Difference between revisions of "Designing Biology"

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Designing Biology talk, 31 oct 2013, rca

• amy congdon - contemporary futures for biology and textiles
• daisy ginsberg - e.chromi - taxonomies for synthetic biologies, working with scientists. science funding. patents for slugs. "rewilding". synthetic aesthetics - how can we design nature, and how can we design nature well? what i understood from her work is that her idea of writing these fictions is not that they will come true but they point towards the direction we should explore in the future? biological privacy?
• charlotte jarvis - ergo sum, stem cell, donation of blood urine and skin (adult cells) - to make immortal cells - i realized why i find her work a little narcisstic - her cells made immortal (stem cell) and staring at her face in the mirror of the altar of biology. interesting work but still i find it hard to stare it in the face.
• raphael kim - drug discovery and development timeline, protein folding, bacterial money and financial models, architectural biology
• damien palin - biomineralisation
• james field - synthetic biologist from imperial college - iGem

links

• igem: http://igem.org/Main_Page

to explore further

• what is biogeology?
• cisco jabber video (they tried to do a call)