Today Lauren Andrews from  University of Massachusetts Amherst visited the course. Lauren is a instructor alumni for the course and it was great to have her back! She discussed her […]

The course welcomed Rebecca Schulman from Johns Hopkins today. Rebecca gave an amazing talk about her research and how she is trying to address the grand challenge of making smart […]

Huimin Zhao visited the Synthetic Biology course. Huimin shared his amazing work creating an automated robotics pipeline for building and testing DNA constructs called iBioFAB and how this pipeline is both […]

Andy Ellington from UT Austin returned to the Synthetic Biology Course to talk about the relationship between systems and synthetic biology. Andy discussed a range of topics including efforts to  […]

The course welcomed Adam Arkin from UC Berkley. Adam gave fascinating insights into the challenges of engineering cells for deployment in complex environments. He started by discussing his previous work […]

The Synthetic Biology course welcomed Ron Weiss from MIT. Ron gave an amazing primer to synthetic biology! He then discussed three very different points of control for biology (transcription, translation […]

Mustafa Khammash from ETH Zurich visited the Synthetic Biology Summer Course. Amazing talk demonstrating the principles of control theory applied to synthetic biology. Presentation included an interactive demonstration of the […]