Reports of the following events have recently been added:
iGEM-UK meet-up — Newcastle University, 20 July to 21 July 2010
Saturday 4 September to Thursday 9 September 2010
Conference
Sant Feliu de Guixols, Spain
BacNet10 will cover the mechanisms and principles of information collection, integration and implementation in bacteria. The meeting will involve world-leading scientists from different areas of molecular microbiology, computational modeling, and systems biology, and will include sessions on global regulation, networks and switches, network modeling and engineering, microbial cell biology, microbial development, stress response, and cell-cell communication. By bringing together cutting-edge research from related but often non-intersecting fields, the meeting will strive for cross-fertilization of different ideas and concepts of modern-day microbiology.
Application deadline: 14 June 2010
Saturday 4 September to Tuesday 7 September 2010
Conference
Palau de Congressos de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain
This conference is being organized by Denis Duboule and Luis Serrano, and includes a workshop on synthetic biology as well as keynote talks by Ron Weiss and Jason Chin.
Thursday 16 September 2010
a SynBioStandards Network event
Workshop
University of Edinburgh
This meeting will provide an opportunity for SynBioStandards Network members to update each other on research activities and other synthetic biology initiatives they have been involved with over the past year.
Tuesday 21 September to Friday 24 September 2010
Conference
University of Exeter
This conference is designed to foster interdisciplinary thinking among mathematicians, physicists, engineers, and biologists.
The deadline for abstract submission has been extended to 30 June 2010.
Monday 4 October to Wednesday 6 October 2010
Workshop
Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Leipzig, Germany
The main objective of this interdisciplinary workshop is to bring together leading scientists in key fields for integrated modeling of the function and evolution of biological networks: gene regulatory networks, epigenomics, metabolic networks, RNA, and evolution of biological networks. While the main focus will be on the theoretical (modeling) side, recent advances from experiments will also be considered to identify important problems that challenge existing modeling paradigms.
Friday 15 October to Saturday 16 October 2010
Workshop
Informatics Forum, University of Edinburgh
The aim of this workshop is to contribute to the cross-fertilization between the research in machine learning methods and their applications to systems biology (i.e., complex biological and medical questions) by bringing together method developers and experimentalists. We encourage submissions bringing forward methods for discovering complex structures (e.g. interaction networks, molecule structures) and methods supporting genome-wide data analysis.
Monday 18 October to Tuesday 19 October 2010
Conference
Singapore
This symposium aims to provide an interactive platform for discussion on the current status and future prospects of synthetic biology.
Wednesday 15 December to Thursday 16 December 2010
Conference
University of Evry-Val-d’Essonne, France
This conference is chaired by James Collins and Alfonso Jaramillo. Abstract submissions are due by 11 July, and conference papers will be published in a special issue of the Biotechnology Journal.
Wednesday 15 June to Sunday 19 June 2011
Conference
Stanford University, CA, USA
Monday 22 August to Friday 26 August 2011
conference
Keele University
Synthetic Biology is the design and construction of new biological systems not found in that configuration in nature. The overarching aims of Synthetic Biology are to develop a firm basis for the design and engineering of new biological and biologically inspired molecules and collections of molecules (so-called systems), and to put these to useful purposes. By applying engineering principles to biology, scientists hope to generate new molecular systems, and perhaps even new basic life forms, that are radically different from those that can be generated by more-traditional chemical synthesis and genetic engineering.
Despite much hype in the scientific and popular press, major obstacles towards these goals remain, however. The potential of Synthetic Biology will not be limited by the imagination of the researcher but rather by the suitability, quality, variability and compatibility of the 'parts' (genes, promoters, proteins and other biomolecular components) that they choose to engineer; the complex and often unwieldy circuitry of complex biological systems; the incompatibility of new parts with a new or existing biological contexts (so-called chassis); and the noise, variability and uncertainty, or emergent properties, inherent in biology. Furthermore, the problems are not only scientific but also sociological, ethical and cultural: just because we can do this type of biological engineering, should we open this particular Pandora’s box?
The 70th Harden Conference will illustrate the potential of this emerging cross-disciplinary area; showcase current successes; and present the underpinning biology, engineering and systems understanding necessary to design synthetic biological systems reliably and predictably.
