Conferences & Events

The Commercializing Industrial Biotechnology conference spotlights best practices, lessons learned, and technology innovations for accelerating commercial production of bio-based products.

The 2025 AfroBioTech Conference will showcase the innovation, contributions and leadership from diverse disciplines that can advance biotechnology while also inspiring the next generation of diverse professionals and identifying, communicating, and exploring recent advancements in biotechnology...

This conference brings together scientists across the quickly growing field of microbiome engineering. The conference integrates synthetic biology, systems biology, microbial ecology, and bioinformatics across a range of application spaces.

The 8th Bioengineering and Translational Medicine (BTM) Conference will provide an in-depth view of innovative and cross-disciplinary biological technologies. We will bring together leaders in drug delivery, biomanufacturing, cell therapy & protein engineering, models of human biology &...

CRISPR 2024 is an exclusive conference that unites leaders from industry, government agencies, and academia to discuss the latest advancements in genome editing technologies. The program brings together experts from diverse fields to discuss how to safely and effectively translate these cutting-...

The 4th Optogenetic Technologies and Applications Conference will showcase advances in optogenetics and bring together different branches of the optogenetic community. The conference will include approaches in neuronal and non-neuronal optogenetics as well as in material science and unicellular...

SEED is the leading technical event for synthetic biology — covering the field from its foundations to its commercial applications. Gain insight into next-generation development strategies from leaders in research and industry. Important Deadline(s): Hotel reservation deadline now extended to June...

ICME 2023 connects experts from academia and industry to share the field’s most recent developments and the science and technology needed to enable microbiome engineering. Important Deadline(s) Abstract submission deadline: August 1

The 2023 AfroBioTech Conference will showcase the innovation, contributions and leadership from diverse disciplines that can advance biotechnology while also inspiring the next generation of diverse professionals and identifying, communicating, and exploring recent advancements in biotechnology...

The Commercializing Industrial Biotechnology conference spotlights best practices, lessons learned, and technology innovations for accelerating commercial production of bio-based products. This is the only conference focused on scale-up and commercialization of new products in the synthetic biology, fermentation, and industrial biotechnology space.

The International Mammalian Synthetic Biology Workshop (mSBW) brings together leaders in synthetic biology with experts from other relevant fields to highlight and inspire cutting-edge synthetic biology research, emphasizing both basic and applied science. The mSBW series has grown to become a...

The workshop will bring together scientists and engineers at all career stages in academia, industry, and startups to showcase advances in the emerging and rapidly growing field of quantum computing. It takes place at the Technical University of Denmark in the Lounge room of Building 228A.

The 7th BTM Conference will provide an in-depth view of innovative and cross-disciplinary biological technologies.

This conference brings together scientists and engineers from universities, industry, and government working in all aspects of plant synthetic biology, plant bioengineering, and plant biotech. This year’s program focusses on plant biotechnology, applied plant research and synthetic biology,...

CRISPR 2022 brings together investigators focused on enzymes and technologies, predominantly CRISPR-based systems, but also other promising systems and approaches, to discuss advances in the field and ways to harness genome engineering for beneficial purposes. Topics range from fundamental biology...

Presented by the Society for Biological Engineering (SBE), this conference will bring together leaders and trainees from cutting edge fields of stem cell engineering to develop the next-generation of stem cell technologies.

The International Mammalian Synthetic Biology Workshop (mSBW) brings together leaders in the synthetic biology with experts from other relevant fields to highlight and inspire cutting-edge synthetic biology research, emphasizing both basic and applied science. The mSBW series has grown to become a signature worldwide event exploring the latest advances and their applications in human health and beyond. IMPORTANT DATES: Abstract submission deadline: June 10, 2022 Early Bird Deadline: June 30, 2022

The Commercializing Industrial Biotechnology conference spotlights best practices, lessons learned, and technology innovations for accelerating commercial production of bio-based products. This is the only conference focused on scale-up and commercialization of new products in the synthetic biology...

The Quantum Computing Applications in Chemical and Biochemical Engineering Workshop will bring together scientists and engineers at all career stages in academia, industry, and startups to showcase advances in an emerging and rapidly growing field.

Presented by the Society of Biological Engineering, this conference will bring together scientists and engineers from universities, industry and government working in all aspects of plant synthetic biology, plant bioengineering and plant biotech.

The International Conference on Microbiome Engineering (ICME 2021) will bring together leaders and experts from academia and industry to discuss progress and needs to develop research, technology, and innovation. Microbial engineers at all levels, from trainees to established researchers, are...

