The iGEM Grand Jamboree and the Serious Fun of Engineering Biology.

IF 3.7 2区生物学 Q1 BIOCHEMICAL RESEARCH METHODS

ACS Synthetic Biology Pub Date : 2025-02-28 DOI:10.1021/acssynbio.5c00083

Edwin H Wintermute

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Abstract

The iGEM Grand Jamboree, hosted last year in Paris, France, represents a new way of sharing and communicating science. The global event for young synthetic biologists blends the serious biotech of a traditional conference with the spontaneous energy of a music festival, fostering a kind of World's Fair for the built-with-biology future. The broader biotech community should take inspiration from iGEM and seek to enrich more of our public communications and professional events with iGEM-like humanity, authenticity, and fun.

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ACS Synthetic Biology 生物-

CiteScore

8.00

自引率

10.60%

发文量

380

审稿时长

6-12 weeks

期刊介绍： The journal is particularly interested in studies on the design and synthesis of new genetic circuits and gene products; computational methods in the design of systems; and integrative applied approaches to understanding disease and metabolism. Topics may include, but are not limited to: Design and optimization of genetic systems Genetic circuit design and their principles for their organization into programs Computational methods to aid the design of genetic systems Experimental methods to quantify genetic parts, circuits, and metabolic fluxes Genetic parts libraries: their creation, analysis, and ontological representation Protein engineering including computational design Metabolic engineering and cellular manufacturing, including biomass conversion Natural product access, engineering, and production Creative and innovative applications of cellular programming Medical applications, tissue engineering, and the programming of therapeutic cells Minimal cell design and construction Genomics and genome replacement strategies Viral engineering Automated and robotic assembly platforms for synthetic biology DNA synthesis methodologies Metagenomics and synthetic metagenomic analysis Bioinformatics applied to gene discovery, chemoinformatics, and pathway construction Gene optimization Methods for genome-scale measurements of transcription and metabolomics Systems biology and methods to integrate multiple data sources in vitro and cell-free synthetic biology and molecular programming Nucleic acid engineering.