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All sessions for this conference will be live and scheduled in multiple blocks across the 24-hour day to accommodate and maximize engagement for participants across all time zones. We recommend using the "Add to Calendar" feature on EACH BLOCK to ensure you have it in your calendar in the right time zone.
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Live Program from: July 11, 2:00 PM PDT/ 5:00 PM EDT/ 21:00 GMT/ 23:00 CEST/ July 12, 5:00 CST (China) |
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| 20:00 | 21:00 | Virtual Doors Open for Networking |
| 21:00 | 21:50 | Welcome and Opening Ceremony / Plenary 1 |
| 21:00 | 21:10 | Hal Alper (University of Texas at Austin, USA), Kristala Prather (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA) |
| 21:10 | 21:15 | Jens Nielsen (Technical University of Denmark, Denmark) |
| 21:15 | 21:50 | Sunil Chandran (Amyris, USA). Clean Manufacturing: Powered by Biology |
| 21:50 | 22:00 | Break |
| 22:00 | 22:55 | Plant Biotechnology |
| 22:00 | 22:05 | Intro by session chairs: Christie Peebles (Colorado State University, USA) and Andrew Hanson (University of Florida, USA) |
| 22:05 | 22:25 | Elizabeth Sattely (Stanford University, USA). Discovery and Engineering of Plant Chemistry for Plant and Human Health |
| 22:25 | 22:40 | Karsten Temme (Pivot Bio, USA). Progress on the Path to Self-Fertilizing Cereal Crops |
| 22:40 | 22:55 | Joe Chappell (University of Kentucky, USA). Unraveling Native Biosynthetic Machinery to Enhance Chemical Production Platforms in Plants |
| 22:55 | 23:30 | Networking Session |
| BLOCK 2 | ||
| Live Program | ||
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Live Program from: July 12, 7:00 AM PDT/ 10:00 AM EDT/ 14:00 GMT/ 16:00 CEST/ 22:00 CST (China) |
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| 12:00 | 13:45 | Re-broadcast of Block 1 presentations |
| 13:45 | 14:00 | Virtual Doors Open for Networking |
| 14:00 | 15:10 | Syn Bio: Design, Control, and Expansion of metabolism |
| 14:00 | 14:05 | Intro by session chairs: Junbiao Dai (Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, China) and Keith Edward Jaggard Tyo (Northwestern University, USA) |
| 14:05 | 14:25 | Ramon Gonzalez (University of South Florida, USA). New-to-Nature Pathways for the Microbial Synthesis of Natural Products |
| 14:25 | 14:40 | Ying-Jin Yuan (Tianjin University, China). Directed genome evolution driven by structural variation |
| 14:40 | 14:55 | Chris Voigt (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA). Computer Aided Design of Ripp Pathways, from Therapeutics to Optical Materials |
| 14:55 | 15:10 | Han Li (University of California, Irvine, USA). Engineering an Orthogonal Redox Cofactor System for Cell-Free and Whole-Cell Biocatalysis |
| 15:10 | 15:35 | Networking/Break: Q+A for speakers |
| 15:35 | 16:40 | Plenary 2 / Stephanopoulos Award |
| 15:35 | 15:45 | Hal Alper (University of Texas at Austin, USA), Greg Stephanopoulos (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA) |
| 15:45 | 16:05 | Jens Nielsen (Technical University of Denmark, Denmark). Gregory Stephanopoulos Award Presentation |
| 16:05 | 16:40 | Sarah O'Connor (Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Germany). Harnessing the Chemistry of Medicinal Plants |
| 16:40 | 18:00 | Poster Session A - featuring poster groups 1, 2, 3 |
| BLOCK 3 | ||
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Live Program from: July 12, 8:30 PM PDT/ 11:30 PM EDT/ July 13, 3:30 GMT/ 5:30 CEST/ 11:30 CST (China) |
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| 0:45 | 3:00 | Re-broadcast of Block 2 presentations |
| 3:00 | 3:30 | Virtual Doors Open for Networking |
| 3:30 | 4:40 | Metabolic Engineering of Microbes I |
| Dedicated to Lonnie Ingram with an introduction by Ramon Gonzalez. | ||
| 3:30 | 3:35 | Intro by session chairs: Lori Maggio-Hall (International Flavors & Fragrances, USA) and Mark Blenner (University of Delaware, USA) |
| 3:35 | 3:55 | Akihiko Kondo (Kobe University, Japan) |
| 3:55 | 4:10 | Jim Liao (Academia Sinica, Taiwan). Genome editing and evolution of a synthetic methylotrophic E. coli strain that grows solely with methanol |
| 4:10 | 4:25 | Birgitta Ebert (University of Queensland, Australia). Multi-Level Engineering of Triterpenoid Production in Saccharomyces Cerevisiae |
