Événements Genopole

International Conference on Synthetic Biology

Program

See below the provisory program

DECEMBER 15th, 2010

08:45 Registration
09:15 Introduction
09:30 SESSION 1: TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
Chairperson: Adriano Henney, Obsidian Biomedical Consulting LTD, UK
9:30 - 10:10 Richard Johnson, Arnold & Porter LLP, Washington DC, US (Keynote lecture)
Synthetic Biology : Innovating Ownership, Access and Rights
10:10 - 10:50 Kenneth Oye, MIT, Cambridge MA, US (Keynote lecture)
Intellectual Property Rights and Synthetic Biology: How Private Ownership, the Commons and Ambiguity Affect Innovation
10:50 - 11:20 COFFEE BREAK
11:20-11:50 Gregory Schreiber, Life Technologies Corporation, Carlsbad, CA, US
IP, Licensing, and Open Source Biology: An Industry Perspective
11:50 - 12:20 Joachim Henkel, Technische Universitaet Muenchen, DE
Parts, Property, and Sharing: An Economics and IP Perspective on Synthetic Biology
12:20-14:00 LUNCH POSTER SESSION
14:00 SESSION 2: BOTTOM-UP APPROACHES - I
Chairperson: Richard Kitney, Imperial College of London, UK
14:00 - 14:40 Martin Fussenegger, ETH, Zurich, CH
Mammalian Synthetic Biology - from Tools to Therapies
14:40 - 15:10 Tanja Kortemme, UCSF, US
Molecular Design - From Proteins to Networks, Coupling Computation and Experiment
15:10 - 15:50 Selected
contributed talks
Xiao Wang, Dept of Biomedical Engineering, Boston U., MA, US
Programming gene regulation; from synthetic gene networks to cell differentiation
Tom Ellis, Centre for Synthetic Biology & Innovation, Imperial College, London, UK
Regulatory promoter libraries for synthetic biology
15:50 - 16:30 COFFEE BREAK
16:30 - 17:00 Alfonso Jaramillo, iSSB, Genopole / U. Evry-Val d’Essonne, Evry, FR
Computational design and characterisation of small gene networks with targeted behaviour in E. coli
17:00 - 17:30 Carol Lartigue, UMR1090, INRA,U. Bordeaux, FR
Creation of a Bacterial Cell Controlled by a Chemically Synthesized Genome
17:30 – 17:50 Selected
contributed talks
Laura Adam, Synthetic Biology group, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, US
Formal grammars to protect intellectual properties in synthetic biology
17:50 – 18:20 Jeff hasty, Depts of Molecular Biology and Bioengineering, BioCircuits Inst., UCSD, US
Genetic Clocks from Engineered Oscillators
20:00 GALA DINNER IN PARIS

DECEMBER 16th, 2010

Registration
09:00 SESSION 3 TOP-DOWN APPROACHES
Chairperson: Antoine Danchin, AMAbiotics SAS, Genopole & CEA-Genoscope, Evry, FR
09:00 – 09:40 Lingchong You, Duke university, Durham, NC, US (Keynote lectures)
Decoding Biological Design using Synthetic Gene Circuits
09:40 – 10:10 Jean-loup Faulon, University of Evry-Val-d’Essonne, Genopole, Evry, FR
Retrosynthetic design of heterologous circuits for flexible therapeutic bioproduction
10:50 - 11:20 COFFEE BREAK
10:40 – 11:00 Selected
contributed talk
Kevin Solomon, Dept of Chemical Engineering, SynBERC, MIT, Cambridge MA, US
Glucose Valves: A New Device for Pathway Engineering
11:00 – 11:30 Natalio Krasnogor, Interdisciplinary Optimisation Laboratory, School of Computer Science, U. of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK
Steps Towards a Unified Model Prototyping Strategy for Top Down and Bottom Up Synthetic Biology.
11:30 – 12:00 Phillipe Marlière, Genopole, Evry, FR
Chemically Modified Organisms: Towards Earth-Bound Xenobiology
12:00-13:20 LUNCH POSTER SESSION
13:20-15:30 SESSION 4 BOTTOM-UP APPROACHES - II
Chairperson: Jean Weissenbach, Genoscope, CEA, Evry, FR
13:20 – 13:50 Chris Voigt, Dept of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, UCSF, US
Refactoring Nitrogen Fixation in Klebsiella
13:50 – 14:20 Yaakov Benenson, Dept of Biosystems Science and Technology, ETH Zurich, CH
RNAi-based computing in mammalian cells
14:20 - 15:00 Selected
contributed talks

Thomas Landrain, iSSB, Genopole/U. Evry-Val d’Essonne, Evry, FR
Automatic design of RNA logic devices for in vivo computation. Example of an AND gate in bacteria.
P Guye, Dept of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, MIT, Cambridge, US,
Engineering and delivery of complex gene networks for tissue differentiation in human stem cells
15:00 – 15:30 - Kristala Prather, Dept of Chemical Engineering, MIT, Cambridge MA, US
Parts, Devices, and Chassis in support of Metabolic Engineering
15:30-16:00 COFFEE BREAK
16:00-18:10 SESSION 5 CELL-FREE SYSTEMS APPROACHES
Chairperson: To be announced
16:00 - 16:30 Sven Panke, Bioprocess Laboratory, Dept of Biosystems Science and Engineering, ETH Zurich, CH
Understanding and designing in vitro biochemical systems.
16:30 - 17:10 Selected
contributed talk
Pasquale Stano, Biology Dept, U. of Roma 3, Roma, IT
Synthetic (Constructive) Biology: From Vesicles Self-Reproduction to Semi-Synthetic Minimal Cells
G Lingshiz, Joint BioEnergy Inst., Lawrence Berkeley National Lab., Albany, US
Fully automated platform for recursive construction of predesigned large combinatorial DNA libraries
17:10 - 17:40 Phil Holliger, MRC LMB, Cambridge, UK
Expanding the central dogma
17:40 - 18:10 Roman Jerala, Dept of Biotechnology, National Institute of Chemistry, Ljubljana, SI
Protein fusions for health, structural and industrial applications in Synthetic Biology
18:10 Concluding conference
Randy Rettberg, CSAIL, MIT, Cambridge MA, US

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