Synthetic Biology SRI
Coordinator
Events Programming
Managed the programming, publicity, and administration for a regular series of events for the 1,000+ community of students, researchers, and members of the public interested in synthetic biology in and around Cambridge.
Cell-free Lunch: the fortnightly meeting for students, researchers, and commercial partners working with cell-free in vitro technologies.
Cafe Synthetique: the monthly meetup for informal talks, discussion, and pub snacks
Science Makers: the monthly hands-on workshop with rotating themes to discuss applications for and practicalities of making experimental setups.
SynBio Forum: the termly flagship event featuring international speakers and networking opportunities
See the Meetup for more details.
Special Events
OpenPlant Forum
This multi-day international conference brought together over 200 participants for talks, discussions, showcases, and social events. The 2019 conference was centered around the theme of understanding and harnessing the full genetic potential of plants as platforms for production of food, biofuel, medicines, and advanced new materials to address the major societal and environmental challenges of the 21st century. More info
The Art & Science Soirée
As part of the 2019 Cambridge Science Festival, The Art & Science Soirée brought together scientists, engineers, artists and designers for an exciting evening of speed meets, snap-talks, hands-on demos, and unexpected encounters. From the beginning, it was important to the organisers that the evening not only produce sparks of inspiration, but provide the tools and resources to be able produce something tangible with them. More info
A hand-knitted “gene” scarf, with each coloured band representing a different nucleic acid (A, C, T, or G).
Biomaker Workshop in Ghana
In July 2019, the Cambridge Biomaker organisers headed to Ghana to run a two-day workshop at Kumasi Hive, an entrepreneurship and innovation hub and one of the implementing arms of the Biomaker initiative. Twenty participants gathered in Kumasi for an accelerated course in programming hardware for low-cost, open-source bioinstrumentation. The training sessions were interspersed with project presentations from the teams and talks from researchers from Cambridge and the nearby Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology. More info
The Biomaker Initiative
An annual funding scheme that supports up to 30 interdisciplinary teams to build low-cost, open-source tools for science. The five-month programme begins with a series of mixer events to identify field or lab problems and form teams, followed by training events for no-code programming and electronics, ending in a celebration and public showcase of projects at the Biomaker Fayre. The initiative has supported 88 teams involving over 300 participants from Cambridge, Norwich, and overseas. More info
