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Mustafa Khammash and Matias Zurbriggen present their advancements at the 3rd Optogenetic Technologies and Applications Conference in Heidelberg.

As an invited Speaker, Jamie Davies highlights some of the advancements made in CyGenTiG.

Our partners from Kirkstall are organizing a conference on a plentora of subjects in vitro cell culture. Topics include Methodologies / Microphysiological systems, 3-D, and multi-tissue, multi-organ models, Cancer models, Digital pathology and Translational science.

Jamie Davies gives a talk at the Royal Society of Biology.

The team met in Edinburgh to discuss upcoming collaborations and future projects. We covered light sensitive cell construction and testing, imaging and illumination, modeling and automated closed loop control and had lots of good discussions and positive feedback.

The CyGenTig team organised a Symposium with speakers covering a wide range of topics on upcoming research in Optogenetics.

Mustafa Khammash from the CyGenTiG team publishes a review article on optogenetic tools for biotechnological purposes using bacteria.

Christian Fleck from the CyGenTiG team publishes with colleagues from Wageningen University a paper on reducing genome-scale metabolic networks to construct kinetic models.

Mustafa Khammash from the CyGenTiG team establishes the foundations for context-aware prediction and improvement of in vivo synthetic circuit performance.

Jamie Davies from the CyGenTiG team publishes an article about engineering pattern formation.

Mustafa Khammash from the CyGenTiG team publishes an article about cells interacting through in silico signalling.

A sub-group from the CyGenTiG team met in Düsseldorf to discuss the progress of the optogenetic modules needed for tissue engineering.

Jamie Davies from the CyGenTiG team publishes an Oxford primer on mammalian synthetic biology.

Mustafa Khammash from the CyGenTiG team organised together with colleagues a tutorial session on Cybernetics in Nice, France.

Matias Zurbriggen from the CyGenTiG team published a paper on the interaction between phytochrome and their interacting partners.

We met in Edinburgh to discuss the CyGenTiG project. Here are some impressions.

We use the C++ class library PhysiCell for agent-based computer simulations of biological tissues in CyGenTiG.

Mustafa Khammash from the CyGenTiG team published a paper in Nature about robust perfect adaptation.

Jamie Davies from the CyGenTiG team and his colleague William Waites introduce the concept of Structural Entropy to quantify the complexity of a developing biological structure.

Jamie Davies from the CyGenTiG team discusses fundamental questions of Synthetic Biology.