Category: GP-write

Dear GP-write Community, We hope you are all staying healthy and safe during these extraordinary times. We are writing to share a number of exciting advances and developments at Genome Project-write (GPW): 1. The GPW Foundry and Incubator, Base-Pair-Go, is under development and will be the first of its kind focused on genome-scale writing. 1.… Continue reading 2021 GP-write Holiday Letter

To the GP-write community, As 2018 comes to a close, we write to wish you and your families a safe and happy holiday season! 2019 GP-write meeting Hold the Date The 2019 GP-write meeting will be held at NYU November 11-14 in conjunction with the Sc2.0 meeting. More details will be announced soon. A Productive… Continue reading Year in Review, and Save the Date for 2019 Meeting

GP-write Scientific Working Meeting was held at the Joseph P Martin Conference Center at Harvard Medical School in Boston, MA. Since the May, 2017 meeting, the following nine working groups have been working hard on their charters, roadmaps and white papers and the Scientific Executive Committee has identified the first lead project for GP-write which was discussed… Continue reading Photo Gallery of GP-write Meeting 2018

The leadership of Genome Project-write (GP-write), a project that follows on to the Human Genome Project and involves some 200 scientists from more than 100 institutions in 15 countries, proposes to move from passively reading genomes to actively writing them [1]. At the May 2018 Scientific Working Meeting, GP-write organizers will announce the first community-wide… Continue reading GP-write Announces ‘Ultra-safe Cells’ as Featured Community Project

Since the initial meeting on October 31st, 2015 in New York City, GP-write has made significant progress advancing the agenda of this Grand Challenge. We have expanded to 200 Consortium members, convened for two annual meetings, introduced 26 pilot projects, and formed 10 working groups that are now meeting at least monthly. It’s been a… Continue reading Happy 2nd Anniversary GP-write!

The second GP-write annual meeting was held on May 9th and 10th, 2017, at the New York Genome Center in New York City. This meeting explored the concrete steps that GP-write can take to solve some of the most important problems facing humanity, including how to move from a carbon-based economy towards a biological one… Continue reading Photo Gallery of GP-write Meeting 2017

Jef Boeke on the process of analyzing yeast colonies used to assemble chromosomes in the GenomeFoundry at NYU Langone Center.

If anyone understands the challenges associated with powering a eukaryotic cell with a designer genome built from scratch, it’s Leslie Mitchell, a postdoc in Jef Boeke’s lab at NYU. Mitchell has been leading experimental design and technological development for the Synthetic Yeast Genome Project (Sc2.0) since 2012. In this role, she collaborates with Sc2.0 International… Continue reading Building a Genome from Scratch: Lessons Learned from Sc2.0

Welcome to the official blog of GP-write! Through this blog, we will not only provide you with project updates, but will invite you to engage with us to consider all aspects of this Grand Challenge. What global challenges should this project address to advance humanity? What technological limitations do we need to overcome? Who owns… Continue reading GP-Write Ramps Up for 2017

We are pleased with the great showing of interest and support for our upcoming meeting on May 9-10th, at the New York Genome Center. With mounting enthusiasm for the meeting now on the horizon, we are posting an update with the most recent developments. The agenda is now online, and includes scientific talks, discussions about roadmaps… Continue reading Update on the Upcoming GP-write Meeting in May