Ceremony of Signing Collaborative Agreement between the center for Synthetic & Biology of Tsinghua University and the Manchester Institute of Biotechnology of Manchester University

Oct 11,2016, the center for Synthetic & Biology of Tsinghua University-the Manchester Institute of Biotechnology of Manchester University signed the Memorandum of Understanding. The signing ceremony was held in the new biology buillding of Tsinghua University. Nigel S. Scrutton, Director of the Institute of Biotechnologyof Manchester University, and Chen Guoqiang, Director of the Center for Synthetic and Systemic Biology, Tsinghua University, signed the MoU.

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The ceremony of Signing collaborative agreement between MIB of Manchester Unive and CSSB of Tsinghua Uiv

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Nigel S. Scrutton, director of the Institute for Biotechnology at the University of Manchester, is reporting

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At the signing ceremony, Nigel highlighted selected aspects of our work focused on the enzyme family termed ‘ene reduc-tases’. This will involve a journey from basic understanding of enzyme mechanisms, taking in structural biology, quantum biology and advanced kinetic methods, through to applications in biocatalysis, and ultimately to the engineering of microbial organisms for the production of monoterpene flavours and fragrances.The area of cooperation will be in scientific and technical subjects in areas of biotechnology/synthetic & systems biology.

Manchester Institute of Biotechnology of Manchester University

The Manchester Institute of Biotechnology, formerly the Manchester Interdisciplinary Biocentre (MIB) is a research institute of the University of Manchester, England. The centre has been designed to enable academic communities to explore specific areas of interdisciplinary quantitative bioscience, largely through the efforts of multidisciplinary research teams. Research at MIB follows three broadly defined, interdisciplinary and complementary themes: Biological Mechanism and Catalysis, Molecular Bioengineering, Systems biology.

Planning for the institute began late in 1998 and culminated with the official opening on 25 October 2006 of the John Garside Building. The institute was renamed the Manchester Institute of Biotechnology on 1 June 2012, retaining the acronym MIB.

Center for Synthetic & Biology of Tsinghua University

The Center for Synthetic & Biology of Tsinghua University’s core staff including one member of Chinese Academy of Sciences, one member of the Project of Thousand Talents plans, four Chief of the Project of 973, eight person-times of the Project of Changjiang Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars, 8 members of Thousand Youth Talents Plan Project of Thousand Youth Talents, one member of the project of Distinguished Young Scholars, one member of the project of the National 100. Three of them are in charge of 2 out of 10 synthetic biology 973 projects, and the only bioinformatics "973" project.