| 4:25 | 4:40 | George Chen (Tsinghua University, China). Engineering Halomonas As a Chassis for Unsterile Production of Various Bioproducts |
| 4:40 | 6:00 | Poster Session B - featuring poster groups 4, 5, 6 |
| BLOCK 4 | ||
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Live Program from: July 13, 7:00 AM PDT/ 10:00 AM EDT/ 14:00 GMT/ 16:00 CEST/ 22:00 CST (China) |
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| 12:20 | 13:30 | Re-broadcast of Block 3 presentations |
| 13:30 | 14:00 | Virtual Doors Open for Networking |
| 14:00 | 15:10 | Metabolic Engineering of Microbes II |
| 14:00 | 14:05 | Intro by session chairs: Patrick Westfall (Inscripta, USA) and Zengyi Shao (Iowa State University, USA) |
| 14:05 | 14:25 | Michael Jewett (Northwestern University, USA). Cell-Free Prototyping and Rapid Optimization of Biosynthetic Enzymes for Cellular Design |
| 14:25 | 14:40 | Christoph Wittmann (Saarland University, Germany). De-novo synthesis of polyethylene terephthalate (PET) from lignin using an energy-optimized Pseudomonas putida strain with streamlined pathway fluxes and enhanced robustness |
| 14:40 | 14:55 | Nancy DaSilva (University of California, Irvine, USA). Metabolic Engineering of Kluyveromyces Marxianus for High-Level Synthesis of Biobased Chemicals |
| 14:55 | 15:10 | Diethard Mattanovich (University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Austria). An Engineered Calvin Cycle Enables the Yeast Komagataella Phaffii to Grow and Produce Organic Acids from CO2 |
| 15:10 | 15:35 | Networking/Break + Q&A for speakers |
| 15:35 | 16:15 | Poster Session - featuring poster groups 5, 6 |
| 16:15 | 17:10 | Computational design and models/methods |
| Dedicated to Jenny Reed with an introduction by Brian Pfleger | ||
| 16:15 | 16:20 | Intro by session chairs: Ludmilla Aristilde (Northwestern University, USA) and Isabel Rocha (Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, ITQB NOVA, Portugal) |
| 16:20 | 16:40 | Jens Nielsen (Technical University of Denmark, Denmark). Computational Design of Yeast Metabolism |
| 16:40 | 16:55 | Pablo Carbonell (Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain). Automated Tools for Metabolic Pathway Design to Close the Learning Loop |
| 16:55 | 17:10 | Soha Hassoun (Tufts University, USA). Predicting Promiscuity of Enzymes on Substrates using Knowledge-Guided Deep-Learning Models |
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| 17:10 | 17:40 |
Digital Genome Engineering: Unlocking the Unlimited Potential of Biology - Inscripta |
| BLOCK 5 | ||
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Live Program from: July 13, 9:00 PM PDT/ July 14, 12:00 AM EDT/ 4:00 GMT/ 6:00 CEST/ 12:00 CST (China) |
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| 1:25 | 3:30 | Re-broadcast of Block 4 presentations |
| 3:30 | 4:00 | Virtual Doors Open for Networking |
| 4:00 | 4:45 | A new home for secondary metabolites: in microbes (PART A) |
| 4:00 | 4:20 | Intro by session chairs: Yanran Li (University of California Riverside, USA) and Tiangang Liu (Wuhan University, China) |
| 4:05 | 4:25 | Jay Keasling (University of California, Berkeley, USA). Artificial Biosynthetic Pathway for an Unnatural Terpenoids |
| 4:25 | 4:45 | Claudia Vickers (CSIRO, Australia). Synthetic Biology Tools to Control Subcellular Carbon Competition and Biocatalysis Conditions: Isoprenoids As a Model System |
| 4:45 | 5:30 | Poster Session - featuring poster groups 1, 2/ Q+A Sessions |
| 5:30 | 6:00 | A new home for secondary metabolites: in microbes (PART B) |
| 5:30 | 5:45 | Irina Borodina (Technical University of Denmark, Denmark). Engineering Yeast to Produce Fungal Secondary Metabolites |
| 5:45 | 6:00 | Volker Wendisch (Bielefeld University, Germany). New Routes to Fermentative Production of Functionalized Amino Acids from Renewable Carbon Sources |
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Live Program from: July 14, 2:00 PM PDT/ 5:00 PM EDT/ 21:00 GMT/ 23:00 CEST/ July 15, 5:00 CST (China) |
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| 19:15 | 20:30 | Re-broadcast of Block 5 presentations |
| 20:30 | 21:00 | Virtual Doors Open for Networking |
| 21:00 | 22:25 | Lab to Industrial Scale: Realizing the potential of a biobased economy |
| 21:00 | 21:05 | Intro by session chairs: Yin Li (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China) and Christine Santos (Manus Biosynthesis, USA) |
| 21:05 | 21:25 | Alexander Kedo (Cathay Biotech Inc., USA). Scale Up to a Million Tons: Bio-polymers at Petrol Scale |
