SEED 2017 Program
| Monday, June 19 | |
| 3:00PM-7:00PM | Registration / Check-In |
| Tuesday, June 20 | |
| 7:00AM-12:00PM | Registration / Check-In |
| 8:45AM-9:00AM | Welcome - Eric Klavins, University of Washington and Reshma Shetty, Ginkgo Bioworks |
| 9:00AM-10:00AM | Keynote 1: De novo designed protein logic for synthetic biology - David Baker, University of Washington
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| 10:00AM-10:30AM | Coffee Break |
| 10:30AM-12:15PM | Session 1: Molecular Programming |
| 10:30AM-11:00AM | Synthetic Epigenetics - Ahmad (Mo) Khalil, Boston University |
| 11:00AM-11:30AM | Controlling Materials with Biomolecular Circuits - Rebecca Schulman, Johns Hopkins |
| 11:30AM-12:00PM | Towards Developing Complex, Environmentally-Responsive Genetic Circuits for Real-World Applications - Tae Seok Moon, Washington University in St. Louis |
| 12:00PM-12:15PM | Construction and Characterization of Consensus Toggle Switches - Bárbara de Freitas Magalhães, Rice University |
| 12:15PM-1:45PM | Lunch |
| 1:45PM-2:45PM | Session 2: High Throughput Design Space Exploration |
| 1:45PM-2:15PM | Deep Learning of the Regulatory Grammar of Yeast 5’ Untranslated Regions from 500,000 Random Sequences - Benjamin Groves, University of Washington |
| 2:15PM-2:30PM | Turbocharge RNA Device Engineering with Data-Rich Strategies and Automation - Joy S. Xiang, Stanford University |
| 2:30PM-2:45PM | Design of Protein Glycosylation Sites By Cell-Free Protein Synthesis and Mass Spectrometry of Self-Assembled Monolayers - Weston Kightlinger, Northwestern University |
| 2:45PM-3:45PM | Session 3: Manufacturing |
| 2:45PM-3:00PM | Expanding the Portfolio of Bio-Manufacturing: Advanced Automation, Biology, and Computational Tools for Rapid Microbe Engineering - Victoria Hsiao, Amyris |
| 3:00PM-3:15PM | Any Molecule in Any Microbe, from Lab to Full-Scale Manufacturing - Kasia Gora, Zymergen |
| 3:15PM-3:30PM | Vmax™ – a Novel Microbial Host for the Biotech Industry - Matthew Weinstock, SGI |
| 3:30PM-3:45PM | You Design it, We Build it - Emily Leproust, Twist Bioscience |
| 3:45PM-4:15PM | Coffee Break |
| 4:15PM-5:45PM | Session 4: Microbiome Engineering |
| 4:15PM-4:30PM | A Butyrate-Producing Synthetic Biotic to Treat Inflammatory Bowel Disease In Vivo - Adam Fisher, Synlogic |
| 4:30PM-5:00PM | Engineering the Mammalian Gut Microbiome in Situ - Harris Wang, Columbia University |
| 5:00PM-5:30PM | Paper-Based Diagnostic for Assessing the Gut Microbiome - Melissa Takahashi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| 5:30PM-5:45PM | Microbial Delivery of Antimicrobial Peptides for Protection Against Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococcus - Kathryn Geldart, University of Minnesota |
| 5:45PM-6:45PM | Reception |
| Wednesday, June 21 | |
| 8:00AM-12:00PM | Registration / Check-In |
| 8:30AM-9:30AM | Keynote 2: Engineering Next-Generation T Cells for Cancer Immunotherapy - Yvonne Chen, University of California, Los Angeles |
| 9:30AM-10:00AM | Coffee Break |
| 10:00AM-11:30AM | Session 5: Applications of Synthetic Biology |
| 10:00AM-10:30AM | Applications of Cell-Free Synthetic Biology - Richard Murray, Caltech |
| 10:30AM-11:00AM | Pipeline Technology from Oxitec Ltd: Genetic Control of Mosquito Vectors and Crop Pests - Nathan Rose, Oxitec |
| 11:00AM-11:30AM | Towards Safe and Compatible Organs for Transplantation- Marc Guell, eGenesis |
| 11:30AM-1:15PM | Lunch |
| 1:15PM-2:15PM | Government Panel |
| 2:15PM-3:00PM | Session 6: Re-Writing the Genetic Code |
| 2:15PM-2:45PM | Orthogonal Pair Directed, Codon Specific, Sense Codon Reassignment: An Improved Tool for Evaluating the Plasticity of the E coli Genetic Code - John D. (Nick) Fisk, Colorado State University |
| 2:45PM-3:00PM | Controlling the Metabolic Labeling of Proteins with Non-Natural Amino Acids Using Engineered Ligand-Responsive Amino Acyl tRNA Synthetases - Emily Thomas, Rice University |
| 3:00PM-3:30PM | ACS Synthetic Biology Young Investigator Award Lecture Engineering and Optimizing Biofuel-Tolerant Microbes - Mary Dunlop, Boston University |
