First International Frontiers in Synthetic Biology -2008- Meeting on Synthetic Biology: Engineering Genes, Genomes & Cells for Drug Discovery
Date: December 1-2, 2008
Venue: The Joseph B. Martin Conference Center at Harvard Medical School
77 Avenue Louis Pasteur, Boston, MA 02115, USA
“A Unique Theme to Combine Chemical Biology & Engineering Life”
The Most Innovative Global Theme Event in the Chemical Biology Field!
Scientific Organizing 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 Fermi" Synthetic Biology Lab-Department of Biology University of Rome3, Italy
Target Audience: 150 Total Speaker Presentations: 20 Total Poster Presentations: 30 Total Exhibit Booths: 20
Topics or Highlights of the Meeting:
Synthetic Genomics Genomes and Organelle Synthesis Genetic Circuits Constructive & Digital Biology Synthetic Biology & Ethics
AGENDA/SPEAKERS
Monday, December 1, 2008
7:00 – 8:30 A.M: Registration Open 7:30 – 8:45 A.M: Continental breakfast 8:00 - 9:00 A.M: Technology Session II 10.00 AM – 6.00 PM Scientific Sessions
Tuesday December 2, 2008
7:00 – 8:30 A.M: Registration Open 7:30 – 8:45 AM: Continental breakfast 8:00 - 9:00 A.M: Technology Session III 10.00 AM – 6.00 PM Scientific Sessions
Confirmed Speakers:
Keynote 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:
Clyde A. Hutchison III, Ph.D. The J. Craig Venter Institute Rockville, MD, USA Title: TBA
Philip R. LeDuc, PhD. Associate Professor of 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 Fermi" Dipartimento di Biologia Università degli Studi di Roma Tre, 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
Pamela Silver, PhD. Professor of Systems Biology Director, Harvard University Graduate Program in Systems Biology Harvard Medical School Boston, MA, USA Title: TBA
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: www.expressgenes.com
