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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Another one of the short course modules that took place during week one was Recombinant DNA Engineering taught by Prof. John Dueber and Shakked Halperin (TA). The module included an overview of […]
Today’s speaker, Prof. Frances Arnold from Caltech, presented a featured seminar titled “Enzymes by Evolution: Bringing New Chemistry to Life.” Prof. Arnold has pioneered methods of directed evolution to generate useful biological systems, […]
Today’s invited speaker was Prof. Yvonne Chen from UCLA. She presented a talk titled “Engineering Next-Generation T Cells for Cancer Immunotherapy.” Prof. Chen’s research focuses on CAR-T cell engineering. These […]
Another one of the four modules offered during week one was Chromatin Design Build Test. Students learned how to design fusion proteins that detect non-DNA features (i.e., histone proteins) on chromosomes. […]
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Summer Course
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Summer Course
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Summer Course