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Engineering Life 2017

19.10.2017 (Thursday) - 20.10.2017 (Friday) , 09:00 - 18:00
Steigenberger Hotel de Saxe , Neumarkt 9 , 01067 Dresden

B CUBE, Center for Molecular Bioengineering at the Technische Universität Dresden are hosting the symposium:

ENGINEERING LIFE 2017: FORM and FUNCTION

 

from 19th to 20th of October, 2017, in Dresden. The event is endorsed by the Dresden Institutional Strategy concept within the German Excellence Initiative.

The symposium will focus on recent advances and state-of-the-art techniques directed at understanding functionalities found in biological systems that stem from the morphology and the form of the constituents. The various sessions of the meeting will emphasize the different length scales: from the molecular, to cellular, to tissue level and evolutionary aspects of morphogenesis.

The symposium will consists of Invited Talks and a Poster Session. Short Poster Presentations will be selected after the registration is closed.

Registration fee for two days, including lunch and a conference dinner (on the 19th of October) is 200€. Registration is limited to 125 persons and will be open on the 1st of March, 2017.

INVITED SPEAKERS:
Julia Mahamid \\ Max-Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Germany
Thomas Speck \\ Freiburg University, Germany
Adam Summers \\ University of Washington, Friday Harbor, USA
Silvia Vignolini \\ University of Cambridge, UK
James Weaver \\ Wyss Institute, Harvard University, USA
Itai Cohen \\ Cornell University, USA
Julian Moosmann \\ Helmholz-Zentrum Geesthacht, Germany
Patricia Bassereau \\ Institut Curie, France
Manuel Théry \\ Institut Universitaire d'Hematologie, France
Francois Nedelec \\ EMBL Heidelberg, Germany
Ali Miserez \\ Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

VENUE: The symposium will be held at the Steigenberger Hotel de Saxe in the center of Dresden, right in front of Dresden’s landmark, the Frauenkirche.

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: Igor Zlotnikov, Nicole Poulsen, Barbara Lindemann (Dresden)

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