The second GP-write annual meeting was held on May 9th and 10th, 2017, at the New York Genome Center in New York City. This meeting explored the concrete steps that GP-write can take to solve some of the most important problems facing humanity, including how …
From the NYU Langone Medical Center’s Genome Foundry
Jef Boeke on the process of analyzing yeast colonies used to assemble chromosomes in the GenomeFoundry at NYU Langone Center.
Building a Genome from Scratch: Lessons Learned from Sc2.0
If anyone understands the challenges associated with powering a eukaryotic cell with a designer genome built from scratch, it’s Leslie Mitchell, a postdoc in Jef Boeke’s lab at NYU. Mitchell has been leading experimental design and technological development for the Synthetic Yeast Genome Project (Sc2.0) since 2012. In this …
Photos from the May, 2016 HGP-write Meeting
Photos from the May, 2016 Meeting at Harvard Medical School, Boston. Photos by David Sun Kong, Ph.D., MIT Lincoln Laboratory View Meeting Summary here.
Nature First Rounders Podcast: The Path Less Travelled
Last summer I had the pleasure of talking with Brady Huggett on Nature Biotechnology’s First Rounders podcast (if you haven’t heard it in the past you should check it out – it’s a wonderful series of conversations with the people that have helped found, finance, …
Building the Trust Infrastructure for Synthetic Biology
By: Tracy Lessor, PhD, MBA Senior Leader, Science Communications Feinstein Kean Healthcare Jurassic World. Orphan Black. Splice. Helix. Synthetic biology is the inspiration behind these and many other popular science fiction movies and television series, and it seems that the public cannot get enough …
Never Bored and Never Done
By: Natalie Kuldell President, The BioBuilder Educational Foundation Instructor, MIT Department of Biological Engineering Bill Gates told Wired magazine that if he were a kid today, he’d want to be hacking biology. But how will the next generation of biocoders learn the language of DNA …
Engineering Biology for Science & Industry: Accelerating Progress, Meeting Summary and Next Steps
The Engineering Biology for Science & Industry: Accelerating Progress meeting in April had a standing room only crowd, with enthusiastic dialogue about what is required to accelerate progress in engineering biology, and lots of support for moving forward. The discussions were captured in a meeting summary and …
International Team of Engineering Biology Experts to Spotlight Designer Genomes, Engineering Biology and Societal Implications
Which designer genome will be synthesized from scratch next? What are the societal implications of designer genomes? How can we gain public acceptance of these technologies in light of recent visible events, such as the controversy over germ line editing using CRISPR? An international group …