Sunday, October 21, 2018

Time Event  
17:00 - 19:00 Registration - Registration Time, come and take your badge and booklet!!  
19:00 - 19:15 Welcome, Opening (Amphi Fourier, INSA Toulouse) - Jean-Loup Faulon and Gilles Truan  
19:15 - 20:00 General Presentation (Amphi Fourier, INSA Toulouse)  
19:15 - 20:00 › RNA aptamers as genetic control devices – the potential of riboswitches as synthetic elements for regulating gene expression - Guest Speaker: Beatrix Suess, TU Darmstadt, Germany  
20:00 - 22:00 Dinner (Hall de la Bib, INSA Toulouse)  

Monday, October 22, 2018

Time Event  
09:00 - 10:15 Interfacing Biology and Computing (Amphi Fourier, INSA Toulouse) - Chairman: Yannick Rondelez  
09:00 - 09:45 › Micro-compartments with programmable behavior - Keynote Speaker: Yannick Rondelez, Gulliver, Paris, France  
09:45 - 10:15 › Life engineering using virtual organisms – iMEAN startup - Rémi Peyraud, iMEAN  
10:15 - 11:00 Coffee break (Amphi Fourier, INSA Toulouse)  
11:00 - 12:00 Interfacing Biology and Computing (Amphi Fourier, INSA Toulouse) - Chaiman: Yannick Rondelez  
11:00 - 11:30 › Plug-and-Play Metabolic Transducers Expand the Chemical Detection Space of Cell-Free Biosensors - Peter Voyvodic, Centre de Biochimie Structurale [Montpellier]  
11:30 - 12:00 › Signaling and differentiation in multi-compartimentalized in vitro gene circuits - Aurore Dupin, Technische Universität München, Munchen, Germany  
12:00 - 13:45 Lunch & Posters (Hall de la Bib, INSA Toulouse)  
13:45 - 14:00 EUSynBioS Presentation (Amphi Fourier, INSA Toulouse) - Christian Boehm  
14:00 - 15:45 Reengineering Biology (Amphi Fourier, INSA Toulouse) - Chairman: Jérôme Bonnet  
14:00 - 14:45 › A Modular Receptor Platform To Expand the Sensing Repertoire of Bacteria - Keynote Speaker: Jerome Bonnet,CBS, Montpellier, France  
14:45 - 15:15 › Synthetic transcriptional networks and biophysical modelling enable cross-species expression and metabolic engineering - Manish Kushwaha, Penn State University, USA; MICALIS, Jouy-en-Josas, France  
15:15 - 15:45 › Exploring the design space of compacted recombinase logic circuits. - Sarah Guiziou, Centre de Biochimie Structurale, Montpellier, France  
14:45 - 16:15 Synthetic Biology National Associations (Amphi Riquet)  
14:45 - 15:00 › SynBio Canada - Samir Hamadache, SynBio Canada  
15:00 - 15:15 › SynBio UK - Matt Tarnowski - Synbio UK  
15:15 - 15:30 › EBRC (Engineering Biology Research Consortium) - Cassandra Barrett, EBRC  
15:30 - 15:45 › GASB (German Association for Synthetic Biology) - Max Mundt, GASB (German Association for Synthetic Biology)  
15:45 - 16:00 › EUSynBioS - Christian Boehm, EUSynBioS  
16:00 - 16:15 › SynBio Australasia - Konstantinos Vavitsas - SynBio Australasia  
15:45 - 16:30 Coffee break (Amphi Fourier, INSA Toulouse)  
16:30 - 17:30 Reengineering Biology (Amphi Fourier, INSA Toulouse) - Chairman: Jérôme Bonnet  
16:30 - 17:00 › Efficient implementation of the carotenoid synthesis by enzyme-fusion strategies in Saccharomyces cerevisiae - Thomas Lautier, LISBP, Toulouse, France  
17:00 - 17:30 › Engineering M. pneumoniae cells for production of saturated fatty acids - Luis Garcia, INRA, Villenave d'Ornon, France  
17:30 - 19:30 Breakout Session EUSynBios (Hall de la Bib, INSA Toulouse)  
17:30 - 19:30 › Opportunities and Challenges of Building an Academic Career on Synbio - Pablo Ivan Nikel, Group Leader at The Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Biosustainability (Copenhagen, DK)  
17:30 - 19:30 › Science Communication - Nadine Bongaerts - PhD at Inserm (Paris,FR) /Vice President at Hello Tomorrow  
17:30 - 19:30 › Standards in Synthetic Biology - Konstantinos Vavitsas, CSIRO Future Fellow at The University of Queensland (Brisbane, AU)  
20:00 - 22:30 Gala Dinner (Restaurant le Moai, Museum d'Histoire Naturelle Toulouse)  

