Rice Science Cafe

Building the Future with Synthetic Biology

Matthew Bennett, Professor of Biosciences, Rice University

James Chappell, Assistant Professor of Biosciences, Rice University

Joff Silberg, Stewart Memorial Professor of Biosciences, Rice University

Thurs, Oct 28, 7pm CDT

The Ion

4201 Main St, Ste 120

Houston, TX 77002

Synthetic biology is a new discipline developing tools to write biological programs in DNA, insert them into genomes and boot them up like software. This bottom-up approach to biology harnesses successes in cellular design to increase our understanding of living systems and create transformational technologies. Scholars at Rice are global leaders in this field, making breakthrough advances such as programming cells to reformat waste into high-value chemicals, to report real-time dynamics of behaviors in animal guts and soils, and to display genetic oscillations that control physiological processes, mirroring clocks that are used to run computers. In the coming decades, synthetic biology will revolutionize medicine, agriculture, biomanufacturing, energy, electronics and our understanding of life itself. Rice faculty will share their latest research in synthetic biology and the real-world applications that this new discipline is enabling.

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