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Right or Risk? The 1st Public BioBrick: Exploring Public Access to the Tools of Synthetic Biology

POSTED BY: C-LAB | Wed Sep 12th, 2012 9:14 a.m.
LOCATION: Grant Museum of Zoology

Synthetic Biology is turning genetic engineering into a simple exercise, with thousands of DNA components - BioBricks - available to program bacteria. What if ordinary citizens want access to these tools?

Now, for the first time, UCL have teamed up with a group of ‘biohackers’ (citizen scientists in molecular biology) to create the world’s first ‘Public BioBrick’.

Join us for an evening exhibition and Q&A hosted by UCL iGEM with C-LAB.

Grant Museum of Zoology, 24th September, 7-8.30pm
Free drinks will be served (with a unique molecular science twist!)

Link:
https://publicbiobrick.eventbrite.co.uk/

Address:
Grant Museum of Zoology
21 University Street
London, WC1E 6DE
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

C-LAB is an art collective and organisation that engages with critical and contemporary amalgamations of art, science and technology. Headed up by London-based artists, Howard Boland and Laura Cinti, it focuses on artistic explorations of meaning and idiosyncrasies involving life both organic and synthetic. C-LAB is internationally recognised as an interdisciplinary art platform that generates and participates in both artistic and scientific forums brokering discussions on the intersections of art and science. Recent activities include exhibiting living synthetic biology artworks at Techfest 2012, Mumbai, India and curating public art exhibitions for the EU funded European Public Art Centre - EPAC (2010-2012), a European-wide collaboration between organisations exhibiting public artworks focusing on art, science and society for which C-LAB is UK partner. http://c-lab.co.uk