Point of View: A transatlantic perspective on 20 emerging issues in biological engineering
Wintle, B.C. & Boehm, C.R., Rhodes, C., Molloy, J.C., Millett, P., Adam, L., et al.., Sutherland, W.J. (2017) A transatlantic perspective on 20 emerging issues in biological engineering. eLife. Advances in biological engineering are likely to have substantial impacts on global society. To explore these potential impacts we ran a horizon scanning exercise to capture …
ebio·ome: the DNA space explorer.
Talk at SynBioBeta 2017 http://sf2017.synbiobeta.com/speakers/laura-adam/
A transatlantic perspective on 20 emerging issues in biological engineering
Our new paper is out! Abstract Advances in biological engineering are likely to have substantial impacts on global society. To explore these potential impacts we ran a horizon scanning exercise to capture a range of perspectives on the opportunities and risks presented by biological engineering. We first identified 70 potential issues, and then used an …
PACHA.YEAST: Morphogenetic engineering of yeast Microcolonies
Incas regarded space and time as a single concept, referred to as pacha ( Quechua: pacha, Aymara: pacha). A poster of my work on PACHA.YEAST: Highlights: Lab automation with Apprent’yeast: learned patterns to automatically design plasmids from lab data (inferred a probabilistic context-free grammar (PCFG)) Adam, L. & Klavins, E. (2015). archiYEAST: a command-line synthetic yeast …
Phylogenetic study of stars in the solar neighbourhood
Using 17 chemical elements as a proxy for stellar DNA, we present a full phylogenetic study of stars in the solar neighbourhood. This entails applying a clustering technique that is widely used in molecular biology to construct an evolutionary tree from which three branches emerge. These are interpreted as stellar populations which separate in age …
LYSD: Language for Yeast Spatiotemporal Development
LYSD is a language a created to specify a phenotype. It can be compiled down into a genetic designs, which ultimately can be automatically build into a lab (check out Aquarium from the Klavins lab; I used it with a python API). We could formally verify a programmed phenotype: microscopy images can be analysed and …
UW CoMotion funds ebio·ome
I received the Innovation Fund in 2016. EE Students and Faculty Receive 2016 CoMotion Innovation Fund. July 7, 2016 by UW EE department (PR). http://www.ee.washington.edu/spotlight/ee-students-and-faculty-receive-2016-comotion-innovation-fund/ I was a commercialization fellow for 2017.
Judging at iGEM
2010-2016: Judge at the Jamboree 2014: Committee member Policy and Practices New track 2012: Judge at aGEM, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada (invited) 2010-2011: Advisor Virginia Tech Team and Virginia Tech-ENSIMAG Biosecurity Team
$30 to Make a DIY EpiPen
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/602422/it-costs-30-to-make-a-diy-epipen-and-heres-the-proof/ The pharmaceutical company Mylan, which is the only manufacturer of the device, was recently shown to have raised the prices of a single device from $57 to $318—that’s a 461 percent increase—since acquiring rights to it in 2007. […] There are several reasons why nobody else has built an alternative to the EpiPen, among them patent protection, fear …