On May 27th, the two-day SAHAM · 2019 "Symposium of Standardization and Automation of High Throughput Analysis in Big Science Microbiome Projects" seminar goes smoothly at the Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Guoping Zhao, member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Yufen Zhao, member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Margaret Mcfall-Ngai, member of the American Academy of Sciences, Francisco Guarner, chairman of the International Human Microbiome Alliance (IHMC), and more than 300 experts and scholars from home and abroad attend the meeting to discuss the research on synthetic biology in design and construction of the Advanced Biofoundry(Shenzhen).
In addition, the International Human Microbiome Alliance initiated the launch of the "Big Science Microbiome Projectsn", and discussed how to use Shenzhen's large facilities to develop a large science plan.
This Symposium is sponsored by Shenzhen Association for Science and Technology and organized by SIAT.
On this conference, Shenzhen Institute of Synthetic Biology announced the formal establishment of the Center for Synthetic Microbiology .
Professor Lei Dai, the director of the center, said that the center will form a complete and innovative ecology, conduct original research in the intersection of synthetic biology and microbiology, and promote the application of artificial flora in medical clinical, industrial and agricultural production.
In the future, the center plans to expand the research object from a single microorganism to a complex system composed of a variety of different microorganisms, use synthetic biology tools to build a microbial flora with controllable functions and stability and to solve important issues of human health.