NAKFI Synthetic Biology: Building a Nation's Inspiration: Interdisciplinary Research Team Summaries

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Front Matter (R1-R14)

Conference Summary (1-6)

IDR Team Summary 1: What new foundational technologies and tools are required to make biology easier to engineer? (7-18)

IDR Team Summary 2: What are the significant differences, if any, between risk assessment capacity and religious analyses of the moral permissibility for synthetic biology applications and other biotechnology applications? (19-24)

IDR Team Summary 3: Reconstructing gene circuitry: How can synthetic biology lead us to an understanding of the principles underlying natural genetic circuits and to the discovery of new biology? (25-36)

IDR Team Summary 4: Designing communities of cells: how do we create communication and collaboration between cells to allow for specialization and division of labor? (37-44)

IDR Team Summary 5: Why are human-designed biological circuits and devices fragile and inaccurate relative to their natural counterparts? (45-52)

IDR Team Summary 6: How can genomics be leveraged to develop coherent approaches for rapidly exploring the biochemical diversity in and engineering of non-model organisms? (53-60)

IDR Team Summary 7: How do we move beyond genetics to engage chemical and physical approaches to synthetic biology? (61-70)

IDR Team Summary 8: What is the role of evolution and evolvability in synthetic biology? (71-76)

IDR Team Summary 9: How do we maximally capitalize on the promise of synthetic biology? (77-82)

Appendixes (83-84)

List of Synthetic Biology Podcast Tutorials (85-88)

Agenda (89-94)

Participants (95-106)