Preliminary contributions to Synthetic Biology

Responsibilities:

Member of the TESSY Advisory Board ['Towards a European Strategy in Synthetic Biology'; EC, ESF].
Representative of the French Ministry of Research for the European Collaborative Work Group on Synthetic Biology.
Representative of the French Ministry of Research and of CNRS at the OECD, for Synthetic Biology.
Coordinator of the national Work Group on Synthetic Biology of the French Ministry of Research: its 2011 Report.
Member of the Steering Group for Synthetic Biology set up by the French Parliamentary Office for the Evaluation of Scientific and Technological Choices (OPECST)
Referent of the French Embassy in the USA, for Synthetic Biology.
CNRS supervisor for ERASysBio which also deals since 2008 with Synthetic Biology.
Panelist in several EC FP7 prospective meetings about complex systems and their design.
Member of Steering Committee for VivAgora public meetings on Synthetic Biology.
Member of the BioSystems Engineering Board of the French Technology Academy towards a report on Synthetic Biology
Member of Scientific Committee for the national interdisciplinary programme "Planet environments and origins of Life".

Coordinator of the Systems and Synthetic Biology Theme in PRES UniverSud Paris.
Coordinator of the 2008 & 2010 Master 2 in Systems and Synthetic Biology project (UEVE, Ecole Centrale Paris, AgroParisTech).
Coordinator of the 2010 "institute of Systems and Synthetic Biology" project (CNRS, UEVE, Genopole®).
Director of the Epigenomics Project which hosts the network in Synthetic Biology 'NewSynBio'.

[iGEM is the Synthetic Biology international competition for undergraduate students]
2008 Chair of "Education" Track of iGEM-international.
Chair of "Teams & Education" Track of iGEM-in-Europe.
2007 Team Leader of the first French iGEM team that was finalist and won a first prize at MIT.

Conferences:

2006	SFG Conference "Genetics meets Systems Biology: Theory and Practice" (1 session on SynBio)	Organizer	Paris, France
	First International Conference on Living Technology	Session Chair	Venice, Italy

2008	iGEM in Europe Teacher's Workshop	Organizer	Evry, France
	French Workshop on Synthetic Biology	Panelist	Paris, France
	Colloque "Biologie systémique et synthétique" du PRES UniverSud Paris "Approches quantitatives de la complexité biologique"	Organizer	Orsay, France
	Genopole® 10 year Symposium (1 session on SynBio)	Session Chair	Evry, France
	BioComplex 2008 Workshop (with Nobel awardee)	Invited speaker	Trentino, Italy
	TESSY (Towards a European Strategy in Synthetic Biology) meeting	Organizer	Evry, France
	iGEM-international "Education" Committee meeting	Chair	Boston, USA

2009	European Conference on Synthetic Biology	Invited speaker	Sant Feliu, Spain
	OECD, NAS USA, UK Royal Society "Opportunities and Challenges in the Emerging Field of Synthetic Biology"	Invited speaker	Washington DC, USA
	Collège de France Int'l Conf "From synthetic chemistry to synthetic biology" (with Nobel awardee)	Invited speaker	Paris, France
	"OGM face aux nouveaux paradigmes de biologie" Conference	Invited speaker	Paris, France

2010	Symposium "Top-Down, Bottom-Up and Computational Approaches in Synthetic Biology"	Plenary speaker	Nottingham, UK
	EC Synthetic Biology Workshop: from science to governance	Invited speaker	Brussels, Belgium
	Séminaire "Technologies convergentes"	Invited speaker	Paris, France
	Genopole Int'l Conf "Synthetic Biology: Bottom-up, Top-down and Cell-free approaches"	Organizer	Evry, France
	CSynBI/LSE Workshop on Synthetic Biology and open source	Opening speaker	London, UK
	OECD Conference on Better Health through Bio-Medicine Innovative Governance	Keynote speaker	Berlin, Germany
	OECD Conference on Delivering Global Promise Through the Life Sciences	Invited speaker	Paris, France
	IoSSB 4th Symposium at Imperial College London	Plenary speaker	London, UK
	ERASysBio Synthetic Biology Workshop	Co-organizer	Bath, UK

2011	AVIESAN ITMO BMSV Inaugural Symposium	Round-table panelist	Paris, France
	BioVision plenary on "Reconstructing Life: which Biology for the future?" (with Nobel awardees)	Plenary speaker	Lyon, France
	6 Academies (US, UK, China) Conference on Synthetic Biology	Plenary speaker	London, UK
	Franco-American Symposium on "Synthetic Biology for learning and doing"	Chair & speaker	Paris, France
	International Conference on "Synthetic Biology at the interface of science and policy"	Speaker	Ottawa, Canada

Publications:

Banzhaf, W., Beslon, G., Christensen, S., Foster, J.A., Képès, F., Lefort, V., Miller, J.F., Radman, M. and Ramsden, J.J. (2006). From Artificial Evolution to Computational Evolution: a research agenda. Nature Reviews Genetics 7, 729-735.
Hunding, A., Képès, F., Lancet, D., Minsky, A., Norris, V., Raine, D., Sriram, K. and Root-Bernstein, R. (2006). Compositional complementarity and prebiotic ecology in the origin of life. Bioessays 28, 399-412.
Norris, V., Hunding, A., Képès, F., Lancet, D., Minsky, A., Raine, D., Root-Bernstein, R. and Sriram, K. (2007). Question 7: the first units of life were not simple cells. Orig Life Evol Biosph 37, 429-43.
Képès, F. (2007). Le modèle solénoïde des chromosomes. Biofutur 282, 48-51.
Bikard, D. and Képès, F. (2008). Succès de la première équipe française lors de la compétition iGEM de biologie synthétique. Médecine / Sciences 24, 541-544.
Képès, F. (2008). Le décollage de la Biologie Synthétique. Buzz4Bio 1, Oct 2008.
Képès, F. (2009). Biologie Synthétique et Intégrative. Médecine / Sciences 25, 39-42.
Képès, F. (2010) La biologie de synthèse : développements, potentialités et défis. In "Des nanotechnologies à la biologie de synthèse". Réalités Industrielles (Annales des Mines), février 2010.
Norris V, Zemirline A, Amar P, Audinot JN, Ballet P, Ben-Jacob E, Bernot G,Beslon G, Cabin A, Fanchon E, Giavitto JL, Glade N, Greussay P, Grondin Y, Foster JA, Hutzler G, Jost J, Képès F, Michel O, Molina F, Signorini J, Stano P, Thierry AR. (2011). Computing with bacterial constituents, cells and populations: from bioputing to bactoputing. Theory Biosci. 2011 Mar 8.
Képès, F. (2011) Synthetic and Integrative Biology. CR Acad Sci Chemistry 14, 420-423.

Funded projects:

Action	Role	Years	Amount
CADMAD (EC FP7 IST FET)	Partner	10-13	3,000 k€
Platform of Synthetic Biology (ASTRE, CG91)	PI	10-11	290 k€
ST-FLOW (EC FP7 KBBE)	WP leader, co-PI	11-15	6,000 k€
ERASynBio (EC FP7 KBBE)	WP leader, co-PI	11-14	2,000 k€