Organisers

Hans Westerhoff, Manchester Interdisciplinary Biocentre, University of
Manchester, UK
Mike Taussig, Babraham Resreach Campus, Cambridge
Joost Teixeira de Mattos, Swammerdam Institute for Life Science, Faculty of
Science, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Mathias Uhlen, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden

Introduction

The European Congress of Biotechnology is one of the largest and most important platforms for biotechnologists – both from industry and academia - in Europe. Organised every two years since 1978, a major focus is the interdependence of Science, Industry and Society. The four Central Themes of the 14th edition of this Congress; Systems Biology & Technology, Industrial Biotechnology, Health & Medicine and Plant & Environmental Biotechnology will present the state of the art to a broad audience.

Particular emphasis is placed on the participation of Europe’s´ young scientists whose responsibility will be to carry forward the spirit of the role of Science for a cleaner, more efficient Industry to meet the expectations of Society. The Young European Biotech Network (YEBN) will organise its own meeting as a satellite event of the ECB-14 to debate how industry and academia can work more efficiently together.

The Systems Biology & Technology programme has been designed to cover the interests of the ESF Programme of Frontiers of Functional Genomics, ranging from highthroughput emerging technologies to functional genomics and bioinformatics.
Furthermore, other Stream Programmes of the ECB-14 also cover a broad range of disciplines that are closely linked to Systems Biology, such as nanobiotechnology, synthetic biology, omics and optimisation strategies. The international speakers are chosen not only for their eminence in this area but also for their links to the biotech community.

Programme

The full Symbiosis conference programme can be found here.

Systems Biology & Technology Symposium Speakers:

Plenary Lecturer: Leroy Hood, Institute for Systems Biology, Seattle, USA.
Jens Nielsen, Chalmers Biocenter, University of Technology, Goteborg, Sweden
Mike Taussig, The Babraham Institute, Cambridge, UK
Hiroaki Kitano, The Systems Biology Insitute, Tokyo, Japan
Jacky Snoep, University of Stellenbosch, Stellenbosch, South Africa
Gregory Stephanopoulos, Department of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
Vassily Hatzimanikatis, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, USA
Stefan Dubel, Department of Biotechnology, Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany
Marius Ueffing, Helmholtz Zentrum Munich, Munich, Germany
Oda Stoevesandt, The Babraham Institute. Cambridge, UK
Erik Bjorling, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
Sang Yup Lee, Dept. Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, KAST Gwahangno, Republic of Korea
Ruedi Aebersold, Insitute of Molecular Systems Biology, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
George Church, Harvard Medical School Boston, USA

Venue

The meeting will be held at the Palau de Congressos de Catalunya – Barcelona, Spain.

Registration

Registration is closed.