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Welcome to the May 2019 issue of the Synthetic Biology Strategic Research Initiative Newsletter - a round-up of news, events and notices from across the initiative.
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2017 Biomaker Team in line for early-career innovator award for open-source chamber for speed breeding and crop transformation
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A group of young innovators based in Norwich Research Park have made the final of the 2019 BBSRC Innovator of the Year Awards.Their project, initially prototyped through the Biomaker Challenge, has made speed breeding more accessible to the research community.
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Call for papers! The rise of DIY Laboratories: Implication for Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) Policy
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This special issue aims to extend our understanding of the opportunities and limits of DiY laboratories, and their implications for STI policy. We invite rigorous contributions, including conceptual and theoretical papers, state-of-the-art reviews, empirical research-quantitative and qualitative, and case studies contributions that advances research on DIY laboratories from a multidisciplinary perspective.
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This summer's Cambridge-Norwich Biomaker Challenge will support 27 diverse, open science projects
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We're very excited to announce the project list for this year's Biomaker Challenge. The participants span 20 University of Cambridge departments, several Norwich institutes, and include industry professionals and international collaborators from Germany, Chile, Argentina, Kenya and beyond.
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Biomaker Community Building & Traning Event 1: Intro to arduino and XOD
Monday 3 June, 198:00, Mill Lane Postdoc Centre: More info & RSVP
The Biomaker meetups are open to all and will be a great opportunity to connect with the open technology community and learn new skills. The first training event will be an introduction to the Biomaker starter kit focusing on programming the arduino micro controller using the XOD visual programming interface. Just bring your laptops and we'll provide the hardware and instruction! More information to come. All are welcome.
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Cell-free lunch meeting
Tuesday 4 June, 12:00, Tom ap Rees Room, Dept. of Plant Sciences: More info & RSVP
This month's cell-free lunch meeting will be a journal club led by Dr Fernando Guzman-Chavez (Haseloff Lab, Dept of Plant Sciences) on PLANT dX: A Molecular Diagnostic for Detection of Plant Pathogens
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Cafe Synthetique: Engineering Living Systems
Monday 17 June, 18:00, Panton Arms: More info & RSVP
Curated by Dr Somenath Bakshi, the first joint appointment at university between the School of Technology and School of Biological Sciences, this month's Cafe Synthetique will highlight some exciting work happening on the engineering front of synthetic biology.
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Biomakespace Meetup: Cancer Models 101
Monday 24 June, 19:00, Biomakespace, Hills Rd: More info & RSVP
What is a preclinical cancer model and why is it useful? In this introductory session, Dr Sam Shelton (Business Development Lead at Repositive) will explain what cancer models are used for, how the different types are selected and the data associated with each of them.
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If you have an opportunity to advertise to the Cambridge SynBio community, please contact the SRI Coordinator at synbio@hermes.cam.ac.uk
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