{"title": "Living Code, Living Materials", "start": "2026-11-04T17:30:00Z", "end": "2026-11-04T18:30:00Z", "place": "Imperial College London", "address": "Exhibition Road, SW7 2AZ London", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["science/biology"], "description": "Living Code, Living Materials is a free public lecture about how synthetic biology can grow sustainable materials. It is an inaugural lecture by Professor Tom Ellis of Imperial College London's Department of Bioengineering, whose research rewrites DNA in microbes like yeast, bacteria and kombucha to turn them into programmable micro-factories. He explains how engineered living cells can grow self-repairing fabrics and functional patches from sugar instead of petroleum-based plastics, opening a bio-based future for manufacturing and infrastructure. 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Invited presentations and a poster session highlight how fundamental electrochemistry, materials characterisation and device engineering can contribute to sustainable technologies.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/electrocatalysis-at-imperial-materials-from-fundamental-unde-74034/", "official_url": "https://www.imperial.ac.uk/events/215054/electrocatalysis-at-imperial-materials/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/ddd19b7e8ce81602f1e6e8cbbfd9979512c901645c7fbdaf4f7a7b576d324150-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Teaching Seminar: Dr Cordelia Webb (Imperial College London)", "start": "2026-11-12T13:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Imperial College London", "address": "Exhibition Road, SW7 2AZ London", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["science/mathematics"], "description": "A teaching seminar at a university in London, open to everyone and free to attend, with seats given on a first come, first served basis. 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