Margarita Bernal Cabas, researcher at the University of Groningen, presented a poster on HYDROCOW on the conference “Synthetic Biology for Health and Sustainability”, held from 21–23 October 2024 at the Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, UK and Virtual. Sonja Billerbeck, PI at the University of Groningen, co-organized this conference.

Synthetic biology has been widely championed worldwide as a driving force for the ‘bioeconomy’. This second conference on synthetic biology funded by Wellcome Connecting Science provided a platform to showcase the latest research within the field that can potentially improve human health and planetary sustainability.

The conference addressed how the technologies coming out of synthetic biology impact both healthcare (e.g. personalised medicines, T-cell therapies, low-cost diagnostics) and environmental challenges (e.g. sustainable management of agriculture, pollution and waste control).

Find out more here. The conference featured world-leading speakers in the field.