First International
Frontiers in Synthetic Biology -2008- Meeting
on
Synthetic Biology: Engineering Genes, Genomes & Cells for Drug Discovery

December 1-2, 2008
Venue: The Joseph B. Martin Conference Center at Harvard Medical School
77 Avenue Louis Pasteur, Boston, MA 02115, USA

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AGENDA/SPEAKERS

Monday, December 1, 2008

8:30 – 9:00 A.M: Registration Open
8:30 – 9:00 A.M: Breakfast
9.00 AM – 5.00 PM Scientific Sessions

Tuesday December 2, 2008

8:30 – 9:00 A.M: Registration Open
8:30 – 9:00 A.M: Breakfast
9.00 AM – 3.30 PM Scientific Sessions

Scientific Committee:

Krishnarao Appasani, PhD., MBA (Chair)
Founder & Chief Executive Officer
GeneExpression Systems, Inc. Waltham, MA, USA

Ron Weiss, PhD.
Associate Professor
Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA

Farren Issacs, PhD.
Research Fellow in Genetics
Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

Giovanni Murtas, PhD.
Senior Grant "Centro Enrico Fermi"
Synthetic Biology Lab-Department of Biology
University of Rome3, Italy

Key Speakers:

	Inaugural Speaker On Dec 1 Jack W. Szostak, PhD. Lasker Award Winner, 2006 Professor of Genetics & HHMI investigator Alex. A. Rich Distinguished Investigator Department of Molecular Biology Ctr for Computational and Integrative Biology Massachusetts General Hospital Harvard Medical School Boston, MA 02114, USA Title: TBA
	Keynote Speaker on Dec 2 Clyde A. Hutchison III, Ph.D. The J. Craig Venter Institute Rockville, MD, USA Title: TBA

Other Speakers:

	Jonathan Didier PhD student in the Lab of Dr. Philip R. LeDuc Mechanical and Biomedical Engineering & Biological Sciences Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA Title: TBA
	Ron Weiss, PhD. Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering Princeton University Princeton, NJ, USA Title: TBA
	James J. Collins, PhD. University Professor & Professor of Biomedical Engineering Boston University, Boston, MA, USA Title: TBA
	Giovanni Murtas, PhD. Senior Grant "Centro Enrico Fermi" Roma, Italy Title: TBA
	Hirohide Saito, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Laboratory of Gene Biodynamics, Graduate School of Biostudies, Kyoto University Kyoto, Japan Title: TBA
	Richard I. Kitney, OBE FREng DSc FCGI Director of the Graduate School of Engineering and Physical Sciences Chairman of the Institute of Systems and Synthetic Biology Professor of BioMedical Systems Engineering Department of Bioengineering Imperial College, London, UK Title: TBA
	Alfonso Jaramillo, Ph.D. Professor, Laboratoire de BIOCHIMIE CNRS- Ecole Polytechnique, Evry, France Title: Automatic design of transcriptional and metabolic networks with targeted behavior
	Roy Bar-Ziv, PhD. Senior Scientist of Materials & Interfaces The Weizmann Institute of Science Rehovot, Israel
	Lingchong You, PhD. Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering Duke University Durham, NC, USA
	Mitchel J. Doktycz, Ph.D. Biosciences Division Oak Ridge National Laboratory Oak Ridge, TN, USA Title: Cell mimics and nano-enabled synthetic biology
	Heinz Schwer, PhD. Co-Founder & CEO Sloning BioTechnology GmbH Puchheim, Germany Title: A novel solid phase technology for high throughput gene synthesis
	Edward Driggers, PhD. Director of Technology Development Ensemble Discovery Corp. Cambridge MA, USA Title: Using DNA programmed chemistry (DPC) to discover macrocyclic structures with activity against therapeutically relevant protein-protein interaction targets (PPI’s)
	Suzanne Reynders Dr. Frederic Cazals Lab INRIA, Sophia-Antipolis, France Title: Determining the Structure of Large Macro-molecular Assemblies: the Example of the Nuclear Pore Complex
	Timothy K. Lu, Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA, USA Title: Engineered Bacteriophage to Combat Bacterial Biofilms and Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria
	Jiandong Huang, PhD. Associate Professor The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong Title: Formation of new patterns by programming cell motility
	Frederick P. (Fritz) Roth, PhD. Associate Professor of Biological Chemistry Harvard Medical School Boston, MA 02115, USA Title: Multisite engineering in S. cerevisiae through sexual cycling and fluorescence selection
	Aurelien Rizk PhD. Student INRIA, Lechesnay, France Title: Towards a general computational method for robustness analysis
	Pamela Silver, PhD. Professor of Systems Biology Director, Harvard University Graduate Program in Systems Biology Harvard Medical School Boston, MA, USA Title: TBA

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Key Sessions:

The most-up-to-date developments will be addressed in the following topics:
Synthetic Genomics
Genomes and Organelle Synthesis
Genetic Circuits
Constructive & Digital Biology
Synthetic Biology & Ethics

Exhibitors are welcome to reserve their booth space early!

Please contact if you are interested in speaking in the scientific or Technology workshops of this meeting.

GeneExpression Systems, Inc.
P.O. Box 540170
Waltham, MA 02454 USA
Tel: (781) 891-8181
Fax: (781) 891-8234
E-mail: Genexpsys@expressgenes.com
www.expressgenes.com

Poster Abstract Submission by November 20, 2008