Upcoming Events:
- November 10, 2010: Barry will be speaking at the fourth annual symposium of the Institute of Systems and Synthetic Biology at Imperial College London.
- November 12, 2010: Reshma will be speaking at a special symposium of the Dutch Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (NVBMB) on synthetic biology at the University of Groningen in Groningen, The Netherlands.
Recent News:
- July 26, 2010: Ideas percolate in Innovation District (Boston Globe).
- June 23, 2010: Ginkgo and fuels (Mass High Tech).
- June 21, 2010: Boston-area biotechs dip into alternative fuels (Mass High Tech).
- June 4-6, 2010: Tom, Reshma and Barry participated in the EC-US Workshop on Standards in Biotechnology at Parador de Segovia in Segovia, Spain.
- May 29, 2010: An artificial opportunity (Businessworld).
- May 3, 2010: Jason chaired the panel "From Oligos to Genes to Pathways to Genomes -- DNA construction for Synthetic Biology" at the BIO 2010 conference in Chicago.
- April 29, 2010: Ginkgo, along with our collaborators Jay Keasling at UC Berkeley and Mary Lidstrom and David Baker at University of Washington, was selected for a $6M ARPA-E grant from DOE. Together, we will be engineering the bacterium E. coli to produce liquid transportation fuels from electricity and carbon dioxide.
- April 23-24, 2010: Joey spoke at Fractal'10 in Medellin, Colombia.
- Mar 24, 2010: Scotland Takes On Synthetic Biology Bottlenecks
- Mar 19, 2010: DNA Synthesis for Beginners: Ginkgo BioWorks Sells the Scissors and Glue in Xconomy Boston.
- Mar 18, 2010: Austin publishes on engineering a family of synthetic splicing ribozymes.
- Jan 20, 2010: Five hard truths for synthetic biology in Nature. (subscription required)
- Jan 12, 2010: Biotech is booming in Mass.
- Jan 4, 2010: Barry and Ginkgo on High tech's hand-me-downs (Boston Globe).
- Dec 18, 2009: Tom Knight was selected to be a fellow of the AAAS in recognition of his "distinguished pioneering contributions to the field of computing technology in software, architecture, and VLSI circuitry, and to the engineering discipline of synthetic biology."
- Dec 11, 2009: Engineering a new business and Biotech in the basement in Nature Biotechnology.
- Nov 20-22, 2009: Reshma, Barry and Austin attended NAKFI's Synthetic Biology: Building on Nature's Inspiration conference in Irvine, CA.
- Nov 4, 2009: Lance Martin, Austin Che and Drew Endy publish on a bifunctional gene expression reporter. Ginkgo accelerated the research by providing DNA assembly.
- Oct 12, 2009: Reshma and Ginkgo in Discover Magazine
- Oct 2, 2009: Ginkgo in the Tech Review
- Oct 2009: Ginkgo BioBrick Assembly Kit featured in IEEE spectrum
- Sep 28, 2009: Mayor Menino welcomes Ginkgo to Boston. See complete details.
- Sept 25, 2009: Jason Kelly interviewed on the BBC World Service Science in Action program
- Sep 17, 2009: Tom speaks at the Harvard Computer Science seminar series.
- Sep 3, 2009: Ginkgo gets a shout-out in the Economist
- Sep 1, 2009: Ginkgo selected for £2.5 million R&D programme in synthetic biology by ITI Life Sciences.
- Aug 10, 2009: Ginkgo in Wired UK.
- Aug 10, 2009: Tom speaks at the NSF "Minimal Life" meeting in Arlington, VA
- Aug 4, 2009: Jason is a facilitator at the FBI Building Bridges Around Building Genomes conference.
- Aug 2, 2009: Tom gives invited talk on engineering simple living systems at the 33rd Steenbock Symposium at the University of Wisconsin, Madison
- Jul 20, 2009: Austin spoke at Singularity University's graduate studies program.
- Jul 10-12, 2009: Reshma was at SciFoo.
- Jul 8-10, 2009: Austin spoke at the FutureRuby conference in Toronto, Canada.
- Jul 7, 2009: Ginkgo in the Boston Herald.
- Jun 27-28, 2009: Barry, Reshma and Tom are speaking at the iGEM Teach the Teachers Workshop at Tokyo University.
- Jun 20-21, 2009: Barry and Reshma are speaking at the iGEM Teach the Teachers Workshop at Imperial College, London.
- Jun 1: Ginkgo receives 100K Phase I SBIR from NSF to pursue the development of new genetically encoded reporters for monitoring fermentation
- Apr 23, 2009: Tom Knight on Life with Four Billion Atoms at MIT Broad.
- Apr 20-21, 2009: Jason Kelly will be participating in the New York Biotechnology Industry Association (NYBA) 2009 panel on synthetic biology and legal issues in New York City
- Apr 15, 2009: Austin Che on Engineering Synthetic Splicing Ribozyme Systems at MIT CSAIL.
- Apr 14, 2009: Ginkgo and New England Biolabs release the BioBrick™ Assembly Kit.
- Apr 10, 2009: Ginkgo in the Irish Times.
- Mar 20, 2009: Jason Kelly and colleagues publish a paper on Measuring the Activity of BioBrick Promoters Using an In Vivo Reference Standard.
- Mar 20-21, 2009: Reshma Shetty participates on the "From: To" Exploring nontraditional paths in science, engineering, and education panel and gives a talk in the Biological Design session at the 2009 Institute of Biological Engineering annual meeting in Santa Clara, CA
- Mar 10, 2009: Barry Canton and Reshma Shetty give a talk at the O'Reilly ETech conference in San Jose, CA. Check out the ETech Guide to Biological Engineering (warning pdf download!).
- Feb 19, 2009: Barry Canton is on the Open Science Panel hosted by Columbia University's Scholarly Communication Program
- Feb 17, 2009: ETech Preview: Creating Biological Legos and on Slashdot
- Feb 5, 2009: Reshma Shetty is an expert helping citizen scientists explore biotech
- Feb 2, 2009: Ginkgo and standards in Brick by Brick and Standardize what? (The Scientist)
- Jan 19, 2009: Reshma Shetty gave a talk as part of the University of Michigan Synthetic Biology Seminar Series
- Jan 14th, 2009: Reshma Shetty held a Soap Box session together with Natalie Kuldell on Do-It-Yourself Biology at the MIT Museum. (Video available from the Soap Box archives.)
- Dec 13, 2008: Barry Canton talks at the CSHL meeting on Engineering Principles in Biology
- Dec 6, 2008: Jason Kelly muses about iGEM for SEED magazine
- Oct 10-12, 2008: Talks at Synthetic Biology 4.0
- Sep 18, 2008: Making biology easier to engineer (talk at NEB)
- Sep 15, 2008: Hackers aim to make biology household practice (Boston Globe)
- Aug 21, 2008: Speeding research through openness (Boston Globe)
- Aug 13, 2008: Ginkgo in Forbes
- Jul 14, 2008: We launched our blog.
- Jul 11, 2008: Foo camp demo
- Jul 8, 2008: Refinement and standardization of synthetic biological parts and devices
- Apr 14, 2008: Engineering BioBrick vectors from BioBrick parts