IWBDA-19: International Workshop on Bio-Design Automation Cambridge, UK, July 8-10, 2019

The Eleventh International Workshop on Bio-Design Automation (IWBDA) will bring together researchers from the synthetic biology, systems biology, and design automation communities to discuss concepts, methodologies and software tools for the computational analysis and synthesis of biological systems.

The field of synthetic biology, still in its early stages, has largely been driven by experimental expertise, and much of its success can be attributed to the skill of the researchers in specific domains of biology. There has been a concerted effort to assemble repositories of standardized components; however, creating and integrating synthetic components remains an ad hoc process. Inspired by these challenges, the field has seen a proliferation of efforts to create computer-aided design tools addressing synthetic biology's specific design needs, many drawing on prior expertise from the electronic design automation (EDA) community.

The IWBDA offers a forum for cross-disciplinary discussion, with the aim of seeding and fostering collaboration between the biological and the design automation research communities.

IWBDA is organized by the non-profit Bio-Design Automation Consortium (BDAC). BDAC is an officially recognized 501(c)(3) tax exempt organization.

Topics of interest include:

• Design methodologies for synthetic biology.
• Standardization of biological components.
• Automated assembly techniques.
• Computer-aided modeling and abstraction techniques.
• Engineering methods inspired by biology.
• Domain specific languages for synthetic biology.
• Data exchange standards and models for synthetic biology.

Submission Guidelines

Abstracts must be submitted via EasyChair using this link. If you do not have an easy chair account, please create one by following the instructions specified here. Please make sure that you include the full names, affiliations and contact information of all authors. Please make sure you indicate whether you would like your abstract considered for a poster presentation, an oral presentation, or both. Abstracts will be reviewed by the Program Committee. Those that are selected for oral and poster presentations will distributed to workshop participants and posted on the workshop website. 

For your convinience, we have created a template for IWBDA Abstracts in overleaf which can be found here.

Abstract Submission Deadline: May 17, 2019

Program Committee

• Co-General Chair - Pietro Lio', University of Cambridge
• Co-General Chair - Anil Wipat, Newcastle University
• Co-General Chair - Jim Haseloff, University of Cambridge
• Co-General Chair - Andrew Phillips, Microsoft Research
• Co-General Chair - Sara-Jane Dunn, Microsoft Research
• Co-Local Chair - Alexandra Ting, University of Cambridge
• Co-Local Chair - Helena Andres Terre, University of Cambridge
• Co-Local Chair - Zuliani Paolo, Newcastle Cambridge
• Program Committee Chair - Prashant Vaidyanathan, Microsoft Research
• Publication Chair - Prashant Vaidyanathan, Microsoft Research
• Co-Web Chair - Aaron Adler, BBN Technologies
• Co-Web Chair - Prashant Vaidyanathan, Microsoft Research
• Finance Chair - Traci Haddock-Angelli, iGEM Foundation

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to Prashant Vaidyanathan.