Technical Program
Program is subject to change. Last updated 1/4.
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Program is subject to change. Last updated 1/4.
| Eastern Standard Time | Wednesday, January 6 |
| 9:50 AM - 10:00 AM | Welcome Remarks |
| 10:00 AM - 10:35 AM | Keynote Speaker: A colorful solution to 'breathing' through a biofilm Dianne Newman, California Institute of Technology |
| 10:35 AM - 10:40 AM | Stretch Break and Hallway Chats |
| 10:40 AM - 12:05 PM | Session 1: Synthetic Biology Session Chair: Mattheos Koffas, RPI |
| 10:40 AM - 11:00 AM | Invited Speaker: Writing the Future of Synthetic Biology Emily Leproust, Twist Biosciences |
| 11:00 AM - 11:20 AM | Invited Speaker: ENGINEERING A COMPLEX PHENOTYPE: A MULTI-FACETED APPROACH TO CREATING A NEW PROTEIN BIOMANUFACTURING PLATFORM Danielle Tullman-Ercek, Northwestern University |
| 11:20 AM - 11:35 AM | A Toxin-Triggered Vehicle for Targeted Delivery of Antibiotics Angela Brown, Lehigh University |
| 11:35 AM - 11:50 AM | Metabolic Regulation and Engineering in the Basidiomycete Red Yeast Xanthophyllomyces Dendrorhous Eric Young, Worcester Polytechnic Institute |
| 11:50 AM - 12:05 PM | A Plug-and-Play RNA Detection Platform for Sensing Cell Physiology and Phenotype James Chappell, Rice University |
| 12:05 PM - 12:10 PM | Stretch Break and Hallway Chats |
| 12:10 PM - 1:35 PM | Session 2: Protein Engineering Session Chair: Ian Wheeldon, UC Riverside |
| 12:10 PM - 12:30 PM | Invited Speaker: Emerging strategies for performing drug discovery on the yeast surface James Van Deventer, Tufts University |
| 12:30 PM - 12:50 PM | Invited Speaker: G-protein coupled receptors: Chimeras improve surface localization without loss of native protein-protein interactions Anne Skaja Robinson, Carnegie Mellon University |
| 12:50 PM - 1:05 PM | Deep Mutagenesis-Guided Engineering of Soluble Decoy Receptors for Targeting Viral Diseases Erik Procko, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
| 1:05 PM - 1:20 PM | Genetic and Structural Convergence of Protective Plasma IgG Antibodies That Target the N-Terminal Domain of the Sars-Cov-2 Spike Glycoprotein Gregory Ippolito, University of Texas at Austin |
| 1:20 PM - 1:35 PM | Predicting Antibody Developability Peter Tessier, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor |
| 1:35 PM - 2:00 PM | Networking Break |
| Eastern Standard Time | Thursday, January 7 |
| 10:00 AM - 10:35 AM | Keynote Speaker: Occam’s Pharmacokinetics: Intratumoral Administration and Retention of Immune Agonists Dane Wittrup, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| 10:35 AM - 10:40 AM | Stretch Break and Hallway Chats |
| 10:40 AM - 12:05 PM | Session 3: Computational & Experimental Tools for Biological Systems Session Chair: Jerzy Szablowski, Rice University |
| 10:40 AM - 11:00 AM | Invited Speaker: Simultaneous quantification of the epigenome and transcriptome in single cells Siddharth Dey, University of California, Santa Barbara |
| 11:00 AM - 11:20 AM | Invited Speaker: Systems engineering approaches to advance understanding of cell migration Stephanie Fraley, University of California, San Diego |
| 11:20 AM - 11:35 AM | Computational Redesign of Bacterial Chondroitinase ABC to Treat Spinal Cord Injury and Stroke Matthew O'Meara, University of Michigan |
| 11:35 AM - 11:50 AM | Developing a Mechanistic View of Mixed IgG Antibody Immune Effector Responses Aaron Meyer, University of California, Los Angeles |
| 11:50 AM - 12:05 PM | The Structural Basis for Protein Energy Landscapes in a De Novo Designed Proteome Gabriel Rocklin, Northwestern University |
| 12:05 PM - 12:10 PM | Stretch Break and Hallway Chats |
| 12:10 PM - 1:35 PM | Session 4: Nanoscale Platforms for Biological Design Session Chair: Javin Oza, CalPoly San Luis Obispo |
| 12:10 PM - 12:30 PM | Invited Speaker: How multispecific drugs are transforming Amgen’s pipeline Ray Deshaies, Amgen |
| 12:30 PM - 12:45 PM | Redox Balance-Based Growth Selection As a Universal Tool for Enzyme Engineering Han Li, University of California, Irvine |
| 12:45 PM - 1:00 PM | Tandem Membrane Protein Cryo-EM and Assays in Dynamically Loadable and Intact Lipid Bilayers M. Lane Gilchrist, City College of New York |
