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SUMMARY:Living Code\, Living Materials
LOCATION:Imperial College: Clore Lecture Theatre\, Huxley Building
DESCRIPTION:Discover how Professor Tom Ellis is rewriting DNA to programme
  microbes to grow sustainable materials and help build a bio-based future.
 \n\nLiving Code\, Living Materials: How Synthetic Biology is Rewriting the
  Future\nAbstract:\nScience has focused on reading the code of life to und
 erstand how living organisms work\, but today\, bioengineers are writing t
 hat code. Over the past two decades\, research at Imperial College London 
 has helped pioneer the shift from observing biology to actively designing 
 it. By rewriting DNA in organisms like yeast and bacteria\, we can transfo
 rm simple microbes into programmable micro-factories. Rather than relying 
 on petroleum-based plastics or resource-intensive manufacturing\, we can n
 ow engineer living cells to grow sustainable\, self-repairing materials\, 
 from custom fabrics to functional patches\, directly from kombucha microbe
 s and sugar.\nThis talk explores how combining synthetic biology with mate
 rials engineering is opening a new frontier: Engineered Living Materials. 
 Looking ahead\, we predict that programming nature will revolutionise sust
 ainable manufacturing\, food production\, and smart infrastructure\, pavin
 g the way for a bio-based future where we partner with nature to grow what
  we need. \nBiography:\nTom Ellis is Professor of Synthetic Genome Engine
 ering in the Department of Bioengineering at Imperial College London. For 
 16 years\, his research group at Imperial has pioneered international effo
 rts in synthetic biology\, focusing on rewriting DNA to reprogram cells to
  address global challenges in health\, sustainability\, and manufacturing.
  His lab has moved to chromosome-scale writing and is spearheading the eme
 rging field of Engineered Living Materials by programming safe microbes to
  grow sustainable fabrics and functional bio-composites. Professor Ellis i
 s a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry and works broadly to advance 
 bioengineering for a sustainable future.
URL;VALUE=URI:https://www.imperial.ac.uk/events/211835/living-code-living-
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