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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';color:black">Call
for Participation<span></span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:'Times New Roman'"><a href="http://www.taosciences.it/ssbss/#application-form">http://www.taosciences.it/ssbss/#application-form</a></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';color:black"><span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';color:black">applicants
will be notified of acceptance within a few days of application submission.<span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';color:black"><a href="https://www.robinson.cam.ac.uk/conferences/dms/index.php?eid=54">https://www.robinson.cam.ac.uk/conferences/dms/index.php?eid=54</a><span></span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';color:black">Call
for Abstracts<span></span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';color:black">We
are still accepting abstract submissions for posters and oral presentations to
be presented during the poster sessions and the talk sessions.  Abstracts
can be uploaded to EasyChair and authors will be notified of acceptance within
a few days of abstract submission:<span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:'Times New Roman'"><u><span style="color:blue"><a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ssbss2017">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ssbss2017</a></span></u></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';color:black"><span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';color:black">Please
register and join us at the University of Cambridge for SSBSS 2017!  <span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';color:black">More
details about the conference can be found below and at the SSBSS 2017 web site:<span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:'Times New Roman'"><a href="http://www.taosciences.it/ssbss/">http://www.taosciences.it/ssbss/</a></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';color:black">  <span></span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';color:black">We
hope to see you there!<span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';color:black">    SSBSS
2017 Organizing Committee.</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';color:black">INVITED
SPEAKERS<span></span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';color:black">Antonino Cattaneo, <i>Scuola Normale Superiore Pisa, Italy</i>     <span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';color:black">Carole Goble, <i>University of Manchester, UK</i>    
<span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';color:black">Jim Haseloff, <i>University of Cambridge, UK</i>    
<span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';color:black">Jay Keasling, <i>University of California, Berkeley, USA</i> <span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';color:black">Edda Klipp, <i>Humboldt University, Germany</i>    
<span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';color:black">Natalio Krasnogor, <i>Newcastle University, UK</i>     <span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';color:black">Markus Ralser, <i>University of Cambridge, UK & The Francis Crick Institute, UK</i>     <span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';color:black">Uwe Sauer, <i>Institute of Molecular Systems Biology, ETH Zurich, Switzerland</i>     <span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';color:black">Gill Stephens, <i>The University of Nottingham, UK </i>    <span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';color:black">Mike Stubbington, <i>EMBL-EBI, Cambridge UK</i>     <span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';color:black">Eriko Takano, <i>University of Manchester, UK</i>    
<span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';color:black">Sarah Teichmann, <i>Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute & EMBL, European Bioinformatics
Inst., UK<span></span></i></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:'Times New Roman'">Talks<span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:'Times New Roman'">Talks Matteo Barberis, University of Amsterdam, The
Netherlands <span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:'Times New Roman'">Other speakers will be announced soon.<span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:'Times New Roman'"><span> </span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:'Times New Roman'">Industrial Panel <span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:'Times New Roman'">Jonathan Chesnut, Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc.,
USA <span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:'Times New Roman'">Other speakers will be announced soon.<span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';color:black"> <span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';color:black">TOPICS<span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';color:black">========================<span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';color:black">Applications
of Synthetic & Systems Biology <span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';color:black">Biological
Design Automation <span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';color:black">Computational/Mathematical
Modelling and Design <span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';color:black">Computer
Aided Design <span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';color:black">Directed
Evolution <span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';color:black">Designing
and Writing Genomes <span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';color:black">DNA
Synthesis, Assembly, and Sequencing High Throughput <span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';color:black">Design
Space Exploration <span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';color:black">Industrial
Applications of Synthetic & Systems Biology <span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';color:black">Mammalian
Synthetic Biology <span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';color:black">Metabolic
Engineering <span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';color:black">Microbial
Synthetic Biology / Microbiome Engineering <span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';color:black">Molecular
