The 2nd International BioDesign Research Conference

The 2nd International BioDesign Research Conference

December 6th - 17th, 2021, Virtual

December 6th - 17th, 2021, Virtual

  Program

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December 6

Opening Ceremony and General Session
(Moderator: AE Shoshana Wodak, VIB-VUB Center for Structural Biology, Belgium) 

07:30 - 07:50 am  
US Pacific Standard Time

Introduction of BioDesign Research, and welcome remarks (Alfonso Jaramillo)

07:50 - 08:50 am 

AB George Church, Harvard University, USA
BioDesign: from atoms to ecosystems

08:50 - 09:50 am 

AE Michael Elowitz, California Institute of Technology, USA
Multicellular Circuit Design

09:50-10:50 am 

AB David Baker, University of Washington, USA
De novo protein design using deep learning



December 7

(Moderator: Yvonne Y. Chen, University of California, Los Angeles, USA) 
                       EiC Alfonso Jaramillo, Institute for Integrative Systems Biology, Valencia, Spain)

08:00 - 08:40 am
US Pacific Standard Time

AE Mark Isalan, Imperial College London, UK
A genetic toolkit and gene switches to limit Mycoplasma growth for a synthetic vaccine chassis

08:40 - 09:20 am 
AB David Liu, Harvard University, USA
Base Editing and Prime Editing: Precision Gene Correction Without Double-Strand DNA Breaks
09:20 - 10:00 am 

Yvonne Y. Chen, University of California, USA
Engineering Next-Generation CAR-T Cells for Cancer Immunotherapy

10:00 - 10:40 am 

AE Yuan Lu, Tsinghua University, China
Cell-free synthetic biology: An emerging engineering strategy to revolutionize the biodesign

10:40 - 11:20 am 

AE Philipp Holliger, MRC, Cambridge, UK
Evolutionary engineering for synthetic genetics



December 8

(Moderator: EiC Alfonso Jaramillo, Institute for Integrative Systems Biology, Valencia, Spain)

08:00 - 08:40 am 
US Pacific Standard Time

AB AE Rodolphe Barrangou, North Carolina State University, USA
Using diverse CRISPR effectors to manipulate microbiomes

08:40 - 09:20 am 

AE Beatrix Suess, Technical University, Darmstadt, Germany
Synthetic RNA regulatory systems

09:20 - 10:00 am

AE Yue Shen, BGI-Research, China
Synthetic Genomics: Enabling Technologies and Applications

10:00 - 10:40 am

Qiannan Hu, Shanghai Institute of Nutrition and Health, CAS, China
Data-driven de novo Synthetic Biology Pathway Design Systems

10:40 - 11:20 am

AE Tae Seok Moon, Washington University in St. Louis, USA
Systems and synthetic biology: constructing smart and programmable microbes to address global problems



December 9

(Moderator: AB Ron Breaker, Yale University, USA)
                       EiC Alfonso Jaramillo, Institute for Integrative Systems Biology, Valencia, Spain)

08:00 - 08:40 am 
US Pacific Standard Time

AB Ron Breaker, Yale University, USA
The Diversity of Ligands for Natural Riboswitches

08:40 - 09:20 am 

AE Jeff Hasty, University of California San Diego, USA
Design Challenges for Gene Circuits

09:20 - 10:00 am 

Susanna Manrubia, Spanish National Centre for Biotechnology, Spain
How do genotype-phenotype biases condition designability?

10:00 - 10:40 am 

AE Rafael Sanjuan, Institute for Integrative Systems Biology, Valencia, Spain
Cooperative replication in viruses: a social evolution perspective

10:40 - 11:20 am 

AE Peng Xu, Guangdong Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, China
Biomanufacturing and intelligent control systems



December 10

(Moderator: AE Mustafa Khammash, ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
                       EiC Alfonso Jaramillo, Institute for Integrative Systems Biology, Valencia, Spain)

08:00 - 08:40 am 
US Pacific Standard Time

Terry Hwa, University of California San Diego, USA
mechanisms and consequences of bacterial growth control

08:40 - 09:20 am 

AE Mustafa Khammash, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Biodesign of Genetic Control Systems

09:20 - 10:00 am 

Tara L. Deans, University of Utah, USA
Designing synthetic gene circuits to reprogram cells

10:00 - 10:40 am 

Erik Winfree, California Institute of Technology, USA
Exploiting stochasticity in molecular systems: theory

10:40 - 11:20 am 

AE Jian Xu, Qingdao Institute of Bioenergy and Processes, CAS, China
Ramanome, FlowRACS and RACS-Seq: linking metabolic phenome and genome at single-cell resolution for mining cell factories and enzymes



