Synthetic Biology at MIPT
On July 9-12, 2012, the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology holds a school-conference "Synthetic Biology and the design of bioengineering devices" for leading researchers, researchers, university professors, graduate students and students of universities in the CIS and other countries.
The achievements of the last decade in the field of genomic and cellular technologies in their significance for the industry and the economy of the countries of the world are comparable to the discovery of semiconductors in the middle of the last century and the development of the radio-electronic industry in Silicon Valley.
In 2010, American engineer and biologist Craig Venter synthesized the first cell with an artificial genome assembled on a supercomputer. Since then, the largest customers of research in this area are the US Department of Defense, the US Department of Energy, companies of the military-industrial complex (Raytheon, Lockheed-Martin, etc.).
Synthetic biology is the newest branch of industrial technology at the intersection of computer science, electronics, chemistry and biology, which combines advanced research fields for the purpose of designing, synthesizing and constructing new, including non–existent in nature, biological functions and living systems. Modern synthetic (systems) biology is an engineering tool for designing functional and controlled living systems with specified properties – energy, industrial and industrial nature.
The main directions of the school-conference cover the following applied areas:
- Improving engineering biology for the design of living machines
- Designing the functionality of industrial microorganisms on an automated control system using a software package of universities in the USA and Europe.
- High-performance modeling of components of an industrial biosystem in silico for proteomic design, configuration development, loading and resource of cellular organelles, etc.
- Testing and debugging of the characteristics of the designed code in a virtual environment (virtual stand) based on the characteristics of the proteome, metabolome, transcriptome and epigenome.
- Synthesis and transfection of the developed genetic code into a model microorganism in vitro.
This scientific school is conducted with the aim of developing this promising field and training bioengineers to work in synthetic biology laboratories in Russia, federal biological programs and projects – and ultimately improving the direction of "living" robots and biological mechatronics in Russia.
Researchers and researchers of universities and research organizations, young scientists, postgraduates and students are invited to participate in the school-conference.
Details are available on the conference website.
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