**Program is subject to change. Last updated 6/11.**
Time Zone: Pacific Daylight Time (PDT)
| Tuesday, June 15 | ||
| Start Time | End Time | |
| 7:55 AM | 8:00 AM | Welcome Remarks |
| 8:00 AM | 8:30 AM | Keynote Speaker: Learning to Program Cellular Machines: Engineering Cells to Treat Disease, Build Tissues, and Elucidate Principles Wendell Lim, University of California, San Francisco |
| 8:30 AM | 8:35 AM | Stretch Break and Hallway Chats |
| 8:35 AM | 9:25 AM | Sessions 1: Translating Synthetic Biology into the Clinic Session Chairs: Karmella Haynes, Emory University and Travis Young, Calibr |
| 8:35 AM | 8:55 AM | Invited Speaker: Delivering RNA outside the liver by testing thousands of nanoparticles in vivo using DNA barcodes James Dahlman, Georgia Institute of Technology |
| 8:55 AM | 9:10 AM | Self-Replicating mRNA Therapeutics on Cancer Immunotherapy-“Multifunctional Oncolytic Nanoparticles Deliver Self-Replicating IL-12 RNA to Eliminate Established Tumors and Prime Systemic Immunity Yingzhong Li, MIT |
| 9:10 AM | 9:25 AM | A Viral Vector Engineered for Improved Noninvasive Gene Delivery to the Brain Jerzy O. Szablowski, Rice University |
| 9:25 AM | 9:30 AM | Stretch Break and Hallway Chats |
| 9:30 AM | 10:30 AM | Panel 1: Bringing Synthetic Biology Products to Patients Moderator: Travis Young, Calibr |
| 9:30 AM | 10:30 AM | Gary Lee, Senti Biosciences Bob Valamehr, Fate Therapeutics Inc. |
| 10:30 AM | 10:35 AM | Stretch Break and Hallway Chats |
| 10:35 AM | 11:25 AM | Sessions 2: Synthetic Biology Approaches in Pandemic Response/ Infectious Diseases Session Chairs: Chang Liu, University of California, Irvine and Irene Chen, University of California, Los Angeles |
| 10:35 AM | 10:55 AM | Invited Speaker: Interpreting the evolution of SARS-CoV-2 Jesse Bloom, University of Washington |
| 10:55 AM | 11:10 AM | Synthetic Repertoires Derived from Convalescent COVID-19 Patients Enable Discovery of Sars-Cov-2 Neutralizing Antibodies and a Novel Quaternary Binding Modality Jule Goike, University of Texas at Austin |
| 11:10 AM | 11:25 AM | Programming Synthesis and Assembly of Viral Parts in 2D Compartments Ohad Vonshak, Weizmann Institute of Science |
| 11:25 AM | 12:25 PM | Sponsored Workshops |
| 12:25 PM | 1:25 PM | Poster Session and Networking |
| Wednesday, June 16 | ||
| Start Time | End Time | |
| 7:55 AM | 8:00 AM | Opening Remarks |
| 8:00 AM | 8:30 AM | Keynote Speaker: Synthetic Biology in or near the Clinic Jim Collins, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| 8:30 AM | 8:35 AM | Stretch Break and Hallway Chats |
| 8:35 AM | 9:25 AM | Sessions 3: Synthetic Biology for Safety, Security, and Defense Session Chairs: Nathan Hillson, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Pamela Peralta-Yahya, Georgia Tech |
| 8:35 AM | 8:55 AM | Invited Speaker: Developing an International Common Mechanism for DNA Synthesis Screening Nicole Wheeler, University of Birmingham |
| 8:55 AM | 9:10 AM | Discovery at Depth: A Whole Cell Bioreporter for Subterranean Detection of Chemical Agents Danielle S. LeSassier, Signature Science, LLC |
| 9:10 AM | 9:25 AM | Distributed Information Encoding Using Self-Organized Patterns Jia Lu, Duke University |
| 9:25 AM | 9:30 AM | Stretch Break and Hallway Chats |
| 9:30 AM | 10:30 AM | Panel 2: Safety and Biosecurity Moderator: Nathan Hillson, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory |
| 9:30 AM | 10:30 AM | James Diggans, Twist Bioscience Pete Carr, Lincoln Labs Clem Fortman, BIOMADE Megan Palmer, Stanford University |
| 10:30 AM | 10:35 AM | Stretch Break and Hallway Chats |
| 10:35 AM | 11:25 AM | Sessions 4: Synthetic Biology for Agriculture, Food and Personal Care Session Chairs: Michael Miller, DuPont and Sonya Clarkson, Conagen |
| 10:35 AM | 10:55 AM | Invited Speaker: Zymergen's Biofacturing Platform Aaron Kimball, Zymergen |
| 10:55 AM | 11:10 AM | Breakthroughs in Plant Based PHB Production Kristi D. Snell, Yield10 Bioscience |
| 11:10 AM | 11:25 AM | Universal Growth Switch for Two-Stage Bioprocess in Bacteria Arvi Joers, University of Tartu |
| 11:25 AM | 12:25 PM | Sponsored Workshops |
| 12:25 PM | 1:25 PM | Poster Session and Networking |
| Thursday, June 17 | ||
| Start Time | End Time | |
| 7:55 AM | 8:00 AM | Opening Remarks |
| 8:00 AM | 8:30 AM | Keynote Speaker: Deep learning applied to Genomics: Deep semantic DNA and protein representation Toby Richardson, AbSci |
| 8:30 AM | 8:35 AM | Stretch Break and Hallway Chats |
