CSHL Synthetic Biology students present their final results
Today, our sixteen 2018 CSHL Synthetic Biology students gave presentations to wrap up the course. During the second week of the course, they worked in small groups to complete creative […]
Invited speaker: Jose Avalos
Today Prof. Jose Avalos from Princeton University visited the synthetic biology course to present his seminar “Using Mitochondria and Light for Spatial and Temporal Control of Engineered Metabolic Pathways.” His […]
Invited speaker: Tae Seok Moon
Today’s invited speaker was Prof. Tae Seok Moon from Washington University in St. Louis. His talk “Systems and Synthetic Biology: Constructing Programmable Cells” covered his lab’s work to construct genetically […]
Invited Speaker: Charles Gersbach
Today’s invited speaker was Prof. Charles Gersbach from Duke University. His research group develops technologies to advance genetic medicine, where enzymes are used to edit the DNA within cells instead […]
Invited speaker: Michelle O’Malley
Today’s speaker was Prof. Michelle O’Malley from University of California Santa Barbara. Her group investigates the unique ways in which anaerobic fungi from herbivore gut microbiomes degrade lignin-rich biomass. Her talk […]
Invited speaker: David Kong
Today’s invited speaker was Dr. David Kong from the MIT Media Lab. His talk “Community-Driven Biotechnology” covered a range of topics in crowd-sourced innovation: from distributed microfluidics to “biohacker” spaces and […]
Saturday sailing trip on the historic Christeen
This afternoon, the CSHL Synthetic Biology group (students, TA’s, instructors, and one of our invited speakers Yvonne Chen) gathered at the Waterfront Center in Oyster Bay for a sailing trip […]
