BioInspired! So What? Now What!

The Synthetic and Systems Biology Summer School (SSBSS) is a full-immersion five-day residential summer school at the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, on cutting-edge advances in systems and synthetic biology with lectures delivered by world-renowned experts. The school provides a stimulating environment for students (from Master students to PhD students), Post-Docs, early career researches, academics and industry leaders. Participants will also have the chance to present their results (with Oral Talks and Posters), and to interact with their peers, in a friendly and constructive environment.

Keynote Speakers:

• JOEL S. BADER, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, USA   Topics: Cancer, Systems Biology, Synthetic Biology, Synthetic Chromosomes, Genome-wide association studies
• JEF D. BOEKE, Institute for Systems Genetics - New York University Langone Health, USA   Topics: Humane Genome Project - Write, Genomics, Genetics, Retrotransposons, Synthetic Biology
• FRANCESCA BUFFA, Department of Oncology, University of Oxford, UK  Topics: Systems Biology, Functional Genomics, Transcriptomics, Biostatistics, Integrative Genomics & Metabolism
• YVONNE CHEN, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, UCLA, USA  Topics: Mammalian Synthetic Biology, Cell-based therapies for intractable diseases, chimeric antigen receptor (CAR)-T cells.
• VIRGINIA CORNISH, Department of Chemistry, Columbia University, USA  Topics: Synthetic Biology, Chemical Complementation & Ribosome Chemistry
• TOM ELLIS, Department of Bioengineering, Imperial College London, UK  Topics: Synthetic Genomics, Synthetic Biology, Genome Engineering, Biotechnology 
• RODRIGO LEDESMA-AMARO, Department of Bioengineering, Imperial College London, UK   Topics: Metabolic Engineering, Synthetic and Systems Biology
• NICOLA PATRON, Synthetic Biology Group, Earlham Institute, UK   Topics: Synthetic Biology, Engineering Plant Biology, Recoding Regulation, Recoding Plant Metabolism
• GUIDO SANGUINETTI, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, UK   Topics: Systems Biology, Biomedical Artificial Intelligence, Probabilistic Modeling of Biological systems.

DEADLINES:

Application: February 20, 2020
Oral Presentation/Poster Submission: February 20, 2020
Notification of Decision for Oral/Poster Presentation: March 12, 2020