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=== Call for Participation and Abstracts ===
This workshop welcomes participants and abstracts from any area of Synthetic Biology and related fields, including, but not limited to:
 * the design and engineering of molecular, cellular and population-based computation,
 * domain-specific languages for the specification of biological computation,
 * theories and applications of biological computation.

In addition to invited speakers, we will be accepting a few abstracts for oral and poster presentations.
Abstracts up to 2 pages in length following [[http://www.cs.york.ac.uk/nature/ecal2015/submissions.html|the formatting guidelines]] of the ECAL conference should be submitted to [[mailto:toprob@newcastle.ac.uk|toprob@newcastle.ac.uk]].
For accepted abstracts, we will later request a short summary paragraph.

 * '''Abstract submission deadline: 4th May 2015''' {{{#!html
<s>17th April 2015</s>
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 * '''Notification of acceptance: 29th May 2015''' {{{#!html
<s>15th May 2015</s>
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Towards Programmable Biology (ToProB)

20th July, 2015, York, UK

Satellite Workshop at ECAL 2015

Description

Synthetic Biology’s vision to repurpose living cells as substrates for general computation has manifested itself in genetic circuit designs that attempt to implement Boolean logic gates, digital memory, oscillators, and other circuits from electrical engineering. Yet, the various achievements in the realm of Synthetic Biology remain isolated and generally lack the modularity and scalability of their electronic counterparts.

This ECAL 2015 satellite workshop revisits cornerstone achievements in Synthetic Biology research that address general computability in biological substrates, in order to demarcate key in-vivo and in-silico challenges of this novel research area. Topics will deal with how paradigms borrowed from digital, electronic devices are best implemented in large-scale biological substrates, and whether unconventional computing paradigms, such as those developed in the research field of Artificial Life, might offer more promising routes toward full-fledged biological computation.

Invited Speakers

Organisers

Harold Fellermann, Omer Markovitch, Owen Gilfellon and Curtis Madsen.

Interdisciplinary Computing and Complex Biosystems research group, School of Computing Science,

Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU, UK.