Science Shaping Our World-SHOW: Synthetic Biology-Accelerating the Engineering of Life

Science Shaping Our World-SHOW is an ongoing seminar and networking series that highlights cutting edge translational life science research and development. Our mission is to bring together a multidisciplinary audience spanning academia and industry providing exposure and insight into the life science advancements changing our world. September’s SHOW will focus on the emerging area of synthetic biology. Our speaker, Dr. Timothy Lu, will highlight the engineering of integrated memory and computational circuits in living cells, and the application of synthetic biology to tackle important medical and industrial problems. Dr. Lu leads the Synthetic Biology Group in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and the Department of Biological Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Dr. Lu’s research focuses on engineering integrated memory and computational circuits in living cells using analog and digital principles, applying synthetic biology to tackle important medical and industrial problems, and building living biomaterials that heterogeneously integrate biotic and abiotic functionalities. Dr. Lu is also a core member of the MIT Synthetic Biology Center and a co-founder of Sample6 Technologies, a Boston-based company that is delivering a revolutionary microbial diagnostic based on synthetic-biology-derived technologies. Sample6 Technologies is the world’s first synthetic-biology based bacteria diagnostic system capable of enrichm...
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