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Synthetic Morphogenesis: From Gene Circuits to Tissue Architecture – Course and Conference Office

EMBO | EMBL Symposium

Synthetic Morphogenesis: From Gene Circuits to Tissue Architecture

Overview

EMBO and EMBL are committed to sharing research advances and sustaining scientific interaction throughout the coronavirus pandemic. We are delighted to announce that the symposium is going virtual and invite you to join us online. The virtual symposium includes talks from invited speakers, short talk presenters, digital poster sessions and networking opportunities.

Information about accessing the conference platform (containing the live stream, access to the discussion forum and digital posters) will be sent to registered participants on Monday 15 March.

Symposium Overview

Morphogenesis, the generation of shape, is a topic of considerable interest in basic research with important implications in biomedicine. Across scales, from subcellular structures to multicellular systems shape is intimately linked with function. While traditional genetic approaches have allowed the identification of key components controlling individual morphogenetic processes, recent advances in synthetic biology are opening the possibility to engineer gene circuits, signal systems, and biomaterials to not only probe morphogenesis but also to re-construct it and direct it.

Synthetic morphogenesis is a novel and exciting field that requires collaboration among traditionally distinct scientific communities, from developmental biologists, to chemists, theoreticians and computational modellers. This symposium will bring together scientists from these different disciplines to discuss the extent to which cells/tissues/organs can be built de novo starting from isolated components.

Session Topics

  • Origin and evolution of life
  • Engineering life
  • Artificial cells/tissues
  • Developmental mechanisms
  • Patterning and self-organisation
  • Physics of life

Date: 17 - 19 Mar 2021

Location: Virtual


Deadline(s):

Abstract submission: Closed

Closed


Contact: Lisa Trinh

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