The Winter q-bio meeting brings together scientists and engineers who are interested in all areas of q-bio. The focus for the meeting this year will be Synthetic Biology, with about half of the invited speakers chosen as renowned experts in this area. It will be held on Oahu island, at the Hilton Hawaiian Village resort in the heart of the famous Waikiki beach. Each year, the meeting will rotate on the Hawaiian Islands with a different thematic focus within q-bio.
Meeting venue: Hilton Hawaiian Village in Waikiki
Confirmed Speakers
Jim Collins, Biomedical Engineering, Boston University
Mary Dunlop, Engineering and Mathematical Sciences, The University of Vermont
Johan Elf, Molecular Biotechnology, Uppsala University
Michael Elowitz, Biology, Bioengineering, Applied Physics, California Institute of Technology
Timothy Elston, Pharmacology, UNC Chapel Hill School of Medicine
James E. Ferrell, Biochemistry, Chemical and Systems Biology, Stanford University
Martin Fussenegger, Biotechnology and Bioengineering, ETH Zurich
Timothy Gardner, Amyris
Leon Glass, Physiology, McGill University
Terry Hwa, Physics, University of California, San Diego
Roy Kishony, Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School
Galit Lahav, Systems Biology, Harvard University
Andre Levchenko, Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University
Wendell Lim, Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology, Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California, San Francisco
Mariko Okada, Laboratory for Cellular Systems Modeling, RIKEN RCAI
Bernhard Palsson, Bioengineering, University of California, San Diego
Kit Pogliano, Biological Sciences, University of California, San Diego
Gurol Suel, Biological Sciences, University of California, San Diego
Chao Tang, Theoretical Biology, Peking University
John Tyson, Biological Sciences, Virginia Tech
J. Craig Venter, The J. Craig Venter Institute
Chris Voigt, Bioengineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Ruth Williams, Mathematics, University of California, San Diego
Ned S. Wingreen, Molecular Biology, Princeton University
Important Dates
Early Registration Deadline: December 1, 2012
Conference Registration Deadline: February 5, 2013
Agenda
Each day we'll have three plenary invited sessions and two concurrent afternoon sessions devoted to contributed talks. The poster session will be featured on the afternoon of February 20th, followed by the banquet dinner. The complete program is here and the abstracts of all conbtributed talks and posters are here.
The talks will take place in Coral Ballroom, which is located in the Mid Pacific Conference Center.
Monday, February 18: Sponsored by ACS Synthetic Biology
7:00-8:00 Registration and Breakfast
8:00-8:15 Opening Remarks
8:15-9:00 Jim Collins Boston University; Editorial Advisory Board for ACS Synthetic Biology
Radical approaches to antibiotics and microbial threats
9:00-9:45 Craig Venter The J. Craig Venter Institute
Writing the genetic code
9:45-10:15 Coffee Break
10:15-11:00 Chris Voigt MIT; Editor in Chief for ACS Synthetic Biology
Programming Cells
11:00-11:45 Michael Elowitz Caltech; Associate Editor for ACS Synthetic Biology
Cell signaling at the single-cell level
11:45-1:00 Lunch on own
1:00-1:45 Mary Dunlop University of Vermont
Engineering feedback control systems in microbes
1:45-2:30 Wendell Lim UC San Francisco, Editorial Advisory Board for ACS Synthetic Biology
Design principles of cell signaling networks
2:30-3:00 Coffee Break
3:00-6:00 Contributed Sessions (see program for details)
Tuesday, February 19
8:00-8:45 Martin Fussenegger ETH Zurich
Prosthetic networks for the treatment of diabetes
8:45-9:30 Bernhard Palsson University of California, San Diego
i Know E. coli and its GEMs
9:30-10:00 Coffee Break
10:00-10:45 Tim Gardner Amyris
Transforming yeast from moonshiners into oil barons
10:45-11:30 Galit Lahav Harvard Medical School
Dynamics matter
11:30-1:00 Lunch on own
1:00-1:45 Chao Tang University of California, San Francisco
Towards a periodic table of functional modules
1:45-2:30 Johan Elf Uppsala University
Probing intracellular kinetics at the level of single molecules
2:30-3:00 Coffee Break
3:00-6:00 Contributed Sessions (see program for details)
Wednesday, February 20
8:00-8:45 John Tyson Virginia Tech
Checkpoints, bistability and oscillations in the eukaryotic cell cycle
8:45-9:30 Roy Kishony Harvard Medical School
Microbial evolution within patients
9:30-10:00 Coffee Break
10:00-10:45 Kit Pogliano University of California, San Diego
The chemical cell biology of Bacillus subtilis
10:45-11:30 James E. Ferrell Stanford University
Dissecting the mitotic trigger
11:30-1:00 Lunch on own
1:00-1:45 Terry Hwa University of California, San Diego
On growth laws, catabolite repression, and metabolic coordination
1:45-2:30 Ruth Williams University of California, San Diego
Correlation effects of intracellular components due to limited processing resources
2:30-3:00 Coffee Break
3:00-3:30 Program Officers: Funding opportunities
3:30-6:00 Poster Session (see program for details)
7:00 Banquet on the beach at the Moana Surfrider. Short walk to 2365 Kalakaua Avenue
Thursday, February 21
8:00-8:45 Andre Levchenko Johns Hopkins University
Teaching cells to go places: Synthetic biology meets microfluidics in enforcing chemotaxis to unnatural cues
8:45-9:30 Timothy Elston UNC Chapel Hill School of Medicine
Periodically probing the pheromone response of yeast
9:30-10:00 Coffee Break
10:00-10:45 Leon Glass McGill University
Evolution and robustness in gene networks
10:45-11:30 Mariko Okada RIKEN RCAI
A switch in NF-kB immune signaling
11:30-1:00 Lunch on own
1:00-1:45 Gurol Suel University of California, San Diego
Death and mechanics during biofilm development
1:45-2:30 Ned Wingreen Princeton University
The role of enzyme clustering in metabolic regulation
2:30-3:00 Coffee Break
3:00-6:00 Contributed Sessions (see program for details)
Interested in attending Winter q-bio?
Complete these 2 easy steps:
(1) Register for the conference here
(2) Make travel arrangements, venue information is here
Questions? Email to coordinator@w-qbio.org
Contact details
Organizing Committee
Jeff Hasty, Biology, UCSD
William Hlavacek,UNM
Alex Hoffmann, Biochemistry, UCSD
Brian Munsky , New Mexico Consortium
Lev Tsimring, BioCircuits Institute, UCSD
