Synthetic Biology:Conferences

Synthetic Biology is
A) the design and construction of new biological parts, devices, and systems, and
B) the re-design of existing, natural biological systems for useful purposes.

Upcoming Events

• Life under (Re)Construction November 13-14, 2008, Vienna, Austria
• 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
• SB4.0: The Fourth International Meeting on Synthetic Biology
  October 10-12, 2008 at Hong Kong University of Science & Technology

Previous events

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

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

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

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

• 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!

• Second International Conference on Synthetic Biology (SB2.0)
  May 20-22, 2006 at UC Berkeley.

• 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

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

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

• 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.

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

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

• Synthetic Biology 3.0
  June 24-26, 2007 in Zurich

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

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

• Toward A Synthetic Biology: NASA-NSF Joint Workshop at HHMI Janelia Farm
  April 3-4, 2008. NSF-NASA-HHMI speaker contacts

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

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

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