Programme - Systems and Synthetic Biology: Scientific and Social Implications - EMBL

7-8 November 2008, EMBL Heidelberg, Germany

08:00-08:50	Registration
08:50-09:00	Welcome addresses Hermann Bujard, Executive Director, EMBO Halldór Stefánsson, Science and Society Programme Manager, EMBL

Session I:	Systems approaches: from descriptive to predictive biology Chair: Uwe Sauer, ETH
09:00-09:10	Introduction Uwe Sauer, ETH
09:10-09:40	Systems Biology: a new paradigm? Denis Noble, Oxford University
09:40-10:10	Making sense of the complexity of ageing Tom Kirkwood, University of Newcastle, United Kingdom
10:10-10:40	Integrative Approaches to Biology in the 21st Century Marvin Cassman, QB3, USA
10:40-11:10	Coffee break
11:10-11:40	Systems Medicine: the Emergence of Predictive, Personalized, Preventive and Participatory (P4) Medicine and the Impact of P4 Medicine on Society Leroy Hood, Institute for Systems Biology
11:40-12:40	Panel Discussion: Lars Steinmetz, EMBL Thomas Lemberger, Journal of molecular systems biology Joan Fujimura, University of Wisconsin-Madison Helga Nowotny, European Research Council (ERC)
12:40-14:00	Lunch

Session II:	Synthetic biology Chair: Victor de Lorenzo, Centro Nacional de Biotecnologia, CSIC
14:00-14:10	Introduction Victor de Lorenzo, Centro Nacional de Biotecnolgia
14:10-14:40	Diversity: a driving force for life's inception and synthesis Doron Lancet, Weizmann Institute of Science
14:40-15:10	Life and perpetuation of life of a synthetic bacterium Antoine Danchin, Institute Pasteur
15:10-15:40	Ribosome Engineering & New Genetic Codes Jason Chin, Medical Research Council, Laboratory of Molecular Biology, UK
15:40-16:10	Coffee break
16:10-16:40	First life, and next life: The origins and synthesis of living cells David Deamer, University of California Santa Cruz
16:40-17:40	Panel Discussion: Luis Serrano, Centre for Genomic Regulation Nicholas Luscombe, European Bioinformatics Institute Luis Campos, Drew University Sibylle Gaisser, Fraunhofer Institute System- und Innovationsforschung
18:00-19:00	Aperitif
19:00-20:30	Conference dinner

Saturday, 8 November

Session III:	On uses, and the danger of abuses, of new know-how and technologies Chair: Regine Kollek, Hamburg University
09:00-09:10	Introduction Regine Kollek, University of Hamburg
09:10-09:50	Synthetic biology: Goethés dream Andres Moya Simarro, University of Valencia
09:50-10:30	Challenges and Opportunities for Systems Biology and Drug Discovery: A Perspective Adriano Henney, Astra Zeneca
10:30-11:10	Governance of Synthetic Biology: Science, Policy and Citizens Joyce Tait, University of Edinburgh
11:10-11:40	Coffee break
11:40-12:40	Panel discussion: Laurie Zoloth, Northwestern University Alexander Kelle, University of Bath Berthold Rutz, European Patent Office
12:40-14:00	Lunch

Session IV	Paradigm shifts vs. Fashion shifts in Science Chair: Thomas Potthast, University of Tübingen
14:00-14:10	Introduction Thomas Potthast, University of Tübingen
14:10-14:50	Systems Biology: New Paradigm or just Fashion? Evelyn Fox Keller, MIT
14:50-15:30	Calculating life? A sociological perspective on systems biology Jane Calvert, University of Edinburgh
15:30-16:10	The place of systems biology and synthetic biology in the history of biology Michel Morange, ENS/Paris 6
16:10-16:40	Coffee break
16:40-17:40	Panel Discusson: Arantza Etxeberria Agiriano, University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) Philip Bastiaens, MPI für Molekulare Physiologie Bettina Bock v. WÃ¼lfingen, Humboldt University
17:45-18:00	Closing Remarks Iain Mattaj, Director General, EMBL