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Gulliver seminars take place on Mondays at 11:30 AM in the F304 room, and typically last one hour including questions. The seminars are in English, and the scientific topics are mainly those studied in the laboratory.
Gulliver Seminar : Karen Polizzi (Imperial College)
Adventures in multispecies synthetic biology
In Nature species do not live in isolation and they often collaborate to accomplish sophisticated biochemical tasks. Examples include the human gut microbiome, where diverse bacteria catalyse hundreds of different reactions in the breakdown of food (and also interact with and influence human physiology) and various environmental niches where species work in concert to break down food sources. Synthetic biology, engineering biological systems for a user defined purposes, has recently started to move beyond its initial ‘monoculture' applications to those involving multiple species. In this talk, I will discuss some of the challenges and opportunities in multispecies synthetic biology focusing on two examples from ongoing work- bacterial-mammalian cell systems for biomanufacturing and bacterial-plant systems for phytoremediation. While we are still a long way away from the complex ecosystems of the natural world, it is possible to build synthetic biology systems involving species from different kingdoms that can perform biotechnological functions.
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Gulliver seminar : Matthew Turner
Lundi 13 mai de 11h30 à 12h30 - C162
The audience is often heterogeneous - because of the wide range of scientific topics covered in the lab - so planning a talk for a broader audience would be preferred. The seminar is in English, and speakers are thus invited to prepare their slides in English.
The seminar starts at 11:30 AM. The speaker is asked to arrive in the lab at least 15 minutes in advance to set up their computer. The talks last typically 45 minutes, and are followed by a discussion time.