[Debian-med-packaging] SSBSS 2014 News & 2nd CfP: Int. Synthetic & Systems Biology Summer School: Biology meets Engineering & Computer Science, Taormina - Sicily, Italy, June 15-19, 2014

[SSBSS]

2nd Call for Participation (apologies for multiple copies)
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Synthetic and Systems Biology Summer School: Biology meets Engineering  
and Computer Science,
Taormina - Sicily, Italy, June 15-19, 2014

http://www.taosciences.it/ssbss2014/
ssbss2014 at dmi.unict.it

We are pleased to inform that we received more than 120 applications  
and 60 Abstracts/Posters and, due to many requests, we are extending  
the application *deadline to March 31, 2014.* For this reason, we will  
have up to ~150 slots (no 100 slots as previously written) for  
selected and motivated students.

*Application Deadline: March 31, 2014*

* Speakers & Courses *
+ Uri Alon, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
                               Lecture I: Elementary Circuits in Biology
                               Lecture II: Evolution and Optimality of  
Gene Circuits

+ Joel Bader, Johns Hopkins University, USA
                               Lecture I: Network Remodeling during  
Development and Disease
                               Lecture II: Gene and Pathway Analysis  
of Genome-wide Association Studies

+ Jef Boeke, Johns Hopkins University, USA
                               Lecture I: Genome Synthesis
                               Lecture II: Combinatorial DNA Assembly  
methods and their applications

+ Jason Chin, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, UK
                               Lecture I: Reprogramming the Genetic Code

+ Virginia Cornish, Columbia University, USA
                               Lecture : TBA

+ Paul Freemont, Imperial College London, UK
                               Lecture I: Foundational Technologies  
for Synthetic Biology - from DNA Assembly to Part Characterisation
                               Lecture II: Synthetic biology designs  
for biosensor applications

+ Farren Isaacs, Yale University, USA
                               Lecture : TBA

+ Tanja Kortemme, University of California San Francisco, USA
                               Lecture I: Computational protein design  
- principles, challenges and progress
                               Lecture II: Design of reprogrammed and  
new functions - from proteins to cells

+ Giuseppe Nicosia, University of Catania, Italy
                               Lecture I: Biological Circuit Design by  
Pareto Optimality
                               Lecture II: Programming Living  
Molecular Machines for Biofuel Production

+ Sven Panke, ETH, Switzerland
                               Lecture I: Synthetic Biology of Cell  
free Systems
                               Lecture II: Exploiting Engineered  
Cell-Cell Communications in Large Scale Biotechnology

+ Rahul Sarpeshkar, MIT, USA
                               Lecture I: Analog versus Digital  
Computation in Biology
                               Lecture II: Analog Synthetic and Systems Biology

+ Giovanni Stracquadanio, Johns Hopkins University, USA
                               Lecture I: Minimal Genomes:  
High-Throughput Sequencing, Statistical Methods and Physics Models to  
Unveil Minimal Yeast Chromosomes Compatible with Life
                               Lecture II: Computational Tools for  
Genome editing, Combinatorial Assembly and Workflow Tracking

+ Ron Weiss, MIT, USA
                               Lecture : TBA


*School Directors*
+ Jef Boeke, Johns Hopkins University, USA
+ Giuseppe Nicosia, University of Catania, Italy
+ Mario Pavone, University of Catania, Italy
+ Giovanni Stracquadanio, Johns Hopkins University, USA


*Short Talk and Poster Submission*
Students may submit a research abstract for presentation. School  
directors will review the abstracts and will recommend for poster or  
short-oral presentation. Abstract should be submitted by *February 15,  
2014*. The abstracts will be published on the electronic hands-out  
material of the summer school.

The Applicants may submit a poster or a short talk to present their  
recent research work using the EasyChair System:  
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ssbss2014

Co-located Event: The 3rd International Synthetic Yeast Genome (Sc2.0)  
Meeting will be held in Taormina Friday June 20, 2014

http://www.taosciences.it/ssbss2014/									ssbss2014 at dmi.unict.it