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| Friday,
7 November |
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| 08:00-08:50 |
Registration |
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| 08:50-09:00 |
Welcome addresses
Hermann Bujard, Executive Director, EMBO
Halldór Stefánsson, Science and Society Programme Manager, EMBL |
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Session I:
Systems approaches: from descriptive to predictive biology
Chair: Uwe Sauer, ETH |
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| 09:00-09:10 |
Introduction: Uwe Sauer, ETH |
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| 09:10-09:40 |
Denis Noble, Oxford University |
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| Systems Biology: a new paradigm? |
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| 09:40-10:10 |
Tom Kirkwood, Centre for Systems Biology of Ageing |
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| Making sense of the complexity of ageing |
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| 10:10-10:40 |
Marvin Cassman, San Francisco |
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| Integrative Approaches to Biology in the 21st Century |
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| 10:40-11:10 |
Coffee break |
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| 11:15-12:45 |
Leroy Hood, Institute for Systems Biology |
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A Systems' Approach to Medicine: Catalyzing the
Transformation of Healthcare |
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| 11:40-12:40 |
Panel Discussion:
Lars Steinmetz, EMBL
Thomas Lemberger, Journal of molecular systems biology
Joan Fujimura, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Helga Nowotny, European Research Council [ERC] |
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| 12:40-14:00 |
Lunch |
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Session II:
Synthetic biology Chair: Victor de Lorenzo, Centro Nacional de Biotecnologia,
CSIC |
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| 14:00-14:10 |
Introduction: Victor de Lorenzo, Centro Nacional de Biotecnolgia |
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| 14:10-14:40 |
Doron Lancet, Weizmann Institute of Science |
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| Diversity: a driving force for life's inception and synthesis |
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| 14:40-15:10 |
Antoine Danchin, Institute Pasteur |
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| Life and perpetuation of life of a synthetic bacterium |
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| 15:10-15:40 |
Jason Chin, University of Cambridge |
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| Ribosome Engineering & New Genetic Codes |
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| 15:40-16:10 |
Coffee break |
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16:10-16:40 |
David Deamer, University of California Santa Cruz |
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First life, and next life: The origins and synthesis of living cells |
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| 16:40-17:40 |
Panel Discussion:
Luis Serrano, Centre for Genomic Regulation
Nicholas Luscombe, European Bioinformatics Institute
Luis Campos, Drew University
Sibylle Gaisser, Fraunhofer Institute System- und Innovationsforschung |
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| 18:00-19:00 |
Aperitif |
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| 19:00-20:30 |
Conference dinner |
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| Saturday, 8 November |
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Session III:
On uses, and the danger of abuses, of new know-how and
technologies
Chair: Regine Kollek, Hamburg University |
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| 09:00-09:10 |
Introduction: Regina Kollek, University of Hamburg |
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| 09:10-09:50 |
Andres Moya, University of Valencia |
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The philosophical relevance of Synthetic biology
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| 09:50-10:30 |
Adriano Henney, Astra Zeneca |
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Challenges and Opportunities for Systems Biology and Drug Discovery: A Perspective |
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| 10:30-11:10 |
Joyce Tait, University of Edinburgh |
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Governance of Synthetic Biology: Science, Policy and Citizens |
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| 11:10-11:40 |
Coffee break |
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| 11:40-12:40 |
Panel discussion:
Laurie Zoloth, Northwestern University
Alexander Kelle, University of Bath
Berthold Rutz, European Patent Office |
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| 12:40-14:00 |
Lunch |
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Session IV:
Paradigm shifts vs. Fashion shifts in Science
Chair: Thomas Potthast, University of Tübingen |
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| 14:00-14:10 |
Introduction: Thomas Potthast, University of Tübingen |
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| 14:10-14:50 |
Evelyn Fox Keller, MIT |
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| Systems Biology: New Paradigm or just Fashion? |
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| 14:50-15:30 |
Jane Calvert, University of Edinburgh |
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| Calculating life? A sociological perspective on systems biology |
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| 15:30-16:10 |
Michel Morange, ENS/Paris 6 |
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| The place of systems biology and synthetic biology in the history of biology |
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| 16:10-16:40 |
Coffee break |
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| 16:40-17:40 |
Panel Discusson:
Arantza Etxeberria Agiriano, University of the Basque Country [UPV/EHU]
Philip Bastiaens, MPI für Molekulare Physiologie
Bettina Bock v. Wülfingen, Humboldt University
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| 17:45-18:00 |
Closing Remarks
Iain Mattaj, Director General, EMBL |
