Belgian Society for Microbiology Symposium
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MARCH 8, 2024
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INVITED SPEAKERS
Guy-Bart Stan (Imperial College London)
Engineering and Control of Living Cells and Synthetic Communities
In this talk I will give an overview of some of our research activities in the “Control Engineering Synthetic Biology” group, where we focus our efforts on increasing the robustness, performance, portability and genetic stability of synthetic biology systems implemented in living cells. Our work is conducted at the confluence of mathematical and computational modelling, systems and control engineering and experimental synthetic biology. Our approach consists in mathematically modelling, analysing, optimising, controlling, and experimentally implementing synthetic gene constructs in engineered living cells (mainly bacterial cells such as E. coli) and synthetic communities. A particular focus of our group is on the efficient engineering of de novo biomolecular feedback controllers as these are key to the realisation of robust, high-performance biosystems that can perform tasks autonomously and reliably.
Malcolm White (University of St Andrews)
Prokaryotic Adaptive and Innate Immunity: exploring the roots of anti-viral defence
Grégory Batt (Institut Pasteur)
A single-cell perspective on microbial interactions
Maryse Lebrun (Université Montpellier)
The mystery of rhoptry secretion in apicomplexan parasites
Laurence Van Melderen
A journey in toxin-antitoxin systems – from toothpicks and colony counting to time-lapse imaging (but still counting colonies)