| Friday, July 26, 2024 | ||
| 2:30-9:00 PM | Registration and hotel check-in | |
| Saturday, July 27, 2024 | ||
| 8:00-8:30 AM | Sign-in | |
| 8:30-8:45 AM | Welcome speech |
Chenli Liu Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, CAS |
| 8:45-9:30 AM | Keynote talk: ‘Switches and Waves in Biology’ |
James Ferrell Stanford University |
| 9:30-10:00 AM | Invited talk: 'Understanding and engineering cell biology in space and time with programmable reaction-diffusion systems' |
Scott M. Coyle University of Wisconsin-Madison |
| 10:00-10:20 AM | Contributed talk: ‘Synthetic circuits for multicellular spatial patterning’ |
Sheng Wang California Institute of Technology |
| 10:20-10:50 AM | break + group photo | |
| 10:50-11:20 AM | Invited talk: 'Nonreciprocity enables large-scale mechanical spiral waves in bacterial living matter' |
Yilin Wu Chinese University of Hong Kong |
| 11:20-11:50 AM | Invited talk: 'Acquisition and usage of sensory information in E. coli chemotaxis' |
Keita Kamino Academia Sinica |
| 11:50-12:10 PM | Contributed talk: 'Rules of self-organisation in organoids: dynamics and morphology' |
Linjie Lu University of Strasbourg |
| 12:10-1:30 PM | Lunch | |
| 1:30-2:00 PM | Invited talk: 'How do we discriminate a lethal, potentially pandemic-capable coronavirus from a ‘common cold’ coronavirus?' |
Gerard Wong The University of California, Los Angeles |
| 2:00-2:30 PM | Invited talk: 'From Cancer to Biofilms: Unveiling the Dance Between Cells and Materials' |
Jinju (Vicky) Chen Loughborough University |
| 2:30-3:00 PM | Invited talk: 'Activity, phase separation and nuclear architecture' |
Gautam I. Menon Ashoka University |
| 3:00-3:20 PM | Contributed talk: ‘Regulating biochemical dynamics through controlled phase-separated condensates’ |
Yuansheng Cao Tsinghua University |
| 3:20-3:50 PM | Break | |
| 3:50-4:20 PM | Invited talk: 'Models, Lies and Fluctuating Selection' |
Antony M. Dean University of Minnesota |
| 4:20-4:50 PM | Invited talk: 'Construction of Solution Landscapes of Complex Biological Systems' |
Lei Zhang Peking University |
| 4:50-5:20 PM | Invited talk: 'ACC-seq reveals chromatin condensate that stabilize intermediate expression levels' |
Yingqing Li Tsinghua University |
| 5:20-5:40 PM | Contributed talk: "The cyanobacterial circadian clock couples to pulsatile processes using pulse amplitude modulation" |
Chao Ye University of Warwick |
| 5:40-8:00 PM | Cocktail + Poster session | |
| Sunday, July 28, 2024 | ||
| 8:25-9:10 AM |
Keynote talk: 'Dynamical Systems Biology' |
Luonan Chen Shanghai Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, CAS |
| 9:10-9:40 AM | Invited talk: 'Uncovering evolutionary and cellular dynamics from single-cell lineage trees' |
Sahand Hormoz Harvard Medical School |
| 9:40-10:10 AM | Invited talk: ‘A theory of lineage-associated molecular similarity’ |
Allyson E. Sgro Howard Hughes Medical Institute Janelia Campus |
| 10:10-10:30 AM | Contributed talk: 'Enhanced Cellular Longevity Arising from Dynamic Perturbation' |
Zhen Zhou Interdisciplinary Research Center on Biology and Chemistry, CAS |
| 10:30-11:00 AM | Break | |
| 11:00-11:30 AM | Invited talk: 'Designing Flexible Protein Structures and Sampling Conformational Distributions with a Unified Model' |
Haiyan Liu University of Science and Technology of China |
| 11:30-12:00 PM | Invited talk: 'A synthetic protein-level neural network in mammalian cells' |
Zibo Chen Westlake University |
| 12:00-12:20 PM | Contributed talk: 'Quantitative Framework for Synthetic Modular Transcription Units Across Biological Kingdoms' |
Ye Chen Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, CAS |
| 12:20-1:30 PM | Lunch | |
| 1:30-6:00 PM | half-day excursion | |
| Monday, July 29, 2024 | ||
| 8:25-9:10 AM | Keynote talk: 'AI and Aging' |
Jing-Dong Jackie Han Peking University |
| 9:10-9:40 AM | Invited talk: 'Statistical modelling of single cell transitions in RNA and DNA spaces' |
Yuanhua Huang Univeristy of Hong Kong |
| 9:40-10:00 AM | Contributed talk: 'Exploring the noise filtering mechanism in early Drosophila embryogenesis' |
Feng Liu Hebei University of Technology |
| 10:00-10:20 AM | Contributed talk: 'Learning Fate Choices and Cell Memory through Single-Cell Multi-Omic Lineage Tracing' |
Shouwen Wang Westlake University |
| 10:20-10:50 AM | Break | |
| 10:50-11:20 AM | Invited talk: 'Decoding single cell replicational age in scATAC-seq data' |
Yi Zhang Euler Technology |
| 11:20-11:50 AM | Invited talk: 'Deciphering tumor origin and evolution with single-cell lineage tracing"' |
Zheng Hu Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, CAS |
| 11:50-12:10 PM | Contributed talk: 'Geometric Quantification of Cell Phenotype Transition Manifolds with Information Geometry' |
Miao Huang Institute of Theoretical Physics, CAS |
| 12:10-1:30 PM | Lunch | |
| 1:30-2:00 PM | Invited talk: ''Spatiotemporal dynamics of bacterial chemotaxis' |
Junhua Yuan University of Science and Technology of China |
| 2:00-2:30 PM | Invited talk: 'Quantitative ecology of host-associated microbiomes'' |
Lei Dai Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, CAS |
| 2:30-2:50 PM | Contributed talk: 'Emergent behaviors in complex microbial ecosystems' |
Jiliang Hu Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| 2:50-3:10 PM | Contributed talk: 'Ecological succession and the competition-colonization trade-off in microbial communities' |
Juan E. Keymer Shenzhen X-Institute |
| 3:10-3:30 PM | Contributed talk: 'Predicting microbiome compositions and keystone species through deep learning' |
Xu-Wen Wang Harvard Medical School |
| 3:30-4:00 PM | Break | |
| 4:00-4:30 PM | Invited talk: 'Impact of Transcription Factor Dosage on Reprogramming Heterogeneity via scTF-seq' |
Wanze Chen Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, CAS |
| 4:30-5:00 PM | Invited talk: 'Synthetic bacterial orthogonal replication systems enable accelerated evolution' |
Rongzhen Tian MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology |
| 5:00-5:20 PM | Contributed talk: 'Inference and Verification of Time-varying Gene Regulatory Networks' |
Haijun Gong Saint Louis University |
| 6:00 PM |
Closing Banquet Banquet talk |
James Ferrell Stanford University |
Date:
July 26th - 29th 2024
Location:
Guangming Science City
Abstract Submission: April 30th
Registration (early bird): June 15th
Abstract Submission (poster only): July 15th
Registration: July 15th