Oct 21, 2022 | Events, Science in Society, Science Policy, Synthetic Biology
Biofaction’s CEO Dr. Markus Schmidt was invited to teach at the 20th October at the Geopolitics and Global Futures Symposium 2022, organized by the Geneva Centre for Security Policy. The overall topic was Transformative Technologies and Security where Dr....
May 4, 2022 | Events, neurotechnology, Science in Society, Science Policy, Synthetic Biology
Markus Schmidt from Biofaction was invited as a guest speaker at the OECD workshop titled “Human augmentation: a challenge for governance?” The workshop was part of the 15th Session of the working party on Biotechnology, Nanotechnology and Converging...
Apr 28, 2022 | Events, Science in Society, Synthetic Biology
Biofaction was invited by the Marie Curie ITN Training School PERICO April 26-28, 2022, in Berlin at Lifeglimmer, to train 15 ITN Early Stage Researchers. This was the last of a series of transferable skills training courses where PhD students learned about career...
Apr 21, 2022 | News, publication, Publications, science, Science Policy, Synthetic Biology
Lei Pei and Markus Schmidt from Biofaction, together with Michele Garfinkel from EMBO, recently published a paper in Nature Communications titled Bottlenecks and opportunities for synthetic biology biosafety standards. The article is open access:...
Dec 22, 2021 | announcement, art-science, Creative, News, science, Science in Society, Synthetic Biology
We are excited to be exhibiting once again at Museon, a museum of science and culture based in The Hague (the Netherlands)! Within their permanent “One Planet” exhibition we had the opportunity to create two new installations, each of them connected to one...
Jun 1, 2021 | Film & Video, Media, News, science, Science Communication, Synthetic Biology
Nach dem Vorbild der Natur erforscht der Sonderforschungsbereich CataLight, wie man die Energie aus dem Sonnenlicht speichern und z.B. für die Erzeugung von solaren Treibstoffen nutzen kann. Ziel der Forscherinnen und Forscher ist es, eine künstliche Membran...
