The development of economically feasible and sustainable biotechnological processes as alternatives to oil-based chemistry is one of the major goals of bio-based economy. The global chemical industry has initiated a crucial transition from petrochemical processes to bio-based chemical processes. Synthetic biology and bio-based processes are expected to become the preferred approach to produce chemicals from renewable … Continued

SilicoLife will be present at the BIO World Congress on Industrial Biotechnology in Des Moines, Iowa, USA. The BIO World Congress on Industrial Biotechnology and AgTech is the world’s largest industrial biotechnology event for business leaders, investors, and policy makers in biofuels, biobased products, and renewable chemicals. The 2019 edition will be held in Des Moines, … Continued

The course organized by the University of Minho will introduce state-of-the-art metabolic modelling covering the full process from model reconstruction to phenotype predictions using those models. The course will focus on user-friendly tools for metabolic model reconstruction and simulation and experimental procedures to improve those models. The course faculty have expertise in metabolic model reconstruction, … Continued

Data-driven Enzyme Design Enzymes are natural molecular machines that can perform the amazing feat of enabling and accelerating chemical reactions without themselves being consumed in the process. All living organisms on Earth depend on enzymes to process nutrients, to grow and to reproduce. Thanks to the development of modern biotechnology, enzymes can also be produced … Continued

This workshop, by invitation only, gathers a relatively small and diverse group of researchers to discuss novel perspectives in (computational) systems and synthetic biology arising from areas like systems and control theory, biophysics, applied mathematics, statistics and computer science (including machine learning). It will be presented several works related to reverse and forward engineering approaches … Continued

SilicoLife is participating on the company forum organized by BioData.pt, the Portuguese distributed e-infrastructure for biological data and the Portuguese node of ELIXIR, together with P-BIO, the Portuguese Bioindustry Association. Simão Soares, SilicoLife CEO, is speaking on the panel on how to generate value from biological data.

SilicoLife is participating at the conference Natural Products – Discovery, Biosynthesis and Application organized as part of the Copenhagen Bioscience conferences by the Novo Nordisk Foundation. This meeting covers the recent advances in the discovery of new natural products, elucidation of their biosynthetic pathways, activation of latent pathways or expression of pathways in heterologous hosts, … Continued

SilicoLife is part of a limited hand-picked number of companies backed by the European Innovation Council (EIC) pilot to participate in the P&G and Partners Corporate Day 2019. The selected companies will have the opportunity to pitch and present their business cases and to engage in one-on-one business meetings with representatives from some of the leading Corporates … Continued

SilicoLife will be present at the 3rd European Chemistry Partnering, taking place on February 26 2019, in Frankfurt. ECP is Europe´s leading Chemistry industry Partnering event with more than 800 participants, if you would like to have a meeting with our delegates please contact us.

Simão Soares, SilicoLife CEO, will be present at the next “BlueYard Conversation: Operating Systems for Life“. This event organised by the Berlin based VC BlueYard Capital will be focused on topics such as: Increasing human lifespan and life quality – curing the big diseases and upgrading our minds and bodies; Feeding the planet with engineered … Continued