The possibilities of synthetic biology in projects

The first joint competition of transnational research projects has been announced
in the field of synthetic biology

FP7-BIOThe project "Synthetic Biology" (ERASynBio) announced the holding of the first joint transnational competition of research projects:

"The possibilities of synthetic biology through transnational innovative projects".

Applications are accepted until August 26, 2013, 17.00 Central European time.

Projects on the following topics are accepted for the competition:

• Metabolic Engineering: bringing biosynthetic pathways modifications to a new level (Metabolic engineering: gaining new levels of complexity in modification of biosynthetic pathways for sustainable chemistry).
• Regulatory circuits: inserting well-characterized modular artificial networks to obtain new characteristics in cells and organisms (Regulatory circuits: inserting well-characterized, modular, artificial networks to provide new functions in cells and organisms).
• Orthogonal biosystems: cellular bioengineering to expand the genetic code for storing genetic information (xenonucleic acids) and protein engineering (Orthogonal biosystems: engineering cells to expand the genetic code to develop new information storage and processing capacity (xeno nucleic acids) and protein engineering).
• Bionanotechnology: development of molecular motors and other components of molecular machines or cell-free devices capable of performing new tasks (Bionanoscience: developing molecular-scale motors and other components for cell-based machines or cell-free devices to perform complex new tasks).
• Minimal genomes: Identifying the smallest number of components needed for life as a basis for engineering minimal cell factories with new functions (Minimal genomes: identifying the smallest number of parts needed for life as a basis for engineering minimal cell factories for new functions).
• Protocells: obtaining synthetic cells using programmable chemical engineering (Protocells: using programmable chemical design to produce (semi-)synthetic cells)

Details, including the competition documentation, are available on the project website.

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