This conference will focus on space travel technology and capability needs, in an effort to accelerate the development of commercial and non-commercial space exploration.

CRISPR Tech 2021 conference will bring together academics and industry representatives to highlight the cutting edge of these developments and the most immediate technical and societal changes. This conference will connect researchers across a broad range of CRISPR-Cas fields from discovery-based...

SEED 2021 focused on advances in science, technology, applications, and related investments in the field of synthetic biology.

Established and new members of the COBRA community are invited to COBRA 2021 to discuss the latest developments in Constraint-Based Reconstruction and Analysis.

The International Conference on Microbiome Engineering (ICME 2020) will bring together leaders and experts from cutting edge fields of microbiome engineering to discuss progress and needs to develop research, technology, and innovation.

This conference will touch upon hot topics in the realm of biosafety, biosecurity, bioethics in the synthetic biology community.

Presented by the Society of Biological Engineering, this conference will bring together scientists and engineers from universities, industry and government working in all aspects of plant synthetic biology, plant bioengineering and plant biotechnology.

Fueled by the rapid advancements in both epigenetic research as well as translational gene editing and gene therapy, the EpiBio conferences were established in 2017 as a platform for synthetic biologists developing tools for epigenetic reprogramming. The Society for Biological Engineering is proud...

The 5th Bioengineering & Translational Medicine Conference will bring together top researchers from academia and industry to discuss advances in the development, clinical and commercial translation of biological technologies.

SEED 2020 will focus on advances in science, technology, applications, and related investments in the field of synthetic biology.

ICBE Asia 2020 brings together researchers to advance the understanding and application of molecular biology, biophysical chemistry, metabolic engineering, cellular and tissue engineering, biomaterials and synthetic biology.

The Optogenetic Technologies and Applications Conference will touch upon a broad range of topics including applications in neurobiology, biochemical, and biomedical research. Abstract Deadline: October 30, 2019

The International Conference on Microbiome Engineering (ICME 2019) will bring together leaders and experts from cutting edge fields of microbiome engineering to discuss progress and needs to develop research, technology, and innovation.

The AfroBiotech Conference, hosted by the Society for Biological Engineering, will highlight the achievements of African Americans in biotechnology, inspire a new generation of diverse biotechnology professionals and identify, communicate, and explore current advancements in various aspects of Biotechnology.

This conference will address challenges and discoveries in the cell therapy and immunotherapy fields that will ultimately change the future of healthcare. Abstract Deadline: Sunday, September 1, 2019 Submit an Abstract

Presented by the Society of Biological Engineering, this conference will bring together scientists and engineers from universities, industry and government working in all aspects of Plant Synthetic Biology, Plant Bioengineering and Plant Biotech.

Presented by the Society for Biological Engineering (SBE), EpiBio 2019 is a forum for engineers and scientists who are applying the tools and techniques of bioengineering to the area of epigenetics.

Presented by the Society for Biological Engineering (SBE), this conference will bring together leaders and trainees from cutting edge fields of bioengineering and nanotechnology. Topics to be presented include: biomolecular engineering, translational medicine, cell engineering, immunoengineering,...

This 2 day-conference on Technology Challenges and Opportunities in Commercializing Industrial Biotechnology will take place at The DoubleTree by Hilton Los Angeles from May 13th to 14th in Los Angeles, California.

Join Nobel Laureate Frances H. Arnold and a host of notable speakers to learn about quantitative approaches to advance the understanding and application of molecular biology.

The 3rd cBio Symposium brings together scientists with multidisciplinary interests in Complex Systems Biology from computational and theoretical to experimental works.

Presented by the Society of Biological Engineering (SBE), this conference will bring together scientists and engineers from universities, industry and government working in all aspects of Plant Synthetic Biology, Plant Bioengineering and Plant Biotechnology.

Presented by the Society of Biological Engineering (SBE), Microbiome 2018 will bring together leaders and experts from cutting edge fields of microbiome engineering to discuss progress and needs to develop research, technology, and innovation.

Presented by the Society for Biological Engineering (SBE), EpiBio 2018 is a forum for engineers and scientists who are applying the tools and techniques of bioengineering to the area of epigenetics.

This conference will highlight new and upcoming research in this field such as CAR T cell therapies, TCR T cells, Immune cells other than conventional T cells, challenges and opportunities for cell therapies for solid tumors, synthetic biology for cellular immunotherapy, and much more.

