May 5 - 8, 2025 – Join our application workshop!
May 5 - 8, 2025 – Join our application workshop!
May 5 - 8, 2025 – Join our application workshop!
May 5 - 8, 2025 – Join our application workshop!
May 5 - 8, 2025 – Join our application workshop!
Meet us from May 5 - 8, in San José, at booth no. 800C (German Pavilion) and visit our user workshop!
The Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft funds internal projects for preliminary research in the PREPARE program. The PREPARE project BIOSYNTH is researching a modular high-throughput microplatform with thermal synthesis and optical monitoring for future mass data storage from synthetic biology. The platform may also be useful for applications in medicine, biotechnology, biology or agriculture.
The BIOSYNTH consortium, consisting of the Fraunhofer Institutes IPMS, IZI-BB and ITEM, brings together expertise from engineering, microelectronics, computer science and biotechnology.
May 7, 2025 (3:30 PM-4:15 PM)
Breakout Session
Dr. Sandro Koch (Fraunhofer IPMS) and Gerd Specht (Fraunhofer ITEM)
Sponsor: Better Dairy, Conagen, Fraunhofer
Track: Biopharma Solutions: Tools & Tech
Converging Platforms: High-Throughput Solutions Driving Biotech Breakthroughs
Explore how cutting-edge microelectronics, advanced liquid-handling systems, and powerful bioinformatics converge to accelerate innovation across biotech, pharmaceuticals, and synthetic biology. By leveraging integrated approaches—spanning machine learning tools, next-generation lab automation, and modular high-throughput platforms—industry leaders are redefining what’s possible from early R&D to commercial-scale production. Gain insights into the core technologies and collaborative models fueling these breakthroughs, and learn how this convergence is reshaping discovery pipelines, enhancing product development, and pushing the boundaries of what we can achieve in healthcare, bioactives, and beyond.
May 8, 2025 (2:30 PM - 3:15 PM)
Share Session
Dr. Sandro Koch (Fraunhofer IPMS) and Gerd Specht (Fraunhofer ITEM)
Sponsor: Fraunhofer IPMS
Modular High-Throughput Microplatform Drives Bio-Inspired Data Storage
Modular high-throughput microplatforms are the next critical tool for advancing synthetic biology and related applications. By leveraging a universal microchip platform, this approach integrates microelectronics with data encryption and DNA/RNA synthesis to achieve high storage density, parallelized writing, encoding, long-term stability, and cost-effectiveness. In this exclusive workshop, participants will have the opportunity to experience an in-depth demonstration of biologically-synthetic storage systems, discuss the current state of development, and explore potential applications in the realm of bio-inspired data storage. This workshop aims to foster collaborative dialogue on the implications and advancements in synthetic data storage technologies.
Fraunhofer Institute for Photonic Microsystems