Schedule
Thursday, June 10, 2004 | |
| 8:00 - 9:00 | Registration, breakfast, & poster setup |
| 9:00 - 9:20 | Opening remarks Drew Endy |
| 9:20 - 10:00 | The role of computational protein design in synthetic biology Homme Hellinga |
| 10:00 - 10:40 | Rewiring cell signaling pathways Wendell Lim |
| 10:40 - 11:20 | Designing gene switches and reprogramming cells and organisms:
Software and hardware for genomes Carlos Barbas |
| 11:20 - 12:30 | Lunch |
| 12:30 - 1:10 | Biological simplicity Tom Knight |
| 1:10 - 1:50 | Synthetic biology: A reduced genome approach Fred Blattner |
| 1:50 - 2:10 | Break |
| 2:10 - 2:50 | Design of proteins, pathways and whole genomes using natural
evolutionary processes and molecular computation Pim Stemmer |
| 2:50 - 3:30 | DNA synthesis: Genes today, genomes tomorrow
John Mulligan |
| 3:30 - 4:00 | Break |
| 4:00 - 5:00 | Biological property rights (panel discussion)
Roger Brent, Pim Stemmer |
| 5:00 - 6:30 | Poster session and reception |
| 6:30 - 8:00 | Dinner |
Friday, June 11, 2004 | |
| 7:30 - 8:30 | Breakfast |
| 8:30 - 9:10 | Design, construction and refinement of gene circuitry
Michael Savageau |
| 9:10 - 9:50 | Programmable cells and synthetic gene networks
Jim Collins |
| 9:50 - 10:10 | Gene Network Engineering in Mammalian Cells
Beat Kramer
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| 10:10 - 10:30 | Break |
| 10:30 - 11:10 | Noisy machines: Gene expression in single cells
Michael Elowitz |
| 11:10 - 11:30 | Tracking RNA Dynamics in live E. coli cells
Ido Golding |
| 11:30 - 12:30 | Lunch |
| 12:30 - 1:10 | Engineering digital, analog, and transient behavior in
individual cells and cell communities
Ron Weiss |
| 1:10 - 1:50 | Amorphous computing: pattern formation in silicio
Radhika Nagpal |
| 1:50 - 2:10 | Break |
| 2:10 - 2:50 | Synthetically modified structural proteins -- building blocks
for nanoscale materials
Matt Francis |
| 2:50 - 3:30 | Retooling bacteria for drug production
Jay Keasling |
| 3:30 - 3:50 | Break |
| 3:50 - 4:50 | Current & future biological risk (panel discussion)
George Poste |
| 4:50 - 5:10 | Break |
| 5:10 - 6:00 | Assembling ethics in an ecology of ignorance
Paul Rabinow |
Saturday, June 12, 2004 | |
| 8:00 - 9:00 | Breakfast |
| 9:00 - 10:15 | Parts, devices & systems: engineering biology at MIT
Drew Endy, Randy Rettberg, et. al |
| 10:15 - 10:45 | Morning Break |
| 10:45 - 12:00 | Parts, devices & systems: engineering biology at MIT (cont.)
Drew Endy, Randy Rettberg, et. al |
| 12:00 - 1:00 | Lunch |
| 1:00 - 2:30 | The future of DNA & genome synthesis: design, error
correction, assembly, safety, & applications
George Church (discussion chair), Pete Carr, Franco
Cerrina, Tom Knight, John Mulligan |