The MIT Museum is hosting Re: Making Life, a series of free seminars on synthetic biology, open to the public (high school and older).  Events are on Wednesdays, 6PM-7:30PM, at the MIT Museum (MIT’s Building N51, at 265 Massachusetts Ave. in Cambridge) and also available online (see details).

October 7:  Breaking the “SynBio” Barrier
Peter Carr, Senior Scientist, MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Jeffrey Way, Senior Staff Scientist, Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering

October 14:  Customizing Nature
Kristala Jones Prather, Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering, MIT
Ron Weiss, Professor of Bioengineering and Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, MIT

October 21:  Who Needs Rules?
George Church, Professor of Genetics, Harvard Medical School
Kenneth Oye, Associate Professor of Political Science and Engineering Systems Design, MIT