SBWGLunches

About SBWG Lunches

Synthetic Biology Working Group (SBWG) Lunches are an opportunity to meet faculty, students, research staff and others interested in the field of synthetic biology. These meetings usually feature one or more research presentations, with a focus on group discussion during and after. Areas of interest include:

• Characterization and standardization of biological parts and systems
• Metabolic engineering
• Implementing logic in biological systems
• Biosensors
• New research tools
• Nucleic acid synthesis and sequencing
• Minimal organisms and genomes

Archived information from old lunches is at SynBERC:SBWGLunchesArchive.

Schedule

SBWG lunches will be held every two weeks on Mondays, 1-2pm, in room 56-154. Lunch will be served. The first meeting of the 2010 academic year will be held on September 13.

September 13: Initial meeting. Discuss areas of interest for future seminars.

September 27:

• Shawn Finney-Manchester (MIT ChemE): A Method for In Vivo Targeted Mutagenesis
• Saurabh Gupta (MIT CSAIL/BE): Genetically Programmed Pathogen Sense & Destroy

October 11: NO MEETING. Columbus Day.

October 25:

• MIT 2010 iGEM Team: Presentation of this year's project and results
• Randy Rettberg (iGEM/Registry): Background information and updates

November 22: Peter Carr (MIT Media Lab)

December 6: Asst. Prof. Tim Lu (MIT EECS)

Coordinators

Steve Goldfless [sjg at mit] (PhD Candidate, MIT Dept. of Biological Engineering)

Brian Belmont [bbelmont at mit] (PhD Candidate, MIT Dept. of Biological Engineering)

Dr. Peter Carr [carr at media dot mit] (Research Scientist, MIT Media Lab)