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Upcoming Events

• Synthetic Biology 5.0: The Fifth International Meeting on Synthetic Biology
  Date and location to be decided.

Previous events

2009

• Synthetic Biology: Building on Nature's Inspiration 19-22 Nov, 2009, Irvine, CA, USA. This year's conference of The National Academies Keck Futures Initiative. Grant applications are due 12 Feb, 2010. Ten podcast tutorial interviews with synthetic biology leaders are available online[1]
• Biofine 2009: Applied Industrial Synthetic Biology conference 16 April–17 April, 2009, Freiburg, Germany
• Joint NSF/EPSRC sandpit on synthetic biology 30 March-3 April, 2009, Warrenton, Virginia, USA
• Second European Conference on Synthetic Biology (ECSB II): Design, Programming And Optimisation Of Biological Systems 29 March–3 April, 2009, Sant Feliu de Guixols (Costa Brava), Spain
• BioSysBio 2009 23-25 March, 2009, Cambridge, UK

2008

• Life Under (Re)Construction
  November 13-14, 2008, Vienna, Austria. Programme
• Systems and Synthetic Biology - Scientific and Social Implications:
  November 7-8, 2008 at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Heidelberg, Germany
• Workshop Synthetic Biology
  November 6-8, 2008, Groningen, The Netherlands
• The Future of Synthetic Biology: Workshop at the Wellcome Trust
  November 3-4, 2008, London, U.K. Programme

• Synthetic Biology 4.0: The Fourth International Meeting on Synthetic Biology
  October 10-12, 2008 at Hong Kong University of Science & Technology

• Open SYNBIOSAFE e-conference on ethics, safety, security, IPR, governance, and public perception of synthetic biology (background paper)
  May 5 - June 9, 2008.

• BioSysBio 2008
  April 20-22, 2008 at Imperial College London, U.K.

• Toward A Synthetic Biology: NASA-NSF Joint Workshop at HHMI Janelia Farm, Virginia, U.S.A.
  April 3-4, 2008. Workshop speakers and report

2007

• European Conference On Synthetic Biology (ECSB): Design, programming and optimisation of biological systems
  24-29 November 2007 at Hotel Eden Roc, Sant Feliu de Guixols, Spain.

• Caltech Workshop on Self-Replicating Chemical Systems
  August 27-28, 2007.

• Synthetic Biology Workshop
  August 27-28, 2007 at Göteborg, Sweden.

• Systems Biology and Engineering
  April 20-21, 2008 in Seattle, WA, USA.

• First q-bio Conference on Cellular Information Processing
  August 8-11, 2007 at St. John's College campus in Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA.

• Synthetic Biology 3.0: The Third International Meeting on Synthetic Biology
  June 24-26, 2007 in Zurich

• Boston University Symposium on Synthetic Biology
  May 11, 2007.

• IGEM:China Workshop
  April 16-17, 2007.

• Synthetic Biology: Transforming Life Science Research and Discovery by Informa Learning (associated with IBC Life Sciences) and Beachhead Consulting
  March/April 2007 in Cambridge, Massachustts, USA
  • See Tom Knight's note regarding this conference.

• BioSysBio 2007: Computational Systems Biology, Bioinformatics, Synthetic Biology
  January 11-13, 2007 in Manchester, United Kingdom

2006

• Cold Spring Harbor Meeting on Engineering Principles in Biological Systems
  December 3-6, 2006 in Cold Spring Harbor, New York, USA.

• Workshop on Computation in Genetic and Biochemical Networks
  September 4-8, 2006 in York, United Kingdom.
  • part of The 5th International Conference on Unconventional Computation

• Synthetic Biology 2.0: The Second International Meeting on Synthetic Biology
  May 20-22, 2006 at UC Berkeley.

• Institute of Biological Engineering Annual Meeting
  March 10-12, 2006 at University of Arizona in Tuscon, Arizona, USA
  • special Synthetic Biology session!
  • special student paper contest in bioethics!

• 2nd ASM - IEEE EMBS Conference on Bio, Micro and Nanosystems
  January 15-18, 2006 in San Francisco, California, USA.

2005

• Sixth International Conference on Systems Biology (ICSB 2005)
  October 19-24, 2005 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

• Venter Institute Conference: Genomes, Medicine, and the Environment
  October 17–19, 2005 in Hilton Head, South Carolina, USA.

• Synthetic Biology 1.0: The First International Meeting on Synthetic Biology
  June 10-12, 2004 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.