| 8:35 AM | 9:25 AM | Sessions 5: Computation, Artificial Intelligence, and Machine Learning for Biological Design Session Chairs: Mary Dunlop, Boston University and James Carothers, University of Washington |
| 8:35 AM | 8:55 AM | Invited Speaker: Guiding synthetic biology via Automated Recommendation Tool (ART) Tijana Radivojevic, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory |
| 8:55 AM | 9:10 AM | Machine Learning Guided Workflow for Ribosome Binding Site Engineering Maciej B. Holowko, CSIRO Synthetic Biology Future Science Platform (Australia) |
| 9:10 AM | 9:25 AM | Machine-Guided Cell-Fate Engineering Evan Appleton, Harvard Medical School |
| 9:25 AM | 9:30 AM | Stretch Break and Hallway Chats |
| 9:30 AM | 10:30 AM | Panel 3: Scale up and Commercialization Moderator: Mark Styczynski, Georgia Institute of Technology |
| 9:30 AM | 10:30 AM | Christine Santos, Manus Bio. Deepti Tanjore, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Oliver Yu, Conagen Douglas Friedman, BioMADE |
| 10:30 AM | 10:35 AM | Stretch Break and Hallway Chats |
| 10:35 AM | 11:25 AM | Sessions 6: Cell-free Synthetic Biology Session Chairs: Vincent Noireaux, University of Minnesota and Mark Styczynski, Georgia Institute of Technology |
| 10:35 AM | 10:55 AM | Invited Speaker: The CRISPR Diagnostic platform: Detection of SARS-CoV-2 Clare Fasching, Mammoth Bioscience |
| 10:55 AM | 11:10 AM | Cell-Free Biosensing for Environmental and Performance Monitoring Kathryn Beabout, Air Force Research Laboratory |
| 11:10 AM | 11:25 AM | A Partially Self-Regenerating Synthetic Cell Barbora Lavickova, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne |
| 11:25 AM | 12:25 PM | Panel 4: Funder’s Panel Moderator: Karmella Haynes, Emory University |
| 11:25 AM | 12:25 PM | Theresa Good, NSF MCB Anthony Garza, NSF Bianca Garner, NSF David Rampulla, NIH NIBIB Blake Bextine, DARPA BTO |
| 12:25 PM | 12:35 PM | Introduction to Software for Synthetic Biology Workflows Workshop Chris Myers, University of Colorado |
| 12:35 PM | 1:00 PM | Stretch Break and Hallway Chats |
| 1:00 PM | 3:00 PM | Software for Synthetic Biology Workflows: How to Improve Your Productivity and Impact |
| Chris J. Myers, University of Colorado Boulder Jacob Beal, BBN/Raytheon Gonzalo Vidal Pena, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile Daniel Bryce, SIFT |
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| Friday, June 18 | ||
| Start Time | End Time | |
| 7:55 AM | 8:00 AM | Opening Remarks |
| 8:00 AM | 8:30 AM | Keynote Speaker: Engineered Autonomous Control of Metabolic Pathways Kristala Prather, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| 8:30 AM | 8:35 AM | Stretch Break and Hallway Chats |
| 8:35 AM | 9:25 AM | Sessions 7: Emerging Technologies Session Chair: Jesse Zalatan, University of Washington |
| 8:35 AM | 8:55 AM | Invited Speaker: Crage Enables Rapid Activation of Biosynthetic Gene Clusters in Undomesticated Bacteria Yasuo Yoshikuni, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory |
| 8:55 AM | 9:10 AM | Scalable DNA Data Storage Systems Albert J. Keung, North Carolina State University |
| 9:10 AM | 9:25 AM | Co-Transcriptionally Encoded RNA Strand Displacement Circuits Samuel Schaffter, National Institute of Standards and Technology |
| 9:25 AM | 9:30 AM | Stretch Break and Hallway Chats |
| 9:30 AM | 10:30 AM | Panel 5: Future and Opportunities in Synthetic Biology Moderator: Chang Liu, University of California, Irvine |
| 9:30 AM | 10:30 AM | Andrew Ellington, University Texas at Austin Pamela Silver, Harvard University Ahmad (Mo) Khalil, Boston University Jay Keasling, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory |
| 10:30 AM | 10:35 AM | Stretch Break and Hallway Chats |
| 10:35 AM | 11:25 AM | Sessions 8: Emerging Applications Session Chairs: Kamil Godula, University of California, San Diego and Joshua Leonard, Northwestern University |
| 10:35 AM | 10:55 AM | Invited Speaker: HyperXpress: High-throughput, one-pot DNA assembly and protein production in low microliter volumes using cell-free extracts Johannes Kabisch, NTNU |
| 10:55 AM | 11:10 AM | Terminal Deoxynucleotidyl Transferase Acts As a Signal Sensor and Writer for Biorecording and Data Storage Applications Namita Bhan, Northwestern University |
| 11:10 AM | 11:25 AM | Prospects to Enhance Biological and Mechanical Performance in Living Building Materials Juliana Artier, University of Colorado Boulder |
| 11:25 AM | 11:45 AM | ACS Synthetic Biology Young Innovator Award: Synthetic Biology for Mammalian Cell Engineering and Antivirals Stanley Qi, Stanford University |
| 11:45 AM | 11:50 AM | Closing Remarks |