New England Biolabs supports iDEC
+ Dr. Zakir Tnimov will deliver the opening speech
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Oct 2 2024
-Our heartful gratitude to New England Biolabs for supporting iDEC for four consecutive years! +
Oct 24 2024
+Dr. Zakir Tnimov from Constructive Bio will deliver the opening speech
- +News and Announcements
+iDEC Festival 2024 is coming!
+Oct 23 2024
+iDEC Festival 2024 will be held at Cambridge University College from 26-27 Oct. For more details,
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+ handbook!
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Dr. Zakir Tnimov will deliver the opening speech
+Oct 24 2024
+Dr. Zakir Tnimov is one of the iDEC Trustees. He is a synthetic biologist with more than 15 years of expertise in expanding genetic code, directed evolution, and ribosome engineering. + At Constructive Bio, currently overseeing projects focused on the evolution of aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases and engineering of the translation apparatus. He was previously a postdoc in Jason Chin's lab at MRC-LMB and earned a Ph.D. + in Chemical Biology from the University of Queensland, Australia. + For iDEC opening ceremony, he will give a speech 'Evolutionary Engineering: Solutions for the Future.'' +
+Dr. Benjamin G. Davis will deliver a lecture
+Oct 23 2024
+ We are delighted to announce that Prof. Benjamin G. Davis from Oxford University will join us in the iDEC Festival 2024!
+ He is the Fellow and Tutor in Organic Chemistry, Pembroke College, and the Science Director for Chemistry and Deputy Director, Rosalind Franklin Institute.
+ His group's research centres on the chemical understanding and exploitation of biomolecular function (Synthetic Biology, Chemical Biology and Chemical Medicine),
+ with an emphasis on carbohydrates and proteins. In particular, the group's interests encompass synthesis and methodology; target biomolecule synthesis; inhibitor/probe/substrate design;
+ biocatalysis; enzyme & biomolecule mechanism; biosynthetic pathway determination; protein engineering; drug delivery; molecular biology; structural biology; cell biology; glycobiology; molecular imaging and in vivo mechanism.
+ At the iDEC Award Ceremony on the 27th, he will give a lecture: ‘Sugars and Protein: Post-translational Editing.’
+ Traditional biology has explored methods that beautifully exploit ’the central dogma’ yet in principle the sequential information that controls function could [and, indeed, might be best] controlled by instead circumventing the dogma that Crick warned us of.
+ This talk will discuss the use of chemistry as a non-traditional mode of programming function inside biology.
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Dr. Mateo Sánchez will deliver a lecture
+Oct 23 2024
+ We are delighted to announce that Dr. Mateo Sánchez from Cambridge University will join us in the iDEC Festival 2024!
+ He has been awarded with a Wellcome Trust Career Development Award recently and he is leading his independent group in the Department of Chemistry at Cambridge.
+ At the iDEC Award Ceremony on the 27th, he will give a lecture: ‘Directed evolution of molecular tools for applications in neuroscience and cell biology.’
+ Molecular tools such as scFLARE or FLiCRE transform transient neuronal activity into long-lasting outputs such as the expression of a reporter gene,
+ and are leveraged for the mapping and manipulation of active neuronal circuits underlying specific behaviours.
+ In this talk, in addition to explaining the molecular mechanisms of these tools and our recent efforts to increase their performance,
+ we will also discuss ongoing projects in protease engineering to trigger biological events such as the engineering of gas vesicles to produce ultrasound imaging in response to enzymatic activity.
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Dr. Neil Dixon will deliver a lecture
+Oct 23 2024
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+ We are delighted to announce that Prof. Neil Dixon from the University of Manchester will join us in the iDEC Festival 2024!
+ Neil was awarded his MChem Medicinal Chemistry (2000) and PhD Bioorganic Chemistry (2004) from University of Leeds. Then was a post-doc at the University of Manchester (2006-2010).
+ In 2013 he was awarded a BBSRC David Phillips Fellowship. He currently holds the position of Reader (Associate Professor) at the University of Manchester and leads a research team focused on renewable chemical bio-manufacturing, and bioremediation.
+ At the iDEC Award Ceremony on the 27th, he will give a lecture: ‘Efficiently sampling sequence/design space - biosensors and bioprocesses.’
+ For a long time, the directed evolution of biosensors has been one of the most populer topics for iDEC teams. This year, Prof. Neil Dixon will present how to evolve biosensors by combining directed evolution with experimental and modeling approaches.
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