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3rd International Synthetic and Systems Biology Summer School - SSBSS 2016,

8-14 July 2016, Volterra (Pisa) - Tuscany, Italy

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

SPEAKERS

* Yaakov (Kobi) Benenson, Synthetic Biology Group@Department of Biosystems Science and Engineering, ETH Zurich, Basel, Switzerland

Lecture 1: The practice of mammalian synthetic biology

Lecture 2: Mammalian cell classifiers

* Leonidas Bleris, Bioengineering Department, The University of Texas at Dallas, USA

Lecture 1: Genome Editing Technologies and Therapeutic Modalities

Lecture 2: Benchmark Circuits and Topological Properties

* Domitilla Del Vecchio, Department of Mechanical Engineering, MIT, USA

Lecture 1: Modularity in genetic circuits: Dream versus Reality

Lecture 2: Engineering Modularity in Genetic Circuits

* 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: "Engineering and Control of Biological Circuits in Mammalian Cells

* Barbara Di Ventura, Synthetic Biology Group, BioQuant/DKFZ, Heidelberg, Germany

Lecture 1: Using blue light to control protein localization in living mammalian cells

Lecture 2: Using split inteins for protein engineering in living 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

Scientific Committee

Jole Costanza, Italian Institute of Technology, Italy

Diego Di Bernardo, TeleThon Institute of Genetics & Medicine - TIGEM and University of Napoli "Federico II", Italy

Barbara Di Camillo, University of Padova, Italy

Simone Furini, University of Siena, Italy

Emanuele Domenico Giordano, University of Bologna, Italy

Massimo Gulisano, University of Catania, Italy

Mario Guarracino, ICAR-CNR, Italy

Markus Herrgard, Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Biosustainability, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark

Paolo Magni, University of Pavia, Italy

Giuseppe Narzisi, New York Genome Center, USA

Giuseppe Nicosia, University of Catania, Italy

Wieslaw Nowak, Nicholas Copernicus University, Poland

Danilo Porro, University of Milano Bicocca, Italy

Francesco Ricci, University of Rome "Tor Vergata", Italy

Gianna Maria Toffolo, University of Padova, Italy

Renato Umeton, MIT, USA

Luca Zammataro, Yale University, USA

School Directors

Diego Di Bernardo, TeleThon Institute of Genetics & Medicine - TIGEM and University of Napoli "Federico II", Italy

     Giuseppe Nicosia, University of Catania, Italy

                     Luca Zammataro, Yale University, USA

See you in Tuscany in July!

     The Organizing Committee.

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* Other Events in Tuscany: *

2nd International Workshop on Machine learning, Optimization and big Data - MOD 2016

An Interdisciplinary Workshop: Machine Learning, Optimization and Data Science without Borders, Volterra (Pisa) -Tuscany, August 26-29, 2016

 

CALL FOR PAPERS

Paper submission deadline: March 31, 2016

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

+ Nello Cristianini, Bristol University, UK

+ George Michailidis, University of Florida, USA

+ Stephen H. Muggleton, Imperial College London, UK

+ Panos Pardalos, University of Florida, USA

Other Keynote Speakers will be announced soon

POST-PROCEEDINGS by Lecture Notes in Computer Science - Springer

JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUE

Computational Optimization and Applications Journal - Springer