Abstract
The Centre for Synthetic Biology and the Bioeconomy (CSBB) brings together a far-reaching multidisciplinary community across all Newcastle University's faculties — Medical Sciences, Science, Agriculture and Engineering, and Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences. The CSBB focuses on many different areas of Synthetic Biology, including bioprocessing, computational design and in vivo computation, as well as improving understanding of basic molecular machinery. Such breadth is supported by major national and international research funding, a range of industrial partners in the North East of England and beyond, as well as a large number of doctoral and post-doctoral researchers. The CSBB trains the next generation of scientists through a 1-year MSc in Synthetic Biology.
Highlights
A fundamental component of the Centre for Synthetic Biology and the Bioeconomy (CSBB) is the Interdisciplinary Computing and Complex Biosystems (ICOS) research group, which carries out groundbreaking research at the interface of computing science and complex biological systems
As part of the community involvement, the group holds the chair of the Synthetic Biology Open Language (SBOL) — an open standard format for the exchange of designs of engineered biological systems
ICOS leads the MSc in Synthetic Biology of the CSBB, which trains the new generation of synthetic biologists
Summary
A fundamental component of the CSBB is the Interdisciplinary Computing and Complex Biosystems (ICOS) research group, which carries out groundbreaking research at the interface of computing science and complex biological systems. There are other centres on campus, such as the Policy, Ethics and Life Sciences (PEALS) research centre, which are involved in different aspects synthetic biology through the efforts of many world-leading scientist. In such a scenario, the need to co-ordinate all efforts in synthetic biology emerged with clarity years ago. In 2012, Jeff Errington and Anil Wipat established the CSBB under the name Centre for Synthetic Biology and Bio-exploitation to bring together academics with expertise in synthetic biology that would traditionally be found in different faculties/schools. Synthetic biology research is rapidly growing at Newcastle as shown by the recent appointments of Tom Howard, Jon Marles-Wright and Dana Ofiteru in biochemistry and metabolic engineering, and Angel Goñi-Moreno in computational synthetic biology and mathematical modelling
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