Course - Cold Spring Harbor, NY, United States
Synthetic biology is a discipline wherein living organisms are genetically programmed to carry out desired functions in a reliable manner.This field takes inspiration from our ever-expanding ability to measure and manipulate biological systems, and the philosophical reflections of Schrodinger and Feynman that physical laws can be used to describe and rationally engineer biology to accomplish useful goals. After all, cells are the world’s most sophisticated chemists, and their ability to learn to adapt to changing environments offer enormous potential to solving modern engineering challenges. Nonetheless, biological systems are noisy, massively interconnected, and non-linear, and have not evolved to be easily engineered. The grand challenge of synthetic biology is to reconcile the desire for a predictable, formalized biological design process with the inherent ‘squishiness’ of biology.
Learn Techniques and Perform Research at the Forefront of Synthetic Biology: The course will focus on how the complexity of biological systems, combined with traditional engineering approaches, results in the emergence of new design principles for synthetic biology.
Organization: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Tue, Jul 29, 2014 - Mon, Aug 11, 2014
CSHL Campus
Cold Spring Harbor, NY, United States
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