2011 Symposium:Design & Synthesis of Biological Systems
Suzhou Dushu Lake Conference Center
November 7 - 11, 2011
Abstract Deadline:September 14, 2011

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Arranged by:
Daniel Gibson,The J. Craig Venter Institute, USA
Sang Yup Lee, Korea Advanced Insitute of Science and Technology, Korea
Pamela Silver, Harvard Medical School, USA

We are pleased to announce the inaugural Cold Spring Harbor Asia Symposium on Design & Synthesis of Biological Systems which will be held at the Suzhou Dushu Lake Conference Center in Suzhou, China. The conference will begin at 7:00pm on the evening of Monday November 7, and will conclude after lunch on Friday November 11, 2011.

This conference is similar in design to the famous Cold Spring Harbor meetings series, a program now in its 76th year. The conference will include eight oral sessions and one poster session covering the latest findings across many topics in synthetic biology research. Many talks will be selected from the openly submitted abstracts on the basis of scientific merit and relevance. Social events throughout the conference provide ample opportunity for informal interactions.

Topics:
Building and Designing Genomes Prokaryotic Genetic Circuits
Eukaryotic Genetic Circuits
Metabolic Engineering
Modeling Biological Systems
Designing with RNA
Biofuels and Sustainability
Design and Plants
Synthetic Populations
Synthetic cells and organelles
Biofabs and the view from industry

Keynote Speakers:
Antoine Danchin, University of Hong Kong, China
Jay Keasling, University of California, Berkeley, USA

Invited Speakers:
Caroline Ajo Franklin, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA
Adam Arkin, University of California, Berkeley, USA
Yaakov (Kobi) Benenson, ETH Zurich, SWITZERLAND
Austin Burt, Imperial College London, UK
Jeff Boeke, Johns Hopkins University, USA
Michelle Chang, University of California, Berkeley, USA
Guoqiang Chen, Tsinghua University, China
Virginia Cornish, Columbia University, USA
John Dueber, University of California, Berkeley, USA
Drew Endy, Stanford University, USA
Danielle Ercek, University of California, Berkeley, USA
Anthony Forster, Uppsala University, Sweden
Daniel Gibson, The J. Craig Venter Institute, USA
Ryan Gill, University of Colorado USA
Ralph Greenspan, University of California, San Diego, USA
Jim Haseloff, University of Cambridge, UK
Mark Isalan, EMBL/CRG Systems Biology Research Unit, SPAIN
Mitsuhiro Itaya, Keio University, JAPAN
Michael Jewett, Northwestern University, USA
Radha Krishnakumar, J. Craig Venter Institute, USA
Sang Yup Lee, Korea Advanced Insitute of Science and Technology, KOREA
Julius Lucks, Cornell University, USA
June Medford, Colorado State University, USA
David Savage, Harvard Medical School, USA
Reshma Shetty, MIT/Ginkgo BioWorks, USA
Pamela Silver, Harvard Medical School, USA
Christina Smolke, Stanford Engineering, USA
Jeff Tabor, Rice University USA
Hiroki Ueda, RIKEN Kobe Institute, JAPAN
Christopher Voigt, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
Harris Wang, Harvard University, USA
Ron Weiss, MIT-CSAIL USA
Hans Westerhoff, Manchester Centre for Integrative Systems Biology, UK
Ping Yang,GENEWIZ INC., China
XianEn Zhang, Ministry of Science & Technology, China
Guoping Zhao, Fudan University, CHINA
Li Zhu, GenScript USA Inc., USA

We encourage abstracts to contain new and unpublished materials. The abstracts must be submitted electronically by the abstract deadline. Selection of material for oral and poster presentation will be made by the organizers. Status (fellow's talk/poster) of abstracts will be posted on our web site as soon as decisions have been made by the organizers.

Fellowship:
We are eager to have as many young people as possible attend since they are likely to benefit most from this meeting. A certain number of presentations by graduate students and postdocs in this conference will be selected as fellowship (USD $100-$500) awards. For more details, please visit Stipends

We look forward to seeing you at Suzhou in November 2011.

This conference is supported in part by funds provided by:

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Please kindly note:

1. The early & normal price will be available if the full payment is finished before the exact due date.
For USD participants, we will automatically change your package price to the update one if we could not successfully charge the full payment from your registered credit card before the deadline.
For CNY participants, we will automatically change your package price to the update one if our bank account could not receive your full payment by wire transfer before the deadline.

2. For Student Package registered participants, please add your roommate requirement during the online registration. Otherwise, we’ll assign you a roommate among other student participants.

3. For late registrations, your housing & registration materials may not be guaranteed since the order is usually made in advance.

4. Please inform us your request on extra day (USD 75/CNY 500 per day) and food (vegetarian, kosher…etc.) during the online registration or email us as early as possible so that we could make relevant arrangement accordingly.

5.We offer CSHA endowed student package for graduate students (student ID is required). This special offer only includes the meeting session pass. Housing, food and social activities are not included in the package.

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Cold Spring Harbor Asia Conferences
Suzhou Dushu Lake Conference Center
No.299 Qiyue Road
SIP/ Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, China
Phone: +86 512 6272 9029
Fax: +86 512 6272 9028
[email protected]