Program
Friday, December 16
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Friday, December 16
| 7:00-12:00 PM | Registration |
| 8:15-8:45 AM | Breakfast |
| 8:45-9:00 AM | Welcoming Remarks |
| 9:00-10:00 AM | Plenary Speaker: Adam Arkin, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory |
| 10:00-10:30 AM | Break |
| 10:30-12:00 PM | Session 1: Rational Design and mining of natural systems for plant synthetic biology components |
| 10:30-11:00 AM | Invited Speaker: Design and Implementation of Genetic Circuits for Complex Biological Functions in Plants - Mauricio Antunes, Colorado State University |
| 11:00-11:20 AM | Mining Bacterial Genomes for a ‘Hack-Proof’ Thiamin Biosynthesis Enzyme - Andrew Hanson, University of Florida |
| 11:20-11:40 AM | A Robust Gene Stacking Method Utilizing Yeast Assembly for Plant Synthetic Biology - Patrick Shih, Joint BioEnergy Institute, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory |
| 11:40-12:00 PM | Determining the Principles behind Tissue-Specific Gene Expression - Molly Megraw, Oregon State University |
| 12:00-1:30 PM | Lunch |
| 1:30-3:20 PM | Session 2: Design and Predictive Function of Plant Gene Circuits |
| 1:30-2:00 PM | Invited Speaker: Rational Design and Biological Complexity: Quantitative Measurement and Prediction of Synthetic - Ashok Prasad, Colorado State University |
| 2:00-2:20 PM | Computational Modeling of Cytoskeletal and Cell Wall Systems during Cell Morphogenesis - Dan Szymanski, Purdue University |
| 2:20-2:40 PM | Development and Application of Synthetic Biology Tools to Modulate Decarboxylation in Arabidopsis - Henrique De Paoli, University of Tennessee |
| 2:40-3:00 PM | Reprogramming the plant form: Using synthetic signalling to study and re-engineer development - Arjun Khakhar, University of Washington |
| 3:00-3:20 PM | Synthetic Programming of Combinatorial Gene Regulation in Plant Development - Edith Pierre-Jerome, Duke University |
| 3:20-3:50 PM | Break |
| 3:50-5:20 PM | Session 3: Plant foundry: Biopolymers, Biopharmaceuticals and Medically Effective Secondary Metabolites (Vaccines, antibodies, and metabolites) |
| 3:50-4:20 PM | Invited Speaker: Plant-Made Influenza VLP Vaccines and Antibodies - Marc-André Daoust, Medicago |
| 4:20-4:40 PM | Production of Halogenated Indigo Precursors in Metabolically Engineered Tobacco Plants - Sabine Fraebel, Technische Universitaet Darmstadt |
| 4:40-5:00 PM | Development of a High-Throughput Physcomitrella patens Transformation System for Biosynthetic Applications - James Anderson-Furgeson, Taxa Biotechnologies |
| 5:00-5:20 PM | A Synthetic Biology Yeast Platform for the Biosynthesis of Plant Phenolic Diterpenes - Alain Tissier, Leibniz Institute of Plant Biochemistry |
| 5:20-7:20 PM | Poster Session and Reception |
| FREE EVENING | FREE EVENING |
Saturday, December 17
| 8:00-12:00 PM | Registration |
| 8:30-9:00 AM | Breakfast |
| 9:00-10:40 AM | Session 4: Plant genome editing (CRISPR systems) |
| 9:00-9:30 AM | Invited Speaker: Crispr-Cas9 or Talen Mediated Genome Editing in Sugarcane - Fredy Altpeter, University of Florida |
| 9:30-10:00 AM | Invited Speaker: The Emerging Organism Engineering Industry - Dayal Saran, Ginkgobioworks |
| 10:00-10:20 AM | Cutting-Edge Methods and Tools for Plant Genome Editing - Tomas Cermak, University of Minnesota |
| 10:20-10:40 AM | Nanoparticles As Biomolecular Cargo Transporters in Plants and Plastids - Gozde Sultan Demirer, UC Berkeley |
| 10:40-11:00 PM | Break |
| 11:00 - 11:50 PM | Session 5: Agricultural Sense and Adaptation Systems for Stress Response |
| 11:00-11:30 PM | Invited Speaker: Engineered biosynthesis in planta for production of natural products used in the clinic - Warren Lau, Stanford University |
| 11:30-11:50 PM | Fruit Crop Engineering with Igt Family Genes - Jessica Guseman, USDA ARS |
| 11:50-1:20 PM | Lunch |
| 1:20-4:00 PM | Session 6: Sustainable Environmental Systems and Photosynthetic Improvements, Plastid Engineering: artificial photosynthesis, metabolites and nitrogen fixation |
| 1:20-1:50 PM | Invited Speaker: From sequence to biomanufacturing through rapid iterations of the DBTL cycle - Sam Deutsch, DOE Joint Genome Institute, Lawrence Berkeley National |
| 1:50-2:20 PM | Invited Speaker: Poul Erik Jensen, University of Copenhagen |
| 2:20-2:50 PM | Break |
| 2:50-3:10 PM | Engineering for Robust Photorespiratory Bypass to Improve Photosynthesis and Crop Production Under Field Conditions - Paul South, University of Illinois, USDA-ARS |
| 3:10-3:30 PM | Photosynthetic Antenna Engineering to Improve Crop Yields - Anastasios Melis, University of California, Berkeley |
| 3:30-3:50 PM | Agave and Kalanchoe Omics for Synthetic Biology to Enhance Water Use Efficiency and Drought Tolerance in Plants - Xiaohan Yang, Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
| 3:50-4:10 PM | Intracellular Spectral Recompositioning of Light Increases Photosynthetic Efficiency and Reduces Light Associated Stress in a Versatile Model Diatom - Weiqi Fu, New York University Abu Dhabi |
| FREE EVENING | FREE EVENING |
Sunday, December 18
| 7:00-12:00 PM | Registration |
| 8:30-9:00 AM | Breakfast |
| 9:00-10:00 AM | Plenary Speaker: Chris Voigt, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| 10:00-10:30 AM | Break |
| 10:30-12:35 PM | Session 7: Engineering of Bioenergy traits |
| 10:30-11:00 AM | Invited Speaker: Increasing the C6/C5 Sugar Ratio in Bioenergy Crops By Modulating Nucleotide Sugar Transporters and Glycosyltransferases - Henrik V. Scheller, Joint BioEnergy Institute, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory |
| 11:00-11:20 AM | Engineering Functionally Specialized Monolignol 4-O-Methyltransferases to Alter Lignin Structure in Energy Crop - Chang-Jun Liu, Brookhaven National Laboratory |
| 11:20-11:40 AM | Metabolic Engineering Converts Sugarcane into an Oil Producing Crop - Baskaran Kannan, University of Florida |
| 11:40-12:00 AM | Sugar Transport By Sweets: From Structures to Sensors - Lily Cheung, Carnegie Institution for Science |
| 12:00-12:20 PM | Genes Stacking of Multiple Traits to Improve Biomass for Biofuels - Aude Aznar, Joint BioEnergy Institute, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory |
| 12:20-12:35 PM | Poster Awards and Closing Remarks |
