Acs Synthetic Biology Podcast

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.