[tt] [Synthetic Biology] Recent synthbio pieces in pop media

[Eugen Leitl]

----- Forwarded message from Kevin Costa <kcosta at berkeley.edu> -----

From: Kevin Costa <kcosta at berkeley.edu>
Date: Wed, 02 Jan 2008 11:29:29 -0800
To: discuss at syntheticbiology.org
Subject: [Synthetic Biology] Recent synthbio pieces in pop media
User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (Windows/20071031)


   Drew Endy returns to Bay Area synthbio hub
   SynBERCer and "alpha synthusiast" Drew Endy has accepted a faculty
   position at Stanford's bioengineering department, set up in 2002. Endy
   is the first professor hired there who focuses on synthetic biology.
   The Stanford job will bring Endy back to the Bay Area after five and a
   half years at MIT. (Bound in part by SynBERC, the Bay Area and Boston
   are the two largest U.S. centers of synthetic biology activity.)
   Before heading for Cambridge, Endy helped start the Molecular Sciences
   Institute, an independent nonprofit biological research lab in
   Berkeley. It was there that Endy began to tackle the engineering
   challenge of managing the complexities of living cells. At Stanford,
   Drew will continue to build the collaborative social environment that
   is accelerating the emerging field of synthetic biology, the feat for
   which he is perhaps best known.
   [1]Read the full story at the San Francisco Chronicle ->
   Synthetic DNA on the brink of yielding new life forms
   The Washington Post's Rick Weiss surveys the field of synthetic
   biology as researchers prepare to cross a dramatic barrier: the
   creation of life forms driven by completely artificial DNA. Fifty
   years ago, researchers began stitching ordinary chemical ingredients
   together in test tubes to make life's most extraordinary molecule. In
   the coming year, they hope to transplant it into a cell, where it is
   expected to "boot itself up," like software downloaded from the
   Internet, and cajole the waiting cell to do its bidding. Weiss's peice
   includes expert analysis from SynBERCers Paul Rabinow, Drew Endy, Tom
   Knight, and Jay Keasling.
   [2]Read the full story at The Washington Post ->

   How to make life: Esquire profiles synthetic biologists
   In a feature on the Best and Brightest Scientific Thinkers of 2007,
   Chris Jones profiles SynBERCer Drew Endy in the [3]November 20 2007
   edition of Esquire on how he "and a few other pioneers of synthetic
   biology are starting to intervene in evolution and put it to work for
   us." Also mentioned in the article are SynBERCers Jay Keasling, Tom
   Knight, and George Church.
--
Kevin Costa
Administrative Director
SynBERC - Synthetic Biology Engineering Research Center
Berkeley Center for Synthetic Biology
717 Potter Street, Building 977, Mail code 3224
University of California
Berkeley, CA 94720-3224
510-486-7568
510-432-7568 (cell)
510-486-4252 (fax)
[4]kcosta at berkeley.edu
[5]www.synberc.org

References

   1. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2007/12/26/BU7MU1MDE.DTL
   2. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/16/AR2007121601900.html
   3. http://www.esquire.com/features/best-brightest-2007/synthbio1207
   4. mailto:kcosta at berkeley.edu
   5. http://www.synberc.org/

_______________________________________________
discuss mailing list
discuss at syntheticbiology.org
http://lists.syntheticbiology.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss


----- End forwarded message -----
-- 
Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org
______________________________________________________________
ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org
8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A  7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE