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- 10/19/11 - Abstract "Specify, Design and Assemble - A Top-Down Design Flow Using Clotho" selected for a talk at Cold Springs Harbor Asia Conferences - 2011 Symposium: Design & Synthesis of Biological Systems, November 7-11, Suzhou, China. Evan Appleton will present the talk.
- 10/10/11 - iGEM 2011 Gold Medal (24 out of 69 teams) and iGEM 2011 World Championship Advance (26 out of 69 teams) awards at 2011 iGEM America's Jamboree. Our web site is here.
- 11/3/11 - Evelyn Orozco and Vanessa Yanez awarded Coalition to Diversify Computing (CDC) Sending Students to Technical Conferences Program Awards for $1000 each to attend iGEM.
- 10/1/11 - Roza Ghamari offered a position at Hewlett Packard after completing her thesis entitled, "Applying Hardware Description Languages to Genetic Circuit Design"
- 9/30/11 - UROP fall funding for 2011 awarded to BU iGEM/CIDAR members Evelyn Orozco and Janoo Fernandes
- 9/25/11 - Evan Appleton wins Honorable Mention for Lightning Talk at 2011 Fall SynBERC Retreat at Harvard Medical School
- 8/8/11 - DARPA Controlling Cellular Machinery (CCM) kickoff meeting. The project "Multi-input, Multimodal, Mammalian Information Processing Circuits" including PIs Ron Weiss (MIT), Jacob Beal (BBN Technologies), Ryan Gill (Colorado University at Boulder), Christopher Voigt (MIT), and Douglas Densmore (BU) will form one of the participant teams.
- 7/21/11 - CIDAR lab members Evan Appleton and Viktor Vasilev (along with two other BU Bioinformatics PhD students) win 3rd Best Poster prize at The 11th Annual International Workshop on Bioinformatics and Systems Biology hosted in Berlin, Germany for their poster: "Comparative Gene Expression Analysis in Non-Human Primates Infected with Anthrax, Poxviruses and Filoviruses" (Advisor: Dr. John Connor, BUSM). Conference page
- 6/6/11 - The Clotho website (www.clothocad.org) wins a Communicator Award of Excellence and a Silver ADDY for Interactive Media from the American Advertising Federation. The development team (Noble Studios) also took home Silver for its design and development work on the Clotho website. More information. Another link.
- About the Awards
- The Communicator Awards receives more than 9,000 entries from each year, making it one of the leading international award programs honoring creative excellence. The awards were judged by the International Academy of the Visual Arts, an invitation-only panel of “Who’s Who” professionals in media, communications, advertising, creative and marketing industries.
- The ADDY Awards is the advertising industry’s largest competition honoring creative excellence in the art of advertising. Each year more than 60,000 entries are received in local ADDY competitions.
- About the Awards
- 5/26/11 - Agilent Applications and Core Technology University Research (ACT-UR) funding awarded for the proposal "Augmenting and Extending the Eugene Domain Specific Language for Synthetic Biology". The award totals $56,520 over 1 year. More information.
- 5/06/11 - Four abstracts accepted for presentation at the International Workshop on Bio-Design Automation
- "Applying Hardware Description Languages to Genetic Circuit Design"
- "Toward Automated Selection of Parts for Genetic Regulatory Networks"
- "A Software Stack for Specification and Robotic Execution of Protocols for Synthetic Biological Engineering"
- "TASBE: A Tool-Chain to Accelerate Synthetic Biological Engineering"
- 4/22/11 - The Office of Naval Research (ONR) Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI) supports the proposal "Utilizing Synthetic Biology to Create Programmable Micro-Bio-Robots". This includes researchers at Boston University (Collins, Belta, Densmore), Harvard (Church, Silver), MIT (Lu, Voigt, Weiss), Northeastern (Ayers), and the University of Pennslyvannia (Kumar). DOD Announcement and BU Announcement.
- 4/17/11 - Traci Haddock awarded SB5.0 Young Researcher Travel Award
- 4/15/11 - BU iGEM member Alberto Purwada receives STARS summer funding!
- 4/8/11 - BU iGEM member Kyle Jones wins Lutchen Fellowship
- 4/1/11 - UROP summer funding for 2011 awarded to BU iGEM members Evelyn Orozco and Janoo Fernandes
- 3/23/11 - Roza Ghamari wins The Hariri Award for Transformative Computational Science Research award for her poster, "DNA Computation Using Combinational Logic Design Methodologies".
- 3/17/11 - First fee-based JBEI license is non-exclusively provided to Genomatica for the j5 software and device editor. Device editor was created by Doug Densmore while at JBEI.
- 3/4/11 - "Towards automated selection of DNA parts for genetic regulatory networks" presented at the Annual Conference of the Institute of Biological Engineering
- 1/10/11 - "Essential information for synthetic DNA sequences" appears in Nature Biotechnology Correspondence (http://www.nature.com/nbt/journal/v29/n1/full/nbt.1753.html)
- 12/30/10 - Our Tecan Freedom Evo 150 liquid handling robot is here!
- 11/22/10 - Clotho is mentioned in the article "Autodesk Helps Synthetic Biology Innovators Design the Living World". This reflects our ongoing relationship with Autodesk to support bio-design automation software and infrastructure.
- 10/7/10 - The project "A Tool-Chain to Accelerate Synthetic Biological Engineering (TASBE)" has officially launched. This is a DAPRA contract awarded to BBN Technologies with Ron Weiss at MIT and Douglas Densmore at BU awarded subcontracts. This work will be broadly creating a complete design flow from high level language input to physical DNA assembly for a 1-bit clocked register and a temporal signature detector. These designs are key building blocks down the path to creating the complex synthetic biology designs of the future and themselves pose a number of technical challenges. The total value of the contract is approximately $1 million dollars over 1 year. More...
