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Technical Program

Check out the lineup for 6th the International Conference on Plant Synthetic Biology, Bioengineering and Biotechnology below.

Confex Program: see the technical program with abstracts here



Friday, December 9, 2022

Start Time End Time  
9:00 AM   Registration Opens
9:30 AM 9:40 AM Welcome Remarks
9:40 AM 10:40 AM Keynote Speaker: Savithramma Dinesh-Kumar, UC Davis - Engineering viruses for gene silencing, overexpression and editing in plants
10:40 AM 11:15 AM Coffee Break
11:15 AM 1:15 PM Session 1: Genome and Epigenome Editing
11:15 AM 11:55 AM Invited Speaker: Mireia Uranga Ruiz De Eguino, VIB-UGent Center for Plant Systems Biology - The power of RNA viruses for CRISPR-Cas based genome editing in plants
11:55 AM 12:15 PM Joanne Hunt, Pairwise - Engineered Cas12a Variants Increase Genome Editing Target Access in Plants
12:15 PM 12:35 PM Megan Kelly, University of Florida - Development of a Sorghum Transformation Pipeline to Enhance Genome Editing
12:35 PM 12:55 PM Eleanor Brant, University of Florida - Targeted Mutagenesis for Altering Leaf Inclination Angle in Diploid Sorghum and Highly-Polyploid Sugarcane
12:55 PM 1:15 PM Ming Wang, UCLA - A gene silencing screen uncovers diverse tools for targeted gene repression in Arabidopsis
1:15 PM 2:15PM Lunch
2:15 PM 3:00 PM Panel: Genome and Epigenome Editing - Moderator: Wendy Harwood
3:00 PM 5:45 PM Session 2: Specialized Metabolism
3:00 PM 3:40 PM Zhen Wang, University of Buffalo-Elucidate the Biosynthetic Pathway of Digoxin in Foxglove Plants
3:40 PM 4:00 PM Yanran Li, UC Riverside - Using Strigolactone-Producing Bacterium-Yeast Consortium To Elucidate Strigolactone Biosynthesis
4:00 PM 4:20 PM Afternon Refreshment Break
4:20 PM 4:40 PM Codruta Ignea, McGill University - Expanding the Natural Chemical Diversity with New-to-Nature Terpenoids
4:40 PM 5:00 PM Jianing Han, Cornell University - De Novo Biosynthesis of Berberine and Halogenated Benzylisoquinoline Alkaloids in Saccharomyces Cerevisiae
5:00 PM 5:45 PM Panel: Specialized Metabolism - Moderator: Georg Jander
5:45 PM 6:45 PM Poster Session and Reception

Saturday, December 10, 2022

Start Time End Time  
9:15 AM   Registration Opens
9:40 AM 10:40 AM Keynote Speaker: Elizabeth Sattely, Stanford-Discovery and Engineering of Plant Chemistry for Plant and Human Health
10:40 AM 11:15 AM Coffee Break
11:15 AM 12:55 PM Session 3: Engineering More Efficient and Resilient Plants (I)
11:15 AM 11:55 AM Invited Speaker: Adil Khan, University of Western Australia - CRISPRi-based circuits for genetic computation in plants
11:55 AM 12:15 PM Henrik Scheller, UC Berkely/LBNL - Field Testing of Engineered Sorghum with Improved Biomass Yield and Sustainability Traits
12:15 PM 12:35 PM Ulschan Bathe, University of Florida - Continuous Directed Evolution of Short-Lived Plant Enzymes to Cut Maintenance Respiration Costs
12:35 PM 2:00 PM Lunch
2:00 PM 4:00 PM Session 3: Engineering More Efficient and Resilient Plants (II)
2:00 PM 2:40 PM Invited Speaker: Jenn Brophy - Controlling gene expression patterns in plants with synthetic genetic circuits
2:40 PM 3:20 PM Invited Speaker: Don Ort, University of Illinois - Mitigating the impact of a warming climate on photosynthetic carbon gain with a synthetic photorespiratory shunt
3:20 PM 4:00 PM Panel: Engineering More Efficient & Resilient Plants - Moderator: Sijin Li
4:00 PM 4:30 PM

Afternoon Refreshment Break

4:30 PM 5:10 PM Session 4: New Tools and Technologies (I)
4:30 PM 4:50 PM Jeanet Mante, UC Boulder - Preventing Genetic Data Loss: How to Capture Reusable Genetic Sequences
4:50 PM 5:10 PM Eric Yang, University of Washington - Engineering Logic with Native Constitutive Promoters

Sunday, December 11, 2022

Start Time End Time  
9:15 AM   Registration Opens
9:30 AM 12:30 PM Session 4: New Tools and Technologies (II)
9:30 AM 10:10 AM Invited Speaker: Tobias Jores, University of Washington - A comprehensive toolbox of plant-derived and synthetic cis-regulatory elements
10:10 AM 10:30 AM Alexander Pfotenhauer, University of Tennessee - Synthetic transcription factor platform for gene activation in plants derived from the Penicillium citrinum compactin pathway
10:30 AM 10:50 AM Coffee Break
10:50AM 11:10 AM Cassandra Maranas, University of Washington - Tools for the Robust Tracking of Plant Development Using Integrase Circuits
11:10 AM 11:50 AM Invited Speaker: Sylvestre Marillonnet, Leibniz Institute of Plant Biochemistry - The modular cloning system MoClo for synthetic biology and plant metabolic engineering
11:50 AM 12:30 PM Panel: New Tools & Technologies - Moderator: Diego Orzaez
12:30 PM 12:40 PM Closing Remarks