My short article on the convergence between biology and computing will be published in the autumn 2016 issue of ITNOW, the journal of the British Computing Society.

Read the preprint here (PDF).

Catch me and Robbie Oppenheimer bright and early on BBC Radio Oxford at 7:10AM this Sunday, 26th June. We’ll be talking about the Oxford Science Festival which starts this week, and particularly about a public debate on Wednesday 29th June: “Is the genetic modification of humans ethically justified?” Buy tickets for the debate here.

UPDATE! Listen to the interview:

MAXFACS is a simple open-source tool for analysing flow cytometry data.

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I’m speaking after dinner at the Real Time Club in London on 24th May 2016. Come along for a fascinating discussion. Tickets are available here (including discounted student tickets)!

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I have been working on a four-part series of articles exploring how the convergence of modern synthetic biology, biological computing, traditional computing and neuroscience will transform the way we understand consciousness and learning. The first of these articles, coauthored with British Computing Society fellow Charles Ross, was just published in the BCS journal ITNOW. The third article will focus on synthetic biology and DNA computing in particular.

PDF here.

I’m presenting a journal club with SynBio Oxford at 7pm, Thursday 25th February, in the Level 2 seminar rooms of the Rex Richards Building. We’ll be exploring this paper (paywall) about using CRISPR-Cas9 for drug discovery. Come along for a discussion on this year’s hottest topic in science. Free drinks and nibbles!

Update: see the slides here.

PLoS SynBio blog ran a great review of the year 2015 in synthetic biology. Check it out: the Gene-editing Tsunami.