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Speakers:
Prof Paul Freemont, co-Director of the EPSRC Centre for Synthetic Biology and Innovation, Imperial College London
Dr Tim Dafforn, School of Biosciences, University of Birmingham
Prof John Ward, Professor of Molecular Microbiology at UCL, and Head of the UCL-Birkbeck Synthetic Biology Net
Prof Chris Thomas, Professor of Molecular Genetics, University of Birmingham
Prof Nikolas Rose, Professor of Sociology and Head of the Department of Social Science Health and Medicine, Kings College London
Synthetic biology is being touted as the new revolution that will enable biology to do for us what harnessing physics and chemistry have done in the past. But given the history of new technologies stumbling at the starting block, why should synthetic biology be any different?