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CyanoFactory Scientific Meeting 2014<br>
Ljubljana, Slovenia<br>
December 8 – 10, 2014

'''MEETING PROGRAMME'''


MONDAY, December 8

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09:00 – 09:15 	Welcome, presentation of the programme, and a brief overview of recent project activities (Marko Dolinar and Peter Lindblad)<br>

'''Session I: Chassis and Parts Framework'''<br>
09:15 – 10:00 	Update WP1: ToolBox for cyanobacterial synthetic biology (UU)<br>
10.00 – 10:45   Update WP4: Introduction of custom designed hydrogen producing units (UU)<br>
10:45 – 11:15 	Coffee break

11:15 – 12:00   Update WP3: Improvement of chassis growth, functionality and robustness (IBMC)<br>
12:00 – 12:45 	Update WP5: Improvement of photosynthetic efficiency towards H2-production (RUB)<br>

12:45 – 14:00 	Lunch

'''Session II: Systems Biolgy and Omics'''<br>
14:00 – 14:45 	Update WP7: Analyses of the purpose designed cyanobacterial cells to identify bottlenecks and suggest further improvements (USFD)<br>
14:45 – 15:30 	Update WP8: Metabolic modelling of the engineered cells (UPVLC)<br>

15:30 – 16:00 	Coffee break

'''Session III: Biosafety and Photobioreactors'''<br>
16:00 – 16:45 	Update WP6: Biosafety (UL)<br>
16:45 – 17:30 	Update WP9: Development of an efficient photobioreactor unit (KSD)<br>
17:30 - 18:15   Update WP10: Assembly and performance assessment of a larger prototype photobioreactor system (CNR-ISE)<br>
 

TUESDAY, December 9

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'''Session IV: Common themes'''<br>
09:00 – 09:45 	Update WP2: CyanoData Warehouse (UM)<br>
09:45 – 10:30 	Update WP12 + WP11: Dissemination and Management (UU)<br>

10:30 – 11:00 	Coffee break

11:00 – 11:45 	Presentation of forthcoming consortium meetings<br>
11.45 – 12:30 	Strengthening collaboration between WPs<br>

12:30 – 14:00 	Lunch

14.00 - 14.30 	Transportation to Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Technology<br>
14:30 – 15:15 	Introduction to the CyanoData workshop<br>

15:15 – 15:45 	Coffee break

Parallel Sessions:

A - in the Dean's meeting room<br>
15:45 – 16:30 	Planning beyond the FP7 project<br>
16:30 – 18:30 	Steering Committee Meeting (Steering Committee members only)

B - in the computer room<br>
15:45 - 18:30   CyanoData Workshop

Transportation to the City

19:30 	Dinner out (walk to the restaurant)



WEDNESDAY, December 10 [OPEN for guests and visitors]

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08:45 – 09:45 	Kenneth Reardon (Colorado State University, Fort Collins, USA) - Integrated design of cyanobacterial biorefineries<br>
09:45 – 10:45 	Koji Sode (Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology) - CyanoFactory Japan: present status and future perspectives<br>

10:45 – 11:15 	Coffee break
  	 
11:15 – 12:15 	Koichi Abe (Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology)- Riboregulators for gene expression control tools in cyanobacteria<br>
12:15 - 13:15   Lei Pei (Biofaction KG, Vienna, Austria) - Novel approaches to improve biocontainment

13:15 – 14:30 	Lunch

14:30 – 15:30 	”CyanoFactory” by Peter Lindblad (Uppsala University, Sweden), coordinator of the FP7 project Cyanofactory<br>
15:30 – 16:30   Discussion: Synthetic biology of Cyanobacteria – an open field for collaborations