#JobOffer: « Post-Doctoral Fellowships – Domain Specific Language for Synthetic Biology »

Disclaimer: I have nothing to do with the lab or the researchers there. Just that I know how tough is to find an exciting position and how closed can communication channels be in science. Hence, I decided to publish offers I spot, it may always help.

 

Podcasts from the EMBO Meeting 2010 now available

As you already read it, I attended the EMBO Meeting 2010 in Barcelona. I briefly blogged about some of the conferences (check reminder below). The podcasts of some of the keynotes are now available here featuring:

 

Improving biofuel production thanks to yeast

Everybody knows humankind produces beer and wine since ever. In this case, we put a bug – yeast, from the same family as the one helping to produce the nice pastries on the figure on the left  – in presence of sugar and absence of oxygen which concludes in the production of bioethanol.

 

EMBO meeting day 2: Plenary lectures on human enhancers discovery and synthetic biology

Today begins with the session Systems biology & functional genomics. Here are some notes from those I was really interested into. The abstracts for all the talks can be found on the EMBO meeting dedicated page.