Symposium 2014
November 20-21

13h30 - 14h30

Registration / Welcome

14h30

Start - Welcome address: Alain Blanchard, Jean-Jacques Toulmé, Pierre Dos Santos

14h40 - 18h20

Session 1: Biomimetism, Orthogonal biosystems, Bionanoscience for synthetic biology

14h40

Invited Speaker: Roman Jerala / National Institute of Chemistry, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Design of topological proteins based on concatenated coiled-coil modules

15h20

Elisabeth Garanger
Recombinant production and chemical modifications of elastin-like polypeptides (ELPs)

15h40

Yonathan Arfi
Incorporation of bacterial lytic polysaccharide monooxygenases into designer cellulosomes to enhance cellulose degradation

16h

Invited Speaker: Muriel Gondry / CEA, Saclay, France
Cyclodipeptide synthase-dependent pathways: towards the production of novel bioactive molecules

16h40 - 17h

Coffee break

17h

Invited Speaker: Piet Herdewijn / Institute of Systems and Synthetic Biology, Evry, France / KU Leuven, Belgium
The Xenome Project

17h40

Thierry Michon
Using virus particles scaffolds for imaging proteins at work

18h

Laetitia Daury
Native bacterial efflux pumps assembled in synthetic lipid membranes

18h20 - 19h30

Cocktail + Posters Session

9h - 12h

Session 2: Minimal cells and organisms, Genomic engineering

9h

Invited Speaker: Tom Ellis / Imperial College London, UK
Engineering Yeast: Synthesising Regulation and Synthesising a new Genome

9h40

Sébastien Lecommandoux
From compartmentalized polymersomes to "plastic cells"

10h

Guillaume Durand
Switchable regulatory elements for modulating gene expression

10h20 - 10h40

Coffee break

10h40

Invited Speaker: Luis Serrano / Centre for Genomic Regulation, Barcelona, Spain
Engineering of a minimal bacterial therapeutic chassis

11h20

Lucie Fernandez
The promising CRISPR/Cas technology for efficient genome engineering in plant

11h40

Jean-Paul di Rago
Mitochondrial to nuclear gene transfer by synthetic evolution

12h

Elasticoli - iGEM Bordeaux Team Project 2014

12h10 - 14h

Lunch

14h - 17h

Session 3: Biodiversity, Metabolic engineering

14h

Invited Speaker: Ludivine Labagnère and Federico Brianza / Société Evolva, Basel, Switzerland
Synthetic biology approaches for nutrition and health

14h40

Laurent Simon
SAT-Based Metabolics Pathways Analysis Without Compilation

15h

Vincent Arondel
Oil palm mesocarp: the most efficient oil-synthesizing system in plants

15h20 - 15h40

Coffee break

15h40

Invited Speaker: Isabelle Meynial-Salles / INSA, Laboratoire d'Ingénierie des Systèmes Biologiques et des Procédés, Toulouse, France
Rational design, evolution and characterization of an optimized cell factory for the continuous production of 1, 3-propanediol

16h20

Frédéric Domergue
Production of fatty alcohols derivatives by metabolic engineering

16h40

Noé Cochetel
A GoldenBraid based approach to study the strigolactone biosynthesis pathway of Grapevine

17h

Concluding remarks / End of the meeting: Alain Blanchard, Jean-Jacques Toulmé