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
Keynote Session: In Vitro and Ex Vivo Directed Evolution
7:40 pm - 7:45 pm
Introduction by Discussion Leader
7:45 pm - 8:25 pm
"Rules and Tools for Finding Functional Proteins"
8:25 pm - 8:45 pm
Discussion
8:45 pm - 9:15 pm
"Ex Vivo Enzyme Cascades for Directed Evolution and Synthesis of Pharma and Nutritional Compounds"
9:15 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Monday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Ex Vivo, In Vivo and In Silico Directed Evolution
9:00 am - 9:05 am
Introduction by Discussion Leader
9:05 am - 9:25 am
"Engineering and Directed Evolution of Cellular Translation"
9:25 am - 9:35 am
Discussion
9:35 am - 10:05 am
"Rational Design of Symmetrical Pizza Proteins"
10:05 am - 10:20 am
Discussion
10:20 am - 10:50 am
Group Photo / Coffee Break
10:50 am - 11:20 am
"Engineering and Evolving Base Editors for the Chemical Modification of DNA Nucleobases"
11:20 am - 11:35 am
Discussion
11:35 am - 11:55 am
"Whole-Brain Cell Profiling Towards Organism-Level Synthetic Biology"
11:55 am - 12:05 pm
Discussion
12:05 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
Biomaterials for the Green Economy
7:30 pm - 7:35 pm
Introduction by Discussion Leader
7:35 pm - 7:45 pm
"A Cellular Device for Programmable Protein Secretion"
7:45 pm - 7:50 pm
Discussion
7:50 pm - 8:20 pm
"Spinning the Future of High Performance Materials"
8:20 pm - 8:35 pm
Discussion
8:35 pm - 9:10 pm
"Genomically Recoded Organisms: Living Foundries for Producing Novel Polymers and Materials"
9:10 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Tuesday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Industrial Applications of Synthetic Biology
9:00 am - 9:05 am
Introduction by Discussion Leader
9:05 am - 9:35 am
"Development of a Microbial Technology Platform for the Synthesis of Functional Glycans"
9:35 am - 9:50 am
Discussion
9:50 am - 10:10 am
"Ex Vivo Metabolism: Novel Enzyme Cascades to Synthesize Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients"
10:10 am - 10:20 am
Discussion
10:20 am - 10:50 am
Coffee Break
10:50 am - 11:20 am
"Enzymatic Approaches to Natural and Non-Natural Alkaloids"
11:20 am - 11:35 am
Discussion
11:35 am - 11:55 am
"Synthetic Metabolism to Expand the Chemical Landscape of Bacterial Cell Factories"
11:55 am - 12:05 pm
Discussion
12:05 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
Standards and Challenges in Scaling up Synthetic Biology
7:30 pm - 7:35 pm
Introduction by Discussion Leader
7:35 pm - 8:05 pm
"Cell Economics: The Interplay Between Growth and Gene Expression in Bacteria"
8:05 pm - 8:20 pm
Discussion
8:20 pm - 8:40 pm
"Developing Low-Cost Recombinant Protein Production Systems for the Developing World and Beyond"
8:40 pm - 8:50 pm
Discussion
8:50 pm - 9:15 pm
"Isobutene Production by Fermentation: From Research to Commercialization"
9:15 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Wednesday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Model-Driven Synthetic Biology
9:00 am - 9:05 am
Introduction by Discussion Leader
9:05 am - 9:25 am
"Developing an Improved and Unified Statistical Model of Protein Evolution"
9:25 am - 9:35 am
Discussion
9:35 am - 10:05 am
"Artificial Intelligence-Driven Protein Engineering"
10:05 am - 10:20 am
Discussion
10:20 am - 10:50 am
Coffee Break
10:50 am - 11:20 am
"Model-Based Design of Synthetic Bacterial Communities"
11:20 am - 11:35 am
Discussion
11:35 am - 11:55 am
"Automated Design of Synthetic Biology Circuits"
11:55 am - 12:05 pm
Discussion
12:05 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
Multicellular Synthetic Biology
7:30 pm - 7:35 pm
Introduction by Discussion Leader
7:35 pm - 7:55 pm
"Thermally-Inducible Gene Patterning in Artificial Tissues"
7:55 pm - 8:05 pm
Discussion
8:05 pm - 8:35 pm
"Engineering Cells to Function as Novel Delivery Vehicles"
8:35 pm - 8:50 pm
Discussion
8:50 pm - 9:15 pm
"Synthetic Development: Programming Multicellular Self-Organization in Mammalian Cells"
9:15 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Thursday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Biosafety and Biocontainment
9:00 am - 9:05 am
Introduction by Discussion Leader
9:05 am - 9:35 am
"Designer Algae for Biomanufacturing"
9:35 am - 9:50 am
Discussion
9:50 am - 10:20 am
"Creating Designer Biofilms"
10:20 am - 10:35 am
Discussion
10:35 am - 11:05 am
Coffee Break
11:05 am - 11:35 am
"Building Darwinian Systems from the Bottom up"
11:35 am - 11:50 am
Discussion
11:50 am - 12:00 pm
"Developing Novel Biopolymers"
12:00 pm - 12:05 pm
Discussion
12:05 pm - 12:30 pm
Poster Previews
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Free Time
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Poster Session
5:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Keynote Session: Engineering Microbial Communities
5:30 pm - 5:35 pm
Introduction by Discussion Leader
5:35 pm - 5:45 pm
5:45 pm - 5:50 pm
Discussion
5:50 pm - 6:30 pm
"Assembly and Evolution of Synthetic Microbial Communities"
6:30 pm - 6:50 pm
Discussion
6:50 pm - 7:15 pm
"Engineering Yeast-Endosymbionts as a Step Towards Synthetic Organelle Evolution"
7:15 pm - 7:30 pm
Discussion
8:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Dinner
Friday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am
Departure