**Program subject to change - Last Updated 10/28/2020
All Times are Eastern Time.
| Friday, October 30 | |
| 10:00 AM - 10:30 AM | Keynote Speaker: Redesigning the Light Reactions of Photosynthesis Neil Hunter, University of Sheffield |
| 10:30 AM - 10:40 AM | Coffee Break |
| 10:40 AM - 11:50 PM | Session 1: Organelles and Synthetic Compartments Session Chair: Poul Eric Jensen, University of Copenhagen |
| 10:40 AM - 11:00 AM | Invited Speaker: The Pyrenoid: A Liquid-Liquid Phase Separated CO2 Fixing Organelle Luke Mackinder, University of York |
| 11:00 AM - 11:20 AM | Invited Speaker: Towards Engineering a Carboxysome Based CCM into C3 Crops Martin Parry, Lancaster University |
| 11:20 AM - 11:30 AM | Compartmentalizing Terpenoid Bioproduction in Plants with Engineered Plastid Pathways and Lipid Droplet Scaffolds Jacob Bibik, Michigan State University |
| 11:30 AM - 11:50 AM | Live Q&A Panel |
| 11:50 AM - 12:00 PM | Coffee Break |
| 12:00 PM - 1:10 PM | Session 2: Genome Scale Engineering Session Chair: Alison Smith, University of Cambridge |
| 12:00 PM - 12:20 PM | Invited Speaker: Reconstructing Regulation: Can Biological Complexity be Reverse Engineered? Nicola Patron, Earlham Institute |
| 12:20 PM - 12:40 PM | Invited Speaker: Nanomaterials Enable Delivery of Genetic Material without Transgene Integration in Mature Plants Markita Landry, University of California, Berkeley |
| 12:40 PM - 12:50 PM | In silico Model for Mining the Cis-Regulatory Determinants of Tissue-Specific Gene Expression Valerie Fraser, Oregon State University |
| 12:50 PM - 1:10 PM | Live Q&A Panel |
| 1:10 PM - 2:00 PM | Poster Session |
| Saturday, October 31 | |
| 10:00 AM - 10:30 AM | Keynote Speaker: Diversity, Structure, Function, Assembly and Engineering of Carboxysomes and Other Bacterial Microcompartments for Plant Synthetic Biology Cheryl Kerfeld, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab |
| 10:30 AM - 10:40 AM | Coffee Break |
| 10:40 AM - 11:50 PM | Session 3: Redesigning Photosynthesis Session Chair: Sarah O'Connor, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology |
| 10:40 AM - 11:00 AM | Invited Speaker: Synthetic Carbon Dioxide Assimilation in Yeast for Autotrophic Growth Diethard Mattanovich, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna |
| 11:00 AM - 11:20 AM | Invited Speaker: Exploiting Underutilised Regions of the Solar Spectrum Daniel Canniffe, University of Liverpool |
| 11:20 AM - 11:30 AM | Characterization of Exogenous Mediators for Electron Extraction from in Vitro photosynthesis David Scherr, Virginia Tech |
| 11:30 AM - 11:50 AM | Live Q&A Panel |
| 11:50 AM - 12:00 PM | Coffee Break |
| 12:00 PM - 1:10 PM | Session 4: Biotic Interactions and Synthetic Communities Session Chair: Molly Megraw, Oregon State University |
| 12:00 PM - 12:20 PM | Invited Speaker: Simona Radutoiu, University of Aarhus |
| 12:20 PM - 12:40 PM | Invited Speaker: Biosynthesis of Cardiac Glycosides in Wallflowers (Erysimum, Brassicaceae) Georg Jander, Boyce Thompson Institute |
| 12:40 PM - 12:50 PM | Cr-Sphere: A Toolbox to Study Chlamydomonas Microbiota Interactions Jose Flores-Uribe, Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research |
| 12:50 PM - 1:10 PM | Live Q&A Panel |
| 1:10 PM - 1:50 PM | Networking Session |
| Sunday, November 1 | |
| 10:00 AM - 10:30 AM | Networking Session |
| 10:30 AM - 11:30 PM | Session 5: Engineering Form Session Chair: Alison Smith, University of Cambridge |
| 10:30 AM - 10:50 AM | Invited Speaker: Unlocking the Potential of Heunlocking the Potential of Hemicellulose-Derived Biomaterials Bree Urbanowicz, University of Georgia |
| 10:50 AM - 11:10 AM | Invited Speaker: Decoding Development of Lateral Roots in Plants Using Recombinase-Based Logic Circuits Sarah Guiziou, University of Washington |
| 11:10 PM - 11:30 PM | Live Q&A Panel |
| 11:30 AM - 11:35 AM | Coffee Break |
| 11:35 AM - 12:25 PM | Session 6: Sustainability Session Chair: Molly Megraw, Oregon State University |
| 11:35AM - 11:55 AM | Invited Speaker: Engineering Sustainable Chemicals Biomanufacturing Using Photosynthetic Bacteria Patrik Jones, Imperial College London |
| 11:55 AM - 12:05 PM | Synthetic Biology Approaches for Reconstructing Transcriptional Networks in Eucalyptus and Re-Engineering Woody Biomass Steven G. Hussey, University of Pretoria |
| 12:05 PM - 12:25 PM | Live Q&A Panel |
| 12:25 PM - 12:30 PM | Coffee Break |
| 12:30 PM - 2:10 PM | Session 7: Engineering Bioproduction Session Chair: Sotirios Kampranis, University of Copenhagen |
| 12:30 PM - 12:50 PM | Invited Speaker: Engineering the Transcriptional Regulation of Alkaloid Biosynthesis in the Madagascar Periwinkle or Catharanthus Roseus Plant Carolyn Lee-Parsons, Northeastern University |
| 12:50 PM - 1:10 PM | Invited Speaker: Genetic Libraries of Cyanobacteria for Fundamental and Industrial Photosynthesis Paul Hudson, Science for Life Laboratory |
| 1:10 PM - 1:30 PM | Sponsored Talk: Maung Win, Genscript |
| 1:30 PM - 1:40 PM | A Modular Yeast Based GPCR Biosensor Platform for Compound Identification and Metabolic Engineering Karel Miettinen, University of Copenhagen |
| 1:40 PM - 1:50 PM | Exploring Plant Alkaloid Biosynthetic Pathways in Yeast Using Untargeted Metabolomics and Proteomics Michael Jensen, Technical University of Denmark |
| 1:50 PM - 2:10 PM | Live Q&A Panel |
| 2:10 PM - 2:15 PM | Closing Remarks |