Conference Program
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Time |
Title |
Sunday, January 11 |
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| 3:00-6:00 PM | Registration |
| 3:45-4:00 PM | Introductory Remarks |
| 4:00-5:00 PM | Keynote Speaker: Michael Bott, Forschungszentrum Juelich GmbH |
| 5:00-6:00 PM | Keynote Speaker: David Tirrell, Caltech |
| 6:00-7:00 PM | Welcome Reception and Poster Session |
Monday, January 12 |
|
| 7:30 AM - 12:00 PM | Registration |
| 8:00-8:30 AM | Breakfast |
| 8:30-9:30 AM | Keynote Speaker: Laura Kiessling, University of Wisconsin |
| 9:30-10:00 AM | Break |
| 10:00-11:50 AM | Session 1: Synthetic Biology, Session Chairs: Howard Salis, Penn State and Fuzhong Zhang WUSTL |
| 10:00-10:35 AM | Invited Speaker: Synthetic Regulators for Evolutionary Metabolic Engineering- Gary Jung, Postech |
| 10:35-10:55 AM | Engineering Smarter and Stronger T Cells for Cancer Immunotherapy- Yvonne Chen, UCLA |
| 10:55-11:15 AM | Reinforcing Synthetic Biology Against Evolutionary Failure- Jeffrey Barrick, University of Texas |
| 11:15-11:50 AM | Invited Speaker: Synthetic Biology with a Cell-Free TX-TL System: Metabolism, Gene Circuits and Minimal Cell in a Test Tube-Vincent Noireaux, University of Minnesota |
| 11:50-1:15 PM | Conagen Lunch Talk |
| 1:15-3:05 PM | Session 2: Metabolic Engineering for Fuels and Chemicals, Session Chairs: David Nielsen, ASU and Mark Styczynski, Georgia Tech |
| 1:15-1:50 PM | Invited Speaker: The Quest for Synthetic Methylotrophy- Eleftherios 'Terry' Papoutsakis, University of Delaware |
| 1:50-2:10 PM | Exploring P450 Expression in Escherichia coli for the Synthesis of Complex Molecules- Bradley Biggs, Manus Biosciences |
| 2:10-2:30 PM | Metabolic Engineering of Saccharomyces Cerevisiae for the Synthesis of Polyketides and Fatty Acids- Nancy Da Silva, University of California, Irvine |
| 2:30-3:05 PM | Invited Speaker: Engineering alcohol tolerance in yeast fermentations- Greg Stephanopoulos, MIT |
| 3:05-3:30 PM | Break |
| 3:30-5:20 PM |
Session 3: Protein Engineering and Evolution, Session Chairs: Patrick Cirino, University of Houston and Amy Karlsson, UMCP |
| 3:30-4:05 PM | Invited Speaker: Karl Erich Jaeger, University of Duesseldorf |
| 4:05-4:25 PM | Co-Evolution of Affinity and Stability for Domain Antibodies That Recognize Hydrophobic Antigens- Peter Tessier, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute |
| 4:25-4:45 PM | Engineering Proteases to Detect Post-Translational Modifications- Navin Varadarajan, University of Houston |
| 4:45-5:45 PM | Rapid Fire Presentations |
| 5:45-6:45 PM | Poster Session, Session Chairs: Christie Peebles, CSU and Karen Polizzi, Imperial College London |
Tuesday, January 13 |
|
| 7:30 AM - 12:00 PM | Registration |
| 8:00-8:30 AM | Breakfast |
| 8:30-9:30 AM | Keynote Speaker: Akihiko Kondo, Kobe University |
| 9:30-10:00 AM | Break |
| 10:00-11:50 AM | Session 4: Experimental and Computational Tools for Engineering Biomolecules, Session Chairs: Cynthia Collins, RPI and Costas Maranas, Penn State |
| 10:00-10:35 AM | Invited Speaker: A Forward Systems Approach to Identify Regulatory Networks for Strain Engineering (REFINE)-Lydia Contreras, University of Texas at Austin |
