International Webinar Series
Our International Webinar Series has been designed as a platform to hear from the best international speakers that are aligned to our core areas of interest. These include biomolecular design and assembly in the cell, development and delivery of bioactive molecules, minimal biology towards cell-like systems, advanced computing and digital biology.
Upcoming seminars
14 January 2025 | Prof Mikhail Shapiro (Caltech) Talking to cells: biomolecular ultrasound to image and control cells deep inside the body |
13 March 2025 | Prof Jonathan Heddle (Durham University) |
Past events
Recordings of our previous events, including presentations and interviews, are available on YouTube via the links below.
22 October 2024 | Synthetic & Engineering Biology: A joint opportunity for the UK and Switzerland Dr Kerstin Kinkelin (Bristol BioDesign Institute), Maddie Cass (BIA), Anike Te (Lucideon) |
24 May 2023 | Dr Ravinash Krishna Kumar (Queen Mary University of London), and Dr James Armstrong (Bristol Medical School - Translational Health Sciences) |
3 February 2023 | Dr Pablo Iván Nikel (Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Biosustainability) Daring the limits of chemistry in living cells by engineering synthetic metabolism for biofluorination |
18 January 2023 | Bristol BioDesign Institute The Enterprise Roadshow (PDF, 3,142kB) |
30 November 2022 | Prof Natalio Krasnogor (Newcastle University) Engineering Biology needs its own Bill of Materials |
21 September 2022 | Oliver Sexton (UK Innovation & Science Seed Fund, funded by BBSRC) Investing in translational science (PDF, 740kB) |
28 July 2022 | Scott A. Walper (Office of Naval Research Global) Building partnerships and enabling discovery (PDF, 6,344kB) |
15 June 2022 | Dr Francesca Ceroni (Imperial College London) & Dr Ciarán Kelly (Northumbria University) Interviewed by Dr Thomas Gorochowski |
18 May 2022 | Dr Elizabeth Strychalski (National Institute of Standards and Technology) Living measurement systems and minimal cells for engineering biology |
9 March 2022 | Dr Mo Khalil (Boston University) Cellular innovation by rational design and evolution |
9 February 2022 | Prof Simone Schürle-Finke (ETH Zurich) Engineering microrobots for biosensing, and enhanced drug delivery |
8 December 2021 | Prof Michael Levin (Tufts University) Morphogenesis as collective intelligence: From bioelectric mechanism to synthetic proto-organisms |
10 November 2021 | Dr Kerstin Göpfrich (Max Planck Institute for Medical Research) DNA nanotechnology: A shortcut to synthetic cells? |
12 May 2021 | Prof Claudia Vickers (CSIRO) Synthetic biology tools for metabolic engineering in microbes: Isopremoids as a model system |
14 April 2021 | Prof Michael Jewett (Northwestern University) Bioengineering beyond cells to enable a fair and sustainable 21st bio-century |
10 March 2021 | Dr Jennifer Brophy (Stanford University), Dr Eftychis Frangedakis (University of Cambridge and Open Plant) and Dr Quentin Dudley (Earlham Institute) Spotlight on Plant Synthetic Biology |
10 February 2021 | Prof Yolanda Schaerli (University of Lausanne) Multistable and dynamic CRISPRi-based synthetic circuits |
13 January 2021 | Prof Elisa Franco (University of California, Los Angeles - UCLA) Programming dynamic behaviors in molecular systems and materials |
11 November 2020 | Prof Domitilla Del Vecchio (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Context dependence of biological circuits: Predictive models and engineering solutions |