Cambridge University Synthetic Biology Society

Cambridge University Synthetic Biology Society SynBioSoc is a society that aims to introduce students to the inter-disciplinary field of Synthetic Biology.

CUSBS is a new society that aims to introduce students to the inter-disciplinary field of Synthetic Biology. The European Commission defines Synthetic Biology as "the engineering of biology: the synthesis of complex, biologically based (or inspired) systems which display functions that do not exist in nature. In essence, synthetic biology will enable the design of ‘biological systems’ in a rationa

l and systematic way". As a field, it has the potential to tackle issues as diverse as disease, climate change and food shortages through drug synthesis, biofuel production and crop engineering. The main focus of CUSBS is student-led projects: biological projects, focusing on the modelling and making of synthetic systems, and hardware based projects, looking at developing low-cost, open-source scientific tools for use in research, education and at home. These will be fully funded and managed by CUSBS, and will give students hands on experience in DIY-biology. In addition to the projects, CUSBS will hold speaker events and members will have the opportunity to join scientific outreach events in Cambridge.

You're keen to learn how biology can be engineered to solve humanity's big problems? Then come visit our stall at the Un...
05/10/2021

You're keen to learn how biology can be engineered to solve humanity's big problems? Then come visit our stall at the University of Cambridge Fresher's Fair in Marquee 3!

Last week SynBio Cambridge welcomed Prof Chris Myers, one of the founding fathers of SBOL, the Synthetic Biology Open La...
14/10/2019

Last week SynBio Cambridge welcomed Prof Chris Myers, one of the founding fathers of SBOL, the Synthetic Biology Open Language, who was invited by the Department of Computer Science.

For everyone who couldn't attend the talk:
SBOL is an open standard for the representation of in silico biological designs. It provides a shared representation for flexibly constructing workflows that may involve many different types of biological engineering resources, tools, and processes (see image). SBOL is intended for users and software developers involved in the biology community, and scientists working within a wet lab. The scientific journal ACS Synthetic Biology recommends the use of SBOL to improve Synthetic Biology communication. (https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acssynbio.6b00146)

If you are interested in adopting the SBOL standard for the representation of your next synthetic biology project, here are a couple of links to guide you:

SBOL homepage: https://sbolstandard.org/
SBOL Designer: https://sboldesigner.github.io/ (biologist-friendly CAD software tool for creating and manipulating the sequences of genetic constructs)
SBOL overview paper: https://portlandpress.com/biochemsoctrans/article-lookup/doi/10.1042/BST20160347

For those interested: "A Standard-Enabled Workflow for Synthetic Biology", tomorrow in the Computer Lab!
09/10/2019

For those interested: "A Standard-Enabled Workflow for Synthetic Biology", tomorrow in the Computer Lab!

A synthetic biology workflow is composed of data repositories that provide information about genetic parts, sequence-level design tools to compose these parts into circuits, visualization tools to depict these designs, genetic design tools to select parts to create systems, and modeling and simulati...

Our friends at the Biomaker Initiative are running a technical challenge over the 2018-2019 winter - to produce graphica...
05/12/2018

Our friends at the Biomaker Initiative are running a technical challenge over the 2018-2019 winter - to produce graphical programming resources for new hardware in XOD, a visual programming interface used in the Biomaker Challenge to build low-cost sensors and instruments for biology. Successful proposals from teams or individuals will be provided with a low-cost development platform based on the Open-Smart Rich UNO R3 board, which contains a variety of embedded components. Learn more and apply via www.biomaker.org/information.

The deadline for proposals is 16 December, so get writing!

Summary: Biomaker is inviting applications for the Winter 2018-9 Challenge. Applicants will develop software nodes for integrating hardware with a new graphical programming interface, XOD. With a short-form application, all successful applicants will receive a hardware starter kit, document their pr...

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