Towards improving human health and sustainability with synthetic biology technologies

Synthetic biology has been widely championed worldwide as a driving force for the ‘bioeconomy’. Our second conference on synthetic biology will provide a platform to showcase the latest research within the field that can potentially improve human health and planetary sustainability.

The conference will address how the technologies coming out of synthetic biology impact both healthcare (e.g. personalised medicines, T-cell therapies, low-cost diagnostics) and environmental challenges (e.g. sustainable management of agriculture, pollution and waste control). Additionally, the sessions will explore advances in synthetic genomics, microbiome engineering, and living materials and aim to reflect on where resources and work are succeeding and where more effort needs to be placed to ensure equitable global outcomes.

The meeting brings together researchers working on synthetic biology, biotechnology, genomics, and medical sciences, along with industry members from pharma and biotech companies. The attendees from diverse backgrounds will have a unique networking opportunity for interactions to seed new collaborations at the meeting. Encouraging high-level discussions, the programme will include invited talks from the leaders in the field as well as short talks, poster pitch talks and poster sessions selected from abstracts.