Veranstaltungen – Centre for Synthetic Biology – TU Darmstadt

Events of the Centre for Synthetic Biology

The Centre is organising a lectures and workshops on Synthetic Biology in which the topic is presented in a way that is generally understandable for the public and interested students from various study programmes.

Upcoming Events

SynBio Seminar Series with Simone Giaveri and Sara Noguiera

As part of the SynBio seminar series of the Centre for Synthetic Biology, two lectures will be given by Simone Giaveri and Sara Noguiera on 27.03.2025 at 4 pm in room B1/01 R52. The titles of the talks are ‘Toward self-sustaining minimal cells’ and ‘Unlocking mRNA potential: Designing improved and safer ionisable lipids for next-generation nanomedicines’.

SynBio Seminar Series with Aurore Dupin

As part of the SynBio seminar series of the Centre for Synthetic Biology, Aurore Dupin from the Weizman Institute in Israel will give a lecture on 13.03.2025 at 12 noon in room B1/01 R52. The title of the lecture is ‘Surface-based cell-free platform to characterise host-pathogen interactions’.

3rd ryon–Rhein–Main–Universities Summer School

The third ryon summer school will be from 22 – 26.9.2025 will bring together scientists from the field of Biosensing to generate business ideas. The number of participants is limited to 50. The working language will be English.

Past Events

SynBio Seminar Series with Chase Beisel and Seraphine Wegner

As part of the SynBio Seminar Series by the Centre for Synthetic Biology, two talks by Chase Beisel and Seraphine Wegner were held on 30.01.2025 at 4 pm in room B1/01 R52. The titles of the lecture were “Uncovering and harnessing the hidden diversity of CRISPR biology“ and ”Spatiotemporal control in synthetic cells using light”.

2nd ryon–Rhein–Main–Universities Summer School

The second ryon summer school was from 7-11.10.2024 and brought together scientists from the field of Biomaterials to generate business ideas.

Picture: Milica Radisic

FLOW FOR LIFE Minisymposium "Biomaterials & Tissue Engineering"

The LOEWE Research Cluster FLOW FOR LIFE hosted a Minisymposium “Biomaterials & Tissue Engineering” at the Georg-Christoph-Lichtenberghaus with Humboldt Research Award winner Milica Radisic from the University of Toronto on Wednesday, July 3rd 2024, from 13:30. Other speakers included Wolfram Zimmermann from the University of Göttingen, Katharina Landfester from the MPI for Polymer Research Mainz and Aranzazu del Campo from the University of Saarbrücken.

Lecture on DNA as a storage technology by Prof Marc Riedel

As part of the Centre for Synthetic Biology, a lecture by Prof. Marc Riedel will take place on 11.04.2024 at 15:00 in room S3|06 337 at the Department of Computer Systems. The title of the lecture is “DNA Storage: In theory, there's no difference between ”theory“ and ”practice“. But in practice there is.”.

1. ryon–Rhein–Main–Universities Summer School

The first ryon summer school brought together scientists from 4. – 8. September 2023. The aim was to generate business ideas in the field of synthetic biology.

SynBio World Cafe 2023

In 2023 the German Association for Synthetic Biology (GASB e.V) and the Centre for Synthetic Biology were very proud to host the third SynBio World Cafe in Darmstadt. This annual event series brings together key players from academia and indurty to discuss about the current state and the future of Synthetic Biology in Germany.

Understanding and Building Ion Channels

The symposium on 8./9. September 2023 will present current views on structure/function correlates of ion channel proteins from experimental and computational studies as well as concepts of using this information for designing synthetic channel proteins.

Picture: Julia Detzer

Retreat of the GS Life Science Engineering

The Graduate School Life Science Engineering second retreat was hold at Darmstädter Haus in Kleinwalsertal in March 2023. The interdisciplinary team, including PhD students, supervisors and guest speakers had a great time discussing science and enyoing the snow.

SynBio World Cafe 2022

This year, on the 8th of June, the German Association for Synthetic Biology (GASB e.V) and the Cetnre for Synthetic Biology are very proud to host the third SynBio World Cafe in Darmstadt. This annual event series brings together key players from academia and indurty to discuss about the current state and the future of Synthetic Biology in Germany.

Retreat of the GS Life Science Engineering

The Graduate School Life Science Engineering first retreat was hold at Darmstädter Haus in Kleinwalsertal in March 2022. The interdisciplinary team, including PhD students, supervisors and guest speakers had a great time discussing science and enyoing the snow.

German Conference on Synthetic Biology

On 1-3 September 2021, the German Association for Synthetic Biology (GASB) held the digital German Conference on Synthetic Biology (GCSB) together with the Centre for Synthetic Biology at TU Darmstadt. The Conference Booklet can be found at https://www.gcsb.info.

Beatrix Sueß is speaker at the 1st International BioDesign Research Conference

The virtual conference takes place from December 1st – 18th and features a selection of world specialists working in the field of Biosystems Design and Synthetic Biology including 6 Nobel laureates. The conference is organized by Stanford University, the University of Warwick, and BioDesign Research.

Global Bioeconomy Summit 2020

Bioeconomy is one of the topics of our century. One of the most important questions must therefore also be “How education can be shaped for a sustainable bio-economy?”. The Centre for Synthetic Biology and GASB are seeking answers to these questions in their workshop as part of the Global Bioeconomy Summit 2020.

Picture: Thomas Ott

Opening Event of the Centre for Synthetic Biology

The Centre for Synthetic Biology wanted to host its opening event at TU Darmstadt on 23-24 April 2020. International lecturers from the field of synthetic biology were invited. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic the event was canceled.

Picture: Brigitte Held

The SynBio World Cafe

On May 13 2019, stakeholders from academia and industry discussed the future trajectories of Synthetic Biology. The German Association for Synthetic Biology (GASB e.V.) and the LOEWE cluster CompuGene organized the “SynBio World Cafe” in the Georg-Christoph-Lichtenberg-Haus in Darmstadt. This event brought together representatives from research institutions, corporations, startups and venture capital.

Picture: Brigitte Held

15th International Conference on Computational Methods in Systems Biology

The 15th CMSB conference once again brought together computer scientists, biologists, mathematicians, engineers and physicists interested in a system-level understanding of biological processes, their study and modelling.

Picture: Brigitte Held

Computer-aided Engineering of Synthetic Genetic Circuits

The LOEWE focus CompuGene organized an international symposium on computer-aided development of synthetic circuits in the Georg Christoph Lichtenberg-Haus.

Picture: Mario El Khoury

iNAPO for Sensors: Formation, Characterization and Modelling

The LOEWE Research Cluster iNAPO – ion conducting nanopores – is engaged in the construction of nanoscale sensors modeled after nature. The workshop provided researchers from Materials Science, Chemistry, Biology, Physics and Electrical Engineering the opportunity to interdisciplinary present and discuss the latest research findings and describe emerging technologies and directions in nanopore research.