It all begins with an idea.

Our 1st meeting to kick off what we hoped would become a successful Dutch Synthetic Biology Association! A platform to create a SynBio community in NL.

Every great idea needs some action!

Our first in-person team meetup as founding members of #SynBioNL

When ideas become real!

SynBioNL ‘pre-launching‘ at #SSM22 meeting orgnised by the KNVM.

Introducing ourselves to different stakeholders

At SynBioNL we aim to connect all the community in the Netherlands, including industry! Today, Sonja Billerbeck, from our advisory board, presented us in the Experts meeting on Fungal Production Strains & Industrial Applications in Leiden, organized by BaseClear.

We launched our first online meeting with our SynBioNL Chair, two members of IGEM Community and a researcher from the Rathenau Instituut. Thank you all for coming, both speakers and audience!

We presented our view on the synthetic biology landscape in the Netherlands, describing a growing community of stuents and researchers, IGEM members, policymakers, artists, and stakeholders in industry and the government. Learn more about it here https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biotno.2022.07.004 .

SynBioNL was represented at the Netherlands Biotechnology Congress in Leiden last 4th October 2022, where we presented a poster to share our vision and last publication.

Our SynBioNLers Darshak Bhatt and Marjolein Crooijmans started a podcast to meet the iGEM members and the different initiatives of Dutch teams this year. You can listen to the different episodes in https://open.spotify.com/show/7gLioO9N2fQLd64vT16vId .

During the SynBio Alliance session, we had the opportunity to introduce SynBioNL to all the iGEM members gatherins in the Jamboree organized in Paris.

During our very first in-person event we had the opportunity to listen to the story and personal career of people from both academia and industry.