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Advanced genetics to help control dangerous disease-carrying insects

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  • Tuesday, 05 April 2016
  • 15:5 - 15:5
  • Duration: 13 mins
  • Publication date: 18 May 2016
  • Location: NA, Savoy Place, Stevenage, United Kingdom
  • Part of event IET/SynbiCITE Engineering Biology Seeminar

About the session

The IET and leading innovation and knowledge centre, SynbiCITE have teamed up to bring you the IET / SynbiCITE workshop on Engineering Biology.

The UK government’s ongoing investment and support has thrust the UK into the leading position in the world of genetic engineering, second only to the US.

This seminar will showcase the ground-breaking developments in engineering in biology within the UK in the last decade spurred by a combination of deeper understanding of biological systems and significant advances in the proficiency in DNA sequencing and synthesis.

Keywords:
  • DNA
  • biology
  • chikungunya
  • dengue
  • gene
  • genetic
  • malaria
  • mosquitoes
  • synthetic biology
  • yellow fever
  • zika

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  • Simon Warner

    Simon Warner

    Oxitec, Chief Scientific Officer

    Simon has eighteen years of global commercial experience in biotechnology R&D in various roles at Syngenta in the United Kingdom and the United States, leading collaborative programs and delivering biotechnology products in crops for feed and fuel. Immediately prior to joining Oxitec, he was Senior Director of Research and Development Programs at Sapphire Energy, a start-up making algae based fuel, based in San Diego, California. Simon has a BSc in biochemistry from UCL and PhD in plant molecular biology from the University of Leicester.
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