Session 1: Reprogramming Translation
Synthetic Biology Engineering Evolution Design SEED
2016
2016 Synthetic Biology: Engineering, Evolution & Design (SEED)
General Submissions
Oral
Grand Ballroom
Hilton Chicago
Monday, July 18, 2016 - 11:00am to 12:00pm
The extraordinary catalytic capacity of the protein synthesis machinery has driven extensive efforts to harness it for novel functions. For example, pioneering efforts have demonstrated that it is possible to genetically encode more than the 20 natural amino acids and that this encoding can be a powerful tool to expand the chemical diversity of proteins. This session will discuss recent advances in creating custom genetic alphabets, changing the molecular machinery of the cell, and constructing genomically recoded organisms.