Location: Faculty of Biotechnology and Food Engineering, Hall no. 100
December 9th, 2015
| 08:30-09:00 | Welcome Reception |
| 09:00-09:30 | Dedication Ceremony : The Pearl Seiden International Meeting in LifeSciences (2015 – “From Synthetic Biology to Discovery and Applications”) and The Mark and Diane Seiden International Workshop in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (2016 – “Quantum Science Matter & Engineering”) |
| 09:30-10:15 | Adam Arkin- Keynote speaker University of California – Berkley High-Throughput Genetics for Discovering and Designing Complex Phenotypes |
| 10:15-10:30 | Break |
| 10:30-11:00 | Yaakov Benenson ETH Zurich Biomolecular Computing Systems: From Concepts to Applications |
| 11:00-11:30 | Cynthia Collins Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Engineering Communication and Collaboration in Synthetic Microbial Consortia |
| 11:30-12:00 | Uri Alon Weizmann Institute of Science Evolutionary Tradeoffs and the Geometry of Biological Shape Space |
| 12:00-13:30 | Lunch |
| 13:30-14:00 | Wenying Shou Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center The Survival of the Most Cooperative: Insights from Biological and Mathematical Systems |
| 14:00-14:30 | Adi Stern Tel Aviv University Real Time Evolution: Adaptation and Robustness in RNA Viruses |
| 14:30-14:45 | Break |
| 14:45-15:15 | Nathalie Balaban Hebrew University of Jerusalem Distinguishing Between Stochasticity and Determinism in Single Cells |
| 15:15-15:45 | Roee Amit Technion- Israel Institute of Technology Using synthetic enhancers to reveal a mechanism for quenching repression |
| 15:45-16:15 | Takanari Inoue Johns Hopkins University Total Synthesis of Cell Functions: Deconstructing and Constructing Chemotaxis and Phagocytosis |
| 16:15-16:45 | Coffee break |
| 16:45-17:00 |
Contributed Talk 1:
Mattia Zampieri
Metabolic constraints on the evolution of antibiotic resistance
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| 17:00-17:15 | Contributed Talk 2:Ishay Ben-ZionPositive Feedbacks Promote the Evolutionary Stability of Cooperative Behaviors |
| 17:15-20:30 | Poster session, Dinner |
December 10th, 2015
| 09:00-09:30 | Gathering and refreshments |
| 09:30-10:15 | Naama Barkai – Keynote speaker Weizmann Institute of Science The Cost of Making Proteins |
| 10:15-10:30 | Break |
| 10:30-11:00 | David Sprinzak Tel Aviv University The interplay between cell-cell signaling and cell morphology |
| 11:00-11:30 | Roy Kishony Technion- Israel Institute of Technology Multi-step adaptive paths leading to high level antibiotic resistance |
| 11:30-12:00 | Rama Ranganathan University of Texas Southwestern The Evolutionary “Design” of Proteins |
| 12:00-13:30 | Lunch |
| 13:30-14:00 | Ron Weiss MIT Mammalian Synthetic Biology: From Parts to Modules to Therapeutic Systems |
| 14:00-14:30 | Tom Ellis Imperial College London Constructing Synthetic Biology at Lower Costs |
| 14:30-14:45 | Break |
| 14:45-15:15 | Ron Milo Weizmann Institute of Science Rewiring E. Coli Central Metabolism for Carbon Fixation |
| 15:15-15:45 | Lingchong You Duke University Programming Bacterial Dynamics in Time and Space |
| 15:45-16:15 | Ruth Hershberg Technion- Israel Institute of Technology Studying cancer through an evolutionary prism |
| 16:15-16:45 | Coffee break |
| 16:45-17:30 | Postdoc Panel Discussion |
| 19:00 | Speakers Dinner |