Share Call for Abstracts will open in April for the following topics: Protein and Peptide Engineering. This session will focus on new tools and platforms developed to enable engineering of proteins and peptides. Technologies could include, but are not limited to, those for rational or evolutionary design or synthesis, and functional screening. Biomolecular Engineering and Self-assembly. This session welcomes advances in biomolecular design rules and engineering tools across various length scales to achieve supermolecular structures, leading to for applications in therapeutics, biocatalysis for high-value chemicals and bioremediation. Biomolecular Analytics and Characterizations. This session will showcase advances in analytical tools that enable investigations at molecular level and its implications on the bulk properties which are relevant for translation into industrial scales. Conference Organizers Conference Chairs: Sierin Lim, Nanyang Technological University Susanna Leong, Singapore Institute of Technology Featured Speakers David Baker David Baker is the Henrietta and Aubrey Davis Endowed Professor in Biochemistry, Director of the Institute for Protein Design, Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and adjunct professor of Genome Sciences, Bioengineering, Chemical Engineering, Computer Science, and Physics at the University of Washington. He received his Ph.D. degree in biochemistry with Randy Schekman at the University of California, Berkeley and did postdoctoral work in biophysics with David Agard at UCSF. His research group is focused on the prediction and design of macromolecular...Read more Kristala Jones Prather Kristala Jones Prather is the Arthur D. Little Professor of Chemical Engineering at MIT. She received an S.B. degree from MIT in 1994 and Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley (1999), and worked 4 years in BioProcess Research and Development at the Merck Research Labs prior to joining the faculty of MIT. Her research interests are centered on the design and assembly of recombinant microorganisms for the production of small molecules, with additional efforts in novel bioprocess design approaches. Prather is the recipient of an Office of Naval Research Young Investigator...Read more Hannele Ruohola-Baker Hannele Ruohola-Baker is a Professor of Biochemistry and Associate Director of the Institute for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine at the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington. Born in Finland, she received her bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of Helsinki, along with a Ph.D. in cell biology from Yale University. Then, she conducted a visiting fellowship at the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm and subsequently a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of California, San Francisco. ...Read more
David Baker David Baker is the Henrietta and Aubrey Davis Endowed Professor in Biochemistry, Director of the Institute for Protein Design, Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and adjunct professor of Genome Sciences, Bioengineering, Chemical Engineering, Computer Science, and Physics at the University of Washington. He received his Ph.D. degree in biochemistry with Randy Schekman at the University of California, Berkeley and did postdoctoral work in biophysics with David Agard at UCSF. His research group is focused on the prediction and design of macromolecular...Read more
Kristala Jones Prather Kristala Jones Prather is the Arthur D. Little Professor of Chemical Engineering at MIT. She received an S.B. degree from MIT in 1994 and Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley (1999), and worked 4 years in BioProcess Research and Development at the Merck Research Labs prior to joining the faculty of MIT. Her research interests are centered on the design and assembly of recombinant microorganisms for the production of small molecules, with additional efforts in novel bioprocess design approaches. Prather is the recipient of an Office of Naval Research Young Investigator...Read more
Hannele Ruohola-Baker Hannele Ruohola-Baker is a Professor of Biochemistry and Associate Director of the Institute for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine at the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington. Born in Finland, she received her bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of Helsinki, along with a Ph.D. in cell biology from Yale University. Then, she conducted a visiting fellowship at the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm and subsequently a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of California, San Francisco. ...Read more