Monday, December 10, 2018
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10:00 AM - 12:00 PM |
Opening Session |
10:00 AM - 10:10 AM |
Opening |
Kumar Selvarajoo , Chair, Biotransformation Innovation Platform, Agency for Science, Technology, and Research (A*STAR), Singapore |
10:10 AM - 11:05 AM |
Plenary Talk: Predicting Cellular Responses and Fate Decisions – Knowledge-Based Vs Data-Driven Models |
Alexander Hoffmann, University of California, Los Angeles, USA |
11:05 AM - 12:00 PM |
Plenary Talk: Systems Biology of Mammalian Sleep/Wake Cycles Toward Molecular definition of NREM and REM sleeps |
Hiroki Ueda, RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research, Japan |
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM |
Lunch |
1:00 PM - 2:55 PM |
Session 1: Biological Networks I |
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1:00 PM - 1:40 PM |
Keynote Talk: Measurement, Manipulation and Consequences of NF-κB Dynamics |
Michael White, University of Manchester, UK |
1:40 PM - 2:10 PM |
Invited Talk: Gene Essentiality Is a Quantitative Property Linked to Cellular Evolvability |
Giulia Rancati, Institute of Medical Biology, Agency for Science, Technology, and Research (A*STAR), Singapore |
2:10 PM - 2:40 PM |
Invited Talk: Engineered Drug Resistance Implicates Non-Genetic Mechanisms as Potential Drivers of Rapid Clonal Expansion |
Mads Kaern, University of Ottawa, Canada |
2:40 PM - 2:55 PM |
Features of Criticality Are Present in the Zebrafish Habenula |
Suryadi, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore |
2:55: PM - 3:45 PM |
Poster Session and Coffee Break |
3:45 PM - 5:25 PM |
Session 2: Biological Networks II |
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3:45 PM - 4:25 PM |
Keynote Talk: Darkness in the Human Gene and Protein Function Space: The Trend for Protein Function Discovery Decline Since 2000 and the Importance of Medical Record Databases |
Frank Eisenhaber, Bioinformatics Institute, Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore |
4:25 PM - 4:55 PM |
Invited Talk: Signal-Dependent Transcriptional Regulation for Cell Fate Control |
Mariko Okada, Osaka University, Japan |
4:55 PM - 5:10 PM |
Computing Cell-Types and Their Lineages Via Endogenous Network Theory |
Ping Ao, Shanghai University, China |
5:10 PM - 5:25 PM |
Collective Behaviour of Locally Coupled NF-Kb Oscillators |
Amit Jangid, Jawahrlal Nehru University, India |
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Tuesday, December 11, 2018
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10:00 AM - 12:00 PM |
Session 3: Stem/Cancer Cell Dynamics |
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10:00 AM - 10:40 AM |
Keynote Talk: Decoding Cellular Signals: Commitment during Hes Cells Differentiation |
Silvia Santos, Francis Crick Institute, UK |
10:40 AM - 11:10 AM |
Invited Talk: Imaging the Molecular and Cell Dynamics that Form the Early Mouse Embryo |
Nicolas Plachta, Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, Agency for Science, Technology, and Research (A*STAR), Singapore |
11:10 AM - 11:25 AM |
Longitudinal Single-Cell RNA Sequencing of Patient-Derived Primary Cells Reveals Drug-Induced Infidelity in Stem Cell Hierarchy |
Ankur Sharma, Genome Institute of Singapore, Agency for Science, Technology, and Research (A*STAR), Singapore |
11:25 AM - 12:00 PM |
TBA |
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12:00 PM - 1:00 PM |
Lunch |
1:00 PM - 2:55 PM |
Session 4: Systems Immunology |
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1:00 PM - 1:40 PM |
Keynote Talk: Dynamics & Complexity of Host-Pathogen Encounters in Fungal Infections |
Karl Kuchler, Medical University Vienna, Austria |
1:40 PM - 2:10 PM |
Invited Talk: Integration of Immuno-Metabolic Profiling in Monocytes and Macrophages in Tumor Settings Indicate Their Metabolic Re-Programming for Tumor Promotion |
Subhra Biswas, Singapore Immunology Network, Agency for Science, Technology, and Research (A*STAR), Singapore |
2:10 PM - 2:25 PM |
Time-Series Analysis on the Process of Acquiring Resistance for Estrogen Receptor Antagonist in Breast Cancer Cells |
Shigeyuki Magi, Osaka University, Japan |
2:25 PM - 2:40 PM |
Dynamical Modeling of the Immune System in Case of Septicemia |
Mélaz Tayakout, University of Lyon, France |
2:40: PM - 2:55 PM |
Understanding Heterogeneous Differentiation of CD8+ T Cells |
Raviteja Donepudi, Jawahrlal Nehru University, India |
2:55: PM - 3:45 PM |
Poster Session and Coffee Break |
3:45 PM - 5:25 PM |
Session 5: Metabolic Engineering |
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3:45 PM - 4:25 PM |
Keynote Talk: Engineering Complex Metabolic Pathways for Secondary Metabolite Production |
Nic Lindley, Biotransformation Innovation Platform, Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore |
4:25 PM - 4:40 PM |
Oncolytic Adenovirus Programmed by Synthetic Gene Circuit for Cancer Immunotherapy |
Huiya Huang, Tsinghua University, China |
4:40 PM - 4:55 PM |
Efficient Implementation of the Carotenoid Synthesis By Enzyme-Fusion Strategies in Saccharomyces Cerevisiae |
Thomas Lautier, Molecular and Metabolic Engineering, CNRS-LISBP, France |
4:55 PM - 5:10 PM |
Metabolic Properties of Mouse Spermatogenesis Defined through Constraint-Based Modeling |
Bushra Dohai, New York University Abu Dhabi, UAE |
5:10 PM - 5:25 PM |
The Giant Liposomes from Zwitterionic and Negative Charged Lipids Which Contains Inside Small Unilamellar Vesicles as Model for Nuclear Pore Assembly, Gene Regulation and Origin of Life |
Vasily Kuvichkin, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia |
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Wednesday, December 12, 2018
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10:00 AM - 11:55 AM |
Session 6: Synthetic Biology |
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10:00 AM - 10:40 AM |
Keynote Talk: Synthetic Biology and the Design, Build, Test and Learn Paradigm in relation to Systematic BioDesign |
Richard Kitney, Imperial College London, UK |
10:40 AM - 11:10 AM |
Invited Talk: Model Driven Programming of Biological Systems |
Chuel Loo Poh, National University of Singapore, Singapore |
11:10 AM - 11:25 AM |
Reprogramming Microbes for Disease Intervention & Prevention: Live Biotherapeutics for Microbiome Modulation |
In Young Hwang, National University of Singapore, Singapore |
11:25 AM - 11:40 AM |
Discovery and Synthesis of Terpenoids Using Synthetic Biology |
Simon Zhang Congqiang, Biotransformation Innovation Platform, Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore |
11:40 AM - 11:55 AM |
Indoleacetate Decarboxylase is a Glycyl Radical Enzyme Catalysing the Formation of Malodorant Skatole |
Wei Yifeng, Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore |
11:55 AM - 12:10 PM |
Closing Remarks |
Mariko Okada, Co-Chair, Osaka University, Japan |