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Victor obtained his masters in chemical engineering with honours at Imperial College London before completing a specialist biotechnology and business masters with distinction at the University of Cambridge.  
 
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Since graduating, Victor founded Desktop Genetics with a vision to change modern biotech R&D and enable rapid and accurate end-to-end genome engineering experiments through their proprietary software platform. Within two years of founding Desktop Genetics, Victor has raised over $600,000 of private equity and grant financing, and delivered over $400,000 of revenue. Today, Victor heads the company's business development and operations and is leading the product and technology expansion into CRISPR and genome editing.
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Yves Peeters, Laboratory of Biochemistry, Molecular and Structural Biology
 
Yves Peeters, Laboratory of Biochemistry, Molecular and Structural Biology
 
After completing his master thesis at KU Leuven, Yves obtained an IWT fellowship for his PhD work in the field of synthetic biology. His primary interest goes to DNA polymerases and their modifications towards creation of artificial nucleic acids.
 
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Revision as of 14:02, 19 August 2015

Symposium

iGEM Symposium Day on Synthetic Biology, Cell Systems and Ethics in Biochemistry

Details


DATE: 07.09.2015 10:00 – 19:00
VENUE:
KU Leuven Campus Arenberg, Celestijnenlaan 200A (Computer Science) aula 00.225, Heverlee, Belgium
PARTICIPATION:
FREE but the REGISTRATION is REQUIRED. Please, register here: Registration form


PROGRAM


SYMPOSIUM PROGRAM
9:00-10:00 Welcome tea/Coffee, registration
Morning block 10:00-10:10 Welcome words
10:10-10:35 Home speaker: Vera van Noort, Centrum for Microbial and Plant Genetics
10:35-11:35 Keynote speaker
11:35-12:00 iGEM topics, presentation from the participating iGEM Teams and the KU Leuven Team
12:05-13:00 Lunch Break, networking
Afternoon block 13:00-14:00 Keynote speaker: Victor Dillard, Chief Operating Officer & Founder, Desktop Genetics
14:00-14:25 Home speaker: Yves Peeters, Laboratory of Biochemistry: Molecular and Structural Biology
14:25-15:30 iGEM topics, presentations from the participating iGEM Teams and the KU Leuven Team
15:30-16:00 Tea/Coffee break
Evening block 16:00-17:00 A debate with the speakers, professors and iGEM supervisors on the ethics in synthetic biology
17:00-17:10 Closing words
17:10-??:?? A reception/dinner prepared by the KU Leuven iGEM Team


Speakers




Vera van Noort, Centrum for Microbial and Plant Genetics Professor at KU Leuven, Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, scientist, computational biology, data mining





Victor Dillard, Chief Operating Officer & Founder, Desktop Genetics Victor obtained his masters in chemical engineering with honours at Imperial College London before completing a specialist biotechnology and business masters with distinction at the University of Cambridge. Since graduating, Victor founded Desktop Genetics with a vision to change modern biotech R&D and enable rapid and accurate end-to-end genome engineering experiments through their proprietary software platform. Within two years of founding Desktop Genetics, Victor has raised over $600,000 of private equity and grant financing, and delivered over $400,000 of revenue. Today, Victor heads the company's business development and operations and is leading the product and technology expansion into CRISPR and genome editing.
Yves Peeters, Laboratory of Biochemistry, Molecular and Structural Biology After completing his master thesis at KU Leuven, Yves obtained an IWT fellowship for his PhD work in the field of synthetic biology. His primary interest goes to DNA polymerases and their modifications towards creation of artificial nucleic acids.







PARTICIPATING iGEM TEAMS
KU Leuven



DRINKS AND FOOD
Beverages, lunch sandwiches and dinner-reception will be provided for all the participants free of charge.



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