Dr. Yanhong Zhang is the Interim Executive Director / Director of Research ​at the National Corn-to-Ethanol Research Center at SIUE. Title: Building Biomanufacturing, from Bench Study to Commercialization Designated as a Biorefining Center of Excellence by the Illinois General Assembly, the National Corn-to-Ethanol Research Center (NCERC) is a nationally recognized biochemical processing scale-up research facility. … Continued

Caleb Bashor is an Assistant Professor of Bioengineering & Biosciences and Deputy Director for the Rice Synthetic Biology Institute at Rice University. Details for the seminar are as follows: Date: Tuesday, December 9th, 2025 Time: 3:00-4:00pm Location: Chicago Campus

The Center for Synthetic Biology, in collaboration with the Center for Interdisciplinary Exploration and Research in Astrophysics (CIERA), is pleased to welcome Dr. Kate Rubins, microbiologist and retired NASA astronaut, for a seminar exploring how insights from space-based genomics and systems biology can inform synthetic biology approaches to waste reclamation, environmental sensing, and biological operation in remote, resource-constrained environments on … Continued

The Center for Synthetic Biology, in collaboration with the Block Museum of Art at Northwestern, is pleased to welcome Dario Robleto, award-winning multi-media artist, for a screening of his film Ancient Beacons Long for Notice. A community conversation after the screening will explore this question in the context of synthetic biology’s history, encouraging us to consider its ethical implications as … Continued

Ena Chan Cratsenburg is the Chief Business Officer at Ginkgo Bioworks and Executive Advisory Board Member for the Center for Synthetic Biology. Details for the seminar are as follows: Tuesday, Sept. 22nd, 2026 Time: 9:30-10:30am Location: Evanston Campus

Edward You is the Founder & Principal of EHY Consulting LLC and a former FBI Supervisory Special Agent. Details for the seminar are as follows: Tuesday, Nov. 17th, 2026 Time: … Continued