The first BIOFAB Community Meeting will take place on July 19-20, 2010 at the Joint BioEnergy Institute in Emeryville, CA. The BIOFAB encourages interested users from SynBERC and the broader synthetic biology community to participate in the day and a half meeting that will bring together international experts to help us respond to needs in technical development, open innovation, and social ramifications of standardized biology. Planned presentations and discussions will be led by BIOFAB staff and others on these topics and more:

(1) Expression operating unit genetic architecture
(2) Transcription measurement reference standards
(3) Software tools supporting automated parts refinement, datasheet generation, & distribution
(4) Human practices in practice — what are we preparing for?
(5) Application needs