AUNAB - Aarhus University Network on Artificial Biology

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Events

Recent events

Annual Meeting - October 23rd, 2026

The Annual Meeting of AUNAB was held on Friday, Oct23rd, 2026 at AIAS (Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies).

The meeting kicked off with the Distinguished iNANO lecture by Shelley Wickham (School of Chemistry, The University of Sydney, NSW/Australia) at 10 am.

More exiting talks around the field of synthetic biology followed this keynote. The event further featured a poster session and an afternoon panel discussion on synthetic biology: Programme

We thank all participants for their enthusiasm and active participation, making it a special day!

Planned events

December 2026

  • Research meeting: Meeting with presentations of research from members of AUNAB. Organizer: Alex Zelikin

March 2027     

  • Research meeting: Meeting with presentations of research from members of AUNAB. Organizer: Julian Valero Moreno

April 2027                 

  • Danish Science Festival: Outreach activites at the Danish Science Festival by members of AUNAB. https://forsk.dk

August 2027           

  • International conference on Artificial Biology, iNANO auditorium: Molecular robotics and soft robotics (ArtBio26)
  • Interdisciplinary workshop on "Astrobiology and interstellar catalysis" by Kai Finster & Liv Hornekær

October 2027                   

  • Research meeting: Meeting with presentations of research from members of AUNAB. Organizer: Ebbe Andersen

Events archive

AUSBI Bioimaging Afternoon

2 May
Friday 2 May 2025, at 13:00 "Nucleus" auditorium (1871-120), Dept. MBG, Universitetsbyen 81, Aarhus University

This next AUSBI Afternoon Meeting will focus on bioimaging techniques and facilities available to researchers at Aarhus university.

Danish Science Festival

22 Apr
6 days, Tuesday 22 April 2025, at 08:00 - 27 April

Outreach activites at the Danish Science Festival by members of AUNAB.

AUNAB kick-off symposium

4 Apr
Friday 4 April 2025, at 09:30

The Kick-Off meeting with contributed talks from members of AUNAB.

ArtBio2024: 2nd Artificial Biology Conference: Assemble – Imitate - Adapt

14 Aug
3 days, Wednesday 14 August 2024, at 11:28 - 16 August

ArtBio 2024 aims to provide a 3-day forum for topical discussions between world-renowned scientists and researchers at different stages of their carrier. ArtBio2024 will contain different themes and topics that represent the fast-evolving field and illustrate the diversity of Artificial Biology as a discipline. The themes will cover molecules and nano-sized assemblies to micron-sized cell-like entities considering their structure, function and dynamics.

Workshop on Biological Art for Scientists

13 Aug
Tuesday 13 August 2024, at 09:00

Biological art is introduced by the bioartist Oron Catts and art historian Pernille-Leth Espensen. You will prompted to reflect upon which current scientific developments could be interesting to thematize in an artwork and how such an artwork could be created using biotechnological materials.

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André Walter