Technical Program
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Friday, May 17thBarber Theater
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| 12:15 - 1:00 PM | Registration |
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1:00 PM - 6:00 PM
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Pre-Workshop Tutorial |
Saturday, May 18thNorris Hall, McCormick Auditorium |
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| 7:00 AM - 12:00 PM | Registration |
| 8:00 AM - 8:15 AM | Meeting Introduction: Dean Julio Ottino, Northwestern University |
| 8:15 AM - 9:00 AM | Plenary Speaker: Lymphatic Vessels in Inflammation and Cancer: New Roles in Immune Regulation and Implications for Immunotherapy Melody Swartz, University of Chicago |
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9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
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SESSION 1: ENGINEERED IMMUNITY Session Chair: Hao Yuan Kueh, University of Washington |
| 9:00 AM - 9:30 AM | Invited Speaker: The Engineering of Nanobodies to Create New Biological Tools Hidde Ploegh, Boston Children's Hospital |
| 9:30 AM - 10:00 AM | Invited Speaker: Interfacing Chemistry and Synthetic Biology for Immune Engineering Darrell J. Irvine, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| 10:00 AM - 10:15 AM | Ultrasound Imaging of Gene Expression in Mammalian Cells Arash Farhadi, California Institute of Technology |
| 10:15 AM- 10:30 AM | Engineering Extracellular Vesicles for Targeted Delivery of Cas9 to T Cells Devin M. Stranford, Northwestern University |
| 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM | BREAK |
| 11:00 AM - 1:30 PM | SESSION 2: SYSTEMS BIOLOGY AND GENETICS Session Chair: Lacra Bintu, Stanford University |
| 11:00 AM - 11:30 AM | Invited Speaker: Quantitative Analysis and Modeling of Dynamic Gene Networks for Better Synthetic Biology Savas Tay, University of Chicago |
| 11:30 AM - 12:00 PM | Invited Speaker: Temporal Scaling of Development by a Division-Independent Epigenetic Timer Hao Yuan Kueh, University of Washington |
| 12:00 PM - 12:15 PM | A New Platform for Synthetic Transcriptional Regulation in Human Cells Divya Israni, Boston University |
| 12:15 PM - 12:30 PM | Synthetic Biology Approaches to Study and Control the Transcriptome Simone Rauch, University of Chicago |
| 12:30 PM - 12:35 PM | Funding Agency and Journal Editors Introductions |
| 12:45 PM - 1:30 PM | LUNCH |
| 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM | SESSION 3: FOUNDATIONAL ADVANCES Session Chair: Velia Siciliano, Italian Institute of Technology |
| 1:30 PM - 2:00 PM | Invited Speaker: Mammalian Synthetic Gene Circuits Based on RNA Cleavage and Multi-step Differentiation for Programmable Organoids Ron Weiss, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| 2:00 PM - 2:30 PM | Invited Speaker: Transcriptional and Post-Transcriptional Smart Interfaces for Biomedicine Velia Siciliano, Italian Institute of Technology |
| 2:30 PM - 2:45 PM | A Platform Technology for Dynamic Control of Cell Behavior Laura Segatori, Rice University |
| 2:45 PM - 3:00 PM | Reverse Engineering Combinatorial Enhancer Control of Gene Expression Matthew Ginley- Hiding, University of Utah |
| 3:00 PM - 3:30 PM | BREAK |
| 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM | SESSION 4: FRONTIERS IN GENE AND CELL THERAPY Session Chair: Tara Deans, University of Utah |
| 3:30 PM - 4:00 PM | Invited Speaker: Designing Cell-Based Treatment Strategies of the Future Martin Fussenegger, ETH Zurich |
| 4:00 PM - 4:30 PM | Invited Speaker: Engineering Materials to Modulate the Therapeutic Microenvironment Tejal Desai, University of California, San Francisco |
| 4:30 PM - 4:45 PM | Pulsatile Transcription Factor Regulation Enables Reduction and Tuning of Cell-to-Cell Variability in Gene Expression Dirk Benzinger, ETH Zurich |
| 4:45 PM - 5:00 PM | Evolution of Synthetic Symbioses Paul de Figueiredo, Texas A&M University |
| 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM |
Poster Session and Reception Silverman Hall |
Sunday, May 19thNorris Hall, McCormick Auditorium |
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| 7:00 AM - 12:00 PM | Registration |
| 8:10 AM - 8:45 AM | Plenary Speaker: PhysioMimetics: From Organoids to Organs – on – Chips Linda Griffith, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| 8:45 AM - 10:15 AM | SESSION 5: SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY OF MULTICELLULAR SYSTEMS Session Chair: Leonardo Morsut, University of Southern California |
| 8:45 AM - 9:15 AM | Invited Speaker: Human Time Vs. Mouse Time with Recapitulated Systems Miki Ebisuya, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Barcelona |
| 9:15 AM - 9:45 AM | Invited Speaker: Synthetic Chromatin Manipulation and Engineering Using CRISPR-Dcas Stanley Qi, Stanford University |
| 9:45 AM - 10:00 AM | Understanding the Genetic Basis for Biological Patterning from the Bottom up Pulin Li, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, MIT |
| 10:00 AM - 10:15 AM | Engineering a Synthetic Signal-Propagation Pathway Marco Santorelli, Eli and Edythe Broad CIRM Center at USC |
| 10:15 AM - 10:45 AM | BREAK |
| 10:45 AM - 1:00 PM | SESSION 6: SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY IN THE BROADER WORLD Session Chair: Samira Kiani, Arizona State University |
| Panel Discussion: Laurie Zoloth, University of Chicago Divinity School Dario Robleto, Block Museum and Northwestern University Ben Hurlbut, Arizona State University Gaymon Bennett, Arizona State University Cheryl Cui, Nest.Bio Ventures |
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| 1:00 PM - 1:10 PM | Closing Remarks |
| 1:10 PM | MEETING CLOSES |
