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Meeting report Biology inspires engineering Reine Byun and Attila Becskei Address: Institute of Molecular Biology, University of Zurich, Winterthurerstrasse 190, 8057 Zurich, Switzerland. Correspondence: Attila Becskei. Email: attila.becskei@molbio.uzh.ch of the spherical colonies can be attained by the hydro- dynamical forces of the whirling water, which is set in motion by rotation of neighboring colonies. Abstract A report of the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory/Wellcome Trust Meeting on Engineering Principles in Biology, Cambridge, UK, 14-16 October 2009. Opti