Life Engineering Symposium

August 19-20, 2005
University of California, San Francisco, Mission Bay Campus

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2005 Program and Audio Presentations

Reprogramming Molecules: DNA and Viruses	Synthetic Therapeutic Bacteria
Synthetic Eukaryotic Cells / Stem Cells	Applications, Ethics and Legal Issues
Sensors and Circuits	Education
Engineering the Outputs	Biologically-Inspired Robotics
Applications

Reprogramming Molecules: DNA and Viruses

Christopher Voigt University of California, San Francisco Welcome	Presentation  Homepage
Ehud Shapiro Weizmann Institute of Science Injecting Life with Computers	Abstract  Presentation  Homepage
Niles Pierce California Institute of Technology Engineering DNA Motors and Sensors	Abstract  Homepage
Adam Arkin University of California, Berkeley Engineering Considerations in Viral Systems	Presentation  Homepage
Craig Meyers Penn State College of Medicine AAV2 as a Potential Anticancer Therapy	Abstract

Synthetic Therapeutic Bacteria

Jay Keasling University of California, Berkeley Engineering Bacteria for Drug Production	Presentation  Homepage
John M. Pawelek Yale University Use of Salmonella and Bordetella for Targeting and Destruction of Tumor Cells	Abstract  Homepage
Christopher Voigt University of California, San Francisco Synthetic Design of Bacterial Delivery Agents	Presentation  Homepage

Synthetic Eukaryotic Cells / Stem Cells

David Schaffer University of California, Berkeley Molecular Engineering of Gene and Stem Cell Therapies	Abstract  Presentation  Homepage
Chris Chen University of Pennsylvania Engineering Cellular Niches	Abstract  Homepage
Wendell Lim University of California, San Francisco Reprogramming Cellular Signaling Systems	Abstract  Homepage
Tanja Kortemme University of California, San Francisco Prediction and Design of Specificity in Protein-Protein Interactions	Abstract  Homepage

Applications, Ethics and Legal Issues

Laurie Zoloth Northwestern University The Ethics of the Mutable World: Bioethics and Synthetic Biology	Abstract  Presentation  Homepage
Paul Rabinow University of California, Berkeley From Safety to Security	Abstract  Presentation  Homepage

Sensors and Circuits

Christina Smolke California Institute of Technology Programming Dynamic Cellular Behavior with Engineered Molecular Sensors	Abstract  Presentation  Homepage
Yohei Yokobayashi University of California, Davis Engineering RNA Genetic Switches for Synthetic Biology	Abstract  Homepage
Mark S.P. Sansom University of Oxford Building Bridges Between Molecules and Systems: Can Simulations Help?	Presentation  Homepage

Education

Andrew Ellington University of Texas, Austin Synthetic Biology as an Educational Exercise

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Engineering the Outputs

John Spudich The University of Texas Medical School at Houston Microbial Rhodopsins as Versatile Phototransducing Modules	Abstract  Presentation  Homepage
Lingchong You Duke University Programming Robust Population Dynamics by Cell-Cell Communication	Abstract  Homepage
Edward Marcotte University of Texas, Austin Re-wiring Metabolic Circuitry	Abstract  Presentation  Homepage

Biologically-Inspired Robotics

Isao Shimoyama The Tokyo University Synthesis with MEMS	Homepage
Jordan Pollack Brandeis University Automatic Design and Assembly of Machines	Abstract  Presentation  Homepage
Metin Sitti Carnegie Mellon University Biologically Inspired Miniature Robots	Abstract  Presentation  Homepage

Applications

Roger Brent The Molecular Sciences Institute Systems Biology from the Alpha Project, the Security Issue, and Challenge Problems

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