Yearly Archives: 2019

By Shaharyar Lakhani SynCell 2020, the International Conference on Engineering Synthetic Cells and Organelles, will be held from May 11th through May 14th, 2020 in Santa Fe, New Mexico (https://syncell2020.unm.edu). The conference will focus on the challenges and opportunities in …

By Shaharyar Lakhani On August 23rd, 2019, many notable practitioners of synthetic biology from the University of Texas at Austin got together and shared their expertise with students, researchers, and administrators, all as a part of UT Synthetic Biology Day …

The international DNA nanotechnology meeting, DNA25, was held this year in Seatlle, Washington on the University of Washington campus. This is the annual gathering of researchers interested in all aspects of DNA computation, and this year there was a focus on …

On August 1 & 2, the Engineering Biology Research Consortium (EBRC) held a symposium in Washington D.C. titled ‘The Convergence of Engineering Biology & Data Science: Understanding Risk and Mitigation Options’. The discussion was focussed on how computer and data …

On July 30, Dr. Ellington visited Cold Spring Harbor Labs (CSHL) in New York to deliver a lecture to the Synthetic Biology Summer Course, “The Tenuous Balance Between Systems and Synthetic Biology.” Because of the centrality of both systems and …

Synthetic biology is a powerful discipline that combines the scientific insights of biology with the translational strengths of engineering to produce new and useful biological systems. The University of Texas at Austin has a number of extraordinary practitioners of this …

At the end of 2018, Dr. Andy Ellington and Dr. Eric Anslyn from the University of Texas at Austin, among 13 other scientists, were awarded a grant from NASA totaling nearly $7 million to continue research in detecting extraterrestrial life. …

Mosquitoes are known for housing a variety of nasty diseases, from Zika to dengue to yellow fever. As the weather begins to warm up, we want to enjoy the warm Texas sun. Unfortunately, so do the mosquitoes. Since these blood …

Dr. Eric Anslyn and Dr. Andy Ellington were present at the annual meeting on the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) compound in Chevy Chase, Maryland. The meeting was hosted by the HHMI Professors Program, a program empowering research scientists to …

In order to train the scientists of the future, they should be exposed to cutting edge approaches now.  This of course is what a modern research University does; it provides undergraduates with access to key thought leaders and research resources …