An Introduction to Cybergenetics

Abstract

This tutorial presents an overview of the theory and design tools for the real-time control of living cells. The theoretical, computational, and experimental tools and technologies utilized for achieving such control make up a new and exciting area of study at the interface between control theory and synthetic biology—one we refer to as Cybergenetics. This tutorial session is intended to introduce control scientists and engineers to the different ways living cells can be controlled, and to the many opportunities for future developments, both theoretical and practical, that such control brings about.