Program: Building minimal biology

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
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
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"

12:15 - 12:30

Matthias Braun: The “Responsibility-Pardoxon": What does it mean to conduct research responsibly?

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

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