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Committee on Science, Technology, and Law; Policy and Global Affairs; Board on Life Sciences; Division on Earth and Life Sciences; National Academy of Engineering; National Research Council. Positioning Synthetic Biology to Meet the Challenges of the 21st Century: Summary Report of a Six Academies Symposium Series. Washington (DC): National Academies Press (US); 2013 Aug 5.
Positioning Synthetic Biology to Meet the Challenges of the 21st Century: Summary Report of a Six Academies Symposium Series.
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The economic and social life of synthetic biology
The first symposium in an international collaboration between the UK's Royal Society and Royal Academy of Engineering, the USA National Academy of Sciences and National Academy of Engineering, and the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Chinese Academy of Engineering.
To be held at the Royal Society and The Royal Academy of Engineering, 13-14 April 2011.
Wednesday, 13 April (all events at the Royal Society. 6-9 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1Y 5AG)
| Opening Session | |
| 8:30 | Registration |
| 9:00 | Introduction |
| – | Sir William Wakeham FREng, Honorary International Secretary, The Royal Academy of Engineering |
| 9:10 | Keynote |
| – | Dr George Poste FRS CBE, Chief Scientist,
Complex Adaptive Systems Initiative, and Del E. Webb
Chair in Health Innovation, Arizona State
University Synthetic Biology: Mapping the Design Principles of Biological Systems and the Rise of Biomimetic Engineering |
| Introduced by Professor Richard Kitney OBE FREng, Co-Director EPSRC Imperial College Centre for Synthetic Biology and Innovation | |
| Plenary Session 1: Progress to date and prospects for the future | |
| 9:45 | Research environment |
| – | Professor Guoping Zhao, Director, Laboratory of
Synthetic Biology, Institute of Plant Physiology and
Ecology, Shanghai Institues for Biological
Sciences From molecular microbiology towards synthetic biology-A long march via new vehicles with sophisticated steering |
| – | Professor Paul Freemont, Co-director, Centre for
Synthetic Biology and Innovation, Imperial College
London Establishing foundational technologies to deliver the vision of svnthetic biobgy: from biosensors to biofuels |
| 10:40 | Coffee break |
| 11:10 | Global infrastructure and innovation |
| – | Dr Drew Endy, Assistant Professor.
Bioengineering, Stanford University and President
The Biobhcks
Foundation BIOFAB International Open Facilities Advancina Biotechnology |
| – | Professor Richard Kitney OBE FREng, Co-Director
EPSRC Imperial College Centre for Synthetic Biology
and Innovation Towards an Infrastructure for Synthetic Biology Design. Innovation and Education |
| 12:00 | Lunch |
| Plenary Session 2: Realising the vision | |
| 13:30 | Visions of the future |
| – | Dr Luke Alphcy, Chief Scientific Officer, Oxitec
Ltd, and Visiting Professor, Department of Zoology,
University of
Oxford Translational synthetic biology in insects |
| – | Professor Huanming Yang, Director, Beijing
Genomics
Institute Genomics and its 'elevance to synthetic biology |
| 14:30 | From rhetoric to reality |
| – | Professor Peter Leadlay FRS, Co-founder.
Biotica DevelODino natural product-based druas throuah biosvnthetic enaineering |
| – | Dr Kirstin Eley, External Programme Manager, TMO
Renewables Ltd Svnthetic Biology: the adventure begins |
| 15:15 | Tea break |
| 15:45 | From rhetoric to reality (continued) |
| – | Roel Bovenberg, Corporate Scientist, DSM,
Netherlands, and Honorary Professor of Synthetic
Biology and Cell Engineering, University of
Groningen Svnthetic Biology from an industrial perspective |
| – | Lionel Clarke, Global Strategic Programme
Manager, Shell Global
Solutions Biotech to Biofuels |
| 16:45 | Closing remarks |
| – | Professor Peter Leadlay FRS, Herchel Smith Professor of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge |
| 17:00 | Reception |
| 19:30 | Close |
Thursday 14 April (all events at The Roval Academv of Fndineerina. 3 Carlton House Terrace. London SW1Y 5DG)
| 9:00 | Introduction |
| – | Professor Richard Kitney OBE FREng, Co-Director EPSRC Imperial College Centre for Synthetic Biology and Innovation |
| 9:10 | Ministerial address |
| – | Rt Hon David Willerts MP, UK Minister for Universities and Science |
| Plenary Session 3: Creating an enabling environment | |
| 9:40 | An enabling environment for research |
| – | Dr Francois Képès, Director,
Epigenomics
Project Synthetic Bioloav: what is needed frcm a strateaic and research point of view? |
| – | Professor Ben Davis, Organic Chemistry,
University of
Oxford Synthetic Bioloav: a molecular perspective |
| – | Hai-Yan Liu, University of Science and
Technology of
China Develooina reusable desians of new reaulatorv components for svnthetic bioloav based on the modularity of native elements |
| 10:40 | Coffee break |
| 11:00 | An enabling environment for innovation |
| – | Nigel Jones, Intellectual Property Partner and
Co-Head Healthcare Sector, Linklaters
LLP Encouraging Innovation; The Role of Intellectual Property |
| – | Dr loannis Economidis, Advisor, the EC-US Task
Force on Biotechnology Research, Wonting Group on
Synthetic Biology The Emeraina/Enablina role of Svnthetic bioloav in the development of biotechnoloaical applications |
| – | Professor Rifat Atun, Director of Strategy, Performance and Evaluation Cluster, The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, Geneva |
| – | Professor Robert Edwards, Chief Scientist, The
Food and Environment Research Agency
(Fera) SPPI-Net: a UK Network in Applied Svnthetic Biology |
| 12:30 | Lunch |
| 13:30 | An enabling environment for users |
| – | Dr Joy Zhang, BIOS Centre, London School of
Economics The international Governance of synthetic biology |
| – | Dr Françoise Roure, Chair, Committee on
Technologies and Society, French High Council for
Industry, Energy and
Technologies A Global Governance for Synthetic Biology? Lessons learned from Nanotechnology |
| Break-out session: hindsight and foresight | |
| 14:15 | A roadmap for syn bio |
| Four mixed break-out groups | |
| 15:15 | Tea break |
| Plenai Session 4: hindsight and foresight | |
| 15:45 | Panel discussion |
| – | Professor John McCarthy, Head of Life Sciences, University of Warwick |
| – | Professor Richard Jones FRS, Pro-Vice Chancellor for Research and Innovation, University of Sheffield |
| – | Heather Lowrie, ESRC Centre for Social and Economic Research on Innovation in Genomics (Innogen), University of Edinburgh Chaired by |
| – | Professor Richard Kitney OBE FREng, Co-Director EPSRC Imperial College Centre for Synthetic Biology and Innovation |
| – | Professor Peter Leadlay FRS. Herchel Smith Professor of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge |
| 16:45 | Closing remarks from panel chairs |
| 17:00 | Close & Coffee |
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