Imperial College/Courses/Fall2009/Synthetic Biology (MRes class)/Lecture

 A Perspective on Synthetic Biology

Instructor:Vincent Rouilly

Date: 11am-1pm, December 4th, 2009.

Venue: Flowers Building, South Kensington.

Slides: [[Media:MRes2009_SynBio_Vincent_Rouilly.pdf‎]]

An Existing Biotechnology Landscape

* A Short History of Biotechnologies * Enabling Technologies * Biotech Successes

Scaling-up Biotech innovation: Synthetic Biology principles

* Current Bottlenecks in Biotech * SynBio Principles o Engineering principles o Engineering development cycle o Supporting Tools * SynBio successes

Current SynBio Trends and Challenges

* Building Tools * SynBio Community Activities o RFC o Legal o Ethical * SynBio Grand Challenges