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SUMMARY:BIOENGINEERING DAY 2019
DTSTART:20191127T130000
DTEND:20191127T220000
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CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars
DESCRIPTION:Various speakers\nAnnual research event of the EPFL's Institut
 e of Bioengineering (IBI) -- this year under the motto "Engineering with B
 ioinspired or Biomimetic Approaches".\n\nIn a nutshell (see details -talk 
 titles and schedules\, in particular- HERE):\n\n	Invited Talks by:\n\n  
           Michel C. Milinkovitch\, Dept. of Genetics & Evolution
 \, University of Geneva (CH):\n            "On Skin Colour & R
 eptilian Scales: When Charles Darwin Meets John von Neumann & Alan Turing"
   (Keynote)\n            Maartje Bastings\, Institute of Mater
 ials & Institute of Bioengineering\, EPFL:\n            "The Pr
 omises and Challenges of DNA as Programmable Biomaterial"\n       
      Ullrich Steiner\, Soft Matter Physics Group\, University of Fribo
 urg (CH):\n            "Bioinspired Surfaces:  from Optics to 
 Adhesion"  (Keynote)\n \n\n	Short research talks by four ‘Jeffrey Hubb
 ell and Melody Swartz Young Bioengineer Award’ finalists:\n\n     
        Kamilo Melo\, Postdoc\, Ijspeert Lab:\n          
   "From a Fossil to a Robot... and All the Steps in Between"\n     
        Pablo Gainza-Cirauqui\, Postdoc\, Correia Lab:\n      
       "Rationally Designing Protein Interactions for Immunotherapeuti
 cs"\n            Adrien Descloux\, PhD student\, Radenovic Lab:
 \n            "Parameter-Free Image Resolution Estimation"\n 
            Anush Chiappino-Pepe\, Postdoc\, Harvard Medical Scho
 ol & Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering\, Boston (USA)\,
 \n            formerly PhD student in the Hatzimanikatis Lab:\n
             "Genome Scale Identification of Essential Metabolic
  Processes for Targeting the Plasmodium Liver Stage"\n \n\n	Leonard Karsu
 nky\, Laura Kvedarauskaite & Théo Nass\, members of EPFL student team\, w
 inner of 2019 Grand Prize of the iGEM Synthetic Biology competition:\n\n 
            "ViTEST - A Rapid Field-Based Diagnostic Tool to Det
 ect Grapevine Disease"\n \n\n	Research posters\n\n \n\n\n	Annual Ceremon
 y:\n\n              Jeffrey Hubbell and Melody Swartz Young B
 ioengineer Award'\n              EDBB Distinctions\n    
           Poster prizes\n              Toasts to var
 ious IBI faculty\n \n\n	Networking\, beer & wine\, food\, live music...\n
 \n\nParticipation is free of charge\; registration\, required\, was open u
 ntil Wednesday\, November 20\, 2019\, noon (final\, extended deadline).\n\
 nSee online info HERE.\n\nUPDATE: have a look at Alain Herzog’s BioE Day
  2019 photo gallery !
LOCATION:SwissTech Convention Center https://map.epfl.ch/?room=stcc
STATUS:CONFIRMED
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