Synthetic Biology International Workshop – Berkeley 2011

On 29-31st of August 2011, the University of Copenhagen, the Joint BioEnergy Institute and the Synthetic Biology Institute at the University of California, Berkeley hosted thefull capacity workshop:

“International Synthetic Biology Workshop: A Bio-based Future”

The workshop took place at Berkeley, CA, and was a follow-up to similar meetings held in Copenhagen 2010 and Berkeley 2009.

We brought together the most inspirational assembly of scientists leading this field who presented their pioneering work and its relation to the emerging field of synthetic biology.

The workshop covered five themes:
1: Plants of the Future
2: Cell based and Biomimetic Production Systems
3: Nano-bio-technology: Sensors, Receptors and Drugs
4: Biological Membranes
5: Foundational Technologies

Confirmed Speakers:

ProfessorJay Keasling - UC Berkeley
Professor Jørg Bohlman - University of British Columbia
Professor Poul Erik Jensen - Copenhagen University
Professor Henrik V Scheller - UC Berkeley
Associate Professor Markus Pauly - UC Berkeley
Professor Adam Arkin - UC Berkeley
Assistant Professor Ming Chen Hammond - UC Berkeley
Professor Kris Niyogi - UC Berkeley
Professor Birger Lindberg Møller- Copenhagen University 
Doctor Dominique Loque - UC Berkeley (abstract
Professor David Needham - Duke University
Professor Uffe Mortensen - Technical University of Denmark
Associate Professor Björn Hamberger - Copenhagen University
Assistant Professor Michelle Chang - UC Berkeley
Assistant Professor Wenjun Zhang - UC Berkeley
Director Wolf Frommer - Stanford University
Professor David Schaffer - UC Berkeley
Professor Gerard Marriott - UC Berkeley
Professor Dimitrios Stamou - Copenhagen University
Assistant Professor Ting Xu - UC Berkeley
Director Ron Zuckerman - Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Senior Scientist Jeanne Stachowiak - Sandia National Laboratories
Professor Dan Fletcher - UC Berkeley
Professor Lise Arleth - Copenhagen University
Assistant Professor Chris Anderson - UC Berkeley
Dr. Nathan Hillson - UC Berkeley (abstract)
Assistant Professor John Dueber - UC Berkeley
 

The conference was kindly sponsored by The Danish Agency for Science, Technology and Innovation.