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Satellite workshop in mammalian systems & synthetic biology
Sponsored by Jeffrey Michel Systems Biology |
| 8:45 |
Introduction |
| 8:50 |
Gábor Balázsi, UT MD Anderson Cancer Center
Mammalian synthetic gene circuits:
new research
tools in cancer biology |
| 9:30 |
Yaakov (Kobi) Benenson, ETH-Zurich
Biological computing meets synthetic biology: new ways to control cells |
| 10:10 |
Break |
| 10:30 |
Jacob Robinson, Rice University
Reading and writing activity in neural circuits |
| 11:10 |
John Jeremy Rice, IBM
Simulation of the human heart in near real-time
using 1.5 million cores: applications in drug safety |
| 11:50 |
Amina Qutub, Rice University
Phenotyping and patterning mammalian cells |
| 12:30 pm |
Lunch |
| 2:00 |
Michael Deem, Rice University
Dynamics of modularity: neural activity in
children's brains |
| 2:45 |
Amy Wu, Princeton University
Probing the horizontal gene transfer in cancer |
| 3:30 |
Break |
| 4:00 |
Sean Sun, Johns Hopkins University
Cellular pressure and volume regulation and an
osmotic engine model of cell migration |
| 4:45 |
Oleg Igoshin, Rice University
Reverse-engineering self-organization and motility
mechanisms in Myxococcus xanthus biofilms |
| 5:30 |
José Onuchic, Rice University
The folding mechanism of knotted proteins
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Systems, synthetic and physical biology
Sponsored by the Ph.D. program in Systems, Synthetic and
Physical Biology, and the
George R. Brown School of Engineering |
| 9:00 |
Ilya Levental,
UT Health Science Center at Houston
The structure and function of the mammalian
plasma membrane |
| 9:45 |
Lei Qi, University of California, San Francisco
RNA-guided genome engineering using CRISPR/Cas |
| 10:30 |
Break |
| 11:00 |
Jeff Tabor, Rice University
Using light to characterize gene circuit dynamics |
| 11:45 |
Jana Shen,
University of Maryland School of Pharmacy
In silico tools for the development of pH-controlled nanomaterials from surfactants and peptides |
| 12:30-2:30 pm |
Lunch and Poster Session |
| 2:30 |
Jianpeng Ma, Rice University
Baylor College of Medicine
Molecular mechanism for actin nucleation |
| 3:15 |
Break |
| 3:45 |
David Zhang, Rice University
Nucleic acid hybridization probes:
from theory
to commercialization |