| 3:30PM-4:00PM | Coffee Break |
| 4:00PM-5:30PM | Session 7: Mammalian Synthetic Biology |
| 4:00PM-4:30PM | Ron Weiss, MIT |
| 4:30PM-5:00PM | Universal Chimeric Antigen Receptors for Multiplexed and Logic Control of T Cell Responses - Wilson Wong, Boston University |
| 4:00PM-5:15PM | Programming Protein Function with Synthetic RNA Splicing Devices - Melina Mathur, Stanford University |
| 5:15PM-5:30PM | Understanding and Mitigating the Effects of Limited Transcriptional Resources in Mammalian Cells - Ross Jones, MIT |
| 5:30PM-6:00PM | Rapid Fire Presentations for Poster Session A |
| 6:00PM-7:30PM | Poster Session A |
| Thursday, June 22 | |
| 8:00AM-12:00PM | Registration / Check-In |
| 8:30AM-9:30AM | Keynote 3: Harnessing the Chemistry of Plant Natural Product Biosynthesis - Sarah O'Connor, John Innes Centre |
| 9:30AM-10:00AM | Coffee Break |
| 10:00AM-12:00PM | Session 8: Metabolic Engineering |
| 10:00AM-10:30AM | Conversion of Glycerol to 3-Hydroxypropanoic Acid By Genetically Engineered Bacillus Subtilis - Aida Kalantari, Chalmers University of Technology |
| 10:30AM-11:00AM | Improving E. coli Methyl Ketone Production during Fed-Batch Fermentation By Co-Factor Balancing - Ee-Been Goh, Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI) |
| 11:00AM-11:30AM | Production of Industrial Products from Natural Gas Using an Engineered Methanotroph Biocatalyst - Mark Held, Intrexon |
| 11:30AM-12:00PM | Metabolic Engineering Approaches to Bio-Orthogonal Chemistry - Michelle Chang, UC Berkeley |
| 12:00PM-1:30PM | Lunch |
| 1:30PM-3:15PM | Session 9: Genome Editing |
| 1:30PM-2:00PM | Directed Evolution of Targeted Cas9 to Specific Cleavage Sites - Barrett Steinberg, Editas |
| 2:00PM-2:30PM | CRISPR technologies 2.0: Harnessing the next generation of Cas Nucleases for genome editing and beyond - Chase Beisel, North Carolina State University |
| 2:30PM-2:45PM | Rational Engineering of Chimaeric Recombinases for Genomic Editing - Jumai A. Abioye, University of Glasgow |
| 2:45PM-3:15PM | Kinetic Design of RNA Architectures for Eengineering and Analyzing Systems on a Large Scale - James Carothers, University of Washington |
| 3:15PM-3:45PM | Coffee Break |
| 3:45PM-5:30PM | Session 10: Genetic Engineering Tools |
| 3:45PM-4:15PM | Twin-Primer Non-Enzymatic DNA Assembly: An Efficient and Accurate Multi-Part DNA Assembly Method - Jing Liang, Agency for Science, Technology and Research |
| 4:15PM-4:45PM | High-Throughput Microfluidic Electroporation for Library Generation - Paulo A. Garcia, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| 4:45PM-5:00PM | Nanoparticles As Biomolecular Cargo Transporters in Plants and Plastids - Gozde Demirer, University of California Berkeley |
| 5:00PM-5:15PM | Adding to the Genome: Accuate Targeting and Effecient Insertion of Long ssDNA - Adam Clore, Integrated DNA Technologies |
| 5:15PM-5:30PM | Use of Synthetic Sgrna to Improve CRISPR Editing Efficiency - Kevin Holden, Synthego |
| 5:30PM-6:00PM | Rapid Fire Presentations for Poster Session B |
| 6:00PM-7:30PM | Poster Session B |
| Friday, June 23 | |
| 8:00AM-9:30AM | Registration / Check-In |
| 8:30AM-9:30AM | Keynote 4: Synthetic Biology Platforms for Natural Product Bbiosynthesis and Discovery - Christina Smolke, Stanford |
| 9:30AM-10:00AM | Coffee Break |
| 10:00AM-12:00PM | Session 11: Mathematical Modeling and Design |
| 10:00AM-10:30AM | Computational Design of Novel Enzymes and Metabolic Pathways for Industrial Biotechnology - Alexandre Zanghellini, Arzeda |
| 10:30AM-11:00AM | A Tug-of-War Mechanism for Pattern Formation in a Genetic Network - Marcella M. Gomez, UC Berkeley |
| 11:00AM-11:30AM | Algorithmic Solutions to Reliably Engineer Thousands of Operons, Pathways, and Genomes - Howard Salis, Penn State University |
| 11:30AM-12:00PM | A Synthetic Biology Workflow Using Sbol - Chris J. Myers, University of Utah |
| 12:00PM-12:15PM | Closing Remarks - Eric Klavins, University of Washington |
