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Hi ,

Join me this morning at 8 am PST for a discussion of this week's breaking news in synthetic biology. I’ll be joined by:

I am excited to be partnering with Berkeley Lights and Tom Treynor to bring you a new benchmarking initiative to speed up the design, build and test cycles for synthetic biology. I’d love for you to take part and answer this short survey before next Thursday.

Congratulations to Codexis, which is expanding its operations into a new 36,000 square foot facility in San Carlos, CA, and to Culture Biosciences, which successfully tested their mammalian cell cloud bioreactors and are now offering them to the wider industry.

Upcoming in the Bioeconomy Hub

We are gearing up for our next member event, "Discovering what is on our plate: A conversation about food & agriculture" on February 17th at 1-2pm PST with our special guest Christine Gould, Founder and CEO of Thought For Food. The Bioeconomy Hub is the exclusive network where thought leaders and industry enthusiasts come to collaborate. We offer personalized events just like this for members only. To learn more please visit our website. Hope to see you on the Hub.

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Upcoming Events at SynBioBeta
SynBioBeta Live

How are robotics and cloud-labs accelerating synthetic biology discovery? Come join for our first SynBioBeta Live of the year. On February 24, we will be hosting a 1-hour round table with live Q&A not to be missed!

SynBioBeta Food & Ag

We’re so excited to announce new speakers for our Food & Ag event, co-hosted with Thought For Food. Our lineup now includes Siow Ying Tan, R&D Senior Manager at Pepsi Co, Rachel Li, Co-founder and Director of Strain Engineering at Berkeley Yeast, and Stephen Lomnes, President of Atlast Food Co. Check out our event for our full list of speakers and get your ticket for March 3rd!

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Have a great week,


Regards
John

Latest News

Why a star of Netflix’s ‘Pandemic’ now wants everyone to focus on COVID-19 therapeutics (Fast Company)

AbbVie and Caribou Biosciences announce collaboration and license agreement for CAR-T Cell products (Press release)

F3 is hosting monthly webinars in 2021 focusing on fishmeal and fish oil replacements for aquaculture feed. The first - insects - is scheduled for Feb. 25

Synlogic appoints Lisa Kelly-Croswell to its Board of Directors (Press release)

Brewing up a dirty-water remedy (and more) with kombucha-inspired biosensors (MIT News)

WNDR Alpine receives B Corp Certification: The brand is demonstrating the future of performance materials and the possibilities unlocked by Checkerspot’s innovation platform enabled by biotechnology (Press release)

The long and the short of Amadeus’ investment in Oxford Nanopore Technologies

The next act for messenger RNA could be bigger than Covid vaccines (MIT Technology Review)

Illumina Accelerator is accepting applications for its next global funding cycle in the San Francisco Bay Area and Cambridge, UK

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