UVA: Embracing the SYNBIO Revolution
Where societal revolutions have occurred with new ability to manipulate energy or information,
Synthetic Biology will do the same in the 21st century by using living organisms as the
“new material” to create new economies and better personal well-being.
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Bio-Focused Data & Energy Technologies
- Designing novel genetic engineering methods
- Sub-molecular imaging of protein-DNA interactions
- Improving super-resolution imaging of microbes
- Developing sensors for microbes and metabolites
- Developing bio-mimetics for harvesting clean energy or data storage
In the News
Being small is good. Being very small is better. That is the philosophy of Mark Kester, University of Virginia professor of biomedical engineering, pharmacology and molecular physiology and biophysics.
On June 7, 2019, the University of Virginia hosted the first Mid-Atlantic Synthetic Biology Symposium. SynBio@UVA hosted the symposium and invited guests and speakers from academic institutions, research and development facilities, and government agencies.