SVEN PANKE CV

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SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY. FROM STANDARD BIOLOGICAL PARTS TO ARTIFICIAL LIFE

September, 17th-18th, 2015, Barcelona

Sven Panke, Associate Professor of Bioprocess Engineering, Department of Biosystems Science and Engineering, ETH Zurich, Basel, Switzerland

Sven Panke is a Professor of Bioprocess Engineering at the ETH Zurich. After his PhD, also at ETHZ, he worked for two years for the Dutch chemical company DSM (Geleen, The Netherlands). He returned to ETH in 2001 as an Assistant Professor, received tenure in 2007, and then moved to the newly founded ETHZ Department of Biosystems Science and Engineering in Basel. His main research topics include integrated reaction-separation systems, high-throughput screening, and synthetic biology. His work was awarded with the ETH Medal and the DSM Research Award.

SVEN PANKE CV

PARTICIPANT AT:

SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY. FROM STANDARD BIOLOGICAL PARTS TO ARTIFICIAL LIFE

September, 17th-18th, 2015, Barcelona

Sven Panke, Associate Professor of Bioprocess Engineering, Department of Biosystems Science and Engineering, ETH Zurich, Basel, Switzerland

Synthetic Biology – of Fundamental Concepts and First Applications

Synthetic biology is considered by many as an enabling technology of the 21st century which will allow us to drastically accelerate the arrival of novel biotechnological processes and products in modern society, and maybe even fundamentally change our ideas about what a biotechnological product is. On the other hand, synthetic biology is considered a field in which some of the most fundamental questions of the life sciences are addressed. I will try to navigate between these two extremes and sketch trajectories of how synthetic biology will likely affect our lives in the near future.