5th International Synthetic & Systems Biology Summer School   |   Certosa di Pontignano - Siena - Tuscany - Italy   |  July 25-29, 2018

News

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Jul

Useful Info: Program, Poster & Oral Sessions, Transfer, Travel, Lifestyle & WiFi

It follows a list of useful information about the 1) Program, 2) Poster Session,  3) Oral Sessions, 4) Transfer, 5) Travel, 6) Lifestyle and 7) WiFi.

1) SSBSS 2018 Program

In the SSBSS 2018 web site you can see the Program of the Summer School.

2) Poster Session

As written in the notification emails and in the SSBSS 2018 web site (News section):

all the abstracts have been accepted for Poster Presentation.

The Poster Session will be held on Wednesday July 25th from 18:20 to 19:40.

Suitable space will be reserved to the applicants for showing their posters. Obviously, the poster must be written in English. For your poster, a board will be provided which measures 90cm tall by 70cm wide. You need to print and bring with you the poster to the school. Push tacks or Velcro adhesive will be provided at the conference to mount your poster to the board.

3) Oral Sessions

The SSBSS 2018 Talks are exactly 20 minutes long: approximately 15 minutes for the talk + 5 minutes for the questions.

Oral Session I, July 26, 18:20 – 19:40

Oral Session II, July 27, 18:20 – 19:40

Oral Session III, July 28, 18:20 – 19:40

Oral Session III, July 29, 12:00 – 12:50

4) Transfer

There will be a transfer from Pisa International Airport to Certosa di Pontignano:

From Pisa Airport to Summer School Location (Certosa di Pontignano):
departure: July 24, 18.00
arrival: July 24, 19.50

From Summer School Location (Certosa di Pontignano) To Pisa Int. Airport:
departure: July 30, 8.00am
arrival: July 30, 10:00 am

Please, do not hesitate to call Dr. Pasquinuzzi – Certosa di Pontignano to book your transfer.

Loc. Pontignano, 5 – 53019, Castelnuovo Berardenga (Siena) – Tuscany – Italy
phone: +39-0577-1521104
email: info@lacertosadipontignano.com

5) Travel

It follows a list of additional links and information:

5.1) Travel Information at the SSBSS 2018 web site:

Travel

5.2) From Siena Railway Station to the Certosa di Pontiganno (the School venue) there are 15 minutes (about 10Km, that is, about 6 mi), it costs about 20 Euro by taxi.

http://www.taxisiena.it/en/contatti/

https://www.apptaxi.it/home-en/

5.3) Directions from Siena Train Station to Certosa di Pontignano – Siena

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/dir/Siena+Train+Station,+53100+Siena+SI,+Italia/Certosa+di+Pontignano+-+Siena,+Pontignano,+SI,+Italia/@43.3550219,11.3060271,13z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m14!4m13!1m5!1m1!1s0x132a2dc29c4415cf:0xdae9ad7800ae5970!2m2!1d11.3217065!2d43.3322873!1m5!1m1!1s0x132bd2a49e1d875b:0x4e184663b831d960!2m2!1d11.3597716!2d43.3688812!3e0?hl=en

5.4) From Florence to Siena, there is a direct Train (about 1h17 – 1h28).

https://www.trainline.eu/search/firenze/siena/2018-07-18-10:00

5.5) For additional information about the transfer you can ask to

Dr. Pasquinuzzi – Certosa di Pontignano to book your transfer.

Loc. Pontignano, 5 – 53019, Castelnuovo Berardenga (Siena) – Tuscany – Italy
phone: +39-0577-1521104
email: info@lacertosadipontignano.com

6) Lifestyle in Siena and Tuscany

6.1) The Top  Experience in the World is  a Cooking Class and Lunch at a Tuscan Farmhouse with Local Market Tour from Florence, Florence, Italy

https://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/TravelersChoice-Experiences

Tripadvisor Travelers’ Choice awards for World’s Best Experiences: Cooking Class at a Tuscan farmhouse

6.2) The 7 UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Tuscany

  • Florence,the Cradle of Renaissance: the Core of Tuscany’s Cultural Identity
  • The White Splendor Pisa’s Piazza dei Miracoli
  • San Gimignano and its Medieval Towers
  • Siena, the Beauty
  • Pienza, the Ideal City for Man
  • Val d’Orcia: greetings from Tuscany
  • The Medici Villas and Gardens

Activities

7) WiFi

WiFi Name: Silver (it is an open Wi-Fi); if you have login and password you can use Eduroam.