Synthetic Biology Courses and Certifications

Terraforming the Biosphere - Can Bioengineering Save Us?

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Explore bioengineering strategies to address critical environmental challenges, including protecting drylands, managing marine plastic waste, and controlling carbon dioxide levels.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 3 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Kate Adamala on Synthetic Biology, Origins of Life, and Bioethics

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Exploring synthetic biology, origins of life, and bioethics through the lens of minimal cell research, challenging our understanding of life and its boundaries.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 10 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Mimicking Simple Life Without Biochemistry

Explore the creation of life-like chemical systems exhibiting growth, replication, and evolution through non-biochemical processes, offering insights into artificial biology and early Earth proto-life formation.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 6 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Building Life from Scratch - Panel Discussion at IPFest 2019

Panel discussion exploring origins of life, synthetic biology, and astrobiology. Experts discuss building life from scratch, technological advancements, and implications for understanding life's emergence on Earth and beyond.

• YouTube
• 49 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Synthetic Biology: Life’s Extraordinary New Worlds

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<p>Synthetic biology gives scientists the power to redesign nature and even create life. Learn how it works.</p>

• The Great Courses Plus
• 8 hours 59 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Trial Available

Hackaday

HDLA - Leopold N. Green - Engineering Bacteria

Explore bacterial engineering for microbiome control, antibiotic resistance, and nanorobotics with insights from a Caltech researcher on cutting-edge synthetic biology applications.

• YouTube
• 28 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

The Royal Institution

Synthetic Life - Could We? Should We?

Expert panel explores synthetic biology's potential impacts, ethical considerations, and technological advancements. Discusses applications in crop protection, biosensors, and bioprocessing, as well as societal implications.

• YouTube
• 59 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Institute for Pure & Applied Mathematics (IPAM)

A Xither of Xenobots - Demolishing Dichotomous Thinking With Synthetic Proto-Organisms

Explore synthetic proto-organisms and challenge dichotomous thinking in this presentation on xenobots, offering insights into collective intelligence and biological engineering.

• YouTube
• 26 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

International Centre for Theoretical Sciences

Towards Life in a Jar by Zorana Zeravcic

Explore the potential of artificial systems mimicking life's characteristics using novel building blocks, navigating vast possibilities to discover unexpected capabilities beyond familiar biological structures.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 37 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Professor Dave Explains

Synthetic Biology and Materials Science - Nature-Made Plastics

Explore synthetic biology's application in materials science, focusing on engineering microorganisms to produce Tulipalin A for eco-friendly plastic manufacturing, eliminating the need for crude oil.

• YouTube
• 16 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

TED

Synthetic Life: From DNA Synthesis to Future Creation

Explore the groundbreaking potential of DNA synthesis and its implications for creating synthetic life, as presented by a pioneering scientist in genomics research.

• YouTube
• 18 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Paul G. Allen School

Allen School Colloquium - MISL Research Lab Presentations

Explore cutting-edge research in DNA data storage, molecular computation, and protein sequencing. Discover innovative approaches to Boolean search, fast molecular circuits, CRISPR-Cas9 applications, nanopore signals, and smartphone-based molecular detect…

• YouTube
• 59 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

ACM SIGPLAN

Towards Higher-level Abstractions for Molecular Programming

Explore higher-level abstractions for molecular programming using chemical reaction networks, inspired by functional reactive programming. Build modular CRN programs with a Haskell library.

• YouTube
• 31 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Labroots

Enabling High-throughput Biology with New Technologies for Synthetic Construct Sequencing

Explore new methods and technologies accelerating sequence-based screening of plasmids for discovery, research, and biotechnology. Learn about ExpressPlex technology and its integration with rolling-circle amplification in OCTOPUS v3.0.

• YouTube
• 49 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Center for Physical Genomics and Engineering

Many-to-Many Networks: Multifunctional Modules for Multicellularity

Explore how many-to-many protein networks function as versatile computational devices in multicellular organisms and their potential applications in synthetic biology for designing complex behaviors.

• YouTube
• 51 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video