ICBE Conference Schedule
Sunday, January 13, 20135:30 PM5:45 PMIntroductory Remarks: Ali Khademhosseini (Harvard University) and Kristala Prather (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)5:45 PM6:45 PMKeynote Presentation: George Church6:45 PM7:15 PMRapid Fire Poster Session7:15 PM8:00 PMWelcome Reception and Poster...
| Sunday, January 13, 2013 | ||
| 5:30 PM | 5:45 PM | Introductory Remarks: Ali Khademhosseini (Harvard University) and Kristala Prather (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) |
| 5:45 PM | 6:45 PM | Keynote Presentation: George Church |
| 6:45 PM | 7:15 PM | Rapid Fire Poster Session |
| 7:15 PM | 8:00 PM | Welcome Reception and Poster Session |
| Session Chairs: Lydia Contreras (University of Texas, Austin), Ahmad (Mo) Khalil (Boston University), and Julius Lucks (Cornell University) | ||
| Monday, January 14, 2013 | ||
| 8:00 AM | 9:00 AM | Breakfast |
| 9:00 AM | 10:35 AM | Session 1: Synthetic Biology |
| Session Chairs: Cynthia Collins (RPI) and John Dueber (Berkeley University) | ||
| 9:00 AM | 9:35 AM | Invited Speaker: Programming Bacteria-Chris Voigt (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) |
| 9:35 AM | 9:55 AM | The Design, Engineering, and Optimization of a Microbial Process for Manufacturing of 1,4-Butanediol- Stephanie Culler (Genomatica) |
| 9:55 AM | 10:15 AM | A Family of Orthogonal Chimeric Antisense RNA Transcription Regulators- Julius Lucks (Cornell) |
| 10:15 AM | 10:35 AM | Computation in Living Cells: Digital and Analog Paradigms- Timothy Lu (MIT) |
| 10:35 AM | 11:00 AM | Break |
| 11:00 AM | 12:00 PM | Keynote Presentation: Nicholas A. Peppas- Protein Transport Mechanisms and Protein/Polymer Dynamics in Transmucosal Delivery |
| 12:00 PM | 1:20 PM | Lunch |
| 1:20 PM | 2:55 PM | Session 2: Biophysical and Microscale Analyses of Molecular and Cellular Function |
| Session Chairs: Neda Bagheri (Northwestern University) and Ian C. Schneider (Iowa State University) | ||
| 1:20 PM | 1:55 PM | Invited Speaker: Sculpting airways and ducts – the physical forces of tissue morphogenesis- Celeste Nelson (Princeton University) |
| 1:55 PM | 2:15 PM | Parsing Humoral Immunity: Array Technology to Profile Natural Modulation of Antibody Function- Margaret Ackerman (Dartmouth) |
| 2:15 PM | 2:35 PM | Imaging Mechanical Force Transmission At the Single Molecule Level in Living Cells- Alexander Dunn (Stanford) |
| 2:35 PM | 2:55 PM | Biophysical Mechanism by Which Palmitic Acid Induces IRE1 Signaling and ER Stress- Cristina Chan (Michigan State University) |
| 2:55 PM | 3:15 PM | Break |
| 3:15 PM | 5:40 PM | Session 3: Experimental & Computational Tools for Engineering Biomolecules |
| Session Chairs: Eric Althoff (Arzeda Corp) and Jennifer Cochran (Stanford University) | ||
| 3:15 PM | 3:50 PM | Invited Speaker: Model-Based Design and Optimization of Functionalized Nanocarriers for Vascular Targeted Drug Delivery- Ravi Radhakrishnan (University of Pennsylvania) |
| 3:50 PM | 4:10 PM | Engineering Synthetic DNA-Binding Proteins for Targeted Gene Regulation and Genome Editing- Charles Gersbach (Duke) |
| 4:10 PM | 4:45 PM | Invited Speaker: The Genetic Landscape of a Cell- Charlie Boone (University of Toronto) |
| 4:45 PM | 5:05 PM | Inteins and tools and targets- Marlene Belfort (University at Albany) |
| 5:05 PM | 5:40 PM | Invited Speaker: Biomolecular Engineering Toward Novel, Potent, and Broadly Protective VLP-Based Influenza Vaccines- Jim Swartz (Stanford) |
| 5:40 PM | 6:20 PM | Rapid Fire Poster Session |
| 6:20 PM | 7:20 PM | Networking Reception and Poster Session |
| Session Chairs: Lydia Contreras (University of Texas, Austin), Ahmad (Mo) Khalil (Boston University), and Julius Lucks (Cornell University) | ||
| Tuesday, January 15, 2013 | ||
| 8:00 AM | 8:30 AM | Breakfast |
| 8:30 AM | 10:25 AM | Session 4: Protein Engineering |
| Session Chairs: Joel L. Kaar (Colorado University) and Hadley D. Sikes (MIT) | ||
