[alife] SSBSS 2014 News & 2nd CfP: Int. Synthetic & Systems Biology Summer School: Biology meets Engineering & Computer Science, Taormina - Sicily, Italy, June 15-19, 2014

[Giuseppe Nicosia]

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/
ssbss2014 at dmi.unict.it

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

+ Workshop on "Biosensors and synthetic circuits in mammalian cells"


*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/                                                                       ssbss2014 at dmi.unict.it



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Giuseppe Nicosia, Ph.D.
Associate Professor 
Dept of Mathematics & Computer Science  
University of Catania                                        
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