Advancing Drug Discovery by Employing Synthetic Biology Tools

This webinar will be hosted live and available on-demand

Tuesday, November 14, 2023 
1:30 PM Eastern Time 

Cells respond to intracellular and environmental cues through complex regulatory gene networks. Using synthetic biology approaches, researchers recreate these natural gene networks to discover their roles in disease and to find new drug candidates.

In this webinar brought to you by The Scientist’s Creative Services Team, Mads Kaern and Gerry Wright will discuss the history of engineered gene networks and how synthetic biology can accelerate drug discovery.

Topics to be covered 

• Exploring the history of synthetic gene circuit design over the last 25 years 
• Employing sequencing and synthetic biology platforms to discover new microbial natural products with antibiotic activity

Mads Kaern, PhD Associate Professor, Ottawa Institute of Systems Biology Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa Founder, BioExperience Research and Entrepreneurship Challenge Founder and CEO, BioGroupe Canada Inc.

Gerard “Gerry” Wright, PhD Professor Department of Biochemistry and Biomedical Sciences  McMaster University