| 10:35-10:55 AM | De Novo Biosynthesis of Terminal Alkyne-Tagged Natural Products and Applications- Wenjun Zhang, University of California, Berkeley |
| 10:55-11:15 AM | Development and Analysis of Precursor Production Strains for Chemical Production- Jennifer Reed, University of Wisconsin |
| 11:15-11:50 AM | Invited Speaker: Computational Strain Design for Improved Productivity, Yield and Robustness- Krishna Mahadevan, University of Toronto |
| 11:50-1:15 PM | Lunch |
| 1:15-3:05 PM | Session 5: Biophysical Models of Biological Processes, Session Chairs: Mark Brynildsen, Princeton University and Ian Wheeldon, UC Riverside |
| 1:15-1:50 PM | Invited Speaker: Multiscale Models of Antibiotic Cellbots- Yiannis Kaznessis, University of Minnesota |
| 1:50-2:10 PM | Nanoscale Architecture of Tension Generation within Focal Adhesions- Alex Dunn, Stanford University |
| 2:10-2:30 PM | Automated Physics-Based Design of Synthetic Riboswitches from Diverse Aptamers- Howard Salis, Penn State University |
| 2:30-3:05 | Invited Speaker: Micromachines and motility: Single and collective cancer cell invasion- Muhammad Zaman, Boston University |
| 3:05-3:30 PM | Break |
| 3:30-5:20 PM | Session 6: High-Throughput Biological Design, Session Chairs: Michael Jewett, Northwestern University and Julius Lucks, Cornell University |
| 3:30-4:05 PM | Invited Speaker: Steve Del Cardayre, LS9 |
| 4:05-4:25 PM | Building an Orthogonal Genetics for Rapid Evolution and Synthetic Biology- Chang Liu, University of California, Irvine |
| 4:25-4:45 PM | Reverse Engineering Enzymes with High-Throughput Sequence-Function Mapping- Philip Romero, University of California, Irvine |
| 4:45-5:20 PM | Invited Speaker: Zach Serber, Zymergen |
| 5:20-6:20 PM | Rapid Fire Presentations |
| 6:20-7:20 PM | Poster Session |
| 7:20-8:30 PM | Dinner |
Wednesday, January 14 |
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| 7:30-10:30 AM | Registration |
| 8:00-8:30 AM | Breakfast |
| 8:30-10:20 AM | Session 7: Biomolecular Design of Diagnositc and Therapeutic Agents, Session Chairs: Peter Tessier, RPI and Dane Wittrup, MIT |
| 8:30-9:05 AM | Invited Speaker: Jennifer Cochran, Stanford University |
| 9:05-9:25 AM | Engineering Picomolar Affinity into a Rationally Identified 5 Kda Scaffold for Tumor Targeting- Ben Hackel, University of Minnesota |
| 9:25-9:45 AM | Modular Receptor Engineering for Programming Cell-Based Therapies to Interface with Host Physiology- Josh Leonard, Northwestern University |
| 9:45-10:20 AM | Invited Speaker: Pat Daugherty, UC Santa Barbara |
| 10:20-10:50 AM | Break |
| 10:50-12:40 PM | Session 8: Designing Non-Native Biological Functions, Session Chairs: Brad Bundy, BYU and Jingwen Zhou, Jiangnan University |
| 10:50-11:25 AM | Invited Speaker: Microbial Production of Curcuminoids- Nobutaka Funa, University of Shizuoka |
| 11:25-11:45 AM | Designing Microbes for Executive Function- Bill Bentley, University of Maryland |
| 11:45-12:05 PM | Non-Native Small-Molecule Biosensors for Screening and Selection of High-Performance Cell Factories- Michael Jensen, Technical University of Denmark |
| 12:05-12:40 PM | Invited Speaker: Engineering Orthogonal Translation Systems- Michael Jewett, Northwestern University |
| 12:40-12:50 PM | Closing Remarks |
