2nd Call for Participation (apologies for multiple copies)
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Synthetic and Systems Biology Summer School: Biology meets Engineering
and Computer Science,
Taormina - Sicily, Italy, June 15-19, 2014
http://www.taosciences.it/ssbss2014/
[email protected]
We are pleased to inform that we received more than 120 applications
and 60 Abstracts/Posters and, due to many requests, we are extending
the application *deadline to March 31, 2014.* For this reason, we will
have up to ~150 slots (no 100 slots as previously written) for
selected and motivated students.
*Application Deadline: March 31, 2014*
* Speakers & Courses *
+ Uri Alon, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
Lecture I: Elementary Circuits in Biology
Lecture II: Evolution and Optimality of Gene Circuits
+ Joel Bader, Johns Hopkins University, USA
Lecture I: Network Remodeling during Development and Disease
Lecture II: Gene and Pathway Analysis of Genome-wide
Association Studies
+ Jef Boeke, Johns Hopkins University, USA
Lecture I: Genome Synthesis
Lecture II: Combinatorial DNA Assembly methods and their applications
+ Jason Chin, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, UK
Lecture I: Reprogramming the Genetic Code
+ Virginia Cornish, Columbia University, USA
Lecture : TBA
+ Paul Freemont, Imperial College London, UK
Lecture I: Foundational Technologies for Synthetic Biology -
from DNA Assembly to Part Characterisation
Lecture II: Synthetic biology designs for biosensor applications
+ Farren Isaacs, Yale University, USA
Lecture I: Genome engineering technologies for rapid editing
& evolution organisms
Lecture II: Design, construction & function of genomically
recoded organisms
+ Tanja Kortemme, University of California San Francisco, USA
Lecture I: Computational protein design - principles,
challenges and progress
Lecture II: Design of reprogrammed and new functions - from
proteins to cells
+ Giuseppe Nicosia, University of Catania, Italy
Lecture I: Biological Circuit Design by Pareto Optimality
Lecture II: Programming Living Molecular Machines for
Biofuel Production
+ Sven Panke, ETH, Switzerland
Lecture I: Synthetic Biology of Cell free Systems
Lecture II: Exploiting Engineered Cell-Cell Communications
in Large Scale Biotechnology
+ Rahul Sarpeshkar, MIT, USA
Lecture I: Analog versus Digital Computation in Biology
Lecture II: Analog Synthetic and Systems Biology
+ Giovanni Stracquadanio, Johns Hopkins University, USA
Lecture I: Minimal Genomes: High-Throughput Sequencing,
Statistical Methods and Physics Models to Unveil Minimal Yeast
Chromosomes Compatible with Life
Lecture II: Computational Tools for Genome editing,
Combinatorial Assembly and Workflow Tracking
+ Ron Weiss, MIT, USA
Lecture : TBA
*School Directors*
+ Jef Boeke, Johns Hopkins University, USA
+ Giuseppe Nicosia, University of Catania, Italy
+ Mario Pavone, University of Catania, Italy
+ Giovanni Stracquadanio, Johns Hopkins University, USA
*Short Talk and Poster Submission*
Students may submit a research abstract for presentation. School
directors will review the abstracts and will recommend for poster or
short-oral presentation. Abstract should be submitted by *February 15,
2014*. The abstracts will be published on the electronic hands-out
material of the summer school.
Co-located Event: The 3rd International Synthetic Yeast Genome (Sc2.0)
Meeting will be held in Taormina Friday June 20, 2014
http://www.taosciences.it/ssbss2014/
[email protected]
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Dr. Mario Pavone (PhD)
Assistant Professor
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
University of Catania
V.le A. Doria 6 - 95125 Catania, Italy
tel: 0039 095 7383038
fax: 0039 095 330094
Email: [email protected]
http://www.dmi.unict.it/mpavone/
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International Synthetic & Systems Biology Summer School
* Biology meets Engineering and Computer Science *
June 15-19, 2014 - Taormina, Italy
http://www.taosciences.it/ssbss2014/
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12th European Conference on Artificial Life - ECAL 2013
September 2-6, 2013 - Taormina, Italy
http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/advances-artificial-life-ecal-2013
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