<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div><div>______________________________________________________</div><div>Call for Abstracts (apologies for multiple copies)</div><div>Please forward to anybody who might be interested</div><div>______________________________________________________</div><div><br></div><div>Synthetic & Systems Biology Summer School</div><div>Taormina - Sicily, Italy, July 5-9, 2015</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.taosciences.it/ssbss2015/">http://www.taosciences.it/ssbss2015/</a></div><div><a href="mailto:ssbss.school@gmail.com">ssbss.school@gmail.com</a></div><div><br></div><div>DEADLINES</div><div>Discount Abstract Deadline: April 30, 2015</div><div>Late Abstract Deadline: May 30, 2015</div><div>Discount Registration Deadline: April 30, 2015</div><div><br></div><div>SPEAKERS & LECTURES</div><div>+<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>Adam Arkin, University of California Berkeley, USA</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>Lecture 1: "Genome-scale Discovery of the Determinants of Optimal Biological Function" </div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>Lecture 2: "On the Challenges in Engineering Activity in Complex Contexts from 100,000 Liter Bioreactors to Human Guts"</div><div><br></div><div>+<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>Jef Boeke, New York University, USA</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>Lecture 1: TBA</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>Lecture 2: TBA</div><div><br></div><div>+<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>Angela DePace, Harvard University, USA</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>Lecture 1: "Developmental Gene Regulatory Networks"</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>Lecture 2: "Measuring, Modeling and Manipulating Regulatory DNA"</div><div><br></div><div>+<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>Forbes Dewey, MIT, USA</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>Lecture 1: "Quantitative Modeling of Molecular Pathways I: Fundamentals"</div><div> Lecture 2: "Quantitative Modeling of Molecular Pathways II: Examples from Systems and Synthetic Biology"</div><div><br></div><div>+<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>Karmella Haynes, Arizona State University, USA</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>Lecture 1: "Designing CRISPR for the Engineering of DNA in Mammalian Cells"</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>Lecture 2: "Mapping and Engineering of Chromatin in Mammalian Cells"</div><div><br></div><div>+<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>Richard Kitney, Imperial College London, UK</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>Lecture 1: TBA</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>Lecture 2: TBA</div><div><br></div><div>+<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>Timothy Lu, MIT, USA</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>Lecture 1: "Biological Computing and Memory with Digital and Analog Paradigms"</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>Lecture 2: "Synthetic Biological Applications for Human Health"</div><div><br></div><div>+<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>Philip Maini, Oxford University, UK</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>Lecture 1: "Mathematical Modelling of Biological Pattern Formation"</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>Lecture 2: "Modelling Invasions"</div><div><br></div><div>+<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>Giancarlo Mauri, University of Milano Bicocca, Italy</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>Lecture: "Computational Methods in Systems Biology"</div><div><br></div><div>+<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>Steve Oliver, Cambridge University, UK</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>Lecture 1: "Improving the yeast metabolic model as a tool in strain design"</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>Lecture 2: "Harnessing synthetic biology and the Robot Scientist in drug discovery"</div><div><br></div><div>+<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>Velia Siciliano, MIT, USA </div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>Lecture: "Synthetic Biology in Mammalian Systems for Biomedical Applications"</div><div><br></div><div>+<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>Ron Weiss, MIT, USA</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>Lecture 1: TBA</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>Lecture 2: TBA</div><div><br></div><div>+<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>Nicola Zamboni, ETH, Switzerland</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>Lecture 1: "Reconstruction of metabolic regulation by large-scale metabolomics"</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>Lecture 2: "Bottom up modeling of dynamic metabolic systems"</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>INDUSTRIAL PANEL</div><div>+<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>Jon D. Chesnut, Life Sciences Solutions Group -Thermo Fisher Scientific, USA</div><div> Lecture: "CRISPR-based Genome Editing Tools: New Applications and Streamlined Workflows"</div><div><br></div><div>+<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>Speaker TBA, Autodesk Inc., USA</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>Lecture: TBA</div><div><br></div><div>+<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>Zach Serber, Zymergen, Inc. USA</div><div> Lecture 1: TBA</div><div> Lecture 2: TBA</div><div> Lecture 3: TBA</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>School Directors</div><div>Jef D. Boeke, New York University, USA</div><div> Giuseppe Nicosia, University of Catania, Italy</div><div> Mario Pavone, University of Catania, Italy</div><div> Giovanni Stracquadanio, University of Oxford, UK</div><div><br></div><div>*Short Talk and Poster Submission*</div><div>Applicants may submit a research abstract for presentation. School directors will review the abstracts and will recommend for poster or short-oral presentation. Abstract should be submitted by *April 30, 2015*. The abstracts will be published on the electronic hands-out material of the summer school.</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.taosciences.it/ssbss2015/index.html#applicationForm">http://www.taosciences.it/ssbss2015/index.html#applicationForm</a></div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.taosciences.it/ssbss2015/">http://www.taosciences.it/ssbss2015/</a></div><div><a href="mailto:ssbss.school@gmail.com">ssbss.school@gmail.com</a></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Apologies for multiple copies. 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Doria, 6 - 95125 Catania, Italy </div><div>P +39 095 7383048</div><div><a href="mailto:nicosia@dmi.unict.it">nicosia@dmi.unict.it</a> </div><div><a href="http://www.dmi.unict.it/nicosia">http://www.dmi.unict.it/nicosia</a></div></div></div></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; ">==============</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; 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