Quantitative Biology – Hawaii

Hilton Hawaiian Village in Waikiki

Febrary 18-21, 2013

Links

• AGENDA
• REGISTRATION
• VENUE

Description

Technology is driving revolutionary changes in biology. Over the past decade, scientists and engineers have begun to define the path forward in the genomic era. Systems Biology has arisen as the deduction of interaction networks from -omics data generated in the wake of remarkable technological achievements. Likewise, DNA synthesis technologies are driving the development of Synthetic Biology, whereby engineered circuitry and even entire genomes can be reconstituted from chemical building blocks. These two emerging areas have catalyzed the growth of Quantitative Biology, whereby the central goal is the deduction of quantitative principles that can be used to construct predictive models for biological phenomena.

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.

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. A more detailed tentative agenda including talk titles is here.

Daily Schedule

7:00 – 8:00 Registration and opening
8:00 – 9:30 Invited Session (2 speakers)
9:30 – 10:00 Break
10:00 – 11:30 Invited Session (2 speakers)
11:30 – 1:00 Lunch
1:00 – 2:30 Invited Session (2 speakers)
2:30 – 3:00 Break
3:00 – 6:00 Contributed Sessions (Concurrent)

Questions?

Email coordinator@nullw-qbio.org

Organizing Committee

Bill Ditto, Natural Sciences, UH
Jeff Hasty, Biology, UCSD
William Hlavacek,UNM
Alex Hoffmann, Biochemistry, UCSD
Brian Munsky , New Mexico Consortium
Lev Tsimring, BioCircuits Institute, UCSD