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Workshop 3: Synthetic Biology: Schedule

Schedule

Monday, January 25
8:30-9:15am Breakfast
9:15-9:30am Welcome, overview of workshop, and introductions: Marty Golubitsky
Chair: James Liao
9:30-10:15am Matthew Francis
10:15-11:00am June Medford
11:00-11:30am Coffee break
11:30-12:30pm Adam Arkin
12:30-2:00pm Lunch break
Chair: June Medford
2:00-2:45pm Murat Acar: Feedback-mediated dosage compensation at the gene network level
2:45-3:30pm Homme Hellinga
3:30-4:00pm Coffee break
4:00-5:00pm James Liao: Resistance to Diet-Induced Obesity in Mice with Synthetic Glyoxylate Shunt
5:00pm Reception and poster session
Tuesday, January 26
8:30-9:15am Breakfast
Chair: Michael Savageau
9:15-10:00am Christopher Anderson
10:00-10:45am Scott Rifkin: Stochastic gene expression, redundancy, and cell-fate decisions in development
10:45-11:15am Coffee break
11:15-12:15pm John Reinitz
12:15-2:00pm Lunch break
Chair: John Reinitz
2:00-2:45pm Jingdong Tian
2:45-3:30pm Yohei Yokobayashi: Engineering RNA-Based Chemical Interfaces for Synthetic Biology
3:30-4:00pm Coffee break
4:00-5:00pm Michael Savageau: Phenotypes in the design space of biochemical systems
Wednesday, January 27
8:30-9:15am Breakfast
Chair: Kristala Jones Prather
9:15-10:00am Kobi Benenson: Toward logic calculations in mammalian cells
10:00-10:45am Rob Carlson: Biology is Technology: The Promise, Peril, and New Business of Engineering Life
10:45-11:15am Coffee break
11:15-12:15pm Lingchong You: Biology by design: reduction and synthesis of cellular networks
12:15-2:00pm Lunch break
Chair: Linchong You
2:00-2:45pm Kristala Jones Prather: A synthetic biology approach towards improving microbial synthesis
2:45-3:30pm Andy Ellington
3:30-4:00pm Coffee break
4:00-5:00pm David Schaffer
Thursday, January 28
8:30-9:15am Breakfast
Chair: Michael Simpson
9:15-10:00am Frederick Blattner
10:00-10:45am Clyde Hutchinson
10:45-11:15am Coffee break
11:15-12:15pm Erik Winfree: Systematic construction of nucleic acid circuits for cell-free, enzyme-free environments
12:15-2:00pm Lunch break
Chair: Erik Winfree
2:00-2:45pm Calin Belta: Formal approaches to the design, analysis, and control of synthetic gene networks
2:45-3:30pm Eckard Wimmer: Recoding Viral RNA Genomes through Chemical Synthesis: Novel Genetics and Practical Applications
3:30-4:00pm Coffee break
4:00-5:00pm Michael Simpson
6:00-7:00pm Cash Bar
7:00pm Banquet
Friday, January 29
8:30-9:00am Breakfast
Chair: Alex Ninfa
9:00-9:45am Sven Panke: Orthogonality in biochemical networks
9:45-10:30am Matthew Bennett: Modeling the dynamics of a synthetic gene oscillator
10:30-11:00am Coffee break
11:00-12:00pm James Collins: Synthetic Gene Networks: A Meeting Ground for Mathematicians, Biologists and Engineers
12:00-1:00pm Lunch break
Chair: Matt Bennett
1:00-1:45pm Timothy Gardner
1:45-2:45pm Alex Ninfa: Building biological memory by linking positive feedback loops