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SUMMARY:Synthetic Biology - The Systematic Design and Construction of Nove
 l Biological Systems and Cells for Useful Purposes
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DESCRIPTION:Prof. Paul Freemont\, Imperial College\, London (UK)\nBIOENGIN
 EERING SEMINARAbstract:\nSynthetic biology is primarily an application-foc
 used field attempting to develop and apply a systematic engineering approa
 ch to the design and construction of new biological systems and cells at t
 he genetic level. Here I will describe some of the foundational technology
  developments\, including DNA assembly\, whole genome engineering\, part/d
 evice characterization and computational design/modeling tools that are no
 w allowing the field to tackle some of the major challenges in bio-based m
 anufacturing and personalized medicine. I will describe our recent develop
 ments in establishing an automated part characterisation platform for bact
 erial parts in vivo and in vitro as well as our DNA Synthesis and Construc
 tion Foundry at Imperial College. I will also describe our work on two rec
 ent applications in the area of biosensors\, namely detecting infections i
 n cystic fibrosis patients and infective larvae parasites in water.Bio:\nP
 rofessor Paul Freemont is co-director and co-founder of the EPSRC Centre f
 or Synthetic Biology and Innovation (since 2009) and the National UK Innov
 ation and Knowledge Centre for Synthetic Biology (SynbiCITE\; since 2013) 
 at Imperial College London. He was previously the Head of the Division of 
 Molecular Biosciences (2005- 2012)\, Head of the Imperial College Centre f
 or Structural Biology (2000-2005) having joined Imperial from Cancer Resea
 rch UK London Research Institute. His research interests span from underst
 anding the molecular mechanisms of human diseases to the development of sy
 nthetic biology platform technologies and biosensors and is the author of 
 over 170 scientific publications (H-index 63 – Google scholar). He has a
 ppeared regularly on radio and television broadcasts on the subject of syn
 thetic biology and has successfully co-supervised Imperial undergraduate i
 GEM teams since 2006.
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