Sep 12, 2014 | art-science, Events, Science Communication, Science in Society
BIO·FICTION 2014: The 2nd international Synthetic Biology Film Festival Amazing Films The final deadline August 31 has passed and we are excited to report that we received exactly 100 film submissions from 17 countries in 4 continents. The submissions include awesome...
Sep 1, 2014 | Events, science
From October 14-16, 2014, a Systems Toxicology Workshop will be organized in Beijing, China, on ” Developing Mechanistic Understanding of Toxicity Pathways and Establishing Predictive Toxicology for Use in Risk Assessments”. The hosts and organizers of...
Aug 21, 2014 | Events, Science Communication, Science in Society
“Life from scratch! Synthetische biology” is the title of the upcoming Science Café Biofaction helped organizing with the Belgium Wetenschapscafé that is going to take place in Gent, Belgium, 26th August 2014. Guests will be Marjan De Mey (Metabolic...
Aug 15, 2014 | Events, science, Science in Society
The Nordic Committee on Bioethics will organize a conference about ethical issues in synthetic biology in Tromso, Norway, August 28, 2014. See program details: Synthetic Biology; Bioethics and Biosafety Thursday August 28th 2014 | The Arctic University...
Jul 2, 2014 | art-science, Events, Science Communication, Science in Society
Second and FINAL Deadline: August 31, 2014 The new final deadline to submit your short film about synthetic biology and/or its societal ramifications is only 2 months away! We are encouraging filmmakers to share their cinematic visions of a present or future society...
Jun 3, 2014 | Events, Science in Society
THE BIO COMMONS Markus Schmidt will give a keynote presentation at the 2014 Pixelache Festival in Helsinki, Finnland, 6th June 2014. In the case of Bio-commons, developments in biotechnology rely mainly on patents as means to enable and secure innovations. The new...