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After two Covid-induced delays, we are beyond excited to bring the entire bio-economy community back together and are only 7 weeks out from our live and in-person Built With Biology Conference (April 12-14) in Oakland, CA.
In addition to the amazing plenary and breakout sessions, we at BWB are focused on delivering The Strategic Serendipitous as the basis for our networking sessions, as we live the age old belief "Show me your friends and I’ll show you your future."
It’s no exaggeration to say the planet needs our help more than ever, so we want to get everyone who’s using biology to, "make the planet a better place" in the same room and enable the Strategic Serendipitous to work its magic… creating introductions that will turn into friendships that will turn into business ventures that will turn into tackling the
planet’s biggest problems. Net/net, our goal is to leverage the SynBio community toward creating the very bright future that we all know can be Built With Biology!
Our Conference app is live, so grab your tickets, log in, set up your meetings, and let the Strategic Serendipitous begin!
We can’t wait to see you in person and introduce you to all our friends who are using biology
to better feed, fuel, and heal the world!
Frank
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Frank Tate
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frank.tate@synbiobeta.com
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Only seven weeks away… sign up now!
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Built With Biology Insights |
Moonshots and Moon Trees
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There is a sycamore in Indiana that looks just like every other sycamore nearby, thirty or forty feet tall, trunk camouflaged in grey and white peeling bark, serrated maple-like leaves shading the ground. There is a little plaque though, one that tells the visitor they are looking at a "moon tree." This tree, and at least a hundred others, sprouted from a seed that was taken on the Apollo 14 mission. According to Dave Williams of NASA, "There’s nothing strange about the moon trees at all."
Except, of course, that they have gone to the moon.
Except, also, that they were carried by an astronaut who leapt out of planes before he leapt into space, parachuting into remote forests to act as the first line of defense against forest fires.
Except, despite putting down roots here on earth for nearly fifty years, the trees would have vanished from public memory if not for a third grade class, a dedicated teacher, a compassionate NASA official, and now, the curiosity of one Marina Koren, staff writer at The Atlantic.
Today, the moon trees are just going about their business,
spending their days photosynthesizing with the light of this planet’s sun. While photosynthesis is arguably magic, it isn’t what captured the imagination of the people who encountered the moon trees fifty years later. The journey of the trees, and the people that made that journey possible, are what breathe life into this story.
Every time someone encounters a moon tree, they connect not just with that tree but with the idea that we can make the ordinary extraordinary by taking life to new heights and returning it to us with new meaning. This is what we do when we build with biology. Our work puts living things in new contexts. It’s up to us to tell this story in such a way that it inspires a curious world.
Building with biology might be a moonshot, but what we’re really doing is making moon trees. When we do this right, our work is like the moon trees. Our organisms simply go about their business, living a life imbued with new meaning through
their journey.
When someone asks, though, there is a story to tell about the people who wondered and worked and connected with not just this idea but the future it made possible. There is always a person with the courage to ask "Why not?" Another with the personal experience to recognize the power in the concept. A third willing to give up their routine to follow a dream. And at the end of the telling, there is one more person involved in the story, an audience member suddenly captured by possibilities they never knew existed, and a future they didn’t know they could hope for.
To learn more about how Built With Biology envisions a future filled with moonshots and moon trees, please plan to attend our live, in-person global conference on April 12-14, 2022!
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Spotlight on: First Bight Ventures |
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First Bight Ventures is a Houston, TX based early-stage biotech venture capital fund. First Bight was launched by noted venture capitalist and serial entrepreneur Veronica Wu. Starting in 2015, she crafted a unique investment model enabling a Chinese private equity firm to successfully deploy ~ $200M in technology start-ups. Over a span of 6 years, she invested in 300+ early-stage tech companies, resulting in 34 unicorns, 6 SPACs, and 4 IPOs. First Bight’s mission is to leverage their success in information technology to help early-stage SynBio companies, especially those in biopharma, consumer technology, industrial/environmental materials, and sustainable
agriculture, get to market faster, scale operations, and achieve sustainable revenues. First Bight aims to leverage Texas' local talent and resource pool from academia, research institutions, industry, and entrepreneurs to create a consortium that will enable Texas to become a leader in the Biology Revolution. For more information, see firstbight.com.
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Spotlight on: LanzaTech |
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Who says carbon has to be a curse? Fossil fuel emissions pollute our planet, but carbon is also one of nature’s best building blocks. Meet LanzaTech, a synthetic biology company turning
carbon emissions into valuable materials using microbes! The company captures industrial emissions and feeds the gasses to specialized microbes. The microbes turn the gasses into chemicals such as ethanol, a base ingredient for products like sustainable aviation fuel and polyester textiles. (Psst, check out LanzaTech’s collaboration with fashion giants, Lululemon and Zara!). LanzaTech has already kept over 150,000 tons of CO2 out of our atmosphere and now has two commercial plants in China. Learn more about how LanzaTech proves climate change-fighting technology is good for business and our planet.
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Microbes convert industrial waste gases into commodity chemicals |
Today, petrochemical production spews out nearly 2% of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions. Now, researchers have taken an important step to vastly reduce that footprint, by using bacteria and waste gases from steel plants.
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