<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><div class="">* Our sincere apologies if you receive multiple copies of this announcement *</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Please help us distributing in your circles (emails, blogs, and social networks) the call for participation and call for oral talks/posters for SSBSS 2016. Together we will make SSBSS a great event!</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">3rd International Synthetic and Systems Biology Summer School - SSBSS 2016,</div><div class="">8-14 July 2016, Volterra (Pisa) - Tuscany, Italy</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="mailto:ssbss.school@gmail.com" class="">ssbss.school@gmail.com</a></div><div class=""><a href="http://www.taosciences.it/ssbss/" class="">http://www.taosciences.it/ssbss/</a></div><div class=""><a href="https://www.facebook.com/ssbss.school/" class="">https://www.facebook.com/ssbss.school/</a></div><div class=""><a href="https://twitter.com/SchoolSsbss" class="">https://twitter.com/SchoolSsbss</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The Synthetic and Systems Biology Summer School (SSBSS) is a full-immersion five-day residential summer school at the Volterra Learning Center (Pisa - Tuscany, Italy) 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.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">SSBSS 2016 DEADLINES:</div><div class="">Application: March 31, 2016</div><div class="">Notification Acceptance: April 10, 2016</div><div class="">Oral Presentation/Poster Submission: March 31, 2016</div><div class="">Notification of Decision for Oral/Poster Presentation: April 10, 2016</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="http://www.taosciences.it/ssbss/#application-form" class="">http://www.taosciences.it/ssbss/#application-form</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">SPEAKERS</div><div class="">* Yaakov (Kobi) Benenson, Synthetic Biology Group@Department of Biosystems Science and Engineering, ETH Zurich, Basel, Switzerland</div><div class="">Lecture 1: The practice of mammalian synthetic biology</div><div class="">Lecture 2: Mammalian cell classifiers</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">* Leonidas Bleris, Bioengineering Department, The University of Texas at Dallas, USA</div><div class="">Lecture 1: Genome Editing Technologies and Therapeutic Modalities</div><div class="">Lecture 2: Benchmark Circuits and Topological Properties</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">* Domitilla Del Vecchio, Department of Mechanical Engineering, MIT, USA</div><div class="">Lecture 1: Modularity in genetic circuits: Dream versus Reality</div><div class="">Lecture 2: Engineering Modularity in Genetic Circuits</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">* Diego Di Bernardo, Dept of Chemical Materials and Industrial Production Engineering University of Naples "Federico II", Naples, Italy</div><div class="">Lecture 1: "Engineering and Control of Biological Circuits in Yeast"</div><div class="">Lecture 2: "Engineering and Control of Biological Circuits in Mammalian Cells</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">* Barbara Di Ventura, Synthetic Biology Group, BioQuant/DKFZ, Heidelberg, Germany</div><div class="">Lecture 1: Using blue light to control protein localization in living mammalian cells</div><div class="">Lecture 2: Using split inteins for protein engineering in living cells</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">* J. Gootenberg, Feng Zhang's Group, Department of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School, Harvard University, USA</div><div class="">Lectures: TBA</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">* Markus Herrgard, Technical University of Denmark - Biosustain, Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Biosustainability, Denmark</div><div class="">Lecture 1: "Developing an Integrated Cell Factory Design Tool"</div><div class="">Lecture 2: "Using Automated Laboratory Evolution to Optimize Cell Factories”</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">* Shalev Itzkovitz, Department of Molecular Cell Biology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel</div><div class="">Lecture 1: "Single Molecule Approaches for Studying Gene Expression in Intact Mammalian Tissues"</div><div class="">Lecture 2: "Systems Biology of Stem Cell-Maintained Tissues”</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">* Francesco Ricci, Dipartimento di Scienze e Tecnologie Chimiche, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy</div><div class="">Lecture 1: "DNA Nanotechnology Tools and Reactions for Synthetic Biology"</div><div class="">Lecture 2: "Nature-inspired DNA-based Nanodevices</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">More speakers will be announced soon!