2019 Synthetic Biology: Engineering, Evolution & Design (SEED)
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SEED 2019 will focus on advances in science, technology, applications, and related investments in the field of synthetic biology.
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
Keynote Speakers:
- Jack Szostak, Harvard University
- Jef Boeke, New York University
- Reshma Shetty, Ginkgo Bioworks
- June Medford, Colorado State University
Invited Speakers:
- Caroline Ajo-Franklin, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
- Lauren Andrews, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
- Karmella Haynes, Arizona State University
- Chang Liu, University of California, Irvine
- Elebeoba May, National Science Foundation
- Pablo Rabinowicz, U.S. Department of Energy
- David Rampulla, National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering
- Mikhail Shapiro, California Institute of Technology
- Jeff Tabor, Rice University
- Harris Wang, Columbia University
- Rhiju Das, Stanford University
- Zachary Sun, Tierra Biosciences
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
Highlights
Is Synthetic Biology Having a Moment?
Suddenly, synthetic biology is being discussed a lot beyond the walls of academia and the pages of scientific journals. Today, it abounds in the mainstream press.
Featured Speakers
Jef Boeke
Dr. Boeke is known for his foundational work on mechanistic and genomic aspects of retrotransposition. His lab develops new technologies in genetics, genomics and synthetic biology.Read more
June Medford
June Medford is a Professor of Biology at Colorado State University where she has been a faculty member since 1996. She completed her Ph.D. in 1986 at Yale University and did her postdoc with Monsanto’s Plant Molecular Biology Group.Read more
Reshma Shetty
Reshma Shetty co-founded synthetic biology Ginkgo Bioworks, Inc. in 2008. Spun out of MIT, Ginkgo’s mission is to make biology easier to engineer.Read more
Jack W. Szostak
Dr. Szostak is an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Professor of Genetics at Harvard Medical School, Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Harvard University, and the Alex Rich Distinguished Investigator in the Dept. of Molecular Biology and the Center for Computational and Integrative Biology at Massachusetts General Hospital. Dr. Szostak’s early research on telomere structure and function, and the role of telomere maintenance in preventing cellular senescence was recognized by the 2006 Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award and the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. In the 1990s Dr. Szostak and his colleagues developed in vitro selection as a tool for the isolation of functional RNA, DNA and protein molecules from large pools of random sequences. Dr. Szostak’s current research interests are in the laboratory synthesis of self-replicating systems and the origin of life.Read more