DUE TO THE NOVEL CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC
The planning committee for the International Conference on Engineering Synthetic Cells and Organelles invites you to an abbreviated virtual conference featuring selected keynote speakers, tutorials, and more!
THE IN-PERSON SYNCELL CONFERENCE WILL BE RESCHEDULED FOR 2021
This three-day webinar will provide a snapshot of cutting-edge research on bottom-up synthetic biology happening around the world and provide a preview of an in-person SynCell conference that will take place in 2021.
Featuring global leaders in bottom-up synthetic biology, each day will include:
Registered participants will have the opportunity to submit questions to speakers and the sessions will be live-streamed and recorded for later viewing.
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Program (subject to change)(click on a date to view program details)
MDT - Mountain Daylight TimeCET - Central European Time
Day 1: Tuesday, May 26, 2020
MODERATOR: Susan Atlas, University of New Mexico
8:00am - 8:30am (MDT)4:00pm - 4:30pm (CET)Welcome and Introduction to Virtual Syncell2020 Symposium - Gabriel López, Joachim Spatz
8:30am - 9:15am (MDT)4:30pm - 5:15pm (CET)Tutorial: Understanding and controlling the morphological complexity of biomembranes - Reinhard Lipowsky
9:15am - 10:00am (MDT)5:15pm - 6:00pm (CET)Tutorial: Unspecific interactions in or of cell-like compartments: theory & experiments - Karin Jacobs
10:00am - 10:20am (MDT)6:00pm - 6:20pm (CET)Program Highlight: Max Planck Matter-to-Life School - Michael Grunze
10:30am - 11:10am (MDT)6:30pm - 7:10pm (CET)Bottom-up assembly of a cell - Joachim Spatz
Day 2: Wednesday, May 27, 2020
MODERATOR: Ilia Platzman, Max Planck Institute for Medical Research
8:00am - 8:10am (MDT)4:00pm - 4:10pm (CET)Welcome - Gabriel Lopez
8:10am - 8:55am (MDT)4:10pm - 4:55pm (CET)Tutorial: Development and application of DNA in nanoscale robotics - Darko Stefanovic
8:55am - 9:40am (MDT)4:55pm - 5:40pm (CET)Tutorial: Methods to visualize 3D dynamics - Jim Werner
9:45am - 10:05am (MDT)5:45pm - 6:05pm (CET)Program Highlight: BaSyC - Marileen Dogterom
10:10am - 11:00am (MDT)6:10pm - 7:00pm (CET)Keynote: Building a functional cytoskeleton in synthetic cells - Marileen Dogterom
Day 3: Thursday, May 28, 2020
MODERATOR: Andrew Ellington, University of Texas - Austin
8:00am - 8:10am (MDT)4:00pm - 4:10pm (CET)Welcome - Gabriel López
8:10am - 8:50am (MDT)4:10pm - 4:50pm (CET)Keynote: Upwelling — Challenges arising from the bottom of Earth’s life well - Drew Endy
8:55am - 9:40am (MDT)4:55pm - 5:40pm (CET)Tutorial: Synthetic building blocks to grow functional tissues - Laura De Laporte
9:40am - 10:25am (MDT)5:40pm - 6:25pm (CET)Tutorial: Liquid/liquid phase separation of intrinsically disordered proteins - Nick Carroll
10:25am - 10:45am (MDT)6:25pm - 6:45pm (CET)Program Highlight: Build-a-Cell - Kate Adamala
10:50am - 11:20am (MDT)6:50pm - 7:20pm (CET)Panel Discussion: Future synthetic cell technologies for mitigation of viral pandemics - Andrew Ellington, Kate Adamala, Eberhard Bodenschatz, Michael Grunze
11:20am - 11:30am (MDT)Final Remarks / Next Steps - Gabriel López
Featured Invited Speakers
Kate Adamala
University of Minnesota
Eberhard Bodenschatz
Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization
Nick Carroll
University of New Mexico
Laura De Laporte
Leibniz Institute for Interactive Materials, Aachen
Marileen Dogterom
Delft University of Technology
Andrew Ellington
University of Texas - Austin
Drew Endy
Stanford University
Michael Grunze
Max Planck School of Matter to Life
Karin Jacobs
University of Saarbrucken
Reinhard Lipowsky
Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces
Gabriel Lopez
Joachim Spatz
Max Planck Institute for Medical Research
Darko Stefanovic
Jim Werner
Los Alamos National Laboratory