WISB holds seminars throughout the year.  Our seminar series includes guest presentations from leading international academics from synthetic biology and related disciplines and commercial organisations.

Seminars are held at the Gibbet Hill Campus, University of Warwick.

Past Seminars

Dr Ross Anderson

Senior Research Fellow, BrisSynBio, School of Biochemistry, University of Bristol
October 11, 2017

Radical new directions in de novo enzyme chemistry

Roberto Di Leonardo

Professor of Experimental Condensed Matter Physics, Sapienza University of Rome
August 02, 2017

The Physics and Engineering of Active Matter

Richard I Kitney

Professor of Biomedical Systems Engineering, Chairman of the Institute of Systems and Synthetic Biology
July 05, 2017

Synthetic biology @ Imperial College – Its Development, Information Systems, Standardisation and Characterisation.

Professor Kim Sneppen

Director for center for Models of Life, Niels Bohr Institute
June 06, 2017

Co-existence, collapse and diversity of phage-bacteria systems

Matthias Heinemann

University of Groningen
May 03, 2017

Flux controls flux – from fundamental metabolic insights to bacterial persistence

Dr. Arren Bar-Even

Research Group Leader - Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology
April 19, 2017

The formate bio-economy: synthetic pathways supporting the assimilation a key one-carbon feedstock

Dr John Sinfield

Biacore Application Specialist, GE Healthcare
March 07, 2017

Biacore Technology and Applications

Prof. Nico Boon

Center for Microbial Ecology and Technology - Ghent University
February 01, 2017

Microbial community engineering from “bottom up” to “top down”

Dr Vitor Pinheiro

Senior Lecturer in Synthetic Biology, UCL
November 02, 2016

Towards the XNA episome: new tools, new methods, new genetic materials

Dr Michael L Roberts

Founder and Chief Scientific Officer of Synpromics
June 15, 2016

To better harness the power of the genome for commercial applications

Dr Richard Daniel

Dr Richard Daniel

Senior Lecturer at Newcastle University
June 01, 2016

Moving Toward the Final Frontier

Dr Teuta Pilizota

Dr Teuta Pilizota

Centre for Synthetic and Systems Biology, University of Edinburgh
May 18, 2016

Dynamics of Escherichia coli’s passive response to a sudden decrease in external osmolarity

Dr Julien Reboud

Dr Julien Reboud

University of Glasgow
May 11, 2016

Artificial protocells manufactured in microfluidics – cell-free gene expression and membrane functionality

Dr Andy Boyce

Knowledge Transfer Network
April 20, 2016

Synthetic Biology Roadmap & KTN

Birger Lindberg Møller

Director of Center for Synthetic Biology, Professor in Plant biochemistry at the University of Copenhagen
February 24, 2016

Synthetic plant biology:Light-driven production of structurally complex diterpenoids

Dr Jose Jimenez

Lecturer in Synthetic Biology, University of Surrey
February 10, 2016

Cell economics as a factor controlling gene expression in bacteria

Dr Andrew Spicer

Algenuity
January 27, 2016

Making microalgae work – Green biofactories for a sustainable future world

Tara Hill

Twist Bioscience
December 02, 2015

Broadband DNA Synthesis Powering the Synthetic Biology Revolution

Professor Nigel Scrutton

Director of the Manchester Institute of Biotechnology and SYNBIOCHEM
November 11, 2015

Moving knowledge of enzyme catalysis from chemistry to synthetic biology and back again: a case study with the ‘ene’ reductases

John Lawry and Mark Beswick

Becton Dickinson
November 04, 2015

Flow Cytometry & Cell Sorting

Professor Wei Huang

University of Oxford
October 28, 2015

Biosensor and it’s Application to Synthetic Biology

Dr Seung-Goo Lee

Korea Research Institute of Bioscience & Biotechnology
October 23, 2015

Genetic circuits for high-throughput functional screening and engineering of enzymes

Dr Haseong Kim

Korea Research Institute of Bioscience & Biotechnology
October 23, 2015

Lego-like Protein Engineering for Synthetic Biology & Systems biology

Patrick Cai

Director of the Edinburgh Genome Foundry, University of Edinburgh
October 14, 2015

Synthetic Genomics: from genetic parts to genomes

Victor Sourjik

Loewe Center for Synthetic Microbiology
September 30, 2015

Bacterial Chemotaxis – Principles and Application

Dr Nicola Patron

The Sainsbury Laboratory, Norwich
August 05, 2015

Foundations, Principles and Standards for Plant Synthetic Biology

Dr Tom Ellis

Faculty of Engineering, Department of Bioengineering, Imperial College London
July 08, 2015

Designing life at lower cost: optimising synthetic biology for the microbial economy

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