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Job Title: Innogen Associate Fax: Email: Alistair.Elfick@ed.ac.uk Building: Room Number:
Alistair has a background in Biomedical Engineering from which an involvement in Synthetic Biology was spawned in 2005. Since then, and with the help of many, he has become firmly engaged in the UK' emergent SynBio community. Alistair is Director of a BBSRC Synthetic Biology Network www.synbiostandards.ac.uk and also of the University of Edinburgh's Centre for Synthetic Biology.
Alistair's research interests include whole cell biosensors for pollution, therapeutic compound biosynthesis and biofuel synthesis / biomass degradation technologies. An allied research interest lies in the cross-fertilisation of the SynBiuo and creative communities wihtin the Synthetic Aesthetics www.syntheticaesthetics.org project.
Alistair also preserves a strong interest in facilitating public dialogue surrounding SynBio and was a consultant to the BBSRC's recent SynBio Dialogue (June '10).
Alistair was also an inquiry member for the Royal Academy of Engineering's report on Synthetic Biology.
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