ISB SYMPOSIUM
ISB held its 7th Annual International Systems Biology Symposium in April, a sold out event that focused on Systems Biology & Engineering. The symposium featured keynote speakers Bill Gates, chairman of Microsoft Corporation, and Nathan Myhrvold, PhD, president of Intellectual Ventures.
Presenters from Emory, Vanderbilt, and Tufts universities, MIT, University of California, Caltech and others, addressed the development of new technologies enabling advances in biological imaging, single-cell and single-molecule experimentation and synthetic biology.
Since its founding in 2000, researchers at ISB have approached biology as an information science, using or developing ever more advanced technologies to unravel complex biological networks, with the goal of making P4 Medicine (personalized, predictive, preventative and participatory) a reality. Presentations are available online at http://www.systemsbiolgy.org.
Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates and ISB Director and Co-founder Alan Aderem, Phd; Lucas Pelkmans, PhD, of the Eth Institute of Molecular Systems Biology; Intellectual Ventures CEO and Founder Nathan Mhyrvold, PhD, and ISB President and Co-founder Leroy Hood, MD, PhD; Deirdre Meldrum, PhD, of Arizona State University; symposium attendees at the Hotel Deca reception; symposium attendees observing a presentation; Matt O'Donnell, PhD, dean of the University of Washington College of Engineering (the symposium co-hosting organization); symposium attendees at the poster session; symposium attendees observing a presentation; Richard M. Caprioli, PhD, of the Vanderbuilt University School of Medicine; synthetic biology panel including Drew Endy, PhD, of MIT (left), Jay Keasling, PhD, of the University of California, Berkley (center) and Michael Elowitz, PhD of Caltech.
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