| 1:00 PM - 1:15 PM | Discovery and Design of Protein Developability Benjamin Hackel, University of Minnesota |
| 1:15 PM - 2:00 PM | Networking Break |
| Eastern Standard Time | Friday, January 8 |
| 10:00 AM - 10:35 AM | Keynote Speaker: Biomimetic Patterning to Control and Manipulate Cell Behaviors Jennifer West, Duke University |
| 10:35 AM - 10:40 AM | Stretch Break and Hallway Chats |
| 10:40 AM - 11:50 AM | Session 5: Cellular Engineering Session Chair: Jamie Spangler, Johns Hopkins University |
| 10:40 AM - 11:00 AM | Invited Speaker: Engineering Next-Generation T Cells for Cancer Immunotherapy Yvonne Chen, University of California, Los Angeles |
| 11:00 AM - 11:20 AM | Invited Speaker: Synthetic Mechanobiology: Engineering How Cells Sense and Interpret Mechanical Cues John Ngo, Boston University |
| 11:20 AM - 11:35 AM | Engineering Inhibitory Proteins to Augment Cancer Immunotherapy Lawrence Stern, University of South Florida |
| 11:35 AM - 11:50 AM | CRISPR-Mediated Engineering of Photoautotrophs to Improve Biomass Productivity Anne Ruffing, Sandia National Labs |
| 11:50 AM - 12:05 PM | Stretch Break and Hallway Chats |
| 12:05 PM - 1:15 PM | Session 6: Biomaterials Engineering Session Chair: April Kloxin, University of Delaware |
| 12:05 PM - 12:25 PM | Invited Speaker: A Synthetic Platform for the Design and Quantification of Multifunctional Antibody Drug Carriers Chris Alabi, Cornell University |
| 12:25 PM - 12:45 PM | Invited Speaker: Bioinspired Elastin-based Adhesives Julie Liu, Purdue University |
| 12:45 PM - 1:00 PM | Leveraging Natural Protein-Material Interactions to Control the Delivery of Bone Morphogenetic Protein-2 for Bone Repair Marian Hettiaratchi, University of Oregon |
| 1:00 PM - 1:15 PM | Programmable Nucleation and Self-Assembly of Artificial Virus-like Particles Guided By CRISPR-Cas12a Armando Hernandez-Garcia, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico |
| 1:15 PM - 2:00 PM | Poster Session + Lightning Talks |
| Eastern Standard Time | Saturday, January 9 |
| 10:00 AM - 10:35 AM | Keynote Speaker: Normalizing the Tumor Microenvironment to Improve Cancer Treatment: From Math Modeling to Mice to Patients and Back Rakesh Jain, Harvard University |
| 10:35 AM - 10:40 AM | Stretch Break and Hallway Chats |
| 10:40 AM - 12:05 PM | Session 7: Molecular Medicine Session Chair: Julie Champion, Georgia Tech |
| 10:40 AM - 11:00 AM | Invited Speaker: High-throughput T cell repertoire profiling enabled systems immunology and immune engineering Jenny Jiang, University of Texas at Austin |
| 11:00 AM - 11:20 AM | Invited Speaker: Using Synthetic Biology to Improve Cell Therapies Tara Deans, University of Utah |
| 11:20 AM - 11:35 AM | Microbially Guided Discovery and Biosynthesis of Biologically Active Natural Products Jerome Fox, University of Colorado Boulder |
| 11:35 AM - 11:50 AM | Towards Improved Safety and Efficacy of Live Bacterial Vaccines Using an Expanded Genetic Code Aditya Kunjapur, University of Delaware |
| 11:50 AM - 12:05 PM | An Engineered Enzyme to Help the Immune System Fight Cancer: From Proof of Concept to Clinical Translation John Blazeck, Georgia Tech. |
| 12:05 PM - 12:10 PM | Stretch Break and Hallway Chats |
| 12:10 PM - 1:35 PM | Session 8: Emerging Technologies in Molecular Engineering Session Chair: Arnab Mukherjee, University of California, Santa Barbara |
| 12:10 PM - 12:30 PM | Invited Speaker: Measuring signaling dynamics without live-cell microscopy Jared Toettcher, Princeton University |
| 12:30 PM - 12:50 PM | Invited Speaker: Watching the brain in action: creating tools for functional analysis of neural circuitry Lin Tian, UC Davis |
| 12:50 PM - 1:05 PM | Biased Activation of the MHC-I:PD-L1 Axis Via Engineered Interferon Gamma Partial Agonists Juan Mendoza, University of Chicago |
| 1:05 PM - 1:20 PM | Temperature-Responsive Optogenetic Probes of Ras and PI3K Signaling Lukasz Bugaj, University of Pennsylvania |
| 1:20 PM - 1:35 PM | Multi-Tasking Tags for Correlated Light and Electron Microscopy Kimberly Beatty, Oregon Health & Science University |
| 1:35 PM - 1:40 PM | Closing Remarks |