SHORT WINTER SCHOOL ON NANO AND BIOTECHNOLOGY 27 -28 January 2014 – Trieste, Italy Objectives The Joint Short Winter School on Nano- and Biotechnology presents two main topics in nanoscience & biotechnology comprehensively addressing the fabrication, characterization and modeling of interfacial materials and design and construction of biological devices. Besides these topics the school aims at highlighting the potential applications with a focus on engineering biology and medical biotechnology and on the phenomena occurring in soft and hybrid organic-inorganic materials. The approach is multi-disciplinary and lectures are tailored for a broad audience of PhD students and young researchers active in different areas of the large domain of nanotechnology and biotechnology. Lectures Lectures will be given in English. A partecipation certificate will be given to all requesting attendees. Organization The Winter School is part of the Regional Graduate School Initiative sponsored by Regione Friuli Venezia Giulia jointly organized by Università degli Studi di Trieste, Università degli Studi di Udine and SISSA. Programme Monday 27th January – Building H3, room 1B 9.15 – 9.30 Opening Rector of the University of Trieste Director of the Department of Physics Director of the Department of Life Sciences Nanotechnology session 9.30 – 11.00 Francesco STELLACCI, EPFL, Losanne, Switzerland Title to be defined 11.00-11.30 coffee break 11.30-13.00 Luca GREGORATTI, Elettra Synctron Trieste. "Utilization of synchrotron-based real time methods in the investigation of interfacial materials with high technological importance". 13.00-14.30 Lunch Synthetic Biology session 14.30-16.00 Laura CABERLOTTO, The Microsoft Research - University of Trento Centre for Computational and Systems Biology (COSBI), Italy “Systems Biology approaches to the study of Neurodegenerative Diseases” 16.00-16.15 coffee break 16.15-17.45 Laura RIVA, Center for Genomic Science of IIT@SEMM, Italy “Computational Cancer Genomics and System Biology” Thuesday 28th January – Building H3, room 1A Synthetic Biology session 9.30 – 11.00 Pasquale STANO, Dept. of Biology, University of Rome 3, Italy “Semi-synthetic minimal cells: from origin of life to synthetic biology” 11.00-11.30 coffee break 11.30-13.00 Roman JERALA, Department of Biotechnology, National Institute of Chemistry, Ljubljana, SLOVENIA “Designable modularity in synthetic biology” 13.00-14.30 Lunch Nanotechnology and Synthetic Biology session 14.30-16.00 Giorgio PASTORE, University of Trieste, Italy “Self assembling colloids: real systems, theory and computer simulation” 16.00-16.15 coffee break 16.15-17.45 Gianfranco FIORE, Telethon Institute of Genetics and Medicine (TIGEM), Naples, Italy "Gene networks identification and control by means of microfluidic devices" Venue and general information The School will be held at the University of Trieste, via Valerio (main campus, building H3), 34128 TRIESTE. It can be easily reached from the train station with local bus service (17/). Registration will be on site, it is free of charge and includes participation to seminars, coffee break and lunch.