Technical Program
Check out the lineup for 6th the International Conference on Plant Synthetic Biology, Bioengineering and Biotechnology below.
Confex Program: see the technical program with abstracts here
Friday, December 9, 2022 |
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| Start Time | End Time | |
| 9:00 AM | Registration Opens | |
| 9:30 AM | 9:40 AM | Welcome Remarks |
| 9:40 AM | 10:40 AM | Keynote Speaker: Savithramma Dinesh-Kumar, UC Davis - Engineering viruses for gene silencing, overexpression and editing in plants |
| 10:40 AM | 11:15 AM | Coffee Break |
| 11:15 AM | 1:15 PM | Session 1: Genome and Epigenome Editing |
| 11:15 AM | 11:55 AM | Invited Speaker: Mireia Uranga Ruiz De Eguino, VIB-UGent Center for Plant Systems Biology - The power of RNA viruses for CRISPR-Cas based genome editing in plants |
| 11:55 AM | 12:15 PM | Joanne Hunt, Pairwise - Engineered Cas12a Variants Increase Genome Editing Target Access in Plants |
| 12:15 PM | 12:35 PM | Megan Kelly, University of Florida - Development of a Sorghum Transformation Pipeline to Enhance Genome Editing |
| 12:35 PM | 12:55 PM | Eleanor Brant, University of Florida - Targeted Mutagenesis for Altering Leaf Inclination Angle in Diploid Sorghum and Highly-Polyploid Sugarcane |
| 12:55 PM | 1:15 PM | Ming Wang, UCLA - A gene silencing screen uncovers diverse tools for targeted gene repression in Arabidopsis |
| 1:15 PM | 2:15PM | Lunch |
| 2:15 PM | 3:00 PM | Panel: Genome and Epigenome Editing - Moderator: Wendy Harwood |
| 3:00 PM | 5:45 PM | Session 2: Specialized Metabolism |
| 3:00 PM | 3:40 PM | Zhen Wang, University of Buffalo-Elucidate the Biosynthetic Pathway of Digoxin in Foxglove Plants |
| 3:40 PM | 4:00 PM | Yanran Li, UC Riverside - Using Strigolactone-Producing Bacterium-Yeast Consortium To Elucidate Strigolactone Biosynthesis |
| 4:00 PM | 4:20 PM | Afternon Refreshment Break |
| 4:20 PM | 4:40 PM | Codruta Ignea, McGill University - Expanding the Natural Chemical Diversity with New-to-Nature Terpenoids |
| 4:40 PM | 5:00 PM | Jianing Han, Cornell University - De Novo Biosynthesis of Berberine and Halogenated Benzylisoquinoline Alkaloids in Saccharomyces Cerevisiae |
| 5:00 PM | 5:45 PM | Panel: Specialized Metabolism - Moderator: Georg Jander |
| 5:45 PM | 6:45 PM | Poster Session and Reception |
Saturday, December 10, 2022 |
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| Start Time | End Time | |
| 9:15 AM | Registration Opens | |
| 9:40 AM | 10:40 AM | Keynote Speaker: Elizabeth Sattely, Stanford-Discovery and Engineering of Plant Chemistry for Plant and Human Health |
| 10:40 AM | 11:15 AM | Coffee Break |
| 11:15 AM | 12:55 PM | Session 3: Engineering More Efficient and Resilient Plants (I) |
| 11:15 AM | 11:55 AM | Invited Speaker: Adil Khan, University of Western Australia - CRISPRi-based circuits for genetic computation in plants |
| 11:55 AM | 12:15 PM | Henrik Scheller, UC Berkely/LBNL - Field Testing of Engineered Sorghum with Improved Biomass Yield and Sustainability Traits |
| 12:15 PM | 12:35 PM | Ulschan Bathe, University of Florida - Continuous Directed Evolution of Short-Lived Plant Enzymes to Cut Maintenance Respiration Costs |
| 12:35 PM | 2:00 PM | Lunch |
| 2:00 PM | 4:00 PM | Session 3: Engineering More Efficient and Resilient Plants (II) |
| 2:00 PM | 2:40 PM | Invited Speaker: Jenn Brophy - Controlling gene expression patterns in plants with synthetic genetic circuits |
| 2:40 PM | 3:20 PM | Invited Speaker: Don Ort, University of Illinois - Mitigating the impact of a warming climate on photosynthetic carbon gain with a synthetic photorespiratory shunt |
| 3:20 PM | 4:00 PM | Panel: Engineering More Efficient & Resilient Plants - Moderator: Sijin Li |
| 4:00 PM | 4:30 PM |
Afternoon Refreshment Break |
| 4:30 PM | 5:10 PM | Session 4: New Tools and Technologies (I) |
| 4:30 PM | 4:50 PM | Jeanet Mante, UC Boulder - Preventing Genetic Data Loss: How to Capture Reusable Genetic Sequences |
| 4:50 PM | 5:10 PM | Eric Yang, University of Washington - Engineering Logic with Native Constitutive Promoters |
Sunday, December 11, 2022 |
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| Start Time | End Time | |
| 9:15 AM | Registration Opens | |
| 9:30 AM | 12:30 PM | Session 4: New Tools and Technologies (II) |
| 9:30 AM | 10:10 AM | Invited Speaker: Tobias Jores, University of Washington - A comprehensive toolbox of plant-derived and synthetic cis-regulatory elements |
| 10:10 AM | 10:30 AM | Alexander Pfotenhauer, University of Tennessee - Synthetic transcription factor platform for gene activation in plants derived from the Penicillium citrinum compactin pathway |
| 10:30 AM | 10:50 AM | Coffee Break |
| 10:50AM | 11:10 AM | Cassandra Maranas, University of Washington - Tools for the Robust Tracking of Plant Development Using Integrase Circuits |
| 11:10 AM | 11:50 AM | Invited Speaker: Sylvestre Marillonnet, Leibniz Institute of Plant Biochemistry - The modular cloning system MoClo for synthetic biology and plant metabolic engineering |
| 11:50 AM | 12:30 PM | Panel: New Tools & Technologies - Moderator: Diego Orzaez |
| 12:30 PM | 12:40 PM | Closing Remarks |