Program: Building minimal biology
| Thursday, 6 April 2017 | |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Arrival & registration (West foyer) |
| 10:30 - 10:45 | Welcome address by Dek Woolfson |
| MaxSynBio Plenary Talk | |
| Chair: Steve Mann | |
| 10:45 - 11:30 |
Kai Sundmacher: Mimicking of Essential Life Processes in Synthetic BioSystems |
| Presentation session 1: Multi-component systems |
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| Chair: Kai Sundmacher | |
| 11:30 - 11:45 | Imre Berger: Minimize - Optimize: Baculoviral Genome tweaking for Next-Generation Drug Discovery |
| 11:45 - 12:00 | Petra Schwille: How simple can life be? |
| 12:00 - 12:15 | Sabine Hauert: Swarming across scales |
| 12:15 - 12:30 | Joachim Spatz: Sequential Design of Synthetic Cells |
| 12:30 - 13:00 | Panel discussion |
| 13:00 - 14:00 | Lunch (East foyer) |
| Presentation session 2: Transcriptional Systems | |
| Chair: Petra Schwille | |
| 14:00 - 14:15 | Tom Gorochowski: Towards a rational engineering of synthetic genetic circuits & systems |
| 14:15 - 14:30 | Abi Smith: De novo design of orthogonal transcription factors |
| 14:30 - 14:45 | Hannes Mutschler: In vitro evolution using recursive RNA replicators |
| 14:45 - 15:00 | Darian Meacham: Bridging Cultures: RRI, the humanities and a BrisSynBio approach |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Panel discussion |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Coffee break (West foyer) |
| 16:00 - 17:00 | Flash poster presentations |
| 17:00 - 19:00 | Poster session (Coffee lounge) |
| 19:30 | Dinner and introduction to satellite sessions (Mud Dock restaurant) |
| Friday, 7 April 2017 | |
| BriSynBio Plenary Talk | |
| Chair: Eberhard Bodenschatz | |
| 09:00 - 09:45 |
Steve Mann: Synthetic Protocells |
| Presentation session 3: Protein Systems |
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| Chair: Ross Anderson | |
| 09:45 - 10:00 | Fabio Parmeggiani: Modular protein design |
| 10:00 - 10:15 | Seraphine Wegner: Light switchable interactions |
| 10:15 - 10:30 | Marc van der Kamp: In silico ‘screening’ of biocatalysts: activity, selectivity and mechanism |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Panel discussion |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Coffee break & Posters (East foyer) |
| Presentation session 4: Emergent systems | |
| Chair: Jean-Christophe Baret | |
| 11:30 - 11:45 | Adam Perriman: New directions in regenerative engineering |
| 11:45 - 12:00 | Tom Robinson: Microfluidic handling of giant vesicles: methods & applications |
| 12:00 - 12:15 | Dora Tang: Bottom up in vitro approaches to probing "noise" |
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12:15 - 12:30 |
Matthias Braun: The “Responsibility-Pardoxon": What does it mean to conduct research responsibly? |
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12:30 - 13:00 |
Panel discussion |
| 13:00 - 14:00 | Lunch (East foyer) |
| 14:00 - 15:00 | Satellite sessions 1 (Various locations) |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Coffee break & Posters (East foyer) |
| 15:30 - 16:30 | Satellite sessions 2 (Various locations) |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | Feedback & wrap up (Lecture theatre 1) |
Satellite sessions:
- Microfluidics & Compartments
- Energy & Metabolism
- Protein engineering
- Modelling
- Applications & new materials
- Responsible Research and Innovation