The evening is formatted on OBN’s long-running and successful BioTuesdays and the fascinating topic of ‘Engineering Biology for a Better World’ will be addressed on the night via a series of key note presentations. Speakers will share an insight into Engineering Biology, and explore current applications of concepts and methods of biology that are being used to solve real-world problems. They will also address the associated opportunities and challenges of these new applications for the wider life science industry.

As usual there will be plenty of time for questions and networking over drinks and canapes after the panel discussion.

Confirmed panellists so far include:

• CHAIR – Professor Richard Kitney – Co-Director of SynbiCITE and Professor of BioMedical Systems Engineering at Imperial College London – recognised as one of the leading researchers in the field of synthetic biology
• Dr Stephen Chambers, CEO of SynbiCITE – Steve has a wealth of experience in life science based start-up companies with particular focus on the synthetic biology-based manufacturing industry in the UK
• Dr Ted Fjallman, CEO at Prokarium – recognised as a Leader in the field of Synthetic Biology and as CEO of Prokarium, will provide some interesting views of the industry from a start-up perspective
• Henrik Hagemann, Founder and CEO, CustoMem
• Jonny Ohlson, CEO, Touchlight Genetics Ltd

Plus more exciting names to be announced soon

Programme

18:00 Arrival and registration

18:30 Welcome and introductions from Dr John Harris, CEO, OBN

18:35 Introduction

18:45 – 20:00 – Panel Discussion on the topic of ‘Engineering Biology for a Better World’

20:00 Q&A session

20:30 Networking over drinks and canapés

21:30 Close