Build-a-Cell Workshop #3
August 6, 2018; Minneapolis</>
Congratulations all on amazing workshop!
WHEN: ~8:30a-5p Monday 6 August 2018
WHERE: University of Minnesota Twin Cities campus, Tate Hall rooms 110 and 120.
116 Church Street Se, Minneapolis, MN, 55455
See below for detailed instructions.
HOW TO REGISTER: To participate please contribute a single bio slide that you can use to introduce yourself. Please see examples from others if needed. Or, be creative.
You can copy your slide from previous Workshop #2 presentation.
Please register by Thursday, August 2, noon Central time(1PM Eastern, 10AM Pacific). We will place catering orders based on number of people registered at that time (=number of slides in the google doc).
To receive email updates fill out this google form.
Join our Slack channel by getting an invite.
Workshop plan
Please bring your laptop. Most of the workshop activities will involve editing shared online documents.
Working groups. The workshop will focus on few specific issues, considered in working groups.
We would like to have specific, tangible outcomes at the end of the workshop.
We will have discussion about each of the topics prior to the workshop, on dedicated Slack channels. Join our Slack channel by getting an invite.
Containers, unifying and creating reproducibility of liposome formation
expected outcome: list of protocols, list of labs willing to perform interlab study
slack #containers
Google document for shared editing
Pure that makes pure/Better translation: self-replicating translation systems, making and upgrading cell-free protein expression extracts
expected outcome: white paper review? list of problems that need to be solved to obtain self-replicating Pure
slack #cellfree
Google document for shared editing
Roadmap: writing a review/roadmap paper, describing approaches and pathways towards building synthetic cell. To be published after the workshop.
expected outcome: rough draft of a paper, ready for presubmission inquiry and further polishing
slack #roadmap
Google document for shared editing
In silico cell Software for modelling and simulation of synthetic cell metabolism, transport, signaling and circuits
expected outcome: list of available codes and protocols, list of needs for inputs and wishes for outputs, start dedicated Git. Put together a v0.1 simulation of a synthetic cell that has whatever functionality we can muster.
slack #in_silico_cell
Google document for shared editing
Minimal/essential genes Minimal set of essential genes for a live cell, essential genes of unknown function
expected outcome: lists and wishlists of genes and their assigned proteins
slack #essentialgenes
Google document for shared editing
Who gives talks: Nobody. This is a really working workshop, we don't have traditional long talks. Everybody will participate in working groups and general discussion.
Travel, food, lodging information
FOOD: Food will be provided: breakfast, lunch and plenty of coffee, but only to people who register by noon on Thursday August 2.
WHERE TO STAY: Closest hotels to the meeting site:
Graduate hotel
Days Hotel University Ave SE
DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Minneapolis - University Area
DIRECTIONS to the campus from the airport
Minneapolis - St Paul Airport (MSP) has direct public transportation link to the UMn East Bank campus. You need to take Blue line from the airport in the direction of Downtown (Target Field), then at US Bank Stadium stop switch to a Green line train in the direction of Union Depot. Get off at East Bank stop (unless you're staying at a hotel down the street, in which case Stadium Village might be your stop).
Metro system map (pdf)
Uber should be equally quick option except at ruch hour, when it might actually be faster to take the train.
DIRECTIONS on campus
The meeting will be in Tate Laboratory Of Physics, rooms 110 and 120.
116 Church Street Se, Minneapolis, MN, 55455
Watch out for construction on and around Church street. Tate Hall might be accessible only from one side.
UMn East Bank campus map
Church Street is closed during the summer for construction. Easiest way to reach the building is to walk across the courtyard from Washington Ave.
Campus map pdf.
Tate Hall entrance
Tate Hall, entrance on the other side
UMn East Bank Campus
To receive email updates fill out this google form.
PREVIOUS MEETINGS
Build-a-Cell Workshop #2
February 2018 workshop at Stanford
Build-a-Cell Workshop #1
June 2017 workshop at Caltech
