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Can Biotechnology Benefit All? - Drew Endy, Ph.D.

May 15, 2012
4:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Location
Nobili Hall, Dining Room
Cost : free
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Can Biotechnology Benefit All People and the Planet?

Drew Endy, a leader in synthetic biology and founder of the BioBricks Foundation, will speak on campus Tuesday, May 15 as part of the Technology for Social Justice honors course, taught by Keith Warner, O.F.M. and Thane Kreiner, Ph.D. 

Drew Endy is one of the leaders in the field of synthetic biology. His work continues to shape and drive the development of the field, both in terms of the creation of BioBrick? standard parts but also in terms of the human side of the field. The BioBricks Foundation was created by Endy and several close colleagues who are also scientific leaders in the synthetic biology field.
 
Endy earned degrees in civil, environmental, and biochemical engineering at Lehigh and Dartmouth. He studied genetics and microbiology as a postdoc at UT Austin and UW Madison. From 1998 through 2001 he helped to start the Molecular Sciences Institute, an independent not-for-profit biological research lab in Berkeley, CA. In 2002, he started a group as a fellow in the Department of Biology and the Biological Engineering Division at MIT; he joined the MIT faculty in 2004.
 
Drew co-founded the MIT Synthetic Biology working group and the Registry of Standard Biological Parts, and organized the First International Conference on Synthetic Biology. With colleagues he taught the 2003 and 2004 MIT Synthetic Biology labs that led to the organization of iGEM, the international Genetically Engineered Machine competition. In 2005 Drew co-founded the BioBricks Foundation.
Drew's research interests are the engineering of integrated biological systems and error detection and correction in reproducing machines.
 
Drew has been compared in the WSJ to Steve Jobs and he thinks deeply about IP, ethics, and social justice issues related to synthetic biology technology.  We anticipate his talk will be of high interest to bioengineering, food and agribusiness, and public health students given the proven applications of synthetic biology to health, agriculture, and biofuels. 

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