[alife] SSBSS 2015 SPEAKERS & LECTURES - Synthetic & Systems Biology Summer School, Taormina - Italy July 5-9, 2015 - Application Deadline: March 31st

[Giuseppe Nicosia]

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Synthetic & Systems Biology Summer School
Taormina - Sicily, Italy, July 5-9, 2015

http://www.taosciences.it/ssbss2015/
ssbss.school at gmail.com

DEADLINES
Student Application: March 31, 2015
Oral/Poster Submission: March 31, 2015

SPEAKERS & LECTURES
+	Adam Arkin, University of California Berkeley, USA
	Lecture 1: "Genome-scale Discovery of the Determinants of Optimal Biological Function" 
	Lecture 2: "On the Challenges in Engineering Activity in Complex Contexts from 100,000 Liter Bioreactors to Human Guts"

+	Jef Boeke, New York University, USA
	Lecture 1: TBA
	Lecture 2: TBA

+	Angela DePace, Harvard University, USA
	Lecture 1: "Developmental Gene Regulatory Networks"
	Lecture 2: "Measuring, Modeling and Manipulating Regulatory DNA"

+	Forbes Dewey, MIT, USA
	Lecture 1: "Quantitative Modeling of Molecular Pathways I: Fundamentals"
        	Lecture 2: "Quantitative Modeling of Molecular Pathways II: Examples from Systems and Synthetic Biology"

+	Karmella Haynes, Arizona State University, USA
	Lecture 1: "Designing CRISPR for the Engineering of DNA in Mammalian Cells"
	Lecture 2: "Mapping and Engineering of Chromatin in Mammalian Cells"

+	Richard Kitney, Imperial College London, UK
	Lecture 1: TBA
	Lecture 2: TBA

+	Timothy Lu, MIT, USA
	Lecture 1: "Biological Computing and Memory with Digital and Analog Paradigms"
	Lecture 2: "Synthetic Biological Applications for Human Health"

+	Philip Maini, Oxford University, UK
	Lecture 1: "Mathematical Modelling of Biological Pattern Formation"
	Lecture 2: "Modelling Invasions"

+	Giancarlo Mauri, University of Milano Bicocca, Italy
	Lecture: "Computational Methods in Systems Biology"

+	Steve Oliver, Cambridge University, UK
	Lecture 1: "Improving the yeast metabolic model as a tool in strain design"
	Lecture 2: "Harnessing synthetic biology and the Robot Scientist in drug discovery"

+	Velia Siciliano, MIT, USA 
	Lecture: "Synthetic Biology in Mammalian Systems for Biomedical Applications"

+	Ron Weiss, MIT, USA
	Lecture 1: TBA
	Lecture 2: TBA

+	Nicola Zamboni, ETH, Switzerland
	Lecture 1: "Reconstruction of metabolic regulation by large-scale metabolomics"
	Lecture 2: "Bottom up modeling of dynamic metabolic systems"


INDUSTRIAL PANEL
+	Jon D. Chesnut, Life Sciences Solutions Group -Thermo Fisher Scientific, USA
              Lecture: "CRISPR-based Genome Editing Tools: New Applications and Streamlined Workflows"

+	Author TBA, Autodesk Inc., USA
	      Lecture: TBA

+	Zach Serber, Zymergen, Inc. USA
              Lecture 1: TBA
              Lecture 2: TBA
              Lecture 3: TBA


School Directors
Jef D. Boeke, New York University, USA
        Giuseppe Nicosia, University of Catania, Italy
          Mario Pavone, University of Catania, Italy
             Giovanni Stracquadanio, University of Oxford, UK

*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 *March 31, 2015*. The abstracts will be published on the electronic hands-out material of the summer school.

http://www.taosciences.it/ssbss2015/index.html#applicationForm

http://www.taosciences.it/ssbss2015/
ssbss.school at gmail.com

Apologies for multiple copies. Please forward to anybody who might be interested.