11:14 a.m., Sept. 23, 2015–Ron Weiss, director of the Synthetic Biology Center at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, will deliver the first talk in the University of Delaware’s Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Distinguished Lecture Series.

The lecture, “Synthetic Biology: From Parts to Modules to Therapeutic Systems,” will take place on Wednesday, Oct. 7, from 3:30 to 4:30 pm in Mitchell Hall. A reception will follow in the DuPont Hall lobby.

Weiss will describe his group’s integrated computational/experimental approach to engineering complex behavior in a variety of cells, with a focus on mammalian cells.

Click here for a complete abstract.