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3rd International Synthetic and Systems Biology Summer School - SSBSS 2016,
8-14 July 2016, Volterra (Pisa) - Tuscany, Italy
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The Synthetic and Systems Biology Summer School (SSBSS) is a
full-immersion five-day residential summer school at the Volterra
Learning Center (Pisa - Tuscany, Italy) on cutting-edge advances in
systems and synthetic biology with lectures delivered by
world-renowned experts. The school provides a stimulating environment
for students (from Master students to PhD students), Post-Docs, early
career researches, academics and industry leaders. Participants will
also have the chance to present their results (with Oral Talks and
Posters), and to interact with their peers, in a friendly and
constructive environment.
SSBSS 2016 DEADLINES:
Application: March 31, 2016
Notification Acceptance: April 10, 2016
Oral Presentation/Poster Submission: March 31, 2016
Notification of Decision for Oral/Poster Presentation: April 10, 2016
http://www.taosciences.it/ssbss/#application-form
SPEAKERS
* Yaakov (Kobi) Benenson, Synthetic Biology Group from Department of
Biosystems Science and Engineering, ETH Zurich, Basel, Switzerland
Lectures: TBA
* Leonidas Bleris, Bioengineering Department, The University of Texas
at Dallas, USA
Lectures: TBA
* Domitilla Del Vecchio, Department of Mechanical Engineering, MIT, USA
Lectures: TBA
* Diego Di Bernardo, Dept of Chemical Materials and Industrial
Production Engineering University of Naples "Federico II", Naples, Italy
Lecture 1: "Engineering and Control of Biological Circuits in Yeast"
Lecture 2: "<i>Engineering and Control of Biological Circuits in
Mammalian Cells
* J. Gootenberg, Feng Zhang's Group, Department of Systems Biology,
Harvard Medical School, Harvard University, USA
Lectures: TBA
* Markus Herrgard, Technical University of Denmark - Biosustain, Novo
Nordisk Foundation Center for Biosustainability, Denmark
Lecture 1: "Developing an Integrated Cell Factory Design Tool"
Lecture 2: "Using Automated Laboratory Evolution to Optimize Cell Factories?
* Shalev Itzkovitz, Department of Molecular Cell Biology, Weizmann
Institute of Science, Israel
Lecture 1: "Single Molecule Approaches for Studying Gene Expression in
Intact Mammalian Tissues"
Lecture 2: "Systems Biology of Stem Cell-Maintained Tissues?
* Francesco Ricci, Dipartimento di Scienze e Tecnologie Chimiche,
University of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy
Lecture 1: "DNA Nanotechnology Tools and Reactions for Synthetic Biology"
Lecture 2: "Nature-inspired DNA-based Nanodevices
More speakers will be announced soon!
INDUSTRIAL PANEL
* Speakers TBA
Next Generation Sequencing Workshop ? Afternoon July 12th, 2016
* ?How fast can we align sequences??
Mario Guarracino, CNR, Italy
* ?Advanced Bioinformatics tools for NGS? ? TBC
Luca Zammataro, Yale University, USA
Tutorials:
* ?Detection and analysis of contaminating sequences in NGS sequencing data?
Ilaria Granata, CNR, Italy
* ?Detection and interpretation of circular RNAs in RNA-seq experiments?
Parijat Tripathi, CNR, Italy
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