We have the pleasure to welcome you to the 1st colloquium of the Systems and Synthetic Biology Program of the CNB!
November 12th
The goal of this mini-Workshop is to be the official launch in our Center of these two new research disciplines. Systems Biology is oriented to understand living organisms as a whole, providing new knowledge at different global levels: genome, proteome, transcriptome, metabolome, signalome, etc, taking into account different levels of organization and regulation. Synthetic Biology follows the opposite route and attempts to assemble complex biological systems a la carte from first principles.
The urgent need for integration and exploitation of all this information making possible to obtain new knowledge is the reason why Systems and Synthetic Biology emerge as a new discipline clearly differentiated from others but in a continuous relationship with other biological fields.
The objective of this event is to communicate frontline research in the fields of Systems/Synthetic Biology and to foster synergies between often fractionated SB groups and communities, both local and international.
We very much hope you enjoy the event, make new friends and partners and -most important- return to your place with a wealth of inspiration and new ideas for action!
Event Schedule
Morning Session - Chairman: Juan Poyatos
9.30-9:50
Welcome and General Information by:
Rafael RodrigoPresident of CSIC - Spain
Jose María ValpuestaDirector of CNB - CSIC - Spain
Víctor de Lorenzo Head of Systems Biology Program
9:50-10:30
Eduardo Rocha - Institut Pasteur - FranceEvolutionary Genomics of microbial growth
10:30-11:00
Julio Banga - IIM (CSIC) - SpainExploiting optimality principles in computational Systems Biology
11:00-11:30
Ivana Gudelj - Imperial College - UKMicrobial evolution in theory and practice
11:30-12:00
Coffee Break
12:00-12:30
Kevin Foster - University of Oxford - UKSocial Evolution in Microbes
12:30-13:00
Raúl Rabadán - Columbia University - USASearching the origin of a pandemic
13:00-13:30
José Vilar - EHU/UPV Biophysics Unit (CSIC) - SpainFrom components to systems: lessons from gene regulation and synthetic cooperation
13:30-14:30
Lunch
Afternoon Session - Chairman: Florencio Pazos
14:30-15:00
Natalio Krasnogor - University of Nottingham - UKA Synthetic Biology Network for Modelling and Programming Cell-Cell Interactions
15:00-15:30
Julio Saéz-Rodríguez - EMBL Outstation (EBI) - UKMechanistic and predictive models to understand deregulation of signaling networks in disease
15:30-16:00
Ricard Solé - University Pompeu Fabra - SpainCausality and computation in biological networks
16:00-16:30
Coffee Break
16:30-17:00
Francisco Iborra - National Center of Biotechnology (CSIC) - SpainTranscription elongation noise is the result of stochastic partition of mitochondria at mitosis
17:00-17:30
Matthias Heinemann - University of Groningen - The NetherlandsStochasticity in E.coli central metabolism
17:30-18:10
Trey Ideker - University of California, San Diego - USABiomarkers as protein networks, not individual loci
18.10
General Discussion and Conclusions animated by: Víctor de Lorenzo, Florencio Pazos and Juan Poyatos
21:00
Speakers Dinner
