To help overcome differences in terminology used by researchers in various fields, a number of podcast "tutorials" focusing on various aspects of synthetic biology will be released prior to the conference.  This year, Joe Palca, on leave from his position as NPR science correspondent, has interviewed selected experts on aspects of synthetic biology and turned them into “Science Friday” type podcasts. 

Conference attendees will be notified when a new tutorial is released through the weekly conference enewsletters.  Attendees are asked to listen to all podcast tutorials prior to the November conference.  All podcasts will be available on this Web page and burned onto CD-Rom and mailed to all attendees prior to the conference.
 
In addition to listening to the podcasts, we'd appreciate your time completing the survey associated with each so that we can better prepare for future years.  Thank you!

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Engineering and Synthetic Biology
Frances H. Arnold (NAS/NAE/IOM)
Dick and Barbara Dickinson Professor of Chemical Engineering and Biochemistry
California Institute of Technology

Gene Circuitry/Protein Circuits and Synthetic Biology
Wendell A. Lim
Professor in the Departments of Pharmacology and Biochemistry
University of California San Francisco
Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Chemistry and Synthetic Biology: Building Synthetic Tools
David A. Tirrell (NAS/NAE)
Ross McCollum-William H. Corcoran Professor and former Chairman of the Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering at the California Institute of Technology

National Security and Ethics and Synthetic Biology
Jonathan D. Moreno (IOM)
David and Lyn Silfen University Professor of Ethics and Professor of Medical Ethics and of History and Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania

Overview of Synthetic Biology
J. Craig Venter (NAS)
Founder, Chairman, and President
J. Craig Venter Institute

Gene Circuitry/Cell-to-Cell Communication and Synthetic Biology
Ron Weiss
Associate Professor, Department of Biological Engineering and  the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Gene Circuitry/Fragility of Systems and Synthetic Biology
Jim Collins
Boston University and Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Religion and Ethics and Synthetic Biology
Laurie Zoloth
Director, Center for Bioethics, Science and Society and Professor of Medical Ethics and Humanities
Northwestern University

Chemistry and Synthetic Biology: Metabolic Engineering, Building Pathways, Metagenomics and Applications
Jay D. Keasling
Professor, Chemical Engineering and Bioengineering, University of California, Berkeley
Acting Deputy Laboratory Director, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
CEO, Joint Bioenergy Institute

Engineering and Synthetic Biology
Drew Endy
Assistant Professor, Bioengineering
Stanford University

Creative Problem Solving
Richard N. Foster
Managing Partner of Millbrook Management Group, LLC and
Member of the W. M. Keck Foundation Board (Executive Committee)