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Organisers
Mike Taussig, Babraham Insititute, Cambridge
Introduction
The European Congress on Biotechnology is one of Europe's oldest and most important biotechnology events, and the only international and multi-disciplinary scientific biotechnology congress in Europe . Organised every 2 years since 1978, the focus for this 13th edition will be on SymBIOsiS, the interdependence of Science, Industry and Society. The 5 Central themes of the Congress, each of which will focus on cutting edge science, will be Functional Genomics & Technology, Industrial Biotechnology, SymBIOsiS – Science, Industry & Society, Health & Medicine, Green Biotechnology. Previous meetings have attracted over 1500 leading scientists and other senior participants, over 500 posters and over a hundred exhibitors from more than 50 countries across Europe and beyond.
The Functional Genomics & Technology programme ranges from high-throughput reagent-based tools and technologies to comparative genomics, systems biology and nanotechnology. The international speakers are chosen not only for their eminence in this area but also for their links to the biotech community.
The full Symbiosis conference programme can be found here.
Functional Genomics & Technology Symposium:
Monday, 17 September 2007
• EC FP6 ProteomeBinders: Alternatives to antibodies (11:00-13:00)
11:00-11:10: Chair/Introduction: Mike Taussig, Chairman EFB Section on Applied Functional Genomics, (Cambridge)
11:10-11:35: Affibodies, Per-Ake Nygren (KTH)
11:35-12:00: Ankyrins, Andreas Plückthun (Zurich)
12:00-12:25: RNA aptamers, Larry Gold (SomaLogic)
12:25-12:50: To be selected from abstracts
12:50-13:00: Discussion & Conclusions
• Genome technologies (15:00-17:00) (ESF)
15:00-15:10: Chair/Introduction: Jaume Bertranpetit (Barcelona)
15:10-15:35: Single cell analysis, Ulf Landegren (Uppsala)
15:35-16:00: Genome analysis, Joerg Hoheisel (Heidelberg)
16:00-16:25: High-throughput sequencing, Wilhelm Ansorge (Lausanne)
16:25-16:50: To be selected from abstracts
16:50-17:00: Discussion & Conclusions
Tuesday, 18 September 2007
• Human Atlas projects – from RNA to proteins (11:00-13:00) (ESF)
11:00-11:10: Chair/Introduction: Mathias Uhlen, Chairman Scientific Programme Committee, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) , Sweden
11:10-11:35: The Human Protein Atlas, Sophia Hober (KTH)
11:35- 12:00: Human global transcript profiling, Olli Kallioniemi (Turku)
12:00-12:25: Bernhard Küster (Cellzome, Heidelberg)
12:25-12:50: To be selected from abstracts
12:50-13:00: Discussion & Conclusions
• Comparative genomics (15:00-17:00) (ESF)
15:00-15:10: Chair/Introduction: Svante Pääbo (Germany)
15:10-15:35: Huanming Yang (Beijing)
15:35-16:00: Comparative genomics of bacteria, Siv Andersson (Uppsala)
16:00-16:25: Kirsten Lindblad-Toh (Boston) (TBC)
16:25-16:50: To be selected from abstracts
16:50-17:00: Discussion & Conclusions
Wednesday, 19 September 2007
• Nanotechnology (11:00-13:00)
11:00-11:10: Chair/Introduction: Maria Garcia-Parajo, Catalonian Institute for Bioengineering (IBEC), Spain
11:10-11:35: Nanotechnology for biological applications, Lars Montelius (Lund)
11:35-12:00: Functionalised nano-particles to follow the pathways of virus binding and internalisation on immune cells, TBC
12:00-12:25: Bio-inspired molecular machines, Stefan Diez (Max-Planck-Institute)
12:25-12:50: To be selected from abstracts
12:50-13:00: Discussion & Conclusions
• Systems and Synthetic Biology (15:00-17:00) (ESF)
15:00-15:10: Chair/Introduction: Alfonso Valencia (Madrid)
15:10-15:35: Luis Serrano (EMBL and Barcelona)
15:35-16:00: Sven Panke (ETH, Zurich)
16:00-16:25: Douglas Kell, Manchester (UK) (TBC)
16:25-16:50: To be selected from abstracts
16:50-17:00: Discussion & Conclusions
Venue
The meeting will be held at the Fira de Barcelona – Montjuic , Spain.
Registration
Registration: Registration is closed.
