New funding for Center for Synbio, new publications and upcoming events
New funding for Center for Synbio. The project "Brewing diterpenoids" has received 15 million DKK from The Lundbeck Foundation for a 4 year period for pioneering basic research in highly complex pharmacologically interesting diterpenoid compounds. Project PIs are professors Birger Lindberg Møller and Ulrik Gether from the synbio steering group and Dan Stærk from Dpt of Drug Design and Pharmacology. Postdoc at Center for Synthetic Biology, Nethaji J. Gallage, is announced speaker at Synbiobeta 2017 conference in April in London. The focus of the conference is to connect the global synthetic biology community by fostering the dialogue between entrepreneurs, business executives, tech practitioners, technology scouts, academics, and investors. A compound called forskolin has been used since ancient times in traditional Indian medicine to treat conditions like high blood pressure, asthma and heart complications. Pateraki, Andersen-Ranberg et al. set out to uncover how C. forskohlii produces this compound and inserted the genes into yeast cells In the MediaBirger Lindberg Møller was interviewed in DR P1 after the Norwegian Minister for Science said not to cut down on the Humanities like in Denmark Assistant Professor Elizabeth Neilson is featured in a new movie by documentarist Phie Ambo premiering during the CPH:DOX film festival Former iGEM member Christina Toldbo wrote a piece in KVANT about the space-synbio combo work at UCPH initated by team SpaceMoss Share your beautiful data - A science visualization contest. Associate professor Karen Martinez from the NanoScience center is behind the initiative. Enter your science pics between Feb 1 - June 1. MicroRNA Biomarkers in Neurodegenerative Diseases and Emerging Nano-Sensors Technology. Shah P, Cho SK, Thulstrup PW, Bjerrum MJ, Lee PH, Kang JH, Bhang YJ, Yang SW. J Mov Disord. 2017 Jan;10(1):18-28. doi: 10.14802/jmd.16037. Total biosynthesis of the cyclic AMP booster forskolin from Coleus forskohlii. Pateraki I, Andersen-Ranberg J, Jensen NB, Wubshet SG, Heskes AM, Forman V, Hallström B, Hamberger B, Motawia MS, Olsen CE, Staerk D, Hansen J, Møller BL, Hamberger B. Elife. 2017 Mar 14;6. pii: e23001. doi: 10.7554/eLife.23001. Assembly of Dynamic P450-Mediated Metabolons-Order Versus Chaos. Bassard JE, Møller BL, Laursen T. Curr Mol Biol Rep. 2017;3(1):37-51. doi: 10.1007/s40610-017-0053-y. Photosynthetic fuel for heterologous enzymes: the role of electron carrier proteins. Mellor SB, Vavitsas K, Nielsen AZ, Jensen PE. Photosynth Res. 2017 Mar 11. doi: 10.1007/s11120-017-0364-0. Patenting Bioprinting Technologies in the US and Europe – The 5th element in the 3rd dimension. Minssen, T., Mimler, M. (Eds. Ballardini, RM., Norrgård, M., Partanen, J.) Chapter 7 in 3D printing, Intellectual Property and Innovation – Insights from Law and Technology, Wolters Kluwer HIGLE is a bifunctional homing endonuclease that directly interacts with HYL1 and SERRATE in Arabidopsis thaliana. Cho SK, Ryu MY, Poulsen C, Kim JH, Oh TR, Choi S, Kim M, Yang JY, Boo KH, Geshi N, Kim WT, Yang SW. FEBS Lett. 2017 Mar 21. doi: 10.1002/1873-3468.12628. [Epub ahead of print] Synbiobeta 2017 Connecting the global synbio community: entrepreneurs, business executives, tech practitioners, academics, and investors. ARTiS A science visualization contest from the NanoScience center. Enter your science pics now SYNBIOSYS PhD summer course: The course will aim at a well-rounded presentation of synthetic biology #synbioGet inspired! Follow the global synbio dialogue on Twitter at InteractFollow the daily life of Center for Synbio. Interact with other institutions and opinion makers. |