SEED 2018 focused on advances in science, technology, applications, and related investments in the field of synthetic biology. This year's theme was "synthetic biology at the leading edge of massive DNA synthesis, editing, and decoding." Here, synthetic biology will be broadly defined as cellular...

ICBE Asia 2018 will bring together researchers who are using quantitative approaches to advance the understanding and application of molecular biology, biophysical chemistry, metabolic engineering, cellular and tissue engineering, biomaterials and synthetic biology. The meeting will be held January...

Presented by the Society for Biological Engineering (SBE), this conference will bring together leaders and trainees from the cutting edge of CRISPR technologies and their application to genome editing and beyond.

The 2017 Metabolic Engineering Conference will be held in Beijing, China. In recent years metabolic engineering has grown rapidly in China and to further stimulate this growth the International Metabolic Engineering Society (IMES) decided to arrange a Metabolic Engineering Summit (ME Summit) in...

SEED 2018 will take place June 3-7, 2018 in Scottsdale, AZ. SEED 2019 will take place June 23-27, 2019 in New York, NY. SEED 2017 was focused on advances in the science and technology emerging from the field of synthetic biology. This is broadly defined as technologies that accelerate the process...

Presented by the Society of Biological Engineering (SBE), this conference will bring together leaders and trainees from cutting edge fields of bioengineering and nanotechnology. Topics to be presented include: immune-engineering, synthetic vaccines, targeted drug delivery, stimulus-responsive...

The meeting was held January 8-11, 2017 in San Diego, CA, USA.

Presented by the Society of Biological Engineering (SBE), this conference will bring together leaders and trainees from cutting edge fields of Translational Medicine and Bioengineering.

Thank you for making SEED 2016 such a success! We hope to see you at SEED 2017 in Vancouver, Canada. The chairs will be Eric Klavins, University of Washington, and Reshma Shetty, Ginkgo Bioworks. The conference proceedings and attendee list for SEED 2016 are forthcoming.

The SBC at MIT is pleased to invite you to participate in the Third International Mammalian Synthetic Biology Workshop (mSBW 3.0). Following the first and second mSBW meetings, the potential to the field of synthetic biology is gaining extensive interest and this conference will provide the latest...

The Metabolic Engineering Summit is chaired by George Chen, Tsinghua University. It will focus on embodying synthetic biology for the development of sustainable bioprocesses.

Established and new members of our community will be brought together to discuss the latest progress in Constraint-Based Reconstruction and Analysis (COBRA). It is sponsored by the International Metabolic Engineering Society and chaired by Kiran Patil, EMBL and will take place in Heidelberg,...

The 4th International Conference on Accelerating Biopharmaceutical Development is chaired by Tim Charlebois, Pfizer, and Dean Pettit, Amgen.

The workshop “Professional Integrity: Best Practices for Publishing Your Work” will be held on Sunday, November 16, 2014 from 9:00 AM to 3:30 PM, co-located with this year’s AIChE Annual meeting in Atlanta, GA. The goal of the project is to develop, field-test, and widely disseminate a set of...

SEED2014 focused on advances in the science and technology emerging from the field of synthetic biology. We broadly define this as technologies that accelerate the process of genetic engineering. It will highlight new tool development, as well as the application of these tools to diverse problems...

Early Bird Registration Expires February 13th. Presented by the International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR) and the Society of Biological Engineering (SBE), this meeting brings together engineers, biologists, and clinicians who are working on cellular therapies in order to accelerate progress towards designing the stem cell and its environment.

The meeting will be held January 13-16, 2013 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The conference will be co-chaired by Ali Khademhosseini of Harvard University and Kristala Prather of Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Co-chaired by Chuck Murry (University of Washington) and Sean Palecek (University of Wisconsin), the meeting brings together engineers, biologists, and clinicians who are working on cellular therapies in order to accelerate progress towards designing the stem cell and its environment.

ICBE brings together researchers who are using quantitative approaches to advance the understanding and application of molecular biology. These scientists, engineers, and professionals are contributing to the development of analytical, diagnostic, and therapeutic strategies that are directly...

This Gordon-style conference emphasized how basis and applied efforts in stem cell biology and engineering can combine to aid in the development of stem cell therapeutics and bioprocesses.

From Benchtop to Bioprocess, this Gordon-style conference emphasized how basis and applied efforts in stem cell biology and engineering can combine to aid in the development of stem cell therapeutics and bioprocesses.

This conference brought together researchers using quantitative approaches to advance the understanding and application of biology at the molecular level. These approaches are contributing to the development of analytical, diagnostic, and therapeutic strategies that are directly relevant to public...