2017 Future Symposium on
BUILDING A SYNTHETIC CELL
July 12‐14, 2017, Ringberg Castle, Germany
Program
Wednesday July 12
| Morning | Arrival to MPIB, light snacks and buffet lunch |
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| 12:00 | Departure with bus to Castle |
14:20 Welcome and introduction to the scope of the workshop (Petra Schwille, Cees Dekker, Marileen Dogterom and Hagan Bayley)
Constructing life top-down and bottom-up (chair Cees Dekker)
| 14:25 | Drew Endy (Stanford University) – Synthetic biology |
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| 14:50 | John Glass (J. Craig Venter Institute) – Design, synthesis and analysis of a synthetic minimal bacterial cell |
| 15:15 | Petra Schwille (MPI for Biochemistry) – How simple could life be? |
| 15:40 | Coffee break |
Large-schale Minimal Cell Initiatives in Europe (chair Petra Schwille)
| 16:00 | Eberhard Bodenschatz (Max Planck Society) – The Max Planck wide network MaxSynBio |
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| 16:20 | Marileen Dogterom (Delft University of Technology) – The Dutch network BaSyC |
| 16:40 | Dek Woolfson (University of Bristol) – The BrisSynBio initiative |
| 17:00 | Break, check-in |
Origins of life and astrobiology (chair Philipp Holliger)
| 17:30 | Pascale Ehrenfreund (German Aerospace Center DLR) – Tracing the key steps in the origin of life: astrobiology and synthetic cells |
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| 17:55 | John Sutherland (Medical Research Council) – The origin of life and synthetic biology |
| 18:15 | Mary Voytek (NASA) – Synthetic Biology and the Search for Life Beyond Earth |
| 18:40 | Break |
| 19:00 | Dinner |
Thursday July 13
What to learn from Synthetic Cells? (chair Gijsje Koenderink)
| 8:30 | Cees Dekker (Delft University of Technology) – Towards synthetic cell division |
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| 8:50 | Joachim Spatz (MPI for Medical Research) – Sequential bottom-up assembly of synthetic cells |
Nobel Laureate Forum 1: Challenges and perspectives (chair Marileen Dogterom)
| 9:10 | Jack Szostak (Harvard University) – Why make synthetic cells? |
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| 9:40 | Ada Yonath (Weizmann Institute) – An unreplaceable prebiotic apparatus is functioning in every living cell |
| 10:10 | Coffee break |
Perspective of Private Agencies on Synthetic Biology (chair Hagan Bayley)
| 10:40 | Pavel Dutow (VW Foundation) – Life? – A fresh scientific approach to the basic principles of life |
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| 10:55 | Julian Huppert (Cambridge) – How might a moderately technically literate policy maker think about a synthetic cell? |
| 11:10 | Christopher Martin (Kavli Foundation) – Launching the International Brain Initiative: A Case Study |
National Funding Agencies and Politics Forum: A larger view on Synthetic Biology (chair Petra Schwille)
| 11:25 | Panel discussion with Marjolein Robijn (NWO), Alfred Pühler (Leopoldina), Anke Becker (DFG) and Patrick Rose (ONR) |
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| 12:30 | Lunch Break |
Research Policy and Funding in the EU: Keynote talks by EU directorates (chair Cees Dekker)
| 14.00 | Aymard de Touzalin (European Commission) – Addressing grand S&T challenges: state of play of FET research in H2020 |
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| 14.30 | Philippe Cupers (European Commission) – European health research: challenges and priorities |
| 15:00 | Coffee break |
Nobel Laureate Forum 2: Challenges and perspectives (chair Erwin Frey)
| 15:30 | John Walker (Cambridge University) – participation to be confirmed |
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| 16:00 | Jean-Marie Lehn (Université de Strasbourg) – From supramolecular chemistry towards adaptive chemistry |
Current and future applications of synthetic cell research (chair Wilhelm Huck)
| 17:00 | Tobias Erb (MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology Marburg) – Carbon dioxide fixation with synthetic cells |
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| 17:20 | Hagan Bayley (University of Oxford) – Synthetic tissues from printed droplet networks |
| 17:40 | Roel Bovenberg (DSM/University of Groningen) – Synthetic biology from an industrial perspective |
| 18:00 | Plenary discussion |
| 19:00 | Bavarian dinner with original style live music |
Friday July 14
Fundamental problems and technical challenges (chair Joachim Spatz)
| 8:30 | Bert Poolman (University of Groningen) – A synthetic metabolic network for cell volume regulation |
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| 8:50 | Daniel Müller (ETH Zürich) – Engineering molecular factories and cellular systems towards health control |
| 9:10 | Damien Baigl (Ecole Normale Supérieure Paris) – Challenges with and in synthetic cells : a soft matter perspective |
| 9:30 | Sheref Mansy (University of Trento/CIBIO) – Fundamental problems and technical challenges to the construction of synthetic cells |
| 9:50 | Coffee break, checkout |
Philosophical, societal and ethical aspects and challenges (chair Bert Poolman)
| 10:30 | Peter Millican (University of Oxford) – Title TBA |
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| 11:05 | Peter Dabrock (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg/German Ethics Council) – In science we trust!?! SB and its challenges at the interface of science and society |
Wrap up, summary and next steps
| 11:30 | Plenary discussion with brief observations by Schwille, Dekker and Bayley |
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| 12:15 | Lunch and departure |
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