Designer Biology Symposium 2019
Abstract
Synthetic biology platforms employed across a broad array of technology disciplines has spurred a lot of interest in applying the technology for high value compound production (e.g., flavors, fragrances, fine chemicals). This approach is economical, sustainable, energy efficient and has a minimal environmental impact. The same processes that allows engineering of natural systems to produce and harvest such profit-making molecules can produce high-density fuels, energetics, and a wide range of superior materials relevant for Navy use. Such production techniques require understanding the chemistry, biology, and engineering principles and combining this knowledge to redesign biology systems for exploitation. Because of the high return of investment using this technology platform for commercial products, industries such as cosmetics, clothing, food, pharmaceuticals have spent large amounts of money on improving process-engineering techniques. This research will help dramatically improve production of Navy relevant products because much of the most difficult trouble shooting will be resolved. One such major challenge is how to design biology intelligently for the needs of commercial applications (i.e., modeling, engineering, harvesting of designed molecules). Another challenge is to engineer robust non-natural features into organisms (i.e., yeast, bacteria ~ both traditional and extremophiles) for industrial scale production. The Designer Biology meeting aims to bring together European and global researchers working in science and engineering disciplines with a focus on the production and implementation of designed biological systems, devices, and products. The purpose of the meeting is to communicate research advances, share new techniques and practices and to foster collaboration across the disciplines represented by the attendees. The fields of Bioengineering and Bioprocessing, and Biopolymers, all have relevance to naval technology development and deployment. Each scientific session of the meeting has specific relevance to naval technology
Document Details
- Document Type
- DoD Grant Award
- Publication Date
- Jun 13, 2019
- Source ID
- N629091912089
Entities
People
- Jon Marles-Wright
Organizations
- Newcastle University
- Office of Naval Research
- United States Navy