March 2014
Managing Editor, Ranjini Prithviraj, speaks with Dr. Tom Ellis - a Guest Editor of this month's Special Issue based on research presented at SB6.0: The Sixth International Meeting on Synthetic Biology.
Mar 21, 2014•10 min
ACS Synthetic Biology Podcast
ACS Synthetic Biology introduces a series of podcasts highlighting articles published in the journal.
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February 2014
In ACS Synthetic Biology's February podcast, Managing Editor, Ranjini Prithviraj speaks with Nicholas Roehner about the need for engineering standards that combine descriptions of the structure and function of DNA.
Feb 21, 2014•8 min
January 2014
In ACS Synthetic Biology's first podcast of 2014, Managing Editor, Ranjini Prithviraj, speaks with Danielle Tullman-Ercek about a directed evolution strategy to generate variants of an E. coli efflux pump.
Jan 17, 2014•8 min
December 2013
Managing Editor, Ranjini Prithviraj, highlights content from the December 2013 issue of ACS Synthetic Biology. Federico Katzen from Life Technologies discusses the splitting of the E. coli chromosome into two linear chromosomes.
Dec 19, 2013•9 min
November 2013
Listen to highlights from the November 2013 issue of ACS Synthetic Biology. Managing Editor, Ranjini Prithviraj, discusses the discovery and engineering of natural products with Yiannis Kaznessis from the University of Minnesota and Huimin Zhao from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Nov 14, 2013•17 min
October 2013
Managing Editor, Ranjini Prithviraj, highlights content from the October 2013 issue of ACS Synthetic Biology. Qing Nie discusses noise attenuation in the ON and OFF states of biological switches while Felix Moser describes a genetic sensor for strong methylating compounds.
Oct 17, 2013•16 min
September 2013
Listen to highlights from the September 2013 issue of ACS Synthetic Biology. Managing Editor, Ranjini Prithviraj discusses cell-free gene expression noise in femtoliter volumes with Michael Simpson and fluorescent proteins for cell-free synthetic biology with Sheref Mansy.
Sep 19, 2013•8 min
August 2013
Managing Editor, Ranjini Prithviraj, highlights content from the August 2013 issue of ACS Synthetic Biology. Hear from Robert Batey, at the University of Colorado in Boulder, on facile engineering of novel genetic regulatory devices and from Radhakrishnan Mahadevan, at the University of Toronto, on the analysis and design of genetics circuits for dynamic metabolic engineering.
Aug 15, 2013•23 min
July 2013
Listen to highlights from the July 2013 Special Issue of ACS Synthetic Biology entitled, 'Natural Products: Tools and More'. Managing Editor, Ranjini Prithviraj, speaks with authors of two papers featured in this special issue. Hear from MIT's Dr. Timothy Lu and from Dr. Bradley Moore of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC- San Diego.
Jul 18, 2013•20 min
June 2013
Listen to highlights from the June 2013 issue ofACS Synthetic Biology. Managing Editor, Ranjini Prithviraj, speaks with Agnieszka Janina Zygadlo Nielsen, first author on a paper that describes re-directing photosynthesis towards natural product synthesis and with Jeffrey Barrick, senior author on a paper detailing decaffeination by "addicted" bacteria.
Jun 19, 2013•12 min
May 2013
Managing Editor Ranjini Prithviraj highlights content from the May special issue of ACS Synthetic Biology. This issue is based on work presented at the 2012 International Workshop on Bio-Design Automation (IWBDA). Hear from our guest editors Leonidas Bleris, Natasa Miskov-Zivanov and Chris Myers about the manuscripts featured in this issue and the work of the IWBDA.
May 16, 2013•11 min
April 2013
Listen to highlights from April's issue of ACS Synthetic Biology. This month, Managing Editor, Ranjini Prithviraj, talks to Eric Henderson from Iowa State University about a new way of creating DNA nanostructures and to Kevin Truong from the University of Toronto about a set of proteins that can target and eliminate tumor cells.
Apr 18, 2013•12 min
March 2013
Managing Editor Ranjini Prithviraj highlights content from the March issue of ACS Synthetic Biology. This month, we hear from Luke Alphey at the University of Oxford on engineering female-specific lethality for pest control and from Caroline Ajo-Franklin at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory on electron conduits in E. coli.
Mar 13, 2013•17 min
February 2013
Managing Editor Ranjini Prithviraj highlights content from the February issue of ACS Synthetic Biology. This month, hear from Jeffrey Gralnick at the University of Minnesota about engineering bacteria to bind gold electrodes and from Takanari Inoue at Johns Hopkins on synthesizing biomolecule-based boolean logic gates.
Feb 13, 2013•9 min
January 2013
Listen to highlights from January's issue of ACS Synthetic Biology. This month, Managing Editor, Ranjini Prithviraj, speaks with Stephen Mayfield from the University of California in San Diego about the use of microalgae in the production of industrial molecules and with Justin Siegel from the University of California in Davis about microbially produced alkanes as biofuels.
Jan 16, 2013•13 min
December 2012
Listen to highlights from December's issue of ACS Synthetic Biology. This month J. Christopher Anderson from the University of California at Berkeley talks to us about plasmid transfer using engineered phagemids while Robert Campbell from the University of Alberta in Edmonton discusses dimerization-dependent fluorescent proteins.
Dec 19, 2012•9 min
Special Issue Podcast – Synthetic Biology for Strain Development
Managing Editor Ranjini Prithviraj highlights research content from the November Special Issue of ACS Synthetic Biology. This month, Guest Editor Sang Yup Lee from KAIST gives us an overview of the field of synthetic biology for strain development while James Clomburg from Rice University talks to us about his paper describing the reversal of the β-oxidation cycle.
Nov 14, 2012•16 min
Special Issue Podcast - Engineered Microbes for Therapeutics Applications
Managing Editor Ranjini Prithviraj highlights research content from the October Special Issue of ACS Synthetic Biology. Listen to interviews with authors Matthew Bennett from Rice University and Gürol Süel at the University of California in San Diego.
Oct 17, 2012•13 min
September 2012
Managing Editor Ranjini Prithviraj highlights research content from the September issue of ACS Synthetic Biology. This month we learn about the assembly of the bacteriophage T7 in a cell-free transcription-translation system and the development of efficient in vitro gene delivery vehicles. Listen to interviews with authors Vincent Noireaux from the University of Minnesota and Qiaobing Xu of Tufts University.
Sep 17, 2012•13 min
Special Issue Podcast - Bio-Design Automation
ACS Synthetic Biology Managing Editor Ranjini Prithviraj speaks with Guest Editor, Douglas Densmore of Boston University along with Erik Winfree, Pakpoom Subsoontorn and Jongmin Kim of Caltech, all authors of manuscripts featured in this issue.
Aug 24, 2012•25 min
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