Further information
This event is now fully booked.
The Institute of Systems and Synthetic Biology at Imperial College (IoSSB) was established in April 2007 with the aim of bringing together expertise from across the College, in the faculties of Natural Sciences, Engineering and Medicine, to create a world-leading research programme in Systems and Synthetic Biology.
The Symposium will bring together researchers at all levels who are interested in the fields of Systems and Synthetic Biology to inform and inspire them about these emerging areas of research.
The programme will include talks on technologies and applications in both synthetic biology and systems biology and cover areas including infectious diseases, agriculture and single molecule imaging.
Graduate students and junior researchers are invited to present their work in the form of a poster at the Symposium, attend and submit a poster.
Attendance is free and open to everyone but please contact Barbara Skene, b.skene@imperial.ac.uk to register indicating whether you intend to submit a poster.
Further information can be found on the Institute’s website – http://www.imperial.ac.uk/systemsbiology/whatson.
Programme:
Wednesday 11th November
8:30 – Registration
9:00 – Rector’s introduction – Professor Sir Roy Anderson
9:15 – Keynote lecture – Dr Chris Voigt, University of California, San Francisco – Programming Cells
10.15 – Strategic Overview – Professor Richard Kitney (Chairman, Institute of Systems and Synthetic Biology)
Session 1
EPSRC Centre for Synthetic Biology and Innovation (CSynBI) session.
Co-Chairs: Professor Richard Kitney and Prof Paul Freemont
10:30 – Chairs introduction
10.35 – Plenary 1 – Dr Drew Endy, Stanford University – Mind the gap! Engineering challenges defining synthetic biology
11.05 – Coffee break
11.35 – Plenary 2 – Professor Ian Hunter, Massachusetts Institute of Technology – Bio Mimetic Systems Grown from Conducting Polymers
12.05 – Plenary 3 – Dr John Glass, J Craig Venter Institute, Rockville
12.35 – Discussion
12.55 – Lunch
13.55 – Plenary 4 – Dr Geoff Baldwin, Imperial College – Application of synthetic biology principles to the design of new devices for biofilm detection and biofabrication
14.25 – Plenary 5 – Dr Christina Smolke, Stanford University – Programming cell-fate decisions with RNA control devices
14.55 – Plenary 6 – Prof Paul Rabinow, University of California, Berkeley – Synthetic Biology: The Second Wave of Human Practices
15.25 – Discussion
15.45 – Coffee Break
Session 2
BBSRC Centre for Integrative Systems Biology (CISBIC) session
Co-Chairs: Professor Michael Sternberg and Professor Stephen Muggleton
16.15 – Chairs Introduction
16.20 – Keynote lecture – Dr Stuart Dunbar, Syngenta – Systems Biology and Agriculture – exploring opportunities
17.20 – Plenary 1 – ProfessorJacques Neefjees , Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam – Into the systems cell biology of bacterial infections
17.50 – Discussion
18.10 – Drinks reception
19.30 – End
Thursday 12th November
Session 2
BBSRC Centre for Integrative Systems Biology (CISBIC) session Contd.
Co-Chairs: Professor Michael Sternberg and Professor Stephen Muggleton
09.00 – Chairs Introduction
09.05 – Plenary 2 – Dr Piers Ingram, Imperial College – Stress responses in pathogenic fungi
09.35 – Plenary 3 – Professor Tony Magee, Imperial College – Fluorescence imaging approaches in analysing molecular signalling events
09.55 – Discussion
10.35 – Coffee
Session 3
IoSSB Session
Co-Chairs: Professor Maggie Dallman and Professor David Klug
10.55 – Chair’s introduction
11.00 – Keynote Lecture – Professor Sunney Xie, Harvard University – Single Molecule Meets Systems Biology
12.00 – Plenary 1 – Dr Liming Ying, Imperial College – Seeing Is Believing: Single Molecule Fluorescence Approaches to Biology
12.30 – Discussion
13.00 – Lunch
14.00 – Plenary 2 – Professor David Roos, University of Pennsylvania – Designing and Mining (Pathogen) Genome Databases
14.30 – Plenary 3 – Dr George Christophides, Imperial College – How the mosquito immune system fights malaria
15.00 – Discussion
15.30 – Coffee
16.00 – Plenary 4 – Professor Jon Cooper, University of Glasgow – Microfluidic Platforms as an Enabling Technology for Systems and Synthetic Biology
16.30 – Discussion
17:00 – Poster Awards
17.10 – Closing Remarks – Professor Sir Peter Knight, Senior Principal, Imperial College
17.30 – Close