Call for Participation

First COBRA Workshop on Biological and Chemical Information Technologies (BioChemIT2011)

August 8, 2011, Paris.
Part of the European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL).
Organised by the COBRA project.

The industrial revolution mechanized production with factories, while the information revolution mechanized information processing with computers. The next large-scale technological revolution most likely involves their integration and decentralization, as found so far only in living systems. This workshop provides a platform for presentation and discussion of the latest scientific achievements in the development and study of novel biological and chemical information technologies.

Draft programme:

Time	Talk/Event
09:00	Welcome
09:15	Invited lecture - Stepanek Frantisek: Challenges and opportunities in the engineering of chemical robots
10:15	Chu: Noise-speed-code trade-offs in gene computers
10:45	Goni-Moreno/Amos: Design of a genetic branch predictor
11:15	Coffee break
11:30	Corsi et al.: BZ oscillations inside lipid-enclosed droplets
12:00	Holley et al.: Computational explorations in BZ mediated geometric vesicle transcriptions
12:30	Lui et al.: Towards an in silico and in vivo Turing Test for Chells
13:00	Lunch
14:30	Invited lecture - Serge Kernbach: Chemo-ICT and microrobotics: achieving collective intelligence
15:30	King et al.: Towards on-chip on-demand microfluidic production and manipulation of droplets for chemical computing
16:00	Tangen: On the external programming of a self-referential evolving micro-controller system
16:30	Coffee break
16:45	Chaplin et al.: Implementing conventional logic unconventionally: photochromic molecules as registers and logic gates
17:15	McCaskill: Spatially interfaced Chem-IT: towards electronic chemical cells
17:45	Rasmussen: ICT and chembio-based replication
18:15	COBRA discussion session
18:30	Close

Program Committee:

• Martyn Amos (Manchester Metropolitan)
• John McCaskill (RUB Bochum)
• Steen Rasmussen (Odense)
• Harold Fellerman (Odense)
• Jerzy Gorecki (Warsaw)
• Angel Goni-Moreno (Manchester Metropolitan)
• Uwe Tangen (RUB Bochum)
• Thomas Maeke (RUB Bochum)
• Gunter von Kiedrowski (RUB Bochum)
• Irene Poli (University Ca' Foscari of Venice)
• Patrick Wagler (RUB Bochum)
• Klaus-Peter Zauner (Southampton)
• Andy Adamatzky (Univ. West of England)
• Peter Dittrich (FSU Jena)
• Maurits Planque (Southampton)
• Christian Tschudin (Basel)

Registration:

Registration is open, and is handled centrally by ECAL11: http://www.ecal11.org/registration/

We have a limited amount of financial support available to cover the conference fee for those speakers in need. Please contact biochemit2011@easychair.org for details.

Organization:

Peter Dittrich, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
Martyn Amos, Manchester Metropolitan University, School of Computing, Mathematics and Digital Technology

Contact:

biochemit2011@easychair.org