Tuesday, October 23, 2018

Time Event  
09:00 - 10:15 Synthetic Biology and Environment (Amphi Fourier, INSA Toulouse) - Manuel Porcar  
09:00 - 09:45 › Standards in biology: to be or not to be - Guest Speaker: Manuel Porcar, University of Valencia, Spain  
09:45 - 10:15 › Multiple Parameters Drive the Efficiency of CRISPR/Cas9- Induced Gene Modifications in Yarrowia lipolytica - Vinciane Borsenberger, Laboratoire d'Ingénierie des Systèmes Biologiques, Toulouse, France  
10:15 - 11:00 Coffee break (Amphi Fourier, INSA Toulouse)  
11:00 - 12:30 Synthetic Biology and Environment (Amphi Fourier, INSA Toulouse) - Manuel Porcar  
11:00 - 11:30 › Implementation of a reductive route of one-carbon assimilation in Escherichia coli through directed evolution - Volker Doring, Génomique métabolique, Evry, France  
11:30 - 12:00 › Fitness impact of altering cell-to-cell variability in expression of a yeast gene - Fabien Duveau, University of Michigan - EEB Department, Fabien Duveau  
12:00 - 12:30 › Designing new metabolic pathways by combining systems biology and artificial intelligence - Lucas Marmiesse, iMEAN  
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch (Hall de la Bib, INSA Toulouse)  
14:00 - 16:00 Young Researchers Session (Amphi Fourier, INSA Toulouse) - Short talks  
14:00 - 14:45 › Relationship between protein production and cell physiology - Olivier Borkowski, MICrobiologie de l'ALImentation au Service de la Santé humaine  
14:45 - 15:30 › Design of novel bioprocesses for the pharmaceutical and chemical industry - Sven Panke, Bioprocess Laboratory D-BSSE, ETH Zürich  
15:30 - 15:45 › Combined Genomic and Metabolomic Approaches to Antibiotic Discovery - Emily Abraham, University of St. Andrews  
15:45 - 16:00 › Engineering and designing synthetic biological tools for Desulfovibrio alaskensis - Miguel Cueva, School of Biological Sciences, University of Edinburgh  
16:00 - 16:30 Coffee break (Amphi Fourier, INSA Toulouse)  
16:30 - 17:45 Young Researchers Session (Amphi Fourier, INSA Toulouse) - Short talks  
16:30 - 16:45 › Water contamination by anti-cancer drugs: a major issue - development of a bacterial bioreactor for hospital wastewater depollution - Dao Ousmane, Paris Saclay  
16:45 - 17:00 › Development of new broad substrate specificity halogenases - Danai-Stella Gkotsi, University of St. Andrews  
17:00 - 17:15 › Synthetic noise control in eukaryotic gene expression and signal transduction - Max Mundt, Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology  
17:15 - 17:30 › Understanding and expanding the cyanobacterial potential for terpenoid production - Konstantinos Vavitsas, University of Queensland [Brisbane]  
17:30 - 17:45 › OligoMet: Metabolic chassis for versatile production of oligosaccharides - Pietro Tedesco, Laboratoire d'Ingénierie des Systèmes Biologiques et des Procédés  
17:45 - 18:30 Understanding the framework conditions for a successful bioeconomy (Amphi Fourier, INSA Toulouse) - Lorie Hamelin (LISBP, FR)  
18:30 - 19:45 Round Table (Amphi Fourier, INSA Toulouse) - Olivier Borkowski, Jean Marie François, Lorie Hamelin, Pierre Monsan, Sven Panke  
20:00 - 22:30 Dinner (Hall de la Bib, INSA Toulouse)  

Wednesday, October 24, 2018

Time Event  
09:00 - 10:15 Synthetic Biology and Health (Amphi Fourier, INSA Toulouse) - Chairman: Meriem El Karoui  
09:00 - 09:45 › DNA double-strand break repair at the single molecule level in bacteria - Keynote Speaker: Meriem El Karoui, School of Biological Sciences, Edinburgh, UK  
09:45 - 10:15 › Extension of synthetic biology methods for the genome engineering of Mycoplasma feriruminatoris - Vincent Talenton, INRA, Villenave d'Ornon, France  
10:15 - 11:00 Coffee break (Amphi Fourier, INSA Toulouse)  
11:00 - 12:30 Synthetic Biology and Health (Amphi Fourier, INSA Toulouse) - Chairman: Meriem El Karoui  
11:00 - 11:30 › A system biology approach revealed the nature and the cause of the different metabolic features of the weak and strong antibiotic producers, Streptomyces lividans and Streptomyces coelicolor. - Marie-Joelle Virolle, I2BC, Orsay, France  
11:30 - 12:00 › A novel synthetic pathway for methanol utilization in E. coli - Alessandro de Simone, LISBP  
12:00 - 12:30 › Genome-wide CRISPR-dCas9 screens in E. coli identify essential genes and phage host factors - François ROUSSET, ED 515 - Complexité du vivant, Biologie de Synthèse  
12:30 - 12:45 Closing Remarks (Amphi Fourier, INSA Toulouse) - Jean-Loup Faulon and Gilles Truan