The Institute of Systems Biology was launched at Imperial College London on 20th April 2007. Graduate students and junior researchers are invited to present their work in the form of a poster at the Symposium on Systems and Synthetic Biology that will take place at Imperial on 13 and 14 November. The symposium will focus on four themes:
1. molecular and cellular systems biology
2. systems biology of organs and physiological systems
3. technology
4. synthetic biology
Posters can however be submitted on any topic relevant to systems biology and synthetic biology. The best three posters will be short listed by an independent panel of experts and will be awarded a cash prize and a certificate.
If you intend to participate please submit your abstract and poster in electronic format to Dr Loredana Santoro: l.santoro@imperial.ac.uk no later than Monday 29th October.
Further information can be found on the Institute’s website http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/systemsbiology.
Programme: Tuesday 13th November
Session 1 Molecular and Cellular Level
(Co-Chairs: Jaroslav Stark & Maggie Dallman)
9:00 Chairs Introduction
9:10 Keynote Lecture Leroy Hood, Institute for Systems Biology, Seattle
10:10 Plenary 1 Hans Westerhoff, Univ. of Manchester
10:40 Break
11:10 Plenary 2 Emmanuelle Caron (TBC), Imperial College London
11:40 Plenary 3 Alan Ezekowitz, Merck Research Laboratories
12:10 Discussion
12:45 Lunch
Session 2 Organs & Physiological Systems
(Co-Chairs: TBA & Jeremy Nicholson)
14:00 Chairs Introduction
14:10 Keynote Lecture Peter Hunter, University of Auckland
15:10 Plenary 1 Ian Wilson, AstraZeneca
15:40 Coffee Break
16:10 Plenary 2 Jeremy Nicholson, Imperial College London
16:40 Plenary 3 Brendan O’Malley, Unilever
17:10 Discussion
17:40 End
Wednesday 14th November 2007
Session 3 Technology
(Co-Chairs: Fotis Kafatos & Maggie Dallman)
9:00 Chairs Introduction
9:10 Keynote Lecture Roger Brent (TBC), University of California, Berkeley
10:10 Plenary 1 Forbes Dewey, MIT
10:40 Coffee Break
11:00 Plenary 2 David Klug, Imperial College London
11:30 Plenary 3 Jimmy Bell, Imperial College London
12:00 Discussion
12:30 Lunch
Session 3 Synthetic Biology
(Co-Chairs: Richard Kitney & Paul Freemont)
14:30 Chairs Introduction
14:40 Keynote Lecture Pam Silver, Harvard University
15:40 Plenary 1 Sven Panke, ETH
16:10 Coffee Break
16:40 Plenary 2 Paul Freemont, Imperial College London
17:10 Plenary 3 Jim Haseloff, University of Cambridge
17:40 Discussion
18:10 Chairs final remarks
18:15 Drinks Reception
19:30 Close