• Type: Seminar Series
• Web Address: http://synbio-oxford.org/

Sunday 9 February 2014 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 18:00 - DNA Your World
  Steinar Halldorsson (University of Oxford), Dr Ryan Cawood (founder of Oxford Genetics), Prof Andrew Turberfield (Dept of Physics, University of Oxford)

Monday 27 October 2014 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 19:00 - Synthetic biology approaches to tissue-like materials
  Professor Hagan Bayley (University of Oxford)

Monday 3 November 2014 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 19:00 - Single cells to synthetic biology - exploiting microbial gene resources for industrial production
  Assoc. Prof. Wei Huang (University of Oxford)

Monday 17 November 2014 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 19:00 - Synthetic Biofuels
  Prof John Love (Exeter University)

Monday 24 November 2014 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 19:00 - Cutting-edge genome engineering techniques (CRISPR-Cas9, TALEN) and miRNAs
  Tudor Fulga (University of Oxford, Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine)

Monday 1 December 2014 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 19:00 - Bacterial Superglue for Unbreakable Bridges in Synthetic Biology
  Prof Mark Howarth (University of Oxford Department of Biochemistry)

Monday 23 February 2015 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 18:00 - Synbio startups – the changing face of Silicon Valley
  Dr John Collins (Commercial Director at SynbiCITE – Imperial College), Sean Ward (CEO of Synthace), Bethan Wolfenden (Co-founder of Bento Bioworks)

Monday 9 March 2015 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 18:00 - Synbio from a different angle
  Dr Howard Boland (co-founder of c-lab), Ilya Levantis (London Hackspace)

Monday 1 June 2015 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 18:00 - To boldly go: exploring a universe of new protein structures
  Prof Dek Woolfson (University of Bristol)

Thursday 29 October 2015 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Facing the Unknown
  Professor Nick Bostrom (Future of Humanity Institute, Oxford Martin School)

Thursday 19 November 2015 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Creating the perfect human
  Prof Julian Savulescu (University of Oxford)

Thursday 26 November 2015 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 19:00 - LabGenius, OxSyBio and Biohacking Safari
  TBA

Thursday 21 January 2016 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 18:30 - Journal Club - "Towards synthesis of a minimal cell"
  Robbie Oppenheimer

Monday 8 February 2016 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 18:30 - Hagan Bayley and Katherine Coyte
  Due to illness, Katherine Coyte is unable to present this evening. Hagan Bayley will still be presenting as planned.
  Professor Hagan Bayley (University of Oxford), Katherine Coyte (University of Oxford)

Thursday 11 February 2016 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 19:00 - Journal Club - "Addicting bacteria to a noncanonical amino acid"
  TBA

Thursday 25 February 2016 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 19:00 - Journal Club - "Multiplexed barcoded CRISPR-Cas9 screening"
  Max Jamilly

Monday 7 March 2016 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 18:00 - SBO Seminar: Bento Bioworks
  TBA

Wednesday 29 June 2016 (10th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:30 - Is the genetic modification of humans ethically justified?
  TBA

Wednesday 9 November 2016 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:30 - Genetic Circuits with Ron Weiss
  Ron Weiss (MIT)
• 17:00 - Genetic Design Automation
  Chris J. Myers (University of Utah)

Thursday 10 November 2016 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Genetic Design Competition INFO SESSION
  Axel Nystrom

Wednesday 30 November 2016 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - BIOMOD Info Session
  Robbie Oppenheimer

Wednesday 15 February 2017 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 20:00 - SBO Social at The Lamb and Flag
  TBA

Wednesday 15 March 2017 (9th Week, Hilary Term)

• 18:30 - SBO Social
  TBA

Wednesday 10 May 2017 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 21:00 - SBO Social
  TBA

Wednesday 17 May 2017 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:00 - Tom Ellis
  Dr Tom Ellis (Imperial College London)

Tuesday 20 June 2017 (9th Week, Trinity Term)

• 18:00 - Should we synthesise human genomes?
  Piers Millett (Future of Humanity Institute, University of Oxford), Marianne Talbot (University of Oxford), Justina Robson, Robert Smith (King’s College London), Max Jamilly (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 10 October 2017 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:45 - World première of iGEM and BIOMOD jamboree presentations
  TBA

Tuesday 24 October 2017 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Building molecular gateways with DNA
  Professor Stefan Howorka (UCL)

Wednesday 1 November 2017 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - You design it, we build it!
  Dr Ross Kettleborough (Twist Bioscience)

Tuesday 14 November 2017 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - From bottom-up synthetic biology to biometrology
  Dr Max Ryadnov (National Physicall Laboratory)

Wednesday 22 November 2017 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Safeguarding synthetic biology: lessons from iGEM
  Piers Millett (Future of Humanity Institute, University of Oxford)

Tuesday 23 January 2018 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - Dr. Chris Barnes (UCL) on the "control of synthetic biological systems at plasmid and population levels"
  TBA

Wednesday 31 January 2018 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Professor Jim Haseloff (Cambridge University, Plant Sciences)
  TBA

Tuesday 20 February 2018 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Professor Rachel O'Reilly
  TBA

Wednesday 28 February 2018 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Synthetic Biology through directed evolution
  TBA