4th International Conference on Microbiome Engineering
Technical Program
**Program is subject to change. Last updated 11/2.**
TIME ZONE: Eastern Standard TIME (EDT)
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Day 1 Live Program - Wednesday November 3, 11:00 AM - 5:00 PM EDT |
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Start (EDT) |
End (EDT) |
Opening and Welcome |
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11:00 AM |
11:10 AM |
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11:10 AM |
12:40 PM |
Session 1: Microbial Communities |
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Session Chair: Harris Wang, Columbia University |
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11:10 AM |
11:40 AM |
Engineering Microbial Consortia from Herbivores for Lignocellulose Breakdown |
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11:40 AM |
12:10 PM |
Dynamics and control of synthetic human gut microbiome communities |
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12:10 PM |
12:40 PM |
The gut bacterial natural product colibactin triggers induction of latent viruses in diverse bacteria |
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12:40 PM |
1:00 PM |
Break |
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1:00 PM |
2:00 PM |
Keynote: From precise microbial genomics to precision medicine |
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2:00 PM |
2:15 PM |
Break |
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2:15 PM |
3:45 PM |
Session 2: Therapeutics I: Manipulating the Microbiome |
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Session Chair: Mark Charbonneau, Synlogic |
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2:15 PM |
2:45 PM |
Microbial Mechanisms in Bariatric Surgery |
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2:45 PM |
3:15 PM |
Design and preclinical characterization of SER-155, an investigational cultivated microbiome therapeutic to restore colonization resistance and prevent infection in patients undergoing hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) |
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3:15 PM |
3:45 PM |
Learning auxotrophies of understudied microbes with automated experiments |
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3:45 PM |
4:00 PM |
Break |
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4:00 PM |
5:00 PM |
Lightning Talks Sibr-Cas Enables Host-Independent and Universal CRISPR Genome Engineering in Prokaryotes Constantinos Patinios, Wageningen University and Research Multi-Input CRISPR-Based Kill-Switches for Biocontainment of Engineered Microbes Tae Seok Moon, Washington University in St. Louis Automated and Machine Learning Guided Culturomics of Personalized Gut Microbiomes Yiming Huang, Columbia University Characterisation and Engineering of Probiotic Saccharomyces Boulardii Promoters for Robust Therapeutic Production In Vivo Carmen Sands, Technical University of Denmark (DTU) Engineering a Gut Biosensor for the Detection of Colitis Using the Probiotic Yeast Strain Saccharomyces Boulardii Louis C. Dacquay, University of Toronto Top-Down and Bottom-up Approaches for Investigating the Microcystis Phycosphere James Tan, University of Michigan Development of Designer Probiotics for the Treatment of Inflammatory Bowel Disease Jason Lynch, Massachusetts General Hospital |
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Day 2 Live Program - Thursday November 4, 11:55 AM - 6:15 PM EDT |
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Start (EDT) |
End (EDT) |
Welcome |
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11:55 AM |
12:00 PM |
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12:00 PM |
1:00 PM |
Keynote: Microbiome contributions to drug and vitamin metabolism |
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1:00 PM |
2:30 PM |
Session 3: Bugs as Not Drugs: Environmental and Industrial Biotransformations |
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Session Chair: Peter Turnbaugh, University of California, San Francisco |
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1:00 PM |
1:30 PM |
Microbiome-based transformation of wastes to beneficial chemicals |
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1:30 PM |
2:00 PM |
Karsten Temme, Pivot Bio |
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2:00 PM |
2:30 PM |
Engineering complex biological systems at Sestina |
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2:30 PM |
3:00 PM |
Break |
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3:00 PM |
5:00 PM |
Session 4: Tools, Standards, and Modeling |
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Session Chair: Shannon Sirk, University of Illinois |
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3:00 PM |
3:30 PM |
Systematic investigation of gene function in gut bacteria |
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3:30 PM |
4:00 PM |
Microbiome Tools, Hunting for New Viruses, and Human-Tardigrade Hybrids |
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4:00 PM |
4:30 PM |
In situ biomanufacturing of small molecules and peptides using probiotic S. boulardii |
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4:30 PM |
5:00 PM |
Targeted microbiome engineering |
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5:00 PM |
5:15 PM |
Break |
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5:15 PM |
6:15 PM |
Lightning Talks Expanding the Therapeutic Capacity of Engineered Commensal Microbes Vince Kelly, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Engineering Phages for Eukaryotic Payload Expression in Cancer Associated Fusobacterium Nucleatum Lior Zelcbuch, BiomX The Mystery of Built Environment Microbiome : Mapping Bacterial Diversity and Translationally Active Abundance in Three Different Office Buildings Jyoti Singh, University of Delaware Microbiome Interaction Network Toplologies to Improve Probiotic Ingress, Colonization, and Persistence across Varied Resident Communities Kyle Sander, University of California, Berkeley Single-Cell Fusion PCR for Biocontainment Surveillance Peter Diebold, Cornell University |
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Day 3 Live Program - Friday November 5, 10:55 AM - 2:05 PM EDT |
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Start (EDT) |
End (EDT) |
Welcome |
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10:55 AM |
11:00 AM |
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11:00 AM |
12:30 PM |
Session 5: Therapeutics II: Engineering Microbes |
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Session Chair: Mark Mimee, University of Chicago |
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11:00 AM |
11:30 AM |
Leveraging Bacterial Secretion Systems to Develop Therapeutic Designer Probiotics |
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11:30 AM |
12:00 PM |
Mechanistic Models of Engineered Live Bacterial Therapeutics: SYNB1618 Case Study |
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12:00 PM |
12:30 PM |
Engineered yeast probiotics for the treatment of inflammation |
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12:30 PM |
1:00 PM |
Break |
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1:00 PM |
2:00 PM |
Panel Discussion: Advancing Microbial Engineering from Academia to Industry |
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2:00 PM |
2:05 PM |
Closing Remarks |