Date & time
Friday, March 7, 2025
10:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.
10:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.
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Life, But Not Alive
Synthetic Cells
Cost
This event is free
Website
Where
J.W. McConnell Building
1400 De Maisonneuve Blvd. W.
4TH SPACE
Accessible location
Yes
Building live cells from scratch, from non-living components, will soon become a reality. Being able to construct whole cells, precisely manipulating molecules and designing all biological processes, will give us unprecedented control over living systems. Already we are engineering organisms from simpler building blocks and learning more about how life works in the process.
Synthetic cells offer a new frontier in bioengineering. With the ability to fully control every aspect of living cells, we can move beyond our messy natural biology and change our understanding of life itself.
Join us for a talk by Dr. Kate Adamala about this emerging field of synthetic cell engineering, exploring the possible trees of life and elucidating ways in which chemistry can become biology.
How can you participate? Join us in person or online by registering for the Zoom Meeting or watching live on YouTube.
Have questions? Send them to info.4@concordia.ca
Speaker
Dr. Kate Adamala
Associate Professor Genetics, Cell Biology and Development, University of Minnesota, MN USA
Kate Adamala, Assistant Professor of Genetics, Cell Biology and Development at University of Minnesota, is a biochemist building synthetic cells. Her research aims at understanding chemical principles of biology, using artificial cells to create new tools for bioengineering, drug development, and basic research. She is a co-founder of the synthetic cell therapeutics startup Synlife, and one of the leaders of the Build-a-Cell synthetic cell community.