Synthetic Biology Slam

By Christina Agapakis on September 6, 2011

The night before SB5.0 started, students and postdocs got together for the first ever Synthetic Biology Slam. Presenters had five minutes to talk about their vision of synthetic biology and their big idea for the future. One of my favorites was by Evan Clark, a member of the Brown-Stanford iGEM team and the Stanford spoken word poetry club:

Definitely check out the other great slam videos on the SynBioSlam YouTube channel (including but not limited to this one about sourdough bread, this one about beer, and this one by me), and if you're in Boston you can register for the second slam coming up on September 23rd!

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR(S)

Christina Agapakis

Christina Agapakis is a biologist, designer, and writer with an ecological and evolutionary approach to synthetic biology and biological engineering. Her PhD thesis projects at the Harvard Medical School include design of metabolic pathways in bacteria for hydrogen fuel production, personalized genetic engineering of plants, engineered photosynthetic endosymbiosis, and cheese smell-omics. With Oscillator and Icosahedron Labs she works towards envisioning the future of biological technologies and synthetic biology design.