Un premier retour de notre workshop du vendredi 14 mars dans le laboratoire du CRI à Cochin. Article original réalisé par les community managers du CRI consultable ici. Présentation finale des projets des jeunes biologistes et designers le mardi 18 mars à 18h dans les locaux du CRI, 10 rue Charles 5 à Paris. Une synthèse plus complète suivra.

Prospective work in key notions = Identity / health / beauty / performance / sences

Synthetic biology presentation

Aleksandra Nivina (Institut Pasteur)

No unified definition of synthetic biology

biological/systems/devices/parts/design/engineering

what syn bio could do ?

ex : fuel from sugar with bacteria (not possible until now), producing drugs, cancert therapies, new materials (bacteria can made monomere), gene therapies, bioremediation (make better bacteria to degrade toxical products), biosensors, reprogram microflora, improved crops, cosmectics

Connection between synthetic biology and design: 

-from synthetic biologists point of view : design systems as genetic circuit, creating new proteins by rational design

similarity between genetic circuits and electronic circuits

designing organism = DNA synthetised and inserted in a micro-organism.

-from design: design objects easy to use, sustainable, practical, eco-friendly + imposed constraints (—> very similar between syn bio and design regarding objectives and constraints) + creativity !

Syn bio as a new area of design : “synthetic aesthetics” group

Making design a part of scientific practice 

James King (designer)

ex: designing meat !

project E. Chromi : bacteria as biosensors (changing colour according to the environment)

= could help to make some diagnosis

project Cellularity : “cellular drugs” (ex: metabolism = drugs deliver only when and where they have to)

"What I cannot create, I do not understand" Richard Feynman

A culture of questionning - CRI

Ariel lindner 

Question in the public:

What is the part of the dream?

How you design something when you don’t know what it is/what’s possible? = researcher approach (vs engineering point of view)

Legitimity of designer to build some objects or fiction ?

james king : knowing what is possible or not, give “licence” to speculate. 

Principles Health&Education

1. Personalized (adapted to everyone)

2. Predictive

3. preventive

4. participating

5. peer sharing

6. progressive

CRI = teaching through research for an overgrowing community

-Open lab

-master program AIRE (cf. the learning pyramid)

Importance of research and education in innovation

ex : 

iGEM

MOOC synthetic biology du CRI

SynBio4all (DIY lab)

Why digital is interested in biotechnologies?

Remi Sussan (Fing) 

Same kind of dvpt : quick, open-source, can be hacked

Same impact : Stewart brant said they are “autocatalytic technologies”, technologies that make all others technologies improve : infotech, biotech, nanotech

Same algorithmic processes

Biotech for everyone ? ex : openPCR

biopunk, biohacking, DIY = international community

ex: La Paillasse = a biohacklab in Paris (bioreactor, transilluminator to see DNA, bacterial ink, barcoding workshop ...

 

Biodegradable electronics (Sony)

DIYBio Code of ethics in 2011 made by the biohackerspaces (open access)

Artificial life and reverse:

 ”Genome Compiler” project : simili-CAD synthetic biology software

 

 George Church (Harvard) : created a machine which is creating thousands DNA sequences “in parallel”, try to create complexity

 George Church and Ed Regis : Project of the extinction = recreating creatures from the past (Dodo, Mammouth…)

 

Freeman Dyson (physicist) say that we are moving to the post-Darwinian era (because we control our own evolution)

 open source extended from the exchange of software to exchange of genes

 

 

Working group 

(5 fields and 5 teams are at work now : #identity /#beauty / #sences / #health / #performance )

 

• Presentations of the results:

Beauty team

-equipment = sweat, watch to measure your feelings

ex: watch with several electrods measuring the level of stress, excitation etc

-cream to replace a part of your microbiome

-white sweat shirt on which some colours appear and change according to combination bacteria/fibers.

Sense team

-biosensor which detects smells linked to fear

you can feel what other people feel (you can turn it off)

Identity team

-the bio-meetic project = 

you are sexually attract to people which are the opposite of you in terms of immune system. This is linked to the odours of people.

So, collect DNA and odors sample = crowdsourcing (theft ou legaly way to do that!)

Establish the correlation.

Sell the perfect perfume to a client allowing him to seduce the girl/man he wants. 

Health team

-a symbiotic pet

ex: a living organism (plants, animals) protects you to bugs (mosquitos etc)  you’re sensitive to. He can destroy them for example

maybe later product in bioreactors

Performance team

-Changing the bacteria of your skin for health impact or improve our performance.

a new biotextile company : radioresistant for example

test on animal models

iteration

2030 it’s ok!

 

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Publié: March 17, 2014, 4:36 pm