From 23th to 25th of July 2012 the [http://www.cas.uni-muenchen.de/veranstaltungen/tag_synth_bio_2012/index.html CAS Conference] took place, which was organized by the LMU Center for Advanced Studies in Munich. The conference was arranged in order to bring together scientists of different expertise and to promote projects by interdisciplinary. Several notable speakers working on Synthetic Biology informed about their field of work, as for example Martin Fussenegger (ETH Zürich), Víctor de Lorenzo (CSIC Madrid) and Jay Keasling (University of California, Berkeley). Furthermore the philosopher Alfred Nordmann (TU Darmstadt) presented his point of view about Synthetic Biology. Apart from this some poster sessions were organized in which companies, working groups and also the iGEM teams could present their work.

Several members of our iGEM team participated at the conference. This offered us the possibility to extend our knownledge as well as to participate in interesting discussions on different fields of Synthetic Biology. Moreover we got the chance to discuss with experts about aims, achievements and problems of our project as well as to get to know some other iGEM teams and to inform us about their projects. After the official program all iGEM teams met in the evenings to have dinner, some drinks and a lot of fun… For the program and a list of all speakers see [http://www.en.cas.uni-muenchen.de/events/tag_synth_bio_2012/program.pdf here].

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