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Technical Program

**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
     
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