Sunday
2:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Arrival and Check-in
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 7:40 pm
Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff / Welcome from the GRC Chair
7:40 pm - 9:30 pm
Environmental Synthetic Biology
7:40 pm - 8:20 pm
"From Evolving to Designing Function"
8:20 pm - 8:35 pm
Discussion
8:35 pm - 9:15 pm
"Synthetic Biology for Global Health"
9:15 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Monday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
8:30 am - 9:00 am
Group Photo
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Exotic Molecules and Materials
9:00 am - 9:30 am
"Reconstructing and Deconstructing Biopharmaceutical Glycosylation"
9:30 am - 9:45 am
Discussion
9:45 am - 10:15 am
"Metabolic Engineering Approaches to Bioorthogonal Chemistry"
10:15 am - 10:30 am
Discussion
10:30 am - 11:00 am
Coffee Break
11:00 am - 11:30 am
"Engineering and Optimizing Biofuel-Tolerant Microbes"
11:30 am - 11:45 am
Discussion
11:45 am - 11:55 am
"Bottom-Up Engineering of Chemotaxis in Artificial Cells"
11:55 am - 12:00 pm
Discussion
12:00 pm - 12:30 pm
Poster Previews
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Free Time
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Power Hour
The GRC Power Hour is an optional informal gathering open to all meeting participants. It is designed to help address the challenges women face in science and support the professional growth of women in our communities by providing an open forum for discussion and mentoring.
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Biological Design, Automation and Computation
7:30 pm - 8:10 pm
"Orthogonal Replication for Rapid Mutation and Synthetic Biology"
8:10 pm - 8:30 pm
Discussion
8:30 pm - 9:10 pm
"Design in Synthetic Biology"
9:10 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Tuesday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Mammalian Synthetic Biology
9:00 am - 9:30 am
"Mammalian Cell-Expressible De Novo Fluorescent Proteins"
9:30 am - 9:45 am
Discussion
9:45 am - 10:15 am
"Engineering Smarter and Stronger T Cells for Cancer Immunotherapy"
10:15 am - 10:30 am
Discussion
10:30 am - 11:00 am
Coffee Break
11:00 am - 11:30 am
"Encoding the Human Serine Phosphoproteome in an Engineered Bacterial System"
11:30 am - 11:45 am
Discussion
11:45 am - 11:55 am
"Reconstructing Vision from the Bottom Up"
11:55 am - 12:00 pm
Discussion
12:00 pm - 12:30 pm
Poster Previews
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Free Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Engineering Microbial Communities
7:30 pm - 8:10 pm
"Re-Programming the Gut Microbiome"
8:10 pm - 8:30 pm
Discussion
8:30 pm - 9:10 pm
"Re-Programming Bacterial Metabolism for Cancer Therapy"
9:10 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Wednesday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
9:00 am - 9:40 am
"Epigenetics and Evolution in the Age of Synthetic Biology"
9:40 am - 10:00 am
Discussion
10:00 am - 10:30 am
Coffee Break
10:30 am - 11:10 am
"Visualizing Organelle Dynamics for (Almost) Forever at Super-Resolution"
11:10 am - 11:30 am
Discussion
11:30 am - 11:50 am
"De Novo Design of Protein Logic via Hydrogen Bond Network-Mediated Specificity: New Tools to Engineer Cellular Signaling"
11:50 am - 12:00 pm
Discussion
12:00 pm - 12:30 pm
Poster Previews
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Free Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 7:00 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
Industrial Applications of Synthetic Biology
7:30 pm - 7:50 pm
"The Synthetic DNA Engine for the Bioeconomy"
7:50 pm - 8:00 pm
Discussion
8:00 pm - 8:20 pm
"Building Scale and Flexibility at the Ginkgo Bioworks Foundry"
8:20 pm - 8:30 pm
Discussion
8:30 pm - 8:50 pm
"The Development of Novel Host Organisms for the Biotech Industry"
8:50 pm - 9:00 pm
Discussion
9:00 pm - 9:20 pm
"Engineering Bacteria as Living Therapeutics"
9:20 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Thursday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
9:00 am - 9:30 am
"Developing Complex, Environmentally-Responsive Genetic Circuits for Real-World Applications"
9:30 am - 9:45 am
Discussion
9:45 am - 10:15 am
"Test-Driving New Genetic Codes: In Silico , to In Vitro , to In Vivo "
10:15 am - 10:30 am
Discussion
10:30 am - 11:00 am
Coffee Break
11:00 am - 11:30 am
"Development and Applications of Universal Platforms for Genetic Code Expansion"
11:30 am - 11:45 am
Discussion
11:45 am - 11:55 am
"A Semi-Synthetic Organism with an Expanded Genetic Code"
11:55 am - 12:00 pm
Discussion
12:00 pm - 12:30 pm
Poster Previews
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Free Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Designing and Writing Genomes
7:30 pm - 8:10 pm
"Designing and Building Synthetic Eukaryotic Chromosomes and Genomes"
8:10 pm - 8:30 pm
Discussion
8:30 pm - 9:10 pm
"Daisy Drive Systems for Local and Community-Directed Ecological Engineering"
9:10 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Friday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am
Departure