Professors Jay Keasling and Chris Voigt Announced as Keynote Speakers at the SynbiCITE & IET Engineering Biology Conference
- Posted on 1 November, 2016

The 1st International Conference on Engineering Biology, co-founded by the pioneering National Industrial Translation Centre for Synthetic Biology - SynbiCITE - and the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), has announced world experts Professor Jay Keasling and Professor Chris Voigt as keynote speakers, as well as a range of other international speakers.
The 3-day conference, taking place in London from 13-15 December, provides a focal point for the international synthetic biology community to meet a broad range of engineering companies that could adopt engineering biology. Presenters and exhibitors will share cutting edge R&D, applications and products, and how these are being used in industry.
Keynote speaker Professor Jay Keasling is the CEO at the Joint BioEnergy Institute and Hubbard Howe Distinguished Professor of Biochemical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley. He focuses on the metabolic engineering of microorganisms for degradation of environmental contaminants, waste remediation, and environmentally friendly manufacturing.
Keynote speaker Professor Chris Voigt is Professor of Biological Engineering at MIT. Prof Voigt’s research interests centre around the reprogramming of bacterial organisms to perform coordinated, complex tasks for pharmaceutical and industrial applications.
Chairman, Professor Richard Kitney, said “Combining synthetic biology and engineering experts is crucial to accelerating industry adoption of the technology applications and company growth that engineering biology offers. This international SynbiCITE and IET Engineering Biology Conference will bring together engineering biologists with different and diverse industries to grow opportunities and create wealth in the global bioeconomy.”
For full registration and pricing details visit the registration page.
Full details on the conference program and speakers can be found on the Conference Website.
For more information, contact:
Registration & Enquiries
Veena Gupta at the IET
E: VGupta@theiet.org
T: +44 1438 767273
Exhibiting & Sponsorship
Veronica Kopec at the IET
E: VKopec@theiet.org
T: +44 1438 765676
SynbiCITE & Engineering Biology
John Collins at SynbiCITE
E: John.Collins@synbicite.com
T: +44 20 7594 5800
Share this article:
People also read
Evonetix establishes scientific advisory board
CAMBRIDGE, UK, 20 December 2018 – EVONETIX LTD (‘Evonetix’), the Cambridge-based company pioneering an innovative approach to scalable and high-fideli...
Synthetic biology start-up Colorifix raises $3m Series A round to scale its revolutionary textile dyeing solution
Colorifix, a company that has developed the first commercial biological dyeing process, has raised a Series A round of $3 million from impact and stra...
Evonetix wins Best Emerging Synthetic Biology Company at the OBN Awards
London, UK, 12th October 2018 / Sciad Newswire / SynbiCITE would like to congratulate Evonetix on winning ‘Best Emerging Synthetic Biology Company’ at...