(title: European Systems & Synthetic biology Conference:)
ESSB-2009 Meeting Proceedings September 14 – 15, 2009 Located at the Hotel All Seasons Evry Cathedrale 52 Boulevard des Coquibus 91000 Evry, France
AGENDA/ SPEAKERS* Meeting on September 14 – 15, 2009
Scientific Organizers: Krishnarao Appasani, PhD., MBA. GeneExpression Systems, Inc., Waltham, USA Alfonso Jaramillo, PhD. Genopole, CNRS-University of Evry, France Giovanni Murtas, PhD. Centro Enrico Fermi, Rome, Italy
Day 1: Monday, September 14 9:00 A.M: Registration Open
9.30 AM – 12.15 PM: Session I: Systems Biology & Genetic Circuits Chair: Krishna Appasani
9.30 - 9.45 AM Chairman’s Welcoming Note: Krishnarao Appasani, PhD. Founder & CEO, GeneExpression Systems, Waltham, MA, USA & Chairman, Appasani Research Conferences & Educational Institute (ARCEI.org), USA
9.45 – 10.15 AM Opening Lecture By Alfonso Jaramillo, Ph.D. Group Leader Genopole, CNRS-Univversity of Evry, France Title: TBA
10.15 – 10.45 AM Michel Werner, PhD. Professor at the Institut de radiobiologie cellulaire et moléculaire Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique, Evry, France Title: Study of the genome-wide mechanisms of transcription in yeast and mouse
10.45 – 11.15 AM BREAK (30 min)
11.15 – 11.45 Dr. Stefan Wiemann Group Leader of Molecular Genome Analysis German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany Title: Modeling and experimental testing of ERBB-regulated G1/S transition to tackle drug resistance in breast cancer
11.45 – 12.15 PM Yair Mazor PhD Student in the Dept. of Computer Science & Applied Math & Department of Biological chemistry Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel Title: A DNA programming language as a mean to design DNA libraries
12. 15 – 1.45 PM Lunch Break (1 hour 30 min.) Lunch will be provided
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1.45 – 5.30 PM: Session II: Constructive Biology Chair: G. Murtas
1.45 – 2.15 PM Giovanni Murtas, PhD. Senior Grant at Centro "Enrico Fermi" Rome, Italy Title: A Synthetic Biology approach to construct a minimal cell
2.15 - 2.45 PM Warren Ruder, MS. PhD Student in the Lab of Dr. Philip R. LeDuc Associate Professor of Mechanical & Biomedical Engineering Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA Title: Building Biosynthetic Systems Using Magnetotactic Bacteria
2.45 – 3.15 PM Hubert Bernauer, PhD. Chief Executive Officer ATG:biosynthetics GmbH, Merzhausen, Germany Title: PepMAP, EvoMAG and ACEMBL – Combinatorial Synthetic Biology Tools
3. 15 – 3.30 PM: Refreshment Break (15 min)
3.30 – 4.00 PM David Gilbert, PhD. Professor & Head of Information Systems, Computing & Maths Brunel University, Uxbridge, Middlesex, Untied Kingdom Title: Systems and Synthetic Biology approaches to design and analyze biochemical networks
4.00 – 4.30 PM Pierre-Alain Monnard, Ph. D. Associate Professor of Physics and Chemistry FLinT Center, University of Southern Denmark, Odense M, Denmark Title: Genetic material synthesis in structured environments
4.30 – 5.00 PM Sevilla Camins Angel, PhD., MBA Chief Executive Officer in BIOnova Biotech S.L. & Universidad de Murcia, Murcia, Spain Title: Optimization of a bioprocess through Cofactor Engineering applying mathematical models
5.00 – 5.30 PM Pablo Carbonell, PhD. Research Fellow in the Lab of Professor Jean-Loup Faulon Genopole Campus, University of Evry, Evry, France Title: Catalytic promiscuity prediction with molecular signatures
5.30 PM End of Day 1 Sessions
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Day 2: Tuesday, September 15, 2009 8:30 A.M: Registration Open
9.00 AM – 10.50 PM: Session III: Synthetic Biology & Signaling Systems Chair: Alfonso Jaramillo
9.00 – 9.40 AM Industry Keynote Lecture by Ralf Wagner, PhD. Founder & Chief Executive Officer GeneArt, AG, Regensburg, Germany Title: Impact of high throughput gene synthesis on synthetic biology
9.40 – 10.20 AM Presentation of Synthetic Biology Innovator Award to Dr. Wilfried WeberSpecial Lecture by Wilfried Weber, PhD. Professor of Biology Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany Title: Synthetic Biologic Signaling Systems in Drug Discovery and Materials Science
10.20 – 10.50 AM Marco Vanoni, PhD. Professor of Biochemistry, Dept. of Biotechnology & Biosciences University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy Title: Systems biology of yeast cell cycle
10. 50 – 11.15 AM BREAK (25 min)
11.15 – 12.20 PM: Session IV: Network Biology Chair: Katja Arndt
11.15 – 11.45 AM Katja M. Arndt, PhD. Professor of Biology in the Institute of Biology III, Bioss Albert-Ludwigs University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany Title: Development of Photo-switchable Interfering Peptides to Manipulate Protein Networks
11.45 – 12.15 PM Eric Bouhassira, Ph.D. Ingeborg and Ira Leon Rennert Professor of Stem Cell Biology & Regenerative Medicine & Director, Einstein Ctr. for Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, USA Title: Predictable Dynamic Program of Timing of DNA Replication in Human Cells
12.15 – 12.20 PM CLOSING REMARKS by Krishna Appasani & Announcement of next year Meeting
12.30 – 2.00 PM Lunch will be provided
2.00 PM: DEPART
- Speaker names, titles and order may subject to change.
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