Technical Program
Technical Program
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Technical Program
(this program is subject to change)
| Sunday, January 5, 2025 | ||
| 4:00 PM | 7:00 PM | Registration and Badge Pick-Up |
| 5:00 PM | 5:15 PM | Opening Remarks |
| 5:15 PM | 6:15 PM | Keynote: Using biomolecular engineering and synthetic biology to control information flow in microbes and environmental communities Joff Silberg - Rice University |
| 6:15 PM | 7:45 PM | Opening Reception |
| Monday, January 6, 2025 | ||
| 7:30 AM | 9:00 AM | Registration and Badge Pick-Up |
| 8:00 AM | 9:00 AM | Breakfast |
| 9:00 AM | 10:00 AM | Keynote: Leveraging Next-Generation Technologies to Engineer Protein Assemblies Danielle Tullman-Ercek - Northwestern University |
| 10:00 AM | 10:30 AM | Coffee Break |
| 10:30 AM | 11:40 PM | Session 1 - Plant and Environmental Engineering Session Chair: Kevin Solomon - University of Delaware |
| 10:30 AM | 11:00 AM |
Expanding the CRIPSR Genetic Engineering Toolkit in Plants |
| 11:00 AM | 11:20 AM | Elucidating mechanisms of evasion and suppression of plant innate immunity by commensal rhizobacteria Jonathan Conway - Princeton University |
| 11:20 AM | 11:40 AM | Plant Synthetic Biology: Directing the Evolution of Next Generation Agriculture Clay Wright - Virginia Tech |
| 11:40 PM | 1:00 PM | Lunch |
| 1:00 PM | 2:10 PM | Session 2 - Emerging Technologies in Molecular Engineering Session Chair: Jonathan Conway - Princeton University |
| 1:00 PM | 1:30 PM | Using cell-free prototyping and plant genome engineering to produce plant-based metabolites Quentin Dudley - University of Wisconsin-Madison |
| 1:30 PM | 1:50 PM | A Novel Mathematical Framework for the Holistic Analysis of Biomolecular Reaction System Behavior John Marken - California Institute of Technology |
| 1:50 PM | 2:20 PM | Break |
| 2:20 PM | 3:00 PM |
Session 3 - Cellular and Tissue Engineering |
| 2:20 PM | 2:40 PM | Surface Tension-Induced Single-Cell Hydrogel Encapsulation for High-Throughput Proteomic Analyses Edgar Ruiz Bello - Rice University |
| 2:40 PM | 3:00 PM | Orthogonal Communication and Obligate Metabolic Interactions Enabled By the Biosynthesis of Non-Standard Amino Acids Aditya Kunjapur - University of Delaware |
| 3:00 PM | 4:30 PM | Poster Session |
| Tuesday, January 7, 2025 | ||
| 7:30 AM | 9:00 AM | Registration and Badge Pick-Up |
| 8:00 AM | 9:00 AM | Breakfast |
| 9:00 AM | 10:00 AM | Keynote: Engineered systems for probing and controlling cellular microenvironments April Kloxin - Univeristy of Delaware |
| 10:00 AM | 10:30 AM | Coffee Break |
| 10:30 AM | 11:40 PM | Session 4 - Synthetic Biology and Tool Development Session Chair: Aditya Kunjapur - University of Delaware |
| 10:30 AM | 11:00 AM | High-throughput Technologies for Protease and Sortase Substrate Specificity Reprogramming Carl Denard - University of Florida |
| 11:00 AM | 11:20 AM | Microscale Tools for Protein Interaction Measurement at Single-Cell Resolution Julea Vlassakis - Rice University |
| 11:20 AM | 11:40 AM | Optimizing Protein Expression in the One-Pot Pure System: Insights into Reaction Composition and Translation Efficiency Yan Zhang - California Institute of Technology |
| 11:40 AM | 1:00PM | Lunch |
