Sunday |
2:00 pm - 9:00 pm | Arrival and Check-in |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 7:40 pm | Welcome / Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff |
7:40 pm - 9:30 pm | Enabling Technologies |
| Discussion Leader: Timothy Lu (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA) |
7:40 pm - 8:20 pm | Eran Segal (Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel) "Unraveling Principles of Gene Regulation Using Massively Parallel Measurements of Synthetically Designed Sequences" |
8:20 pm - 8:35 pm | Discussion |
8:35 pm - 9:15 pm | Mustafa Khammash (ETH Zurich, Switzerland) "Cybergenetics:
Circuits and Systems for the Precise Control of Living Cells" |
9:15 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
Monday |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Computational and Evolutionary Design |
| Discussion Leader: Andrew Ellington (University of Texas, Austin, USA) |
9:00 am - 9:40 am | Douglas Densmore (Boston University, USA) "Fluigi: Design Environment for the Automated Design,
Fabrication, and Operation of Synthetic Biological Microfluidics" |
9:40 am - 9:55 am | Discussion |
9:55 am - 10:20 am | Coffee Break |
10:20 am - 11:00 am | Joerg Stelling (ETH Zurich, Switzerland) "Multiscale Models for Synthetic Circuit Design" |
11:00 am - 11:15 am | Discussion |
11:15 am - 11:55 am | Thomas Ward (University of Basel, Switzerland) "Artificial Metalloenzymes for Synthetic Biology: Challenges and Opportunities" |
11:55 am - 12:10 pm | Discussion |
12:10 pm - 12:25 pm | Jeffrey Sampson (Agilent Technologies, USA) "Advanced
Oligonucleotide Libraries (OLS): Enabling Research in Synthetic Biology" |
12:25 pm - 12:30 pm | Discussion |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Environmental Engineering |
| Discussion Leader: Vitor Martins Dos Santos (Wageningen University, The Netherlands) |
7:30 pm - 8:10 pm | June Medford (Colorado State University, USA) "Designing Multicellular
Synthetic Biology Traits in Plants" |
8:10 pm - 8:30 pm | Discussion |
8:30 pm - 9:10 pm | Tobias Erb (Max-Planck-Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Germany) "Exploring and Engineering Carboxylating Enzymes
and Pathways: Towards Synthetic CO2-Fixation" |
9:10 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
Tuesday |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Mammalian Cell Engineering |
| Discussion Leader: Ahmad Khalil (Boston University / Wyss Institute, Harvard University, USA) |
9:00 am - 9:40 am | Peng Yin (Harvard University, USA) "DNA Powered Microscopy" |
9:40 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
10:00 am - 10:30 am | Coffee Break |
10:30 am - 11:10 am | David Liu (Harvard University, USA) "Continuous Evolution of Proteins for Synthetic Biology and Next-Generation Therapeutic Applications" |
11:10 am - 11:30 am | Discussion |
11:30 am - 12:10 pm | Tanja Kortemme (University of California, San Francisco, USA) "Computational Design of New Molecular and Cellular Functions" |
12:10 pm - 12:30 pm | Discussion |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Genome Engineering |
| Discussion Leader: Ralf Wagner (University of Regensburg, Germany) |
7:30 pm - 8:10 pm | Andrew Ellington (University of Texas, Austin, USA) "Directed Evolution of Synthetic Circuits" |
8:10 pm - 8:30 pm | Discussion |
8:30 pm - 9:10 pm | Anke Becker (Loewe Center for Synthetic Microbiology, Germany) "Engineering of Alpha-Rhizobial Genomes" |
9:10 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
Wednesday |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
8:30 am | Group Photo |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Systems Engineering for Industrial Applications |
| Discussion Leader: Daniel Dwyer (University of Maryland, College Park, USA) |
9:00 am - 9:40 am | Eriko Takano (University of Manchester, United Kingdom) "Next Steps Towards Synthetic Biology for Pharmaceutical and Fine Chemical Production" |
9:40 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
10:00 am - 10:30 am | Coffee Break |
10:30 am - 11:10 am | Vitor Martins Dos Santos (Wageningen University, The Netherlands) "Re-Programming Microbes for Bespoke Biocatalysis" |
11:10 am - 11:30 am | Discussion |
11:30 am - 12:10 pm | Drew Endy (Stanford Bioengineering, USA) "Why ‘Industrialization' Is the Wrong Metaphor
for Synthetic Biology" |
12:10 pm - 12:30 pm | Discussion |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:00 pm - 7:30 pm | Business Meeting |
| Nominations for the Next Vice Chair; Fill in Conference Evaluation Forms; Discuss Future Site and Scheduling Preferences; Election of the Next Vice Chair |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Systems Engineering and Chassis |
| Discussion Leader: Vitor Pinheiro (University College London, United Kingdom) |
7:30 pm - 8:10 pm | Jay Keasling (University of California, Berkeley, USA) "Engineering Microbes for Production of Drugs, Fuels, and Chemicals" |
8:10 pm - 8:30 pm | Discussion |
8:30 pm - 9:10 pm | Mattheos Koffas (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA) "Engineering Static and Dynamic Control of Malonyl CoA Derived Fluxes" |
9:10 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
Thursday |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Cell-Free Biology |
| Discussion Leader: Roman Jerala (National Institute of Chemistry, Slovenia) |
9:00 am - 9:40 am | Roy Bar-Ziv (Weitzmann Institute of Science, Israel) "Cell-Free Synthetic Biology on a Chip" |
9:40 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
10:00 am - 10:30 am | Coffee Break |
10:30 am - 11:10 am | Vincent Noireaux (University of Minnesota, USA) "Cell-Free Transcription-Translation: From Gene Circuits to Self-Assembly in a Test Tube" |
11:10 am - 11:30 am | Discussion |
11:30 am - 12:10 pm | Takuya Ueda (The University of Tokyo, Japan) "The PURE System as a Platform Technology for
Synthetic Biology" |
12:10 pm - 12:30 pm | Discussion |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm | Poster Session |
5:30 pm - 7:30 pm | Orthogonal Systems |
| Discussion Leader: Dieter Soell (Yale University, USA) |
5:30 pm - 6:10 pm | Michael Jewett (Northwestern University, USA) "Engineering Synthetic
Ribosomes" |
6:10 pm - 6:30 pm | Discussion |
6:30 pm - 7:10 pm | Floyd Romesberg (The Scripps Research Institute, USA) "A Semi-Synthetic Organism with an Expanded
Genetic Alphabet" |
7:10 pm - 7:30 pm | Discussion |
8:00 pm | Dinner |
Friday |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am | Departure |