We've got a fantastic line-up of teams pitching for the OpenPlant Fund - £5000 grants to support innovative, open and interdisciplinary projects to engineer plant biology. All are welcome to hear the teams 13:00-16:30 on Mon 14 March in the Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge. We'll be sticking strictly to time, so feel free to drop in even if you can only make it for a couple of pitches.
Pitch Timetable
14 March 2016, 13:00 - 16:30 Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge
| Time | Project Title |
| 13:00 | Opening remarks |
| 13:15 | Hot Tomato: Complementation of the Capsaicin Biosynthetic Pathway to Engineer Spicy Tomatoes |
| 13:30 | Synthetic Biology for Schools: A multidisciplinary approach |
| 13:40 | Implementation of a synthetic transcriptional AND gate in the chloroplast of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii |
| 13:50 | Co-lab OpenPlant - interdisciplinary workshops of science art and design |
| 14:00 | Desktop plant experiment box |
| 14:10 | Environmental sensor networks based on plant electrical signalling. |
| 14:20 | Coffee Break |
| 14:50 | Plant electro-mechanics |
| 15:00 | Advancing the ability to image single RNA molecules at the cellular level |
| 15:10 | Establish a Procedure for Rapid Identification of Genetic Parts for Use in Algal Biotechnology |
| 15:20 | Establishing 3D Printed Microfluidics for Molecular Biology Workflows |
| 15:30 | Universal precise large area colony scanning stage with measurement and selection tool integration |
| 15:40 | Development of an Open Source Autonomous Imaging Station for Distribution in High Schools, Universities, and Emerging DIY Scientific Communities. |
| 15:50 | Printable SynBioLab - a feasability study |
| 16:00 | A synthetic biology approach to investigating arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis in Marchantia paleacea |
| 16:10 | Closing remarks |