Speakers

 

The conference program

Keynote Speakers:

Adam Arkin, University of California – Berkley

High-Throughput Genetics for Discovering and Designing Complex Phenotypes

Naama Barkai, Weizmann Institute of Science

The Cost of Making Proteins

 

Invited Speakers:

Invited Speakers

Name	Institution	Topic
Lingchong You	Duke University	Programming Bacterial Dynamics in Time and Space
Yaakov Benenson	ETH Zurich	Biomolecular Computing Systems: From Concepts to Applications
Wenying Shou	Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center	The Survival of the Most Cooperative: Insights from Biological and Mathematical Systems
Debbie Marks	Harvard University	3D Structure, Flexibility and Effects of Mutation Inferred from Genomic Sequences
Nathalie Balaban	Hebrew University of Jerusalem	Distinguishing Between Stochasticity and Determinism in Single Cells
Tom Ellis	Imperial College London	Constructing Synthetic Biology at Lower Costs
Takanari Inoue	Johns Hopkins University	Total Synthesis of Cell Functions: Deconstructing and Constructing Chemotaxis and Phagocytosis
Ron Weiss	M.I.T	Mammalian Synthetic Biology: From Parts to Modules to Therapeutic Systems
Cynthia Collins	Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute	Engineering Communication and Collaboration in Synthetic Microbial Consortia
Adi Stern	Tel Aviv University	Real Time Evolution: Adaptation and Robustness in RNA Viruses
Rama Ranganathan	University of Texas Southwestern	The Evolutionary “Design” of Proteins
Uri Alon	Weizmann Institute of Science	Evolutionary Tradeoffs and the Geometry of Biological Shape Space
Ron Milo	Weizmann Institute of Science	Rewiring E. Coli Central Metabolism for Carbon Fixation
David Sprinzak	Tel Aviv University	The interplay between cell-cell signaling and cell morphology

Contributed Talk 1:

Mattia Zampieri