Schedule |
| Monday, January 25 |
| 8:00am |
Shuttle leaves for MBI |
| 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: Chemically Modified Viral Capsids as Platforms for Drug Delivery and Solar Energy Collection |
| 10:15-11:00am |
June Medford: Plant synthetic biology for human and environmental use |
| 11:00-11:30am |
Coffee break |
| 11:30-12:30pm |
Alex Ninfa: Limits of Modularity of Cellular Signaling Systems |
| 12:30-2:00pm |
Lunch break |
| Chair: June Medford |
| 2:00-2:45pm |
TBA |
| 2:45-3:30pm |
Homme Hellinga |
| 3:30pm |
Reception and poster session |
| 5:30pm |
Shuttle pick-up from MBI |
| Tuesday, January 26 |
| 8:00am |
Shuttle leaves for MBI |
| 8:30-9:30am |
Breakfast |
| Chair: Michael Savageau |
| 9:30-10:00am |
Indika Rajapakse |
| 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 |
Ron Weiss: Synthetic biology: from modules to systems |
| 12:15-2:00pm |
Lunch break |
| 2:00-2:45pm |
Jingdong Tian: Enabling technologies for synthetic biology |
| 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 |
| 5:30pm |
Shuttle pick-up from MBI |
| Wednesday, January 27 |
| 8:00am |
Shuttle leaves for MBI |
| 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: Modeling synthetic biology as systems biology |
| 3:30-4:00pm |
Coffee break |
| 4:00-5:00pm |
David Schaffer: Reverse and Forward Engineering of Retroviruses |
| 5:30pm |
Shuttle pick-up from MBI |
| Thursday, January 28 |
| 8:00am |
Shuttle leaves for MBI |
| 8:30-9:15am |
Breakfast |
| Chair: Michael Simpson |
| 9:15-10:00am |
Tom Magliery: Information in Protein Sequences: Combinatorial and Statistical Protein Design |
| 10:00-10:45am |
Kyung Hyuk Kim: Control of Noise and Measures of Modularity in Synthetic Networks |
| 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 |
Michael Simpson: Gene Circuit Noise Mapping: A tool for characterization and discovery |
| 3:30-4:00pm |
Coffee break |
| 4:00-5:00pm |
Eckard Wimmer: Recoding Viral RNA Genomes through Chemical Synthesis: Novel Genetics and Practical Applications |
| 5:30pm |
Shuttle pick-up from MBI |
| 6:00-7:00pm |
Cash Bar |
| 7:00pm |
Banquet in the Fusion Room @ Crowne Plaza Hotel |
| Friday, January 29 |
| 8:00am |
Shuttle leaves for MBI |
| 8:30-9:00am |
Breakfast |
| Chair: Alex Ninfa |
| 8:45-9:30am |
Sven Panke: Orthogonality in biochemical networks |
| 9:30-10:15am |
Timothy Gardner: From Artemsinin to biofuels: the role of synthetic biology in industrial biotechnology at Amyris |
| 10:15-10:30am |
Coffee break |
| 10:30-11:15am |
Matthew Bennett: Modeling the dynamics of a synthetic gene oscillator |
| 11:15-12:00pm |
Jeff Hasty |
| 12:30pm |
Shuttle pick-up from MBI |