| 21:25 | 21:45 | Jennifer Holmgren (LanzaTech, USA). Recycling Carbon- Innovating for a Carbon Smart Future |
| 21:45 | 22:05 | Aji Parayil (Manus Bio, USA). Reinventing Chemical Manufacturing Using Biotechnology: Manus Bio Approach |
| 22:05 | 22:25 | Hiroshi Izui (Ajinomoto, USA). Expanding the Possibility of Microbial Fermentation from Amino Acids |
| 22:25 | 23:00 | Poster Session - featuring poster groups 3, 4 |
| BLOCK 7 | ||
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Live Program from: July 14, 9:00 PM PDT/ July 15, 12:00 AM EDT/ 4:00 GMT/ 6:00 CEST/ 12:00 CST (China) |
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| 2:05 | 3:30 | Re-broadcast of Block 6 presentations |
| 3:30 | 4:00 | Virtual Doors Open for Networking |
| 4:00 | 4:55 | Adaptive/Directed Evolution and Enzyme Engineering |
| 4:00 | 4:05 | Intro by session chairs: Alexandre Zanghellini (Arzeda, USA) and Aditya Kunjapur (University of Delaware) |
| 4:05 | 4:20 | Brian Pfleger (University of Wisconsin, USA). Engineering Enzymes to Control the Chain-Length Selectivity of Biosynthesized Oleochemicals |
| 4:20 | 4:35 | Katy Kao, (San Jose State University, USA). Continuous Recombineering to Expedite Strain Development |
| 4:35 | 4:55 | Jack Pronk (Delft University of Technology, Netherlands). Eliminating Growth-Factor Requirements for Aerobic and Anaerobic Applications of Yeasts |
| 4:55 | 5:00 | Break |
| 5:00 | 5:55 | Systems Bio + ‘omics: role of big data |
| 5:00 | 5:05 | Intro by session chairs: Dong-Yup Lee (Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea) and Aindrila Mukhopadhyay (Berkeley Lab, USA) |
| 5:05 | 5:20 | Nigel Mouncey (DOE Joint Genome Institute, USA). Engineering Biology to Access the Galaxy of Natural Products |
| 5:20 | 5:40 | Sang Yup Lee (KAIST, Korea). Deepx Platforms for Systems Metabolic Engineering and Systems Medicine |
| 5:40 | 5:55 | Steffen Klamt (Max Planck Institute for Dynamics of Complex Technical Systems, Germany). Enforced ATP Wasting As Metabolic Engineering Strategy: New Applications and Testing the Limits of E. coli’s Metabolic Capacity |
| 5:55 | 6:30 | Networking/Q+A |
| BLOCK 8 | ||
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Live Program from: July 15, 7:00 AM PDT/ 10:00 AM EDT/ 14:00 GMT/ 16:00 CEST/ 22:00 CST (China) |
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| 11:40 | 13:30 | Re-broadcast of Block 7 presentations |
| 13:30 | 14:00 | Virtual Doors Open for Networking |
| 14:00 | 15:10 | Biofoundries: Strain Engineering at the Speed of Automation |
| 14:00 | 14:05 | Intro by session chairs: Nathan Hillson (Berkley Lab, USA) and Renee Wegrzyn (Ginkgo Bioworks, USA) |
| 14:05 | 14:20 | Tomohisa Hasunuma (Kobe University, Japan). Metabolomics-Directed Synthetic Bioproduction of Alkaloid and Challenge to Establish High-Throughput Analysis System |
| 14:20 | 14:35 | Paul Freemont (Imperial College London, UK). Using Biofoundries to Accelerate Strain Engineering: From DNA Assembly to Cell-Free Prototyping |
| 14:35 | 14:55 | Huimin Zhao (University of Illinois, USA). Bioautomata: A Self-Driving Biofoundry |
| 14:55 | 15:10 | Break |
| 15:10 | 16:10 | Awards Ceremony and Lecture |
| 15:10 | 15:35 | Awards Ceremony |
| 15:35 | 16:10 | Costas Maranas (Pennsylvania State University, USA). Metabolic Engineering Award Lecture: Optimization Guided Explorations in Metabolic Engineering |
| 16:10 | 16:30 | Networking/Break |
| 16:30 | 17:25 | A tribute to 13C |
| 16:30 | 16:35 | Intro by session chairs: Yinjie Tang (University of Washington, USA) and Hiroshi Shimizu (Osaka University, Japan) |
| 16:35 | 16:55 | Greg Stephanopoulos (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA). What have we learned from labeling, fluxes and flux analysis? |
| 16:55 | 17:10 | Katharina Nöh (Jülich, Germany). Shifting the Limits of Bayesian Inference in Metabolic Modeling: The HPC Sampling Library Hops |
| 17:10 | 17:25 | Maciek Antoniewicz (University of Michigan, USA). Metabolic Flux Responses to Deletion of 46 Core Enzymes Reveals Flexibility and Limits of E. coli Metabolism |
| 17:25 | 17:30 | Conference Closing Ceremony |
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Re-broadcast from: July 15, 11 AM HST/ 2 PM PDT/ 5 PM EDT/ 21:00 GMT/ 23:00 CEST/ July 16, 5:00 CST (China) |
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| Additional re-broadcasts may be shown during this time - TBA. | ||