Sessions

• Best practices
• Cell-free synthetic biology
• CRISPR systems
• Design and automation
• Evolution
• Emerging applications
• Emerging technologies and frontiers
• Genome engineering
• Mammalian synthetic biology
• Medicine
• Metabolic engineering
• Molecular programming and recording
• Microbiomes and microbial communities
• Multicellular systems
• Plant synthetic biology
• Reverse and forward engineering
• Sensing and signaling
• Synthetic biology within materials science
• Synthetic biology entrepreneurship and industry

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Keynote Speakers:

• Jack Szostak, Harvard University
• Jef Boeke, New York University
• Reshma Shetty, Ginkgo Bioworks
• June Medford, Colorado State University

Conference Chairs:

• Stephanie Culler, Persephone Biome
• Julius Lucks, Northwestern University

Organizing Committee:

• Jeff Barrick, University of Texas at Austin
• James Chappell, Rice University
• Tara Deans, University of Utah
• Mary Dunlop, Boston University
• Steve Evans, Dow AgroSciences
• Karmella Haynes, Arizona State University
• Nathan Hillson, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
• Neha Kamat, Northwestern University
• Emily Leproust, Twist Bioscience
• June Medford, Colorado State University
• Reshma Shetty, Ginkgo Bioworks
• Stanley Qi, Stanford University
• Harris Wang, Columbia University

Steering Committee:

• Michael Jewett, Northwestern University
• Richard Murray, California Institute of Technology
• Chris Voigt, Massachusetts Institute of Technology