Synthetic Biology: Principles and Applications - Jan Roelof van der Meer

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Dr. van der Meer begins by giving a very nice outline of what synthetic biology is. He explains that DNA and protein “parts” can be put together to form biological circuits in a manner analogous to making electrical circuits from transformers, capacitors and the like. These circuits can be designed for many applications in health and agriculture etc. van der Meer concludes his talk by describing work from his lab to engineer biosensor bacteria that can measure toxic compounds in the environment. A simple system is presented of a bacterial cell which glows in the presence of arsenic, that has been used to test drinking water in Bangladesh for high levels of arsenic.
Speaker Biography:
Jan van der Meer is a professor at the University of Lausanne (Switzerland) in the Department of Fundamental Microbiology. Previous to his appointment in Lausanne, he worked as group leader at the Swiss Federal Institute for Aquatic Research (Eawag). Dr. van der Meer received his PhD from the Wageningen University and Research Centre, and completed postdoctoral work at the National Dairy Institute in Ede, The Netherlands. His research focuses on how bacteria respond and adapt to contaminated environments, and how these adaptations can be used for useful purposes, such as generating environmental reporters. One application, a bacterial biosensor for arsenic, was awarded the 2010 Erwin Schrödinger Prize.

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Flawless execution of delivering incredible knowledge. 🙌

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wow...i hope more people are reading between the lines here

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Thank you for a great talk!

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Thank you for your helpful video!

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Prof. I love you. Thanks for this great explanation

[@HunterCrim4767]

I’m curious what great advancements have been made since this video was created. Cool possibilities, like you said we dissect everything and will continue until we can reverse engineer the world around us.
Keep up the good work (sincerely, not sarcastically… hard to tell on here sometimes ha)

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God will wipe out from the Earth all these medical fascists that made so big harm to the Enviroment and made so big torment to ppl with this treatmnet

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great talk!

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This some amazing, futuristic stuff

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Good explanation!

[@infocentrousmajac]

Awesome work Sir!!! I am working on Biosensor designs currently and your top level explanation has helped me greatly to convey the idea and potential of SynBio. Regards

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Wonderfully explained!

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I guess you didn't understand anything.

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This is great.

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Best lecture

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I`ve recently got intrigued by the idea of Synthetic Biology from going down a rabbit hole starting on MIT's School of Engineering academics page. And what brings to mind when I find something superbly interesting, a doubt "But is it about space? is it gonna make me, or guide me towards helping visionaries or pioneers fighting for a future of us becoming multiplanetary species?". For such a thing, why not Mechanical, or.. Aerospace engineering? to me, I`m not sure, and can't be sure of, due to my current circumstances. So I'm stuck, I'm lost.. what is that I would spend my parent's money and my time for? for when the opportunity comes.
Nevertheless, I would love to talk to someone who's gone through something similar. And excuse me for my rant, this isn't really the place for it..heh.
--Have a strong, dedicated journey to your endeavors.

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Follow what makes you wonder, the stuff that intrigues you to no end, the stuff that you have the most fun with. There are infinite trajectories a person can take, try to take the one that's the most interesting to you, whilst being the one you feel has the most potential for change. You have to balance it.

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If you want a practical application of synbio in space - high output oxygen producing bacteria for life support, in-situ biomining of planetary resources for lander return missions, biomaterials which can be generated from raw materials on-orbit for construction. Synthetic biology is pretty much the use of synthetic genomes to produce complex industrial chemicals or novel biochemical pathways. As such, it's applications are almost limitless.

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Just study the book of the Creator

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Im doing masters degree in Brazil, how can i work with synthetic biology? Is there a contact to talk about it?

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Awesome

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danke

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This reminds me the portable executable format, except like 3000 times more complex. 11:40, that just sounds like the jmp instruction that loads a function or jumps to a different part of the program... maybe I should stop, this is kind of scaring me.

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So do you call what you synthesize "life"

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No its called efil.

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3:36 🎉

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9:01 some Tyler Durden stuff going on

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Traduire aux français merci.

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Ô homi fei!

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Ga eens keer naar een logopediste...je bent amper te verstaan.