Systems Biology includes the study of interaction networks and, in particular, their dynamic and spatiotemporal aspects. It typically requires the import of concepts from across the disciplines and crosstalk between theory, benchwork, modelling and simulation. The quintessence of Systems Biology is the discovery of the design principles of Life. The logical next step is to apply these principles to synthesize biological systems. This engineering of biology is the ultimate goal of Synthetic Biology: the rational conception and construction of complex systems based on, or inspired by, biology, and endowed with functions that may be absent in Nature.
Open to a wide range of students, postdoctoral fellows and seasoned researchers, this cross-disciplinary Thematic Research School on the Advances in Systems and Synthetic Biology covers five main topics this year:
- RNA and biochemical circuits engineering
- Formal methods, dynamical systems
- Control theory – networks
- Yeast modeling
- Synthetic genomics & non-canonical biochemistry
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aSSB-Evry’2018 TOPICS AND SPEAKERS:
Formal methods, dynamical systems
- Jérôme Féret (Antique team, DI – École Normale Supérieure, Paris, FR)
- Anne Siegel (Dyliss team, IRISA lab., Rennes, FR)
Control theory – regulatory circuits in the small and in the large
- Nicole Radde (Inst. for Systems Theory and Automatic Control, U. of Stuttgart, DE)
- Mustafa Khammash (Control theory & Systems Biology lab., D-BSSE ETH Zurich, CH)
Yeast modeling / metabolism, signaling, regulation
- Bas Teusink (Systems Bioinformatics group, VU Amsterdam, NL) TO BE CONFIRMED
- Douglas Brian Murray (Inst. for Advanced Biosciences, Keio U., JP)
Synthetic genomics & non-canonical biochemistry
- Vitor Pinheiro (Inst. of Structural and Molecular Biology, London, UK)
- Nediljko Budisa (Biocatalysis group, Dept of Chemistry, Technical U. Berlin, DE)
Biochemical circuits – RNA engineering
- Mathias Zurbriggen (Inst. of Synthetic Biology, U. of Düsseldorf, DE)
- Beatrix Süβ (Dept of Biology, TU Darmstadt, DE)
Ethics
- Anne Cambon-Thomsen (Epidémiologie et analyses en santé publique, INSERM / U. Toulouse, FR)
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aSSB-Evry’2018 SCIENTIFIC BOARD:
Patrick Amar (U. Paris-Sud, Orsay, FR)
Gilles Bernot (U. Nice-Sophia, FR)
Marie Beurton-Aimar (U. Bordeaux, FR)
Attila Csikasz-Nagy (King’s College London, UK)
Oliver Ebenhoeh (U. of Aberdeen, UK & Heinrich-Heine-U. Dusseldorf, DE)
Ivan Junier (U. Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, FR)
Marcelline Kaufman (U. Libre de Bruxelles, BE)
François Képès (CNRS Evry, FR), Chair
Pascale Le Gall (Ecole Centrale Supelec, FR)
Sheref Mansy (U. Trento, IT)
Jean-Pierre Mazat (U. Bordeaux, FR)
Victor Norris (U. Rouen, FR)
El Houssine Snoussi (U. Mohammed 5-Souissi, Rabat, MA)
Birgit Wiltschi (Austrian Centre of Industrial Biotechnology, Graz, AT)
