Life’s Lego: building synthetic life brick for brick  The
Lustrum committee of study association Alchimica organizes a
symposium about synthetic biology, celebrating the 40th
anniversary of Molecular Life Sciences. What are the building
bricks of life? Can we create life from scratch in the
laboratory? Synthetic biology tries to answer those questions.
Beatrix Süss (University of Frankfurt), Eörs Szathmáry (Eötvös
Loránd University, Budapest) and Dominik Niopek (iGEM Team) will
tell us about the most recent developments. Think of completely
new proteins like RNA switches, synthesizing an organism from
its DNA sequence and new insights in evolution. The general idea
is to create new biological functions and systems. The ethical
questions about this topic will be discussed by Lei Pei,
researcher at IDC in Austria.   13:00 Doors open 13:15 Opening
and Introduction - Vitor Martins dos Santos 13:50 iGEM - Dominik
Niopek  14:25 break  14:40 Evolution and Synthetic Biology -
Eors Szathmary 15:15 Synthetic RNA switc