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3rd International Synthetic and Systems Biology Summer School - SSBSS 2016, 9-13 July 2016, Volterra (Pisa) - Tuscany, Italy

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EARLY APPLICATION DEADLINE: May 26, 2016 http://www.taosciences.it/ssbss/#application-form

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: Early Application: May 26, 2016 Notification Acceptance: from April 2 to 28 May 2016

Late Application: from May 27, to July 4th 2016 Notification Acceptance: from May 28th 2016 according to registration time

Early Short Talk/Poster Submission: May 26, 2016 Notification Acceptance: from 2 April to 28 May 2016

Late Short Talk/Poster Submission: from May 27, to July 4th 2016 Notification of Decision for Oral/Poster Presentation: from May 28, 2016 according to submission time

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FINAL LIST OF 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

* Edoardo Boncinelli, Universita’ Vita-Salute San Raffaele, Milano, Italy Lecture: TBA

* John Cumbers, Founder SynBioBeta, Mountain View, CA, USA Lecture: Synthetic Biology: new tools for an industry at an inflection point.

* 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

* Jonathan S. Gootenberg, Feng Zhang and Aviv Regev Groups, Department of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School, Harvard University, USA Lecture 1: "Discovering and Characterizing CRISPR effectors" Lecture 2: "Probing Biology with CRISPR Screening"

* 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

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

SSBSS 2016 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

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See you in Tuscany in July!

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