Center for Synthetic Biology Annual Meeting 2015

Programme subject to last minute changes 

Monday, September 21

9-9:30

Arrival and registation (coffee, fruit, croissants in 'Pejsestuen')

9:30-10

Welcome and introduction (Birger Lindberg Møller)

10-10:35

Session 1: Risk, risk assessment and risk communication (Chair: Maja Horst)
Maja Horst & Andreas Christiansen

10:35-10:45

Break (Coffee, tea, fruit available)

10:45-11:45

Session 2: Neuro-synbio, target discovery (Chair: Ulrik Gether)
Ulrik Gether: From prokaryotic transporters to in vivo neurosynthetic biology – an overview
Kenneth Madsen: Building synthetic protein scaffolds
Patrick Sascha Merkle: Probing conformational dynamics in LeuT with Hydrogen-Deuterium Exchange Mass Spectrometry

11:45-12:15

Invited speakers: SpaceMoss - Sending moss to Mars
iGEM presentation
Björn Hamberger on supervising an iGEM team

12:15-13:15

Group photo
Lunch (in restaurant)

13:15-14:45

Steering Group meeting (Steering Group members only, Conference Room 2)

13:15-14:45

Collaborative Walk and Talk (all, exept steering group, meet in Conference Room 1)

14:45-15:00

Break (+ check in rooms at reception, coffee, tea, water available)

15:00-15:45

Session 3: Synbio Law (Chair: Timo Minssen)
Timo Minssen:  Enhancing BioSynergies: Publications and interdisciplinary research plans within the legal WP
Ana Nordberg: Synthetic Biology and the Law: synergies and challenges of Interdisciplinarity
Jakob Wested: Fair protection in a standardized technology

15:45-16:00

Break (coffee, tea, cake, fruit available)

16:00-17:45

Session 4: Nano Synbio (Chair: Bo Wegge Laursen)
Bo W Laursen: intro
Jesper Nygård: Nanowires for synbio
Karen Martinez: Imaging in cells with nanowires
Tom Vosch: Photon arrival time imaging
Bo W Laursen: New dyes for bio-labeling and imaging
Darui Li: Method and software development to quantify the fluctuation spectra of individual enzymes
Dimitrios Stamou: Insights gained from the first measurements of transport at the single molecule level

17:45-18:15

Interactive Collaboration

19:00

Join to watch the sunset at the seaside (Meet in Conference Room 1)

19:30

Dinner

After dinner social activities: swimming, sauna, dart and table soccer, bar available

 

Tuesday, September 22nd

8-9

Breakfast (in 'Pejsestuen' + check out of rooms)

9:00-10:30

Session 5: Plant Synbio (Chair: Birger Lindberg Møller)
Birger Lindberg Møller: introduction

Irini Pateraki: Forskolin biosynthesis in yeast
Agnieszka Z Nielsen: P450- ferredoxin fusion enzymes and Forskolin production in cyanobacteria

Konstantinos Vavitsas: In vivo DNA assembly in moss via homologous recombination

Maria H de Jesus: TAT proteins as scaffolds for optimization of light-driven biosynthesis
Allison Heskes: Diterpenoid pathway discovery in Vitex agnus-castus

10:30-10:45

Break (coffee, tea, fruit available)

10:45-12:00

Session 6: Synbio Biophysics (Chair: Lise Arleth)
Lise Arleth: introduction
Jacob Kirkensgaard:
Dainius Jakubauskas:
Andreas Nørgård Larsen:
Signe Kaas-Larsen:

12:00-12:30

Invited speaker: David Budtz – The future of the publication and impact landscape

12:30-13:30

Lunch (in restaurant)

14:45-15:45

 Working collaboratively - examples of projects (Chair: Thomas Günther-Pomorski)
Thomas Günther-Pomorski: About cross-disciplinary research
Gerdi C Kemmer:  Lipid-conjugated fluorescent pH sensors for monitoring pH changes in reconstituted membrane systems
Nikos Hatzakis: Structure function correlation's revisited: by single molecule recordings of enzyme functional and structural dynamics

14:15-14:30

Break  (coffee, tea, cake, fruit available)

14:30-16:00

Open floor (in Conference Room 1)

16:00-16:45

Synbio Coursera Course – update and planning (especially for teachers of the synbio course, but all are welcome. Meet in Conference Room 2)

16:45-17:00

Final remarks and closing of meeting

17:30

Departure – bus leaving (Sandwiches, fruit and water available upon departure, to bring)

Sign-up here: https://synbio.ku.dk/calendar/2015/annual_meeting/sign-up/billede