Europe is the place to be for synthetic biology this spring with no less than three conferences in the region packed into the space of a month. First up is the IET's BioSysBio conference in Cambridge on 23-24 March (disclosure: I cover synthetic biology for the IET's Engineering & Technology magazine). Then just a few days later, it's over to the Costa Brava for the European Science Foundation's ECSB II: Design, Programming and Optimisation of Biological Systems, which runs from 29 March to 3 April.
After that, you get a bit of a break before Biofine 2009 in Frieburg on 16-17 April.
It'll be interesting to see how the programmes differ and whether anyone has the stamina to talk at all three.
