Synthetic Biology 2010

The International Conference on SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY "Bottom-up, Top-down and Cell-free approaches, Intellectual Property issues" organized by Genopole® will take place on December 15th and 16th, 2010 at the University of Evry-Val-d’Essonne, Evry, France.

With the advent of high-throughput DNA sequencing and synthesis, it became possible to produce a list of molecular parts composing a living organism. Deconstruction of such parts can help us in the simplification of the existing organisms to be used later for grafting new functionalities. This Top-Down approach to Synthetic Biology has produced many results. Alternatively, the Bottom-Up approach consists of engineering context-independent biological parts that could be properly interfaced and standardized to generate a targeted behavior into an existing organism. An ultimate approach would consist in the de novo construction of organisms using such biological parts in an in vitro setting. The recent advances here are also very encouraging and they are allowing to better understand complex biochemical systems.

Our conference will allow the worldwide leaders in Synthetic Biology to show their latest advances.

As Synthetic Biology moves forwards, new Intellectual Property Right models need to be defined, and the choice of these models will have a major impact in shaping the future of Synthetic Biology. A session will be devoted to Intellectual Property to address these issues.