Technical Program
ME-13 Preliminary Technical Program
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ME-13 Preliminary Technical Program
Preliminary program is subject to change. Updated 8 January 2020.
Plenary Session | |
| Plenary Speaker | Sunil Chandran (Amyris, USA) |
| Plenary Speaker | Sarah O'Connor (Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology) |
Technical Sessions | |
Biofoundries: Strain Engineering at the Speed of Automation | |
| Session Chairs | Renee Wegrzyn (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, USA) and Nathan Hillson (Agile Biofoundry, USA) |
| Keynote Speaker | Chris Voigt (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA) |
| Invited Speaker | Paul Freemont (Imperial College London, UK) |
| Invited Speaker | Jed Dean (Zymergen, USA) |
A New Home for Secondary Metabolites: in Microbes | |
| Session Chairs | Yanran Li (University of California, Riverside, USA) and Tiangang Liu (Wuhan University, China) |
| Keynote Speaker | Jay Keasling (Lawrence Berkley National Laboratory, USA) |
| Invited Speaker | Christina Smolke (Stanford University, USA) |
| Invited Speaker | Irina Borodina (Technical University of Denmark, Denmark) |
A Tribute to 13C at ME13 | |
| Session Chairs | Hiroshi Shimizu (Osaka University, Japan) and Yinjie Tang (University of Washington, USA) |
| Keynote Speaker | Greg Stephanopoulos (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA) |
| Invited Speaker | Katharina Nöh (Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany) |
| Invited Speaker | Maciek Antoniewicz (University of Delaware, USA) |
Systems Bio + ‘Omics: Role of Big Data | |
| Session Chairs | Verena Siewers (Chalmers University, Denmark) and Dong-Yup Lee (SungKyunKwan University, South Korea) |
| Keynote Speaker | Sang Yup Lee (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), South Korea) |
| Invited Speaker | Lars Nielsen (University of Queensland, Australia) |
Adaptive/Directed Evolution and Enzyme Engineering | |
| Session Chairs | Adam Feist (University of California, San Diego, USA) and Alexandre (Alex) Zanghellini (Arzeda, USA) |
| Keynote Speaker | Jack Pronk (Delft Technical University, Netherlands) |
| Invited Speaker | Katy Kao, (Texas A&M University, USA) |
| Invited Speaker | Sven Panke (Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (ETH) Zurich, Switzerland) |
Metabolic Engineering of Microbes I: Conventional Hosts for Fuels and Chemicals | |
| Session Chairs | Kirsten Benjamin (Amyris, USA) and Brian Pfleger (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA) |
| Keynote Speaker | Akihiko Kondo (Kobe University, Japan) |
| Invited Speaker | Jim Liao (Academia Sinica, Taiwan) |
Metabolic Engineering of Microbes II: Non-Conventional Hosts and Approaches | |
| Session Chairs | Irina Borodina (Technical University of Denmark, Denmark) and Patrick Westfall (Zymergen, USA) |
| Keynote Speaker | Michael Jewett (Northwestern University, USA) |
| Invited Speaker | Christoph Wittmann (Saarland University, Germany) |
Syn Bio: Design + Control of Metabolism | |
| Session Chairs | Keith Tyo (Northwestern University, USA) and Junbiao Dai (Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, China) |
| Keynote Speaker | Claudia Vickers (University of Queensland, Australia) |
| Invited Speaker | Victor De Lorenzo (Centro Nacional de Biotecnología, Spain) |
| Invited Speaker | Ying-Jin Yuan (Tianjin University, China) |
Computational Design and Models/Methods | |
| Session Chairs | Isabel Rocha (University of Minho, Portugal) and Costas Maranas (Pennsylvania State University, USA) |
| Keynote Speaker | Jens Nielsen (Technical University of Denmark, Denmark) |
| Invited Speaker | Jennifer Reed (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA) |
| Invited Speaker | Pablo Carbonell (University of Manchester, UK) |
Lab to Industrial Scale: Realizing the Potential of a Biobased Economy | |
| Session Chairs | Christine Santos (Manus Bio, USA) and Yin Li (Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China) |
| Invited Speaker | Mike Lynch (Duke University, USA) |
| Invited Speaker | Smita Shankar (Impossible Foods, USA) |
| Invited Speaker | Kojima Hiroyuki (Ajinomoto Company, Japan) |
| Invited Speaker | Jennifer Holmgren (LanzaTech, USA) |
| Invited Speaker | Marcel Wubbolts (Corbion, Netherlands) |
Metabolism and Health: Engineered Metabolism in Higher Eukaryote, the Microbiome, and Beyond | |
| Session Chairs | Susan Sharfstein (State University of New York Polytechnic Institute, USA) and Jamey Young (Vanderbilt University, USA) |
| Keynote Speaker | Pam Silver (Harvard University, USA) |
| Invited Speaker | Susan Rosser (University of Edinburgh, UK) |
| Invited Speaker | Matthew Chang (National University of Singapore, Singapore) |
Plant Biotechnology | |
| Session Chair | Christie Peebles (Colorado State University, USA) |
| Keynote Speaker | Elizabeth Sattely (Stanford University, USA) |
| Invited Speaker | Karsten Temme (Pivot Bio, USA) |
Plastics as a Feedstock, Not a Product | |
| Session Chair | Ludmilla Aristilde (Northwestern University, USA) |
| Keynote Speaker | Gregg Beckham (National Renewable Energy Laboratory, USA) |
| Invited Speaker | Lars Blank (Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen University, Germany) |
