Saturday
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2:00 pm - 5:00 pm |
Arrival and Check-in
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3:30 pm - 3:45 pm |
Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff / Welcome from the GRS Chair
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3:45 pm - 4:30 pm |
Diversity of Synthetic Biology Solutions
Discussion Leader: Jeff Bouffard (Northeastern University, USA)
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3:45 pm - 3:50 pm |
Introduction by Discussion Leader
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3:50 pm - 4:05 pm |
Rocio Espada (ESPCI Paris, France)
"Supervised High-Throughput Directed Evolution Experiments by Next Generation Sequencing"
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4:05 pm - 4:10 pm |
Discussion
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4:10 pm - 4:25 pm |
Nick Mukhitov (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)
"Engineering Microbial Systems for Living and Responsive Mycelium-Based Biomaterials"
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4:25 pm - 4:30 pm |
Discussion
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4:30 pm - 6:00 pm |
Poster Session
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6:00 pm - 7:00 pm |
Dinner
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7:30 pm - 9:30 pm |
Foundational Tools, Approaches and Insights
Discussion Leaders: Yonatan Chemla (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel) and Una Nattermann (University of Washington, USA)
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7:30 pm - 7:45 pm |
Christopher Jakobson (Stanford University School of Medicine, USA)
"Defining the Architecture of Complex Traits to Enable Genome Design"
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7:45 pm - 7:50 pm |
Discussion
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7:50 pm - 8:05 pm |
Stephanie Chun (University of Michigan, USA)
"Biocatalytic Derivatization of a-Amino Acids"
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8:05 pm - 8:10 pm |
Discussion
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8:10 pm - 8:25 pm |
Huachun Liu (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)
"Directed Evolution of Protein-Protein Interactions"
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8:25 pm - 8:30 pm |
Discussion
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8:30 pm - 8:45 pm |
Karen Duffy (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, United Kingdom)
"Polymerases for XNAs"
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8:45 pm - 8:50 pm |
Discussion
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8:50 pm - 9:05 pm |
Jinyue Pu (University of Chicago, USA)
"RNA Polymerase-Based Biosensors to Analyze, Control and Evolve Biology"
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9:05 pm - 9:10 pm |
Discussion
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9:10 pm - 9:25 pm |
Jeremy Chacon (University of Minnesota, USA)
"Designing Synthetic Ecological Interactions with Dynamic Genome-Scale Metabolic Modeling"
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9:25 pm - 9:30 pm |
Discussion
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Sunday
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7:30 am - 8:30 am |
Breakfast
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9:00 am - 11:00 am |
Redesigned Interactions and Applied Solutions
Discussion Leaders: Nicolas Rouleau (Allen Discovery Center, Tufts University, USA) and Benjamin Scott (National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA)
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9:00 am - 9:15 am |
Arash Farhadi (California Institute of Technology, USA)
"Ultrasound Imaging of Gene Expression with Mammalian Acoustic Reporter Genes"
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9:15 am - 9:20 am |
Discussion
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9:20 am - 9:35 am |
Qing Sun (Texas A&M University, USA)
"Engineering Microbes to Interfere with Host Behaviors"
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9:35 am - 9:40 am |
Discussion
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9:40 am - 9:55 am |
Marilyn Lee (U.S. Army CCDC Chemical Biological Center, USA)
"Biosynthesis of Porphyrins for Photoactive Materials"
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9:55 am - 10:00 am |
Discussion
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10:00 am - 10:15 am |
Matthew Lee (University of Kent, United Kingdom)
"Engineering a Bacterial Cytoscaffold for Enhanced Cellular Organization"
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10:15 am - 10:20 am |
Discussion
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10:20 am - 10:35 am |
Andrea Belluati (University of Basel, Switzerland)
"A Nanotechnological Approach to Synthetic Biology: Cascade Reactions in Polymeric Compartments"
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10:35 am - 10:40 am |
Discussion
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10:40 am - 10:55 am |
Yan-Kay Ho (University College London, United Kingdom)
"Investigating Genetic Code Plasticity in Transient Expression Systems"
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10:55 am - 11:00 am |
Discussion
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11:00 am - 12:30 pm |
Poster Session
Coffee will be served in the poster area from 11:00 am - 11:30 am
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12:30 pm - 1:30 pm |
Lunch
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1:30 pm - 2:30 pm |
Mentorship Component: Designing Biology for Sustainable Solutions
With the help of mentors, groups will brainstorm pie-in-the-sky solutions to the biggest problems facing the Earth today, then develop a more down-to-Earth plan using synthetic biology technologies. A short panel discussion by the mentors will finish the session.
Discussion Leaders: Abe Pressman (National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA) and Daniel Anderson (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)
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1:30 pm - 2:30 pm |
Panel Discussion
Designing Biology for Sustainable Solutions
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Andrew Ellington (University of Texas at Austin, USA)
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Vitor Pinheiro (KU Leuven, Belgium)
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2:30 pm - 3:00 pm |
Evaluation Period
Fill in GRS Evaluation Forms
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3:00 pm |
Seminar Concludes
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