January 4 2021 No seminar this week. Happy holidays!
January 11 2021 Jake Beal (Raytheon) From art to engineering in synthetic biology video recording link
January 18 2021 Zoltan Tuza (Imperial College London) From engineering to model building in synthetic biology video recording link
January 25 2021 Gary Wnek (Case Western Reserve University) Anionic Polyelectrolytes as Synthetic Cytoskeletal Mimics video recording link
February 1 2021 William Poole (Caltech) Compiling Synthetic Biological Circuit Models with BioCRNpyler video link
February 8 2021 Eran Agmon (Stanford) Vivarium: an interface and engine for integrative multiscale modeling in computational biology video link
February 15 2021 Pablo Iván Nikel (DTU Biosustain) Establishing a synthetic fluorometabolism in engineered environmental bacteria video link
February 22 2021 Sara Walker (ASU) Universality in Biochemistry: Searching for Principles video link
March 1, 2021 Shashank Shekhar (Emory University) Building and remodeling the actin cytoskeleton, one molecule at a time, recording not available due to IP rights
March 8, 2021 Hannes Mutschler (Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry) First steps towards (partially) self-regenerating in vitro translation systems video link
March 15 - May 17: see below SynCell joint speaker series
May 24, 2021 Tommaso Fraccia (CNRS-ESPCI Paris) Liquid crystalline cells for origin of life and synthetic biology, recording not available due to IP rights
May 31, 2021 Wallace Marshall (UCSF) State-space representations of cell structure and behavior. video link
June 7, 2021 Margaret Titus (UMn) The first steps in building a cell’s sensors or filopodium formation from the beginning video link
June 14, 2021 Rebecca Schulman (Johns Hopkins University) Growing transport networks for natural and synthetic cells; online recording will be posted in a few weeks, due to publication tielines.
June 21, 2021 Steven Benner (FfAME) Biotechnology in Artificial Cells Floating in Fluorinated Media having the Same Density as Water video link
June 28, 2021 Shankar Mukherji (Washington University in St. Louis) Building a cell from
unreliable parts: the case of stochastic organelle biogenesis recording link
July 5, 2021 no seminar. Happy Independence Day holiday for our US friends, and happy Monday for the rest of the world!
July 12, 2021 India Hook-Barnard (EBRC) Engineering Biology: Research, Policy, and the Bioeconomy recording link
July 19, 2021 James J. Collins (MIT) Harnessing synthetic biology to fight pathogens
July 26, 2021 Matthew Good (University of Pennsylvania) Building Membraneless Organelles for Control of Cellular Decision-Making video link
August 2, 2021 Neha Kamat (Northwestern University) Harnessing vesicle membranes to assemble in-situ biosensors video link
August 9, 2021 no seminar!
August 16, 2021 James Carothers (University of Washington) Multi-Layer CRISPRa/i Circuits for Dynamic Genetic Programs in Cell-Free and Bacterial Systems video link
August 23, 2021 Chris Kempes (Santa Fe Institute) Universal relationships for physiology across the diversity of cells video link
August 30, 2021 Matthew Lakin (University of New Mexico) Information processing in synthetic cells video link
September 6, 2021 Daniel Schmidt (University of Minnesota) Build a Protein – The Biophysical Basis of Protein Domain Compatibility video link
September 13, 2021 Alshakim Nelson (University of Washington) Polymer Platforms for 3D Printing Engineered Living Materials video link
September 20, 2021 Kerstin Göpfrich (Max Planck Institute for Medical Research) Synthetic cells: Bottom-up assembly of DNA-based cytoskeletons video link
September 27, 2021 Roseanna Zia (Stanford) Modeling the colloidal physics of life-essential processes biological cells, video recording will be posted online later, due to IP and collaboration rights
October 4, 2021 Eleonora Bailoni (University of Groningen) A multi-chamber flow dialysis setup for a sustainable metabolism in synthetic cells
October 11, 2021 Bijoyita Roy (NEB)
October 18, 2021 Pinar Zorlutuna (University of Notre Dame)
October 25, 2021 Federico Rossi (University of Siena) Shape Changes and Budding of Giant Vesicles Driven by an Internal Enzymatic Reaction
November 1, 2021
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November 15, 2021 Philipp Holliger (LMB)
November 22, 2021 Seokheun "Sean" Choi (Binghamton University) Electrogenic Bacteria for Powering, Sensing, and Synthesizing
November 29, 2021
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