Programming <span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';color:black">Omics
Science and Synthetic & Systems Biology <span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';color:black">Pedagogical/Educational
Tools <span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';color:black">Plant
Synthetic Biology <span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';color:black">Protein
Engineering <span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';color:black">Synthetic
& Systems Biology for Cell Culture and Medical Applications <span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';color:black">Synthetic
& Systems Biology of Industrial Microorganisms<span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';color:black"> <span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';color:black">SCIENTIFIC
COMMITTEE <span></span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';color:black">Giuseppe
Nicosia, University of Catania, Italy <span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';color:black">Richard
Allmendinger, The University of Manchester, UK <span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';color:black">Matteo
Barberis, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands <span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';color:black">Yaakov
(Kobi) Benenson, Synthetic Biology Group@Department of Biosystems Science and
Engineering, ETH Zurich, Basel, Switzerland <span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';color:black">Leonidas
Bleris, Bioengineering Department, The University of Texas at Dallas, USA <span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';color:black">Paola
Branduardi, University of Milano Bicocca, Italy <span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';color:black">Michele
Ceccarelli, University of Sannio, Italy <span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';color:black">Jole
Costanza, Italian Institute of Technology, Italy <span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';color:black">Domitilla
Del Vecchio, Department of Mechanical Engineering, MIT, USA <span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';color:black">Diego
Di Bernardo, Telethon Institute of Genetics & Medicine TIGEM & U. of
Napoli "Federico II", Italy <span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';color:black">Barbara
Di Camillo, University of Padova, Italy <span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';color:black">Barbara
Di Ventura, Synthetic Biology Group - BioQuant/DKFZ, Heidelberg, Germany <span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';color:black">Simone
Furini, University of Siena, Italy <span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';color:black">Emanuele
Domenico Giordano, University of Bologna, Italy <span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';color:black">J.
Gootenberg, Feng Zhang and Aviv Regev Groups, Department of Systems Biology,
Harvard Medical School, Harvard University, USA <span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';color:black">Guido
Grandi, University Trento, Italy <span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';color:black">Mario
Guarracino, ICAR-CNR, Italy <span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';color:black">Markus
Herrgard, Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Biosustainability, Technical
University of Denmark, Denmark <span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';color:black">Paolo
Magni, University of Pavia, Italy <span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';color:black">Donato
Malerba University of Bari, Italy <span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';color:black">Vincenzo
Manca, University of Verona, Italy <span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';color:black">Nelson
Marmiroli, University of Parma, Italy <span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';color:black">Giancarlo
Mauri, University of Milano Bicocca and SYSBIO - Center of Systems Biology,
Italy Enzo Medico, IRCC - Candiolo and University of Torino, Italy <span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';color:black">Giuseppe
Narzisi, New York Genome Center, USA <span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';color:black">Wieslaw
Nowak, Nicholas Copernicus University, Poland <span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';color:black">Gennaro
Piccialli, University of Napoli Federico II, Italy <span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';color:black">Danilo
Porro, University of Milano Bicocca, Italy <span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';color:black">Francesco
Ricci, University of Rome "Tor Vergata", Italy <span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';color:black">Nicola
Segata, University of Trento, Italy <span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';color:black">Gianna
Maria Toffolo, University of Padova, Italy <span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';color:black">Renato
Umeton, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, USA <span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';color:black">Luca
Zammataro, Yale University, USA <span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';color:black"><span> </span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';color:black">FURTHER
INFORMATION <span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';color:black">==========================<span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:'Times New Roman'"><a href="mailto:ssbss.school@gmail.com">ssbss.school@gmail.com</a></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';color:black">  </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:'Times New Roman'"><span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:'Times New Roman'"><a href="http://www.taosciences.it/ssbss/">http://www.taosciences.it/ssbss/</a></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';color:black">  <span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:'Times New Roman'"><span> </span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:'Times New Roman'"><span> </span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal">Organization by <a href="http://www.sysbiol.cam.ac.uk/">Cambridge Systems Biology Centre -
University of Cambridge, UK</a><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:'Times New Roman'"><span></span></span></p>


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