting talks coping with synthetic biology. The conference also offered the opportunity to get in contact with other scientists from universities and industry as well as with other students from Germany. Among other instructive presentations, the lecture of Prof. Dr. Olaf Kruse (CeBiTec Bielefeld) was of special interest for our own iGEM project. He covered the optimization of bioproduction in microalgae and pointed out possible issues that should be considered working with genetically engineered plants. Additionally presentations, like the one from Dr. Andriy Luzhetskyy, that did not directly address topics of our own project, still provided an incentive because they were given with such an enthusiasm.