| 8:30 AM | 9:05 AM | Invited Speaker: Bottom-up bacterial glycoengineering: from enzymes and pathways to human therapies and vaccines- Matt DeLisa (Cornell University) |
| 9:05 AM | 9:25 AM | Fingerprint-Guided Engineering of Selective P450 Catalysts for C—H Functionalization in Complex Molecules- Rudi Fasan (University of Rochester) |
| 9:25 AM | 9:45 AM | Antibodies by Design- Peter Tessier (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute) |
| 9:45 AM | 10:05 AM | A Protein Therapeutic Modality Founded On Molecular Regulation- Marc Ostermeier (Johns Hopkins) |
| 10:05 AM | 10:25 AM | Altering the Apoptotic Network in Cancer: A Promising Therapeutic Approach- Kurt Deshayes (Genentech) |
| 10:25 AM | 11:00 AM | Break |
| 11:00 AM | 12:00 PM | Keynote Presentation: Virginia Cornish- Expanding the Synthetic Capabilities of Yeast |
| 12:00 PM | 1:00 PM | Lunch |
| 1:00 PM | 3:30 PM | Session 5: Metabolic Pathway Engineering |
| Session Chairs: Stephanie Culler, PhD (Genomatica, Inc) and David Nielsen (Arizona State University) | ||
| 1:00 PM | 1:35 PM | Invited Speaker: Yeast as a Platform Cell Factory in Future Biorefineries- Jens Nielsen (Chalmers University of Technology) |
| 1:35 PM | 1:55 PM | Integrating Systems and Synthetic Biology for Engineering Chemical Production in Bacteria- Brian Pfleger (University of Wisconsin, Madison) |
| 1:55 PM | 2:15 PM | Platform for Interspecies Communication in Synthetic Microbial Consortia- Cynthia Collins (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute) |
| 2:15 PM | 2:35 PM | Toward Heterologous Carbon Fixation in E. Coli with the Chloroflexus 3-Hydroxypropionate Pathway- Matthew Mattozzi (Harvard Wyss Institute) |
| 2:35 PM | 2:55 PM | Engineering Anaerobic Gut Fungi for Lignocellulose Breakdown- Michelle O'Malley (University of California, Santa Barbara) |
| 2:55 PM | 3:30 PM | Invited Speaker: Pathway Engineering in Yeast via Directed Evolution- Hal Alper (University of Texas) |
| 3:30 PM | 4:00 PM | Break |
| 4:00 PM | 5:50 PM | Session 6: Biomolecular Engineering for Cell and Tissue Engineering |
| Session Chairs: Debra Auguste (City College) and Cliff Wang (Stanford University) | ||
| 4:00 PM | 4:35 PM | Invited Speaker: Molecular Elucidation and Engineering of the Stem Cell Fate Decisions- David Schaffer (University of California, Berkeley) |
| 4:35 PM | 4:55 PM | Getting Life From the Black Death; Re-Engineering a Yersinia Pestis Virulence Factor Into a Cell Culture Hydrogel- Jeremy Lakey (Newcastle University) |
| 4:55 PM | 5:15 PM | Imbalanced Oncogenic Signaling Initiated by Constitutively Active Mutants of EGFR- Matthew Lazzara (UPenn) |
| 5:15 PM | 5:50 PM | Invited Speaker: Denis Wirtz (Johns Hopkins University) |
| 5:50 PM | 6:30 PM | Rapid Fire Poster Session |
| Session Chairs: Lydia Contreras (University of Texas, Austin), Ahmad (Mo) Khalil (Boston University), and Julius Lucks (Cornell University) | ||
| 6:30 PM | 7:00 PM | Networking Reception |
| 7:00 PM | 8:00 PM | Dinner |
| 8:00 PM | 8:30 PM | Dessert and Poster Session |
| Wednesday, January 16, 2013 | ||
| 8:30 AM | 9:00 AM | Breakfast |
| 9:00 AM | 10:35 AM | Session 7: Interface of Bionanotechnology and Biomolecules |
| Session Chairs: Pankaj Karande (RPI) and Jessica Winter (Ohio University) | ||
| 9:00 AM | 9:35 AM | Invited Speaker: Nanoparticles for Intracellular Protein Delivery- Yi Tang (University of California, Los Angeles) |
| 9:35 AM | 9:55 AM | Sieving and Transport Though the Nuclear Pore Complex: Mechanistic IDEAS and an Artificial NANO-Selective Filter- Georges Belfort (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute) |
| 9:55 AM | 10:15 AM | Nanoparticles As Autophagy Activators- Laura Segatori (Rice) |
| 10:15 AM | 10:35 AM | Microelectrode Array-Based Neurotoxin Biosensor with Chick Embryo CNS Neurons- Bruce Gao (Clemson) |
| 10:35 AM | 11:35 AM | Keynote Presentation: James Collins- Reprogramming Life: The Emergence of Synthetic Biology |
| 11:35 AM | 12:00 PM | Awards Presentation and Closing Remarks |
