Systems Biology & EngineeringApril 2008 : 20-21
SCHEDULE

SUN : APRIL 20


12:00 p.m. Registration
 

SYMPOSIUM OPENING

 
1:00 p.m. Welcoming Remarks
  Lee Hood, M.D., Ph.D., President of ISB
 
1:15 p.m. Opening Keynote:
 Nathan Myhrvold, Ph.D., Intellectual Ventures,LLC
 
2:00 p.m.

Break, 15 minutes
 

Session I – Biological Imaging, Chair: Dean Matt O´Donnell, UW College of Engineering

 
 2:15 p.m. Mark Ellisman, Ph.D., University of California, San Diego
Multi-scale Imaging of the Nervous System: Where's the Dark Matter?

Richard Caprioli, Ph.D., Vanderbilt University
Molecular Imaging and Profiling of Tissues Sections Using Mass Spectrometry: Applications in Biological and Clinical Research

Break, 15 minutes

Shuming Nie, Ph.D., Emory University
Nanotechnology and Bioengineering for Personalized Medicine

Lucas Pelkmans, Ph.D., ETH Institute of Molecular Systems Biology
Revealing and Predicting Single-Cell Heterogeneity Signatures in Human Cell Populations Applied to Virus Entry and Endocytosis

5:30 p.m. Break, 15 minutes
 
5:45 p.m. Session 1 Speaker Panel
 
6:30 p.m. Session 1 closed
 

RECEPTION and POSTER SESSION

 
7:00 p.m. Reception and Poster Session at Hotel Deca

MON : APRIL 21


7:30 a.m. Continental Breakfast
 

SESSION 2 – Single–Cell and Single-Molecule Experimentation, Chair: Babak Amir Parviz, UW College of Engineering

 
 8:00 a.m. Adrian Ozinsky, M.D., Ph.D., Institute for Systems Biology
Imaging, analysis and manipulation of single cells

David Walt, Ph.D., Tufts University
Using Optical Arrays to Study Single Enzyme Molecules and Single Cells in Large Populations

Break, 15 minutes

Deirdre Meldrum, Ph.D., Arizona State University
Life-on-a-Chip: Single Cell Technologies for Health and the Environment

10:45 a.m. Session 2 Speaker Panel
 
 11:30 a.m. Break, 1 hour Lunch and ISB Tours
 

SESSION 3 – Synthetic Biology, Chair: Aimee Dudley, ISB

 
12:30 p.m. Jay Keasling, Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
Synthetic Biology in Pursuit of Low-Cost, Effective, Anti-Malarial Drugs

Michael Elowitz, Ph.D., California Institute of Technology
Dynamics and Noise in Cell Fate Decisions

Break, 30 minutes

Drew Endy, Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Technologies for Engineering Biology

 3:15 p.m. Session 3 Speaker Panel
 
 4:00 p.m. Break, 15 minutes
 

SYMPOSIUM CLOSING

 
4:15 p.m. Closing Keynote:
  Bill Gates, Gates Foundation and Microsoft
 
 5:00 p.m. Closing Remarks:
  Alan Aderem, Director of ISB

 

7th Annual International Symposium