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
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