SINERGY, Singapore Consortium for Synthetic Biology

📢 Upcoming SINERGY seminar series: SIFBI x SINERGY Together with A*STAR Singapore Institute of Food and Biotechnology Innovation (SIFBI), we're delighted to have Professor Han Min Woo and Professor Jinhee Hur from Sungkyunkwan University's Department of Food and Biotechnology. Prof Han Min's research focuses on metabolic engineering and synthetic biology of Corynebacteria and Cyanobacteria, with a significant emphasis on the development of #CRISPR genetic tools for strain engineering. Professor Jinhee focuses on deciphering the etiology of obesity-related cancer in the young and the role of nutrition in chronic disease development. 🔗 Find out more from our website: https://lnkd.in/g8ttXYaQ 🔗 Register: https://lnkd.in/gFFbJS5h Come and join us for a time of learning and networking over lunch next Monday, 10am! Xixian Chen Ee Lui Ang

📢 Coming to you next Monday! Do sign up at https://lnkd.in/guPfmhmT See you there!

Plastics Symposium 2024 SINERGY is delighted to support Plastics Symposium 2024! The issue of plastic pollution calls for new ways to rethinking what we do with plastics as it’ll still be a part of our everyday lives. It was great hearing from CARBIOS and Samsara Eco which are leading the way for bio-based solutions in the industry for plastic degradation and upcycling. Specific to synbio, there were many academic efforts delving into new biological pathways and methods to plastic degradation and upcycling. Some of these efforts are also getting closer to market such as the Harvard spin-off company Breaking. Enabling technologies OpenProtein.AI and bitBiome, Inc. have also much to offer to accelerate bio-based solutions for such applications. It was also great to connect with Plastify and hear from National University Cancer Institute, Singapore to see how ground up community efforts play a part in reducing the problem of plastic pollution. Thanks to Sierin Lim and team for organising this symposium. Would love to continue some of the conversations started! DM if you would like to connect or collaborate.

Last Friday, it was an insightful time with Soichiro Tsuda from bitBiome, Inc. and Keith Tan from Cellenion share on their technologies for single-cell isolation and the applications. The microbial world is truly vast and holds many mysteries, waiting for us to uncover - to date, it's estimated only 0.001% of microbes are understood, and not even fully! For bitBiome, besides the rich soil microbiome, they've even gone to extreme habitats such as hot springs to sample microbes, many of which are unknown. The genetic information from these microbes await to be harnessed for applications - such as novel enzymes which can be further engineered by bitBiome's proprietary platform. For Cellenion, seeing is believing. Image-based single-cell isolation allows their users to isolate cells for pure cultures, which is key for diagnostics and studying the complex microbial communities from different environments. What solutions could the single-cell technologies provide for you? DM if you would like to discuss more on the topic with our speakers! Kostas Vavitsas NUS Synthetic Biology for Clinical and Technological Innovation (SynCTI)

📢 2 more days to Unlocking Microbial Mysteries: Single-cell Isolation and Applications! Join us as we hear from Soichiro Tsuda from bitBiome, Inc. and Keith Tan from Cellenion on their technologies for single-cell isolation approaches and applications. Register at https://lnkd.in/gHgymawg now! 📢 Kostas Vavitsas NUS Synthetic Biology for Clinical and Technological Innovation (SynCTI) Society for Synthetic Biology (Singapore) (SynBioSG)

It was a wonderful time learning from Rebecca Krauthamer and Garrison Buss, PhD from QuSecure about quantum computing and the potential it holds for various applications including biological research last Tuesday. Quantum computing sounds abstract, but simply speaking, it's the next leap from classical computing to solve problems with a different methodology and at a vastly different scale. Broadly put, technological leaps change the way we approach and understand problems, and the solutions we can come up with. While there are still major gaps to overcome before the wide use of quantum computing, it was fun to discuss the research and collaboration possibilities in synbio research where quantum computing can be applied. Join us at our future SINERGY seminars for more discussions and potential areas of collaboration!

The advances in single-cell isolation strategies have allowed us to identify and probe deeper into the vast world of microbes and tap into their genetic information and processes for novel industrial applications. In our upcoming seminar series, SINERGY is glad to have Soichiro Tsuda from bitBiome, Inc. and Keith Tan from Cellenion share about their technologies for single-cell isolation and applications. Come join us for this exciting event and learn about their strategies in single-cell isolation and diverse applications. Join us on 19 July at 10.30am for this seminar and networking! 🔗 Register @ https://lnkd.in/gHgymawg #Biotech #Industry #Synbio

Great to partner with Singapore National Biofilm Consortium and Biotech Connection Singapore for this event! Looking forward to more joint efforts to bring the ecosystems together 💡

Quantum computing uses specialized technology and quantum mechanics to solve complex problems that classical computers or supercomputers can’t solve. Can quantum computing be harnessed to engineer biology? Hosted by Matthew Chang, come find out with us in this exciting talk with Rebecca Krauthamer and Garrison Buss, PhD from QuSecure next Tuesday to find out more! 📅 9th July 2024 🕟 4.30pm - 5.30pm (SG) 📍 28 Medical Drive #01-07 S117456, CeLS Auditorium #SINERGYseminars #synbio #engineeringbiology #quantum

Last Tuesday, we had Dr. Nigel Mouncey who shared on the recent developments of the new secondary metabolite biosynthetic cluster prediction pipeline and a data portal, the Secondary Metabolism Collaboratory (SMC), as a new community-centric resource. The Joint Genome Institute has been developing new tools and processes to identify novel biosynthetic gene clusters from isolate genomes and metagenomes. By developing capabilities to understand secondary metabolite biosynthesis regulation and expression systems in native and heterologous hosts, these tools allow users to explore secondary metabolites from a range of organisms. Being community-centric, the data is dynamic and updated for use by scientists and the public. This benefits both academic researchers and exploratory academia-industry #collaborations. Stay tuned for the next #SINERGY Seminar Series here or at our website! 🔗Secondary Metabolism Collaboratory: https://smc.jgi.doe.gov/