Program


8:15-9:45                    Registration
8:45-9:00                    Meeting Opening and Welcome Message

Session I                     Chairperson:   Rafael Silva-Rocha
9:00-9:45                    Omics approaches in systems microbiology to predict ecosystem functioning
                                   Dr. María Eugenia Guazzaroni, FFCLRP-USP, Brazil
9:45-10:30                  Overlapping regulatory signals in archaeal transcription
                                   Dr. Tie Koide, FMRP-USP, Brazil
10:30-10:50                Coffee break
10:50-11:20                GGBweb: a webtool for high-throughput data integration and visualization
                                   Diego Martinez Salvanha, FFCLRP-USP, Brazil
11:20-11:55               Gene expression regulatory networks during cellulase production by Trichoderma reesei
                                   Dr. Roberto Nascimento Silva, FMRP-USP, Brazil
11:55-13:45                Lunch

Session II                    Chairperson:   María Eugenia Guazzaroni                
13:45-14:30                Developmental circuits controlling cell division in Bacteria
                                   Frederico Gueiros-Filho, IQ-USP, Brazil
14:30-15:45                Constructing synthetic regulatory networks in bacteria using genetic algorithms
                                   Dr. Rafael Silva-Rocha, FMRP-USP
15:45-16:15                Toward the generation of an ultra-sensitive arsenic biosensor
                                   Dr. Letícia Magalhães Arruda, FMRP-USP, Brazil
16:15-16:35                Coffee break
16:35-17:20                Making With Biology: An Engineer’s View
                                   Dr. Alistair Elfick, University of Endiburgh, Scotland
17:20-18:05                Optimizing whole cell biosensors for in situ detection of aromatic pollutants
                                   Dr. Aitor de Las Heras, University of Endiburgh, Scotland

18:05                          Get together party