Industry Profiles — SynBio Canada

Alex Campbell

Hyasynth Bio is a Montreal based company that manufactures cannabinoid ingredients using yeast fermentation and synthetic biology.

BIOMATIK

Biomatik has been serving scientists since 2002, with over 35 distributors in the world. We provide custom gene, peptide, protein, and antibody synthesis services along with a comprehensive life science catalog of stock products.

Benjamin ScottAugust 8, 2021#bacteria, #industry

Christopher Bush/Catalyst Agri-Innovations Society

In our work we disassemble high volume, low value agricultural residual streams that many call "waste". From them we make Renewable Natural Gas, and use the revenue from that to further isolate the compounds that make up manure.

British ColumbiaBenjamin ScottAugust 1, 2021#greentech, #entrepreneur

Kevin Chen/Hyasynth

We make strains of yeast that produce cannabinoids. The cannabinoids are a collection of over 100 different compounds, of which the two most popular are THC and CBD.

Mayukh Guha

As a Scientist in Zymergen I design, optimize and implement high throughput automated genome engineering workflows in bacterial and fungal systems.

Benjamin ScottFebruary 28, 2019#bacteria, #proteinengineering, #genecircuits, #geneediting, #metabolicengineering, #industry

Julie Legault/Amino Labs

At Amino Labs, our mission is to make biotechnology/synthetic biology learning and innovation accessible to everyone through beginner-friendly experiment kits and equipment for the home and school.

David Lloyd/FREDsense

At FREDsense, we build portable sensors using the power of biology. Our live bacterial biosensor platform can be customized for virtually any type of chemistry and provide a fast, accurate and easy to use measurement system.

AlbertaBenjamin ScottFebruary 16, 2019#bacteria, #proteinengineering, #genecircuits, #geneediting, #biosensor, #entrepreneur

Dr. Felix Moser/Synlife

I received my PhD in Chris Voigt's lab at MIT and went on to become the first employee of Synlife, a startup based in Cambridge, MA. Synlife is building synthetic minimal cells as an innovative platform for cell therapy.

Justin Pahara/Amino Labs

New DNA assembly technologies and more accessible and affordable lab equipment for educators and at-home innovators .

Ranomics

Ranomics enables transformative discoveries using genomics. Ranomics has a high throughput functional genomics pipeline that empowers drug discovery and synthetic biology.

Andreas Stelzer/Thermo Fisher

Have worked with industry leaders on strategies for automating synthetic biology workflows. Integral in synthetic biology automation / robotic installations at multiple sites worldwide.

OntarioBenjamin ScottFebruary 1, 2019#mammalian, #yeast, #bacteria, #cellfree, #modeling, #geneediting, #industry