Monday 19 September 2016 6:00pm to 8:00pm
Panton Arms, 43 Panton St, CB2 1HL
About
Speakers: Dr Moritz Meyer and Dr Payam Mehrshahi, Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge
Algae are exciting organisms for synthetic biology: easy to grow and manufacturing an abundance of useful compounds, they are used in research on biofuels, medicines and carbon capture among many other applications. Moritz Meyer and Payam Mehrshahi will introduce their work on two aspects of this research, including re-engineering photosynthesis, one of the most important processes in biology
Dr Moritz Meyer: ”Re-engineering photosynthesis: the green algal gold mine”
Dr Payam Mehrshahi: ”Using synthetic biology to engineer medicinal algae”
Café Synthetique is the monthly meetup for the Cambridge synthetic biology community with informal talks, discussion and pub snacks.
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