CSB2 prize in systems biology
April 30, 2012
Center investigator Hana El-Samad was recently awarded the CSB2 prize in systems biology
UCSF
center for systems
& synthetic biology
an NIGMS national systems biology center
Marking a half-century career in mass spectrometry
April 27, 2012
UCSF celebrated Center investigator Al Burlingame’s contributions to mass spectrometry by hosting a symposium in his honor on April 27th.
Design rules of metabolic regulatory networks
April 23, 2012
New findings by Center investigator Hao Li and colleagues suggest that many metabolic pathways in yeast share a common regulatory architecture.
Announcing a practical systems and synthetic biology discussion group at UCSF
April 10, 2012
Calling all scientists interested in practical applications of systems and synthetic biology! The 'pSysSynBio dGroup' will be a forum to discuss roadblocks and solutions in transitioning systems knowledge to actionable tools in everyday synthetic, cellular and population biology.
Center hosts 'Science and Cooking' lecture on April 2, 2012
March 26, 2012
The UCSF center for systems and synthetic biology will host the Chauncey D. Leake lecture on ‘Science and Cooking,’ featuring Professor David Weitz of Harvard University, and James Beard Award winner Corey Lee, chef and owner of Benu restaurant,
Molecular computing featured in the Economist
March 10, 2012
An article in the Economist highlights pioneering work by Systems Biology Fellow, David Soloveichik, and others, on ‘molecular computing’ and the use of nucleic acid strand-displacement logic circuits. Check it out here!
Join us for the 'Frontiers in Systems Biology' Symposium on Monday, March 19, 2012
March 5, 2012
The UCSF center for systems and synthetic biology is hosting a ‘Frontiers in Systems Biology’ Symposium, featuring young scientists in an emerging field.
Let’s make some noise
February 27, 2012
In new findings published in Molecular Cell, Center investigator Hana El-Samad and colleagues report that
Theory + Pizza = Theorizza
February 10, 2012
Calling all theorists! The UCSF center for systems and synthetic biology has started a forum for theorists to get feedback and to interact with other theorists across different groups at UCSF.
Center investigator rewrites the cell biology textbooks
February 3, 2012
Unexpected findings out of Wallace Marshall's lab find that centrosomes--key cytoplasmic organelles once thought to be essential for cell division in all animals--are lacking in flatworms.
Center announces 2012 Seed Grant Recipients
February 1, 2012
The UCSF center for systems and synthetic biology awarded seed grants in January to four additional faculty members at UCSF. Wallace Marshall, Zev Gartner, Michael Fischbach, and Leor Weinberger (Gladstone Institute/UCSF) were all recipients of the 2012 awards. We look forward to their participation in upcoming center activities.
Wired Magazine’s smart list 2012
January 25, 2012
Center Director Wendell Lim was named as one of “50 people who will change the world” in Wired Magazine’s first smart list.
Charting new territory in HIV-human protein complexes
December 21, 2012
How does HIV rewire a host cell during the course of infection?
News focus on UCSF high school iGEM team
November 17, 2012
Who says summer break is only for hanging out at the beach? For some lucky students from Lincoln High School in San Francisco,
Engaging the general public with science…and legos
November 6, 2011
The UCSF Center for Systems and Synthetic Biology and SynBERC participated in the first Bay Area Science Festival Discovery Days at AT&T Park on November 6th.
Catalyzing innovation in science with design thinking approaches
October 28, 2011
We all know how the scientific method works: you come up with a hypothesis, perform experiments, collect results, and then refine the conclusions.