Schedule
Schedule

Two days of presentations and panel discussions with some of the world's most influential researches from institutions such as The Rockefeller University, Imperial College of London, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Emory University, The Institute for Systems Biology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and more.

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Sunday, April 18 | Monday, April 19



Day 1: Sunday, April 18

Sunday, April 18

1:00pm Registration

Symposium Opening

2:00pm Welcoming Remarks
Lee Hood, MD, PhD
Co-founder and President, Institute for Systems Biology

2:15pm Opening Keynote
Alan Aderem, PhD
Co-founder and Director, Institute for Systems Biology
Systems Vaccinology: Using the Tools of Systems Biology to Enable Rational Vaccine Design
3:00pm Break, 15 minutes

Session 1: Vaccines

Session Chair:
Ken Stuart, PhD
President and Director, Seattle Biomedical Research Institute (Seattle BioMed)
3:15pm Bali Pulendran, PhD
Emory University Vaccine Center
Systems Vaccinology
4:00pm Rafick-Pierre Sekaly, PhD
Vaccine and Gene Therapy Institute Florida
University of Montreal
Systems Biology Approaches to Understanding T-Cell Memory
4:45pm Break, 15 minutes
5:00pm Paul de Bakker, PhD
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Harvard Medical School
The Broad Institute
Genomic Investigations into the Basis of Host Control of HIV Replication
5:45pm Session 1 Speaker Panel
6:30pm Session 1 Closed

Reception and Poster Session

7:00pm Reception and Poster Session
Day 2: Monday, April 19


Monday, April 19

Session 2: Infectious Agents

7:30am Continental Breakfast
Session Chair:
Mark Alderson, PhD
Director, Pneumococcal Vaccine Project, PATH
8:00am Clifton E. Barry, III, PhD
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
A Chemist's Approach to Systems Biology: qHTS to Identify Condition-Selective Probes of Metabolic Networks in Mycobacterium Tuberculosis
8:45am Douglas B. Young, PhD
Imperial College London
UK National Institute for Medical Research
Non-coding RNA: the Dark Matter of Bacterial Gene Regulation
9:30am Break, 30 minutes
10:00am Jay Keasling, PhD
University of California, Berkeley
Engineering Microbial Metabolism for Production of the Anti-Malarial Drug Artemisinin
10:45am Session 2 Speaker Panel
11:30am Break, 1 hour - Lunch

Session 3: Technology

Session Chair:
John Aitchison, PhD
Associate Director and Professor, Institute for Systems Biology
12:30pm Michael P. Rout, PhD
The Rockefeller University
Proteomic Tools for Understanding Dynamic Macromolecular Assemblies
1:15pm Stephen R. Quake, PhD
Stanford University
Precision Measurement in Biology
2:00pm Break, 30 minutes
2:30pm William Schief, PhD
University of Washington
Computational Design of Immunogens to Elicit Neutralizing Antibodies
3:15pm Session 3 Speaker Panel
4:00pm Break, 30 minutes

Symposium Closing

4:30pm Closing Keynote
Peter Small, MD
Senior Program Officer, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Systems Global Health? How Far Can One Take a Systems Approach?
5:00pm Closing Remarks
John Aitchison, PhD
Associate Director and Professor, Institute for Systems Biology