SBE's First International Conference on Biomolecular Engineering

January 14-18, 2007
Coronado Island Marriott Resort
Coronado Island, California

"Integrating Biological Design Principles, from Molecules to Cells"

• Program
• Call for Papers
• Confirmed Invited Speakers
• Organizing Committee
• Sponsors
• Sponsorship Opportunities
• Travel and Accomodations

If you were not able to attend this conference, you can buy a CD of the proceedings.  Simply fax this PDF to us at 212-591-8888 or mail it to SBE, 3 Park Ave, 19th floor, New York, NY 10016. 

This conference brings together researchers using quantitative approaches to advance the understanding and application of biology at the molecular level. These approaches are contributing to the development of analytical, diagnostic, and therapeutic strategies that are directly relevant to public health. The meeting will also stimulate efforts to integrate these approaches across the molecular, cellular, and higher scales of biological complexity in a single-track Gordon-style conference format that includes hotel accomodations and most meals. 

Keynote speakers include Craig Venter of the J. Craig Venter Institute, David Baker of the University of Washington, and Willem "Pim" Stemmer of Amunix.  Other invited speakers will cover the conference themes -- engineering functional biomolecules, molecular interactions and intracellular pathways, and systems biology and multi-scale integration.  These speakers include Frances Arnold of Cal Tech;  systems biologist Colin Hill, CEO of Gene Network Sciences;  George Georgiou of the University of Texas; Sachdev Sidhu of the department of protein engineering at Genentech, and cellular biochemist Wenell Lim of the University of California, San Francisco.  The complete roster of invited speakers. 

Conference topics include:

• Engineering therapeutic proteins
• Improving efficacy, folding, delivery, and stability
• Enzyme engineering and industrial process applications of engineered proteins
• Design and synthesis of RNA and small molecules as diagnostic and therapeutic reagents
• Reagents for detection and quantification of biomolecules
• Molecular nanobiotechnology
• Evolutionary and combinatorial approaches to metabolic pathway and strain improvement
• Live-cell imaging and single-molecule imaging
• Intracellular and intercellular signaling pathways and networks
• MEMS, microfluidics, and microscale analyses of molecular and cellular function
• Computational approaches to engineering cell function and therapeutic interventions
• Genomic, proteomic, and metabolomic profiling of cell function
• Novel high-throughput methodologies for whole-cell profiling
• Design of synthetic biological circuits and pathways
• Advances in bioinformatics
• Multi-scale modeling and computational methods for systems biology

The final program is available.

2009 Conference Chairs:

• Sachdev Sidhu, Genentech
• Ryan Gill, University of Colorado