Call for Abstracts The 3rd International Workshop on Bio-Design Automation June 6 - 7, 2011 Part of the Design Automation Conference San Diego Convention Center San Diego, California Workshop Website: http://www.biodesignautomation.org The International Workshop on Bio-Design Automation (IWBDA) brings together researchers from the synthetic biology, systems biology, and design automation communities. The focus is on concepts, methodologies, and software tools to enable the computational analysis of biological systems and the synthesis of biological functions. Still in its early stages, the field of synthetic biology has been driven by experimental expertise; much of its success can be attributed to the skill of the researchers in specific domains of biology. There has been a concerted effort to assemble repositories of standardized components. However, creating and integrating synthetic components remains an ad hoc process. The field has now reached a stage where it calls for computer-aided design tools. The electronic design automation (EDA) community has unique expertise to contribute to this endeavor. This workshop offers a forum for cross-disciplinary discussion, with the aim of seeding collaboration between the research communities. Tracks of interest include: - Design methodologies for synthetic biology. - Standardization of biological components. - Automated assembly techniques. - Computer-aided modeling and abstraction techniques. - Engineering methods inspired by biology. - Domain specific languages for synthetic biology. - Data exchange standards and models for synthetic biology. The workshop will be held on June 6 - 7, 2011 at the San Diego Convention Center, co-located with the Design Automation Conference, the premier conference in the field of electronic design automation with over 10,000 attendees. Registration information will be posted on the workshop webpage: http://www.biodesignautomation.org For questions, please email info@biodesignautomation.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Abstract Submission Abstracts should be two pages long, following the ACM SIG Proceedings templates at http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates. Indicate whether you would like your abstract considered for a poster presentation, an oral presentation, or both. Include the full names, affiliations and contact information of all authors. Abstracts will be reviewed by the Program Committee. Those that are selected for oral and poster presentations will distributed to workshop participants and posted on the workshop website. Abstracts should be submitted by April 5th at: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/profile.cgi?iwbda2011. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- IWBDA 2011 Collection in PLoS ONE IWBDA 2011 will have an associated journal special collection in the interdisciplinary open access journal PLoS ONE. Abstract authors will be specifically invited and encouraged to submit to this collection, although submission is open to any paper describing work on IWBDA tracks of interest. Submitted manuscripts will be reviewed according to PLoS ONE standard editorial policies. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Key Dates Call for participation published: January 24th, 2011 Abstract submission deadline: April 5th, 2011 Abstract acceptance notification: May 1st, 2011 Workshop: June 6th & 7th, 2011 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Invited Speakers Adam Arkin, UC Berkeley Christopher Voigt, UCSF Erik Winfree, Caltech ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Executive Committee General Chair: Douglas Densmore, Boston University General Secretary: Leonidas Bleris, UT Dallas Program Committee Chairs: Xiling Shen, Cornell; Smita Krishnaswamy, Columbia Publication Chair: Jacob Beal, BBN Technologies Industry Liaison Chair: Jonathan Babb, MIT Finance Chair: Natasa Miskov-Zivanov, University of Pittsburgh ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Program Committee J. Christopher Anderson, UC Berkeley Adam Arkin, UC Berkeley Jacob Beal, BBN Technologies Jonathan Babb, MIT Leonidas Bleris, UT Dallas Kevin Clancy, Invitrogen Douglas Densmore, Boston University Drew Endy, Stanford Abhishek Garg, Harvard University Soha Hassoun Tufts Mark Horowitz, Stanford Alfonso Jaramillo, Ecole Polytechnique Yannis Kaznessis, University of Minnesota Eric Klavins, University of Washington Heinz Koeppl, ETH Zurich Tanja Kortemme, UCSF Smita Krishnaswamy, Columbia Vishwesh Kulkarni, Strand Natasa Miskov-Zivanov, University of Pittsburgh Kartik Mohanram, Rice Chris Myers, University of Utah Jean Peccoud, Virginia Tech Andrew Phillips, Microsoft Research Mark Riedel, University of Minnesota Herbert Sauro University of Washington Xiling Shen, Cornell David Thorsley, University of Washington Christopher Voigt, UCSF Ron Weiss, MIT Erik Winfree, Caltech Chris Winstead, Utah State University