[Debian-med-packaging] SSBSS 2016: Call for Oral Presentations/Posters: 8-14 July 2016, Volterra (Pisa) Tuscany, Italy - 3rd Int. Synthetic & Systems Biology Summer School - Early Application: April 26, 2016

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Call for Participation (apologies for multiple copies)
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3rd International Synthetic and Systems Biology Summer School - SSBSS 2016,
8-14 July 2016, Volterra (Pisa) - Tuscany, Italy

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EARLY APPLICATION DEADLINE: April 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: April 26, 2016
Notification Acceptance: from 2 to 28 April 2016

Late Application: from May 1st, to July 4th 2016
Notification Acceptance: from May 6th 2016 according to registration time

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

Late Short Talk/Poster Submission: from May 1st, to July 4th 2016
Notification of Decision for Oral/Poster Presentation: from May 6,  
2016 according to submission time

http://www.taosciences.it/ssbss/#application-form

FINAL LIST OF SPEAKERS
* Yaakov (Kobi) Benenson, Synthetic Biology Group at 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

* 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

MORE INFORMATION
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Social event(s): social tour and dinner in Florence.

Please help us distributing in your circles (emails, blogs, and social  
networks) the call for participation and call for oral talks/posters   
for SSBSS 2016.  Together we will make SSBSS a great event!

See you in Tuscany in July!
  Ludovico Montalcini - SSBSS 2016 Organizing Committee Chair

Previous SSBSS Editions:
SSBSS 2015
http://www.taosciences.it/ssbss2015/
350+ Applications & 180+ posters and oral presentations.

SSBSS 2014
http://www.taosciences.it/ssbss2014/
200+ Applications

SSBSS 2015 Best Talk Awards

* ?Design of rotationally symmetric DNA nanotubes", Jon Berengut,  
University of New South Wales, Australia

* ?Massive Factorial Design of Coding Sequences Reveals the Complex  
Phenotypic Consequences of Translation Determinants", Guillaume  
Cambray, Joao Guimaraes and Adam Arkin

* ?Cooperative Molecular Biosensor", Robert Oppenheimer, Victor Chang  
Cardiac Research Institute, Australia

SSBSS 2015 Best Poster Awards
* ?Self-construction of the Macaque Cortex", Gabriela Michel,  
Institute of Neuroinformatics, ETH, Zurich, Switzerland

* ?A multi-method approach in the development of a novel XNA-ligase",  
Michiel Vanmeert, University of Leuven, Belgium

* ?A Synthetic Biology Approach for Screening RBP Binding Sites", Noa  
Katz, Technion, Israel