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<h3>Community news</h3>
<h3>Community news</h3>
*'''Registration for the [http://pbd.lbl.gov/sbconf/ <font color="green">'''Second International Conference on Synthetic Biology (SB2.0)'''</font>] is open.'''
*'''Registration for the [http://pbd.lbl.gov/sbconf/ <font color="green">Second International Conference on Synthetic Biology (SB2.0)</font>] is open.'''
*Beachhead has a market analysis for synthetic biology: [http://www.beachhead.com/publications.html Synthetic Biology, A New Paradigm for Biological Discovery]
*Beachhead has a market analysis for synthetic biology: [http://www.beachhead.com/publications.html Synthetic Biology, A New Paradigm for Biological Discovery]
*NY Times has an article on [http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/17/science/17synt.html Custom-Made Microbes, at Your Service].
*NY Times has an article on [http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/17/science/17synt.html Custom-Made Microbes, at Your Service].
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*The Scientist has an article on [http://www.the-scientist.com/2006/1/1/30/1/ Is this life?].  Check out the links to opinions  on artificial life and the definition of synthetic biology from [[Drew Endy|Endy]], Venter, Keasling, Church, Noireaux, Holt, and Blattner.
*The Scientist has an article on [http://www.the-scientist.com/2006/1/1/30/1/ Is this life?].  Check out the links to opinions  on artificial life and the definition of synthetic biology from [[Drew Endy|Endy]], Venter, Keasling, Church, Noireaux, Holt, and Blattner.
* [[Synthetic_Biology:Graduate | Graduate Program]] and [[Synthetic_Biology:Faculty | Open Faculty Positions]] pages started.  See ''Resources'' section below.
* [[Synthetic_Biology:Graduate | Graduate Program]] and [[Synthetic_Biology:Faculty | Open Faculty Positions]] pages started.  See ''Resources'' section below.
* Special issue on synthetic biology in [http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v438/n7067/index.html Nature] including the [http://www.nature.com/nature/comics/syntheticbiologycomic/index.html Adventures in Synthetic Biology] comic
* EU Synthetic Biology funding [http://www.cordis.lu/nest/path_2005-2006.htm announcement]
* Pamela Silver's lecture & Lisa Geller's discussion [http://www.aaas.org/spp/dser/seminar/2005/111005syntheticbio.shtml/ on Synthetic Biology] ([http://www.aaas.org/spp/dser/seminar/2005/synbiology11102005.mp3 mp3 file])
* 2005 iGEM [http://parts2.mit.edu/wiki/index.php/Main_Page Jamboree] gets underway, 5 November 2005 ([http://web.mit.edu/ MIT], [http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2005/igem.html News])
* Freeman Dyson's talk on the [http://www.metanexus.net/metanexus_online/show_article.asp?9361 Future of Evolution].
* Mitsuhiro Itaya's group reports in PNAS on [http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/abstract/0503868102v1 combining two genomes in one cell].
* Laurie Zoloth's recent [http://progressive.playstream.com/nakfi/progressive/life%20engineering/zoloth/zoloth.html lecture] on ethics & Synthetic Biology.
* Paul Rabinow's recent [http://63.251.167.36/nakfi/progressive/Life%20Engineering/rabinow/rabinow.html lecture] on security & Synthetic Biology.


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