时间：2023年2月17日（周五）16:00~17:30

Time：4:00-5:30 PM, Friday, Feb. 17, 2023

地点：云谷校区E10-222

Venue: E10-222, Yungu Campus

主持人：西湖大学生命科学学院特聘研究员 陈子博

Host: Dr. Zibo Chen, Principal Investigator, School of Life Sciences

主讲人/Speaker：

Baojun Wang

Qiushi Distinguished Professor, Director of ZJU-HIC Institute of Synthetic Biology at Zhejiang University

Dr. Baojun Wang is Qiushi Distinguished Professor, and Director of ZJU-HIC Institute of Synthetic Biology at Zhejiang University. He received a BEng in Biomedical Engineering from Zhejiang University (2005) and a PhD in Bioengineering from Imperial College London (2011). He then received his postdoctoral training at Imperial College before joined the faculty of University of Edinburgh in 2013, and was Reader in Synthetic Biology before joined Zhejiang University in 2022. His research interests include developing new enabling tools for synthetic biology, and building customized gene circuits for sensing and information processing of multiple cellular and environmental signals, with applications ranging from biosensing, biocomputing and biomanufacturing to biotherapy. Dr Wang is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, an Academic Editor of PLOS Biology, and has received several prestigious awards including UK Research and Innovation Future Leaders Fellowship, BBSRC New Investigator Award, Gates Foundation Grand Challenges Explorations Award, Kunpeng Action Program Award of Zhejiang Province and Changjiang Scholar Chair Professorship by the Ministry of Education of China.

报告题目/Title:

Engineering Biology: programming cells to compute, sense and manufacture

讲座摘要/Abstract:

Cells live in an ever-changing environment and continuously sense, process and react to surrounding biochemical signals using their inherent sensors and gene regulatory networks. In this sense, cells can be viewed as replicating living computers with limitless potential. In this talk, I will introduce the design of new customized genetic circuits for the sensing and information processing of multiple cellular and environmental signals, with potentially disruptive applications in diverse areas including biosensing, biocomputing, biomanufacturing and biotherapies. 

讲座联系人/Contact:

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