Best Presentation Awards

SSBSS 2019 Best Presentation Awards:

• Targeting cell-adaptive mechanisms of drug resistance in lethal prostate cancer
  Alessandro Vasciaveo1, Prem Subramanian1, Juan Arriaga2 , Cory Abate-Shen2, Andrea Califano1
  1 Department of Systems Biology, Columbia University, New York City,  USA
  2 Department of Medicine, Columbia University, Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, New York City, NY 10032, USA
• Exploring the potential of Enterobacteria as heterologous hosts for secondary metabolites through genome mining and comparative genomics
  Omkar S. Mohite1​ ​, Colton J. Lloyd2​ ​, Jonathan M. Monk2​ ​, Tilmann Weber1​ *​, Bernhard O. Palsson1​ ,2*
  1 The Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Biosustainability, Technical University of Denmark, Kongens Lyngby, Denmark.
  2 Department of Bioengineering, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, USA
• How centrosomes choose their sizes in a common Drosophila embryo syncytium
  Siu Shing Wong and Jordan Raff
  Sir William Dunn School of Pathology
  University of Oxford, UK

Past editions:

• SSBSS 2018:
  • Predicting gene expression levels from transcription factor binding events through machine learning
    Christoph Börlin, David Bergenholm, Petter Holland and Jens Nielsen
    Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden
  • Multi-scale dynamical modelling of early T-cell precursors commitment
    Victor Olariu Annell¹, Mary Yui², Pawel Krupinski¹, Wen Zhou², Ellen Rothenberg², Carsten Peterson^{1
    1} Computational Biology and Biological Physics, Lund University, Sweden
    ² Division of Biology and Biological Engineering, Caltech, USA
  • How to Improve Mycoplasma Growth: Study of Mycoplasma pneumoniae Metabolism through Genome-Scale Modeling
    Erika Gaspari
    Wageningen University & Research, The Netherlands
• SSBSS 2017:
  • Yarrowia lipolytica as a synthetic biology chassis for the production of fuels and chemicals
    Rodrigo Ledesma-Amaro, Jean-Marc Nicaud
    INRA, France
  • Towards living devices – electrode engineering for photo-bioelectric interfaces with biofilms
    Tobias Wenzel, Paolo Bombelli, Daniel Haertter, Christopher Howe, Ullrich Steiner
    University of Cambridge, UK
  • Single-cell analysis reveals the dynamic behaviour of Salmonella-macrophage interactions
    Marta Andres-Terre, Keara Lane, Takamasa Kudo, Markus Covert, Denise Monack
    Stanford University, USA
  • Engineering of Yeast Cell Factories for Production of Adipic Acid from Municipal Solid Waste
    Ksenia Chekina, Vratislav Stovicek, Irina Borodina
    The Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Biosustainability, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
  • Sequential Bottom-up Assembly of Functional Cell-Like Compartments using Microfluidics
    Marian Weiss, Johannes Patrick Frohnmayer, Lucia Theresa Benk, Barbara Haller, Jan-Willi Janiesch, Ilia Platzman, Joachim P. Spatz
    Max-Planck Institute of Medical Research, Germany
• SSBSS 2015:
  • Self-construction of the Macaque Cortex
    Gabriela Michel
    Institute of Neuroinformatics, ETH, Zurich, Switzerland
  • A multi-method approach in the development of a novel XNA-ligase
    Michiel Vanmeert
    University of Leuven, Belgium
  • A Synthetic Biology Approach for Screening RBP Binding Sites
    Noa Katz
    Technion, Israel
• SSBSS 2014:
  Genotypic Diversity of a Pathogen Across Spatial Locations in the Human Lung
  Hattie Chung¹, Tami Lieberman¹, Sara Vargas², Kelly Flett², Alexander McAdam², Gregory Priebe² and Roy Kishony^{3
  1} Harvard University, USA
  ² Children’s Hospital Boston, USA
  ³ Harvard Medical School, USA