| 1:00 PM | 2:10 PM | Session 5 - Biomolecular Engineering for Human Health Session Chair: Quinton Smith - University of California, Irvine |
| 1:00 PM | 1:30 PM | Engineered cytokine-antibody fusion proteins to advance immunotherapy Jamie Spangler - Johns Hopkins University |
| 1:30 PM | 1:50 PM | Nonpathogenic E. coli Engineered to Surface Display Cytokines As a New Platform for Immunotherapy Shaobo Yang - Northeastern University |
| 1:50 PM | 2:10 PM |
A Dual-Gene Reporter-Amplifier for Ultrasensitive Magnetic Resonance Imaging |
| 2:10 PM | 2:40 PM | Break |
| 2:40 PM | 3:50 PM | Session 6 - Nucleic Acid Engineering Session Chair: Lydia Contreras - University of Texas, Austin |
| 2:40 PM | 3:10 PM | DNA and RNA nanotechnology: from models to applications Petr Sulc - Arizona State University |
| 3:10 PM | 3:30 PM | Use of Mesophilic Prokaryotic Argonautes for Sequence Independent Scarless DNA Assembly Kasra Tabatabaei - New England Biolabs, Inc. |
| 3:30 PM | 3:50 PM | Synthetic Nucleic Acid Aptamers As Interventions for Heavy Metal Toxicity Natalie Farny - Worcester Polytechnic Institute |
| 3:50 PM | 4:05 PM | Short Break |
| 4:05 PM | 5:15 PM | Session 7 - Biomolecular Engineering to Advance Fundamental Science Session Chair: Gözde S. Demirer - Caltech |
| 4:05 PM | 4:35 PM | Physics-driven models for understanding and engineering biomolecular condensates Jerelle Joseph - Princeton University |
| 4:35 PM | 4:55 PM | Synonymous Is Not the Same: Codons Bias Partitions Cellular Resources in Engineered Cells Nikhil Nair - Tufts University |
| 4:55 PM | 5:15 PM | High-Throughput Microfluidics to Accelerate Synthesis of Polyaspartic Acid (p-Asp) for Combating Metal Corrosion Jean Marriz Manzano - Texas A&M University |
| Wednesday, January 8, 2025 | ||
| 7:30 AM | 9:00 AM | Registration and Badge Pick-Up |
| 8:00 AM | 9:00 AM | Breakfast |
| Session 8 - Biomaterials and Engineered Living Materials Session Chair: Kevin Solomon - University of Delaware |
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| 9:00 AM | 9:30 AM | Protein delivery vehicles from engineered intrinsically disordered protein polymers Allie Obermeyer - Columbia University |
| 9:30 AM | 9:50 AM | Elastin-Collagen Nanovesicles for Delivery of Osteoarthritis Therapeutics Sanjna Rao - University of Delaware |
| 9:50 AM | 10:10 AM | Biomolecular Engineering Opportunities and Fundamental Understanding of Gas Vesicles George Lu - Rice University |
| 10:10 AM | 10:40 AM | Engineered cytokine-antibody fusion proteins to advance immunotherapy Jamie Spangler - Johns Hopkins University |
| 10:40 AM | 11:10 AM | Break |
| 11:10 AM | 12:20 AM | Session 9 - Metabolic Engineering Session Chair: Jonathan Conway - Princeton University |
| 11:10 AM | 11:40 AM | Biosensor-guided regulation of metabolic pathways Kris Prather - MIT |
| 11:40 AM | 12:00 PM | Machine Learning-Assisted Directed Evolution of Ribozymes Using Combinatorial Libraries Dorsa Sattari Khavas - Rice University |
| 12:00 PM | 12:20 PM | Strategies to Improve Bioproduction in a Microbial Platform through Enzyme Discovery and Engineering: Enhancing 3-Hydroxypropionic Acid Production in Yeast Leonardo Blankenburg Lins Barroso Arruda - Brazilian Center for Research in Energy and Materials (CNPEM) |
| 12:20 PM | 12:30 PM | Closing Remarks from Chairs |