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SUMMARY:Café Synthetique - OpenPlant Fund Mixer and Microfluidics - Ivan 
 Reyna-Llorens\, Steve Burgess and a representative from Sphere Fluidics
DTSTART:20161121T180000Z
DTEND:20161121T200000Z
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CONTACT:Andrew Jonathan Balmer
DESCRIPTION:!https://a248.e.akamai.net/secure.meetupstatic.com/photos/even
 t/d/a/f/f/600_455936063.jpeg!\n\n*Café Synthetique is the monthly meetup 
 for the Cambridge synthetic biology community with informal talks\, discus
 sion and pub snacks.*\n\nThis month we'll hear from 2016 OpenPlant Fund gr
 antees and discuss your ideas for open\, innovative and interdisciplinary 
 projects in cell-free or plant synthetic biology.  \n\n*OpenPlant Fund Mix
 er*\n\n"The OpenPlant Fund":http://openplant.org/fund/ will support innova
 tive\, open and interdisciplinary projects relevant to plant Synthetic Bio
 logy over 2015-19. Around 20 six-month projects per year will receive £4k
  each\, with an additional £1k awarded on completion for follow-on and ou
 treach. We are now accepting applications with a submission deadline of 1 
 December 2016.\n\nIf you are interested in finding out more\, come along t
 o our mixer event on November 21st.\n\nThis event will be casual\, and inf
 ormative so that you can find out more about the fund\, share ideas and me
 et potential collaborators - you do not need to have a proposal ready form
 ulated beforehand. \n\nThe aim of the fund is to promote the development o
 f plant Synthetic Biology as an interdisciplinary field and to facilitate 
 exchange between The University of Cambridge\, the John Innes Centre\, the
  Ealham Institute and The Sainsbury Laboratory for the development of open
  technologies and responsible innovation in the context of Synthetic Biolo
 gy.\n\nIn 2015 the OpenPlant Fund supported 16 projects with very diverse 
 aims\, from lab-based projects to generate and characterise DNA parts\, th
 rough hardware and software projects to workshops in intellectual property
 \, hackathons and outreach.\n\nFor more information on the fund\, "click h
 ere.":http://openplant.org/fund/\n\n\n*Microfluidics *\n\nThis month\, Caf
 é Synthetique will also include a series of talks on the emerging topic o
 f microfluidics. This month's speakers will include Ivan Reyna-Llorens\, S
 teve Burgess\, Florian Hollfelder\, and Clive Smith from Sphere Fluidics. 
 \n\n*"Plant ProChip: A microfluidic device for high-throughput analysis of
  genetic circuits in plant protoplasts."*\n\nIvan Reyna-Llorens is post-do
 ctoral research associate in the Department of Plant Sciences.\n\n*"High T
 hroughput Screening of Synthetic Biology Libraries by ESI Mass Spectrometr
 y"*\n\nClive Smith is principal chemist at Cambridge based company Sphere 
 Fluidics.\n\n*"Plant ProChip: Exploring the Use of Microfluidics for High-
 throughput Screening in Plants"*\n\nSteve Burgess is a research staff memb
 er in the Department of Plant Sciences.\n\n*"Topic title TBC"*\n\nDr Flori
 an Hollfelder is a principal investigator in the Department of Biochemistr
 y.\n\n\n*Please join us in the Panton Arms pub at 6pm. *
LOCATION:Panton Arms 43 Panton Street CB2 1HL\, Cambridge
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