December 11

Workshop for manuscript writing (Moderator: AE Tae Seok Moon, Washington University in St. Louis, USA)

08:00 - 08:10 am 

AE Tae Seok Moon, Washington Unoversity in St. Louis, USA
Intro of the speakers and the workshop 

08:10 - 08:25 am 

Ruchika Bajaj , University of California San Francisco, USA
Brief description of the paper with slides 

08:25 - 08:40 am 

Q&A and comments on the paper/presentation from the audiences

08:40 - 09:10 am 

Abinaya Badri , Ginkgo Bioworks, Inc., USA
Reviewer comments on the paper and presentation how to write a good paper 



December 13

(Moderator: AE Virginia Cornish, Columbia University, USA)
                       EiC Alfonso Jaramillo, Institute for Integrative Systems Biology, Valencia, Spain)

08:00 - 08:40 am 
US Pacific Standard Time

Kristala L. J. Prather, MIT, USA
Engineered Autonomous Control of Metabolic Pathways

08:40 - 09:20 am 

AE Virginia Cornish, Columbia University, USA
Expanding the synthetic capabilities of yeast

09:20 - 10:00 am 

AE Douglas Densmore, Boston University, USA
Automating the Design of Microfluidic Environments for Bioelectronic Systems

10:00 - 10:40 am 

Tom Ellis, Imperial College London, UK
Patterning grown materials with DNA-programmed properties

10:40 - 11:20 am 

Ricard Sole, Pompeu Fabra University, Spain
Emergent complexity and the limits of bioengineering

11:20 am - 12:00 pm

Jason Chin, University of Cambridge, UK
Reprogramming the Genetic Code



December 14

(Moderator: AE Shoshana Wodak, VIB-VUB Center for Structural Biology, Belgium)
                       EiC Alfonso Jaramillo, Institute for Integrative Systems Biology, Valencia, Spain)

08:00 - 08:40 am

Donald Hilvert, ETH Zurich/Laboratory of Organic Chemistry, Switzerland
Evolving virus-like nucleocapsids in the lab

08:40 - 09:20 am 

Anastassia Vorobieva, VIB-VUB Center for Structural Biology, Belgium
De-novo design of pore-forming transmembrane beta-barrels

09:20 - 10:00 am 

Emmanuel Levy, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
Principles of Protein Assembly in Cells

10:00 - 10:40 am 

Anum Glasgow, Columbia University, USA
Computational design of protein binders for new functions

10:40 - 11:20 am 

Sergey Ovchinnikov, Harvard University | Harvard FAS Center for Systems Biology, USA
Inverting protein structure prediction models for protein design



December 15

(Moderator: AE Matthew Porteus, Stanford University, USA)
                       EiC Alfonso Jaramillo, Institute for Integrative Systems Biology, Valencia, Spain)

08:00 - 08:40 am 
US Pacific Standard Time

AE Matthew Porteus, Stanford University, USA
Biodesign through the Broad Use of Homology Directed Genome Editing

08:40 - 09:20 am 

AE Ron Weiss, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
Mammalian synthetic biology: programmable organoids, machine learning, and neuromorphic computing in cells

09:20 - 10:00 am 

AE Victor de Lorenzo, Centro Nacional de Biotecnología, Spain
SynBio tools for engineering new-to-nature interactions in microbial communities

10:40 - 11:20 am 

Petra Schwille, Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Germany
Autonomous positioning of a division ring in minimal cells



December 16

(Moderator: José R. Dinneny, Stanford University)

08:00 - 08:40 am 
US Pacific Standard Time

Nicola Patron, The Earlham Institute, UK
Recoding Regulation:Synthetic Expansions of Plant Metabolism

08:40 - 09:20 am 

José R. Dinneny, Stanford University, USA
Making phenotypes: using robotics and synthetic genetic circuits to characterize and engineer root system architecture

09:20 - 10:00 am 

Alison Smith, University of Cambridge, UK
Redesigning the Chlamydomonas chloroplast genome

10:00 - 10:40 am 

Matias Zurbriggen, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany
Photoreceptor engineering for ontogenetic control and study of signalling and metabolic processes in animal, microbial and plant Systems.

10:40 - 11:20 am

AE Anke Becker, Philipps University of Marburg, Germany
ECFexpress: an orthogonal, organism-independent expression platform based on extracytoplasmic function (ECF) sigma factors

11:20 - 12:00 pm 

EiC Xiaohan Yang, