Models, Mechanisms and Algorithms:
Symposium on Philosophical Perspectives on Synthetic Biology
University of Helsinki
2.-3.5.2011
Tentative programme
Monday 2.5.2011:
Fabianinkatu 33, auditorium XII
Open day
10.00 - 10.15 Welcome and Introduction: Gabriele Gramelsberger (Berlin), Erika Mansnerus (London)
10.15 - 11.00 Werner Kogge (Berlin): On the Idea of Engineering Biological Machines
11.00 - 11.45 Axel Gelfert (Singapore): Synthetic biology as thing knowledge
11.45 - 12.15 Coffee break
12.15 - 13.00 Tarja Knuuttila (Helsinki) & Andrea Loettgers (Caltech): The Combinatorial Modeling Strategy of Synthetic Biology
13.00 - 14.00 Lunch
14.00 - 14.45 Georg Trogeman (Cologne): Programmable Material?
14.45 - 15.30 Jane Calvert (Edinburgh): New forms of collaboration: Synthetic biology, social science, art and design
15.30 - 16.00 Coffee break
16.00 - 16.45 Ursula Dam (Weimar): Are engineers inventing the culture of tomorrow?
17.15 - 17.45 Adrian Mackenzie (Lancaster): Re-thinking energy through synthetic biology (venue: lecture room K132, Alexandria)
17.45 - 18.30 Discussion
Tuesday 3.5.2011
Unioninkatu 40, lecture room 10
Closed workshop day for Helsinki and Berlin projects with their guests
More informal presentations on work in progress
10.00 - 10.45 Gabriele Gramelsberger (Berlin): The simulation approach in biology
10.45 - 11.15 Coffee break
11.15 - 12.00 Gry Oftedal: PSBio - A Nordic Project on the Philosophical Foundations
12.00 - 12.45 Veli-Pekka Parkkinen: Gene knockouts and mechanistic understanding
12.45 - 14.00 Lunch
14.00 - 14.45 Jaakko Kuorikoski (Helsinki) & Petri Ylikoski (Helsinki): Why Would a Couple of Philosophers of Social Science Find Systems Biology Interesting?
14.45 - 15.30 Nina Samuel (Berlin): Images as tools
15.30 - 16.00 Coffee break
16.45 - 17.30 Peter Bexte & Kathrin Friedrich (Cologne): ‘Do Not Ever Leave the Pathways’- Graphical Notation in Biology
17.30 - 18.00 Discussion
For more information, see:
http://www.helsinki.fi/tint/events/index.htm