</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">INDUSTRIAL PANEL</div><div class="">* Speakers TBA</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Next Generation Sequencing Workshop – Afternoon July 12th, 2016</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">* “How fast can we align sequences?”</div><div class="">Mario Guarracino, CNR, Italy</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">* “Advanced Bioinformatics tools for NGS” – TBC</div><div class="">Luca Zammataro, Yale University, USA </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Tutorials:</div><div class="">* “Detection and analysis of contaminating sequences in NGS sequencing data”</div><div class="">Ilaria Granata, CNR, Italy</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">* “Detection and interpretation of circular RNAs in RNA-seq experiments”</div><div class="">Parijat Tripathi, CNR, Italy</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Scientific Committee</div><div class="">Jole Costanza, Italian Institute of Technology, Italy</div><div class="">Diego Di Bernardo, TeleThon Institute of Genetics & Medicine - TIGEM and University of Napoli "Federico II", Italy</div><div class="">Barbara Di Camillo, University of Padova, Italy</div><div class="">Simone Furini, University of Siena, Italy</div><div class="">Emanuele Domenico Giordano, University of Bologna, Italy</div><div class="">Massimo Gulisano, University of Catania, Italy</div><div class="">Mario Guarracino, ICAR-CNR, Italy</div><div class="">Markus Herrgard, Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Biosustainability, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark</div><div class="">Paolo Magni, University of Pavia, Italy</div><div class="">Giuseppe Narzisi, New York Genome Center, USA</div><div class="">Giuseppe Nicosia, University of Catania, Italy</div><div class="">Wieslaw Nowak, Nicholas Copernicus University, Poland</div><div class="">Danilo Porro, University of Milano Bicocca, Italy</div><div class="">Francesco Ricci, University of Rome "Tor Vergata", Italy</div><div class="">Gianna Maria Toffolo, University of Padova, Italy</div><div class="">Renato Umeton, MIT, USA</div><div class="">Luca Zammataro, Yale University, USA</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">School Directors</div><div class="">Diego Di Bernardo, TeleThon Institute of Genetics & Medicine - TIGEM and University of Napoli "Federico II", Italy</div><div class=""> Giuseppe Nicosia, University of Catania, Italy</div><div class=""> Luca Zammataro, Yale University, USA</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">See you in Tuscany in July!</div><div class=""> The Organizing Committee.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="mailto:ssbss.school@gmail.com" class="">ssbss.school@gmail.com</a></div><div class=""><a href="http://www.taosciences.it/ssbss/" class="">http://www.taosciences.it/ssbss/</a></div><div class=""><a href="https://www.facebook.com/ssbss.school/" class="">https://www.facebook.com/ssbss.school/</a></div><div class=""><a href="https://twitter.com/SchoolSsbss" class="">https://twitter.com/SchoolSsbss</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">* Apologies for multiple copies. Please forward to anybody who might be interested *</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">* Other Events in Tuscany: *</div><div class="">2nd International Workshop on Machine learning, Optimization and big Data - MOD 2016</div><div class="">An Interdisciplinary Workshop: Machine Learning, Optimization and Data Science without Borders, Volterra (Pisa) -Tuscany, August 26-29, 2016</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="http://www.taosciences.it/mod/" class="">http://www.taosciences.it/mod/</a></div><div class=""><a href="mailto:modworkshop2016@gmail.com" class="">modworkshop2016@gmail.com</a></div><div class=""> </div><div class="">CALL FOR PAPERS</div><div class="">Paper submission deadline: March 31, 2016</div><div class=""><a href="http://www.taosciences.it/mod/call-for-papers/" class="">http://www.taosciences.it/mod/call-for-papers/</a></div><div class=""><a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mod2016" class="">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mod2016</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">KEYNOTE SPEAKERS</div><div class="">+ Nello Cristianini, Bristol University, UK</div><div class="">+ George Michailidis, University of Florida, USA</div><div class="">+ Stephen H. Muggleton, Imperial College London, UK</div><div class="">+ Panos Pardalos, University of Florida, USA</div><div class="">Other Keynote Speakers will be announced soon</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">POST-PROCEEDINGS by Lecture Notes in Computer Science - Springer</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUE</div><div class="">Computational Optimization and Applications Journal - Springer</div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><br class=""><div class="">
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