Speaker:  Marc Güell Cargoll, ICREA Research Professor at Pompeu Fabra University. 

Department: Department of Medicine and Life Sciences. Research groups: Translational SYNBIO

Abstract: 
Our research is focussed in developing new principles and technologies to engineer biological systems. AI is revolutionizing biodesign, and its coupling with multiplex DNA writing enables a new concept of synthetic evolution which promises to accelerate synthetic biology. We are levereging bioprospecting, AI and evolution to create new biological functions. Then, I will focus on 1) how we developed a gene writer for human cells and its deployment ex vivo (T cells) and in vivo (liver targeting, in vivo T cells). 2) how we use Cutibacterium acnes as a chassis to engineer human skin properties.

Online assistance: https://gencat.zoom.us/j/85369764056

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