EPFL BioE DAY 2023 - Synthetic Protein Design and Biology
Event details
| Date | 04.09.2023 |
| Hour | 13:00 › 22:00 |
| Speaker | Various speakers |
| Location | |
| Category | Conferences - Seminars |
| Event Language | English |
Annual research event of the
EPFL's Institute of Bioengineering (IBI)
In a nutshell (see HERE for detailed schedules):
University of Zurich (CH)
"Cellular Functions of Regulator Proteins – Or Why
Biochemistry Needs High-Throughput Genetic
Interaction Screens"
- Nicholas Polizzi
Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA (USA)
"Design of Small-Molecule-Binding Proteins"
- Anastassia Vorobieva
VIB-VUB Center for Structural Biology, Brussels (BE)
"De Novo Design of Transmembrane Beta-Barrel
Nanopores"
by five PhD students or Postdocs from IBI labs actively
pursuing Protein Design or Synthetic Biology research:
- Vincenzo Caroprese (Bastings Lab)
"Structural Flexibility Dominates Over Binding Strength for
Supramolecular Crystallinity"
- Umberto Lupo (Bitbol Lab)
"Generative Power of a Protein Language Model Trained
on Multiple Sequence Alignments"
- Anthony Marchand (Correia Lab)
"Leveraging Learned Surface Fingerprints for the Design
of De Novo Protein Interactions"
- Ana Rico Villareal (Barth Lab)
"Computational Design of Chemotactic Peptide-Receptor
Signaling Complexes to Reprogram Immune Cell Tumor-
Targeting Functions"
- Ragunathan Bava Ganesh (Maerkl Lab)
"Exploring the Limits of Cell-Free Transcription and
Translation System"
- Deepthy Kavungal (Altug & Lashuel Labs)
"Breaking Boundaries: ImmunoSEIRA - A Sensor Uniting
Nanophotonics, Biology, and AI for Neurodegenerative
Disease Detection"
- Lucien Krapp (Dal Peraro Lab)
"From Interaction Prediction to Sequence Design: Unveiling
PeSTo's Potential in Structural Biology"
- Samuel M. Leitão (Fantner Lab)
"Time-Resolved Scanning Ion Conductance Microscopy
and Single-Molecule Spectroscopy"
- Yang Zhao (Tang Lab)
"Metabolically Armored CAR-T Cells Counter Dysfunction
and Promote Stemness for Solid Tumor Clearance"
Binding Probiotic"
- EDBB Distinctions
- Poster prizes
- Toasts to various IBI faculty
And, of course:
- the one and only 'IBI Lebowski/Lebowska Award'!
Participation is free of charge, however registration is required
Registrations are now closed, sorry: the final (extended) deadline was August 25, 2023.
EPFL's Institute of Bioengineering (IBI)
In a nutshell (see HERE for detailed schedules):
- Invited Keynote Talks by:
University of Zurich (CH)
"Cellular Functions of Regulator Proteins – Or Why
Biochemistry Needs High-Throughput Genetic
Interaction Screens"
- Nicholas Polizzi
Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA (USA)
"Design of Small-Molecule-Binding Proteins"
- Anastassia Vorobieva
VIB-VUB Center for Structural Biology, Brussels (BE)
"De Novo Design of Transmembrane Beta-Barrel
Nanopores"
- Short Research Talks:
by five PhD students or Postdocs from IBI labs actively
pursuing Protein Design or Synthetic Biology research:
- Vincenzo Caroprese (Bastings Lab)
"Structural Flexibility Dominates Over Binding Strength for
Supramolecular Crystallinity"
- Umberto Lupo (Bitbol Lab)
"Generative Power of a Protein Language Model Trained
on Multiple Sequence Alignments"
- Anthony Marchand (Correia Lab)
"Leveraging Learned Surface Fingerprints for the Design
of De Novo Protein Interactions"
- Ana Rico Villareal (Barth Lab)
"Computational Design of Chemotactic Peptide-Receptor
Signaling Complexes to Reprogram Immune Cell Tumor-
Targeting Functions"
- Ragunathan Bava Ganesh (Maerkl Lab)
"Exploring the Limits of Cell-Free Transcription and
Translation System"
- ‘J. Hubbell and M. Swartz Young Bioengineer Award’ Session, featuring this year's four finalists:
- Deepthy Kavungal (Altug & Lashuel Labs)
"Breaking Boundaries: ImmunoSEIRA - A Sensor Uniting
Nanophotonics, Biology, and AI for Neurodegenerative
Disease Detection"
- Lucien Krapp (Dal Peraro Lab)
"From Interaction Prediction to Sequence Design: Unveiling
PeSTo's Potential in Structural Biology"
- Samuel M. Leitão (Fantner Lab)
"Time-Resolved Scanning Ion Conductance Microscopy
and Single-Molecule Spectroscopy"
- Yang Zhao (Tang Lab)
"Metabolically Armored CAR-T Cells Counter Dysfunction
and Promote Stemness for Solid Tumor Clearance"
- Special Talk by 2023 iGEM EPFL Team:
Binding Probiotic"
- Annual Ceremony
- EDBB Distinctions
- Poster prizes
- Toasts to various IBI faculty
And, of course:
- the one and only 'IBI Lebowski/Lebowska Award'!
- Networking, beer & wine, dinner buffet
- Party time with music and dance, with DJ Tee
Participation is free of charge, however registration is required
Registrations are now closed, sorry: the final (extended) deadline was August 25, 2023.