AMAbiotics is a knowledge-based company
devoted to research. It rests on the idea of knowledge
sharing, and participates to conferences, debates and
training with its academic and proprietary competence in
biotechnology, systems biology and synthetic biology
Working
Seminar Stanislas Noria
Department of Mathematics
The University of Hong Kong
3 december 2013
« Metabolism and the
emergence of the first cells »
Genome L ectures
Beijing Genome Institute
2 december 2013
« Paralogous metabolism: a
consequence of the logic of metabolism »
Syn Bio Summer Course
ERASynBio
Synthetic Biology in action!
6 july 2013
« Top-down functional analysis
identifies overlooked functions for the SB
chassis »
Institut de Physique Théorique
19 february 2013
«
Antifragility and tinkering in biology. Flexibility is
an efficient epigenetic solution for risk
management »
International Workshop: Around
viability boundaries
13 december 2012
« Antifragility and risk
management in biology »
The
University of Hong Kong
Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine
Department of Biochemistry
14 november 2012, 4 pm
« Novel pathways in sulfur
metabolism »
Working
Seminar in Conceptual Biology (Stanislas Noria)
Department of Mathematics
The University of Hong Kong
9 November 2012
« Compartmentalisation of
information in biology »
Internationale Vorlesungsreihe —
Synthetische Biologie
Universität Bremen
24 october 2012
« (Re)constructing life: we
should not forget the chassis »
Presentation

COST Workshop on Whitefly Metagenomics – Synthetic
Biology & Symbiosis
Cavanilles Institute on
Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology
University of Valencia
27-28 february 2012
Functional Analysis for
Synthetic Biology. Metabolic Frustration is Driving
Compartmentalisation
Presentation

Frontiers
in Systems Biology II
Baptist University
The Croucher Foundation
1 - 2 December 2011
Ageing vs senescence: the fate
of the cell factory
Synthetic Biology (SB) puts together
two separate entities, a program and a chassis. The
majority of SB-related work deals with the program, not
the chassis. We will deal with the chassis and ask the
quetion: will scaling up synthetic processes be
possible, and to what extent? Indeed, scaling up implies
reproduction of the chassis, i.e. making similar copies.
As in all systems this implies progressive ageing.
Living cells have a knack to make that ageing differs
from senescence. We will explore how this is possible,
and why this has important consequences in terms of SB.
Presentation

Working
Seminar in Conceptual Biology
Department of Mathematics
The University of Hong Kong
30 November 2011
Update of antifragility: a
concept used in banking that may be relevant to
(synthetic) biology
Bageco11
Bacterial Genetics and Ecology
29 may - 2 June 2011
Antifragility: a concept used in
banking that may be relevant to (synthetic) biology
Flyer

Institut Curie, retreat 
4 may 2011, 2:30 pm
Antifragility: a concept used in
banking that may be relevant to (synthetic) biology
Beijing Genome Institute

6 january 2011, 3:30 pm
Functional analysis in genome sequence
annotation
with an introduction on the
arsenic nightmare, and the way science should not
be done, or "why thinking
as an engineer helps making discoveries"
Croucher Advanced Study Institute
5 january 2011, 4:30 pm
Synthetic biology and aging
Hong Kong University of Science and
Technology

5 january 2011, 10 am
Antifragility; a novel view of
finances that may be used in modelling metabolism
The
University of Hong Kong
4 january 2011, 4 pm 
Stability requirements for
efficient metabolic engineering
European Technology Assessment Group
Bio-engineering in the 21st Century
10 november 2010, European Parliament,
1-6 pm
Public debate Programme
LIX École Polytechnique
8 november 2010, 5 15 - 6 15 pm
Reproduction vs replication: a role
for Maxwell's demon
TARPOL
summer school on synthetic biology
Metabolic and spatial frustration as
contraints for synthetic biology
27 september 2010
ETH Zürich, Basel, Switzerland

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International workshop on synthetic
biology
Molecular traffic jams and the
reproduction vs replication dilemma
25-27 august 2010
Copenhagen, Denmark

Presentation
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The US-EC task force in biotechnology
research
Molecular traffic jams and emergence
of metabolic and regulatory conflicts
4-6 june 2010
Segovia, Spain
The Third Schmid Training Course
The body plan, an information trapped
by Maxwell's demons?
10-14 may 2010
Station Biologique de Roscoff, Roscoff, France
Belgian Society for Microbiology
25 march 2010
Palais des Académies
1, rue Ducale, Brussels, Belgium

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In a context where industry
invests considerable hopes and means in a discipline
presented as a new domain of research, Synthetic
Biology, we must explore the pros and cons to make
motivated choices. The lecture aimed at showing that
it is not sufficient to make promises to succeed, and
that specific constraints linked to biology have to be
taken into account. These constraints where
metabolism, ageing and invention have a malor role,
will decide of the future successes of Synthetic
Biology. Living organisms behave as information
gathering and reproducing systems, and this has
considerable consequences on their evolution. The
economic model of AMAbiotics is constructed with this
perspective in mind.