Rigi-Workshop for Young Scientists 2016

Want advice on how to de- and re-construct the smallest living cells to engineer modified nanomachines, rewire pathways and build synthetic genomes from scratch?

...then we warmly invite you to come to the workshop «Big answers from small packages: systems and synthetic biology of microbes».

Bacteria and other microbes are among the simplest biological systems known and serve as powerful platforms to engineer synthetic cells. We have surgically removed and refactored their genetic modules into networks, switches and circuits; we have dug in their deepest past, we illuminated their insides with bolts of lightning and we engage in chemical (antibiotic) warfare with them. What other knowledge is needed to design, manufacture and/or tame a living cell?

Leading scientists will talk about phylogenomics of bacteria and organelles (Matthias Horn, University of Vienna), phenotypic landscapes and chemical profiling (Nassos Typas, EMBL Heidelberg), high-throughput live-cell imaging (Thierry Doan, CNRS Marseille), dark and synthetic metabolism (Tobias Erb, University of Marburg), synthetic selection networks (Morten Sommer, Technical University of Denmark), designer genomes (Tom Ellis, Imperial College London) and synthetic pathway engineering in bio-technology (Jutta Heim, Evolva SA).

Please find all details in the attached flyer and on our webpage.
Registration is open until October 15, 2015. Registration fee (due only after admission to the workshop) is CHF 150.-

Kind regards

Prof. Dr. Patrick Viollier, Institute of Genetics & Genomics, University of Geneva
Prof. Dr. Bear Christen, Institute of Molecular Systems Biology, ETH Zürich
Dr. Pia Stieger, Dr. Christoph Lüthi, Platform Biology, SCNAT

Christoph Lüthi
Platform Biologie
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SCNAT
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SWITZERLAND

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