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Technical Program - 12th ICBE

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Sunday, January 8

Start Time End Time  
4:15 PM 7:00 PM Registration Open
5:00 PM 5:15 PM Welcome from Chairs
5:15 PM 6:15 PM

Keynote: Wilfred Chen, Adding Logic to Complex Protein Functions

6:15 PM 7:15 PM Reception
     

Monday, January 9

Start Time End Time  
8:00 AM 5:00 PM Registration Open
8:30 AM 9:30 AM Breakfast
9:30 AM 10:30 AM Keynote: Michelle O'Malley, From Trash To Treasure: Bioprospecting Nature's Microbial Communities for Biotechnology 
10:30 AM 11:00 AM Coffee Break
11:00 AM 1:00 PM Session 1: Emerging Technologies in Molecular Engineering
11:00 AM 11:40 AM Abhishek Chatterjee, Boston College - Synthesis at the interface of virology and genetic code expansion
11:40 AM 12:00 PM Joshua Walker, UC Berkeley - Protein-Natural Product Chimeras Via Redirected Ripp Biosynthesis
12:00 PM 12:20 PM Carolyn Mills, Northwestern University - A High-Throughput Screen for Bacterial Microcompartment Closure
12:20 PM 1:00 PM Ester Kwon, UC San Diego - Engineered nanosensors for the measurement of protease activity in traumatic brain injury
1:00 PM 2:30 PM Lunch 
2:30 PM 4:30 PM Session 2: Cellular Engineering
2:30 PM 3:10 PM Corey Wilson, Georgia Tech - Engineering Integrated Biological Circuits
3:10 PM 3:30 PM Maxwell Wilson, UC Santa Barbara - Optogenetics for Virtual Programming of Cellular Memories
3:30 PM 3:50 PM Alexander Vlahos, Stanford University - Harnessing Protein-Protein Interactions for Programmable Control of Intercellular Signals
3:50 PM 4:30 PM Laura Segatori, Rice University-Departments of Bioengineering, Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, and Biosciences
4:30 PM 6:00 PM Poster Session & Reception

Tuesday, January 10

Start Time End Time  
8:00 AM 5:30 PM Registration Open
8:00 AM 9:00 AM Breakfast
9:00 AM 10:00 AM Keynote: Mikhail Shapiro, Caltech - 

Biomolecular Ultrasound for Noninvasive Imaging and Control of Cellular Function

10:00 AM 10:30 AM Coffee Break
10:30 AM 12:30 PM Session 3: Biomolecular Engineering for Human Health
10:30 AM 11:10 AM Qing Sun, Texas A&M - RNAdegformer: Accurate Prediction of mRNA Degradation with Deep Learning
11:10 AM 11:30 AM Tianzheng Ye, Cornell University - 

Developing Ubiquibodies for Targeted β-Catenin Degradation

11:30 AM 11:50 AM Xiaojing Gao, Stanford University - 

Programmable RNA Sensors in Living Mammalian Cells

11:50 AM 12:30 PM Neil Lin, UCLA - Molecular-based Phenotyping of Live Cells Using Deep Learning
12:30 PM 1:30 PM Lunch
1:30 PM 3:30 PM Session 4: Protein Engineering
1:30 PM 2:10 PM Sherry Gao, Rice University - Engineered CRISPR Systems for Disease Treatment and Diagnostics
2:10 PM 2:30 PM Nolan Anderson, UC Santa Barbara - 

Circular Permutation of Lov Proteins Toward Protease Activity Sensing

2:30 PM 2:50 PM Maryam R-Sarmazdeh, University of Nevada, Reno - Selective Targeting of Metalloproteinase Via Protein Engineering and Design
2:50 PM 3:30 PM Carl Denard, University of Florida- Redefining, repurposing, and reprogramming post-translational modification enzymes
3:30 PM 4:00 PM Coffee Break
4:00 PM 6:00 PM Session 5: Biomolecular Engineering for Environmental Health
4:00 PM 4:40 PM Caroline Ajo-Franklin, Rice University - Programming Biomolecules as Real-time Sensors and Sustainable Materials
4:40 PM 5:00 PM Keith Tyo, Northwestern University - 

Engineering Acinetobacter Baylyi ADP1 for Recovering Carbon and Nitrogen from Wastes

5:00 PM 5:20 PM Natalie Farny, Worcester Polytechnic Institute - 

Survival and Function of Engineered Organisms in Model Soil Environments

5:20 PM 6:00 PM Gozde Demirer, Caltech - Improving Plant Nitrogen Use Efficiency via CRISPR/Cas9 Genetic Engineering

Wednesday, January 11

Start Time End Time  
8:30 AM 10:00 AM Registration Open
8:30 AM 9:30 AM Breakfast
9:30 AM 11:30 AM Session 6: Biomolecular Engineering to Advance Fundamental Science
9:30 AM 10:10 AM Kevin Solomon, University of Delaware - Prokaryotic Argonautes as Alternatives for Gene Editing
10:10 AM 10:30 AM Hanwei Liu, Caltech - 

Living Materials Made By Protein-Mediated Bacterial Assembly

10:30 AM 10:50 AM Enoch Yeung, UC Santa Barbara - 

Modeling Supercoiling Dynamics of Multi-Gene Circuits to Inform Design of a Transcriptional In Vivo Supercoiling Sensor

10:50 AM 11:30 AM Elisa Franco, UCLA - Dynamic control of biomolecular phase separation
11:30 AM 11:45 AM Closing Remarks from Chairs