International Conference on Synthetic Biology
Program

See below the provisory program
DECEMBER 15th, 2010
| 08:45 | Registration | |
| 09:15 | Introduction | |
| 09:30 | SESSION 1 : | TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY |
| Chairperson : | Adriano Henney, Obsidian Biomedical Consulting LTD, UK | |
| 9:30 - 10:10 | Richard Johnson, Arnold & Porter LLP, Washington DC, US (Keynote lecture)
Synthetic Biology : Innovating Ownership, Access and Rights | |
| 10:10 - 10:50 | Kenneth Oye, MIT, Cambridge MA, US (Keynote lecture)
Intellectual Property Rights and Synthetic Biology : How Private Ownership, the Commons and Ambiguity Affect Innovation | |
| 10:50 - 11:20 | COFFEE BREAK | |
| 11:20-11:50 | Gregory Schreiber, Life Technologies Corporation, Carlsbad, CA, US
IP, Licensing, and Open Source Biology : An Industry Perspective | |
| 11:50 - 12:20 | Joachim Henkel, Technische Universitaet Muenchen, DE
Parts, Property, and Sharing : An Economics and IP Perspective on Synthetic Biology | |
| 12:20-14:00 | LUNCH | POSTER SESSION |
| 14:00 | SESSION 2 : | BOTTOM-UP APPROACHES - I |
| Chairperson : | Richard Kitney, Imperial College of London, UK | |
| 14:00 - 14:40 | Martin Fussenegger, ETH, Zurich, CH
Mammalian Synthetic Biology - from Tools to Therapies | |
| 14:40 - 15:10 | Tanja Kortemme, UCSF, US
Molecular Design - From Proteins to Networks, Coupling Computation and Experiment | |
| 15:10 - 15:50 | Selected
contributed talks | Xiao Wang, Dept of Biomedical Engineering, Boston U., MA, US
Programming gene regulation ; from synthetic gene networks to cell differentiation Tom Ellis, Centre for Synthetic Biology & Innovation, Imperial College, London, UK Regulatory promoter libraries for synthetic biology |
| 15:50 - 16:30 | COFFEE BREAK | |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | Alfonso Jaramillo, iSSB, Genopole / U. Evry-Val d’Essonne, Evry, FR
Computational design and characterisation of small gene networks with targeted behaviour in E. coli | |
| 17:00 - 17:30 | Carol Lartigue, UMR1090, INRA,U. Bordeaux, FR
Creation of a Bacterial Cell Controlled by a Chemically Synthesized Genome | |
| 17:30 – 17:50 | Selected
contributed talks | Laura Adam, Synthetic Biology group, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, US
Formal grammars to protect intellectual properties in synthetic biology |
| 17:50 – 18:20 | Jeff hasty, Depts of Molecular Biology and Bioengineering, BioCircuits Inst., UCSD, US
Genetic Clocks from Engineered Oscillators | |
| 20:00 | GALA DINNER IN PARIS |
DECEMBER 16th, 2010
| Registration | ||
| 09:00 | SESSION 3 | TOP-DOWN APPROACHES |
| Chairperson : | Antoine Danchin, AMAbiotics SAS, Genopole & CEA-Genoscope, Evry, FR | |
| 09:00 – 09:40 | Lingchong You, Duke university, Durham, NC, US (Keynote lectures)
Decoding Biological Design using Synthetic Gene Circuits | |
| 09:40 – 10:10 | Jean-loup Faulon, University of Evry-Val-d’Essonne, Genopole, Evry, FR
Retrosynthetic design of heterologous circuits for flexible therapeutic bioproduction | |
| 10:50 - 11:20 | COFFEE BREAK | |
| 10:40 – 11:00 | Selected
contributed talk | Kevin Solomon, Dept of Chemical Engineering, SynBERC, MIT, Cambridge MA, US
Glucose Valves : A New Device for Pathway Engineering |
| 11:00 – 11:30 | Natalio Krasnogor, Interdisciplinary Optimisation Laboratory, School of Computer Science, U. of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK
Steps Towards a Unified Model Prototyping Strategy for Top Down and Bottom Up Synthetic Biology. | |
| 11:30 – 12:00 | Phillipe Marlière, Genopole, Evry, FR
Chemically Modified Organisms : Towards Earth-Bound Xenobiology | |
| 12:00-13:20 | LUNCH | POSTER SESSION |
| 13:20-15:30 | SESSION 4 | BOTTOM-UP APPROACHES - II |
| Chairperson : | Jean Weissenbach, Genoscope, CEA, Evry, FR | |
| 13:20 – 13:50 | Chris Voigt, Dept of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, UCSF, US
Refactoring Nitrogen Fixation in Klebsiella | |
| 13:50 – 14:20 | Yaakov Benenson, Dept of Biosystems Science and Technology, ETH Zurich, CH
RNAi-based computing in mammalian cells | |
| 14:20 - 15:00 | Selected
contributed talks |
Thomas Landrain, iSSB, Genopole/U. Evry-Val d’Essonne, Evry, FR Automatic design of RNA logic devices for in vivo computation. Example of an AND gate in bacteria. P Guye, Dept of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, MIT, Cambridge, US, Engineering and delivery of complex gene networks for tissue differentiation in human stem cells |
| 15:00 – 15:30 | - Kristala Prather, Dept of Chemical Engineering, MIT, Cambridge MA, US
Parts, Devices, and Chassis in support of Metabolic Engineering | |
| 15:30-16:00 | COFFEE BREAK | |
| 16:00-18:10 | SESSION 5 | CELL-FREE SYSTEMS APPROACHES |
| Chairperson : | To be announced | |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Sven Panke, Bioprocess Laboratory, Dept of Biosystems Science and Engineering, ETH Zurich, CH
Understanding and designing in vitro biochemical systems. | |
| 16:30 - 17:10 | Selected
contributed talk | Pasquale Stano, Biology Dept, U. of Roma 3, Roma, IT
Synthetic (Constructive) Biology : From Vesicles Self-Reproduction to Semi-Synthetic Minimal Cells G Lingshiz, Joint BioEnergy Inst., Lawrence Berkeley National Lab., Albany, US Fully automated platform for recursive construction of predesigned large combinatorial DNA libraries |
| 17:10 - 17:40 | Phil Holliger, MRC LMB, Cambridge, UK
Expanding the central dogma | |
| 17:40 - 18:10 | Roman Jerala, Dept of Biotechnology, National Institute of Chemistry, Ljubljana, SI
Protein fusions for health, structural and industrial applications in Synthetic Biology | |
| 18:10 | Concluding conference
Randy Rettberg, CSAIL, MIT, Cambridge MA, US |
