Agenda

Agenda

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 & Location

Date: 

July 26th - 29th 2024

Location:

Guangming Science City

Deadlines

Abstract Submission: April 30th

Registration (early bird): June 15th

Abstract Submission (poster only): July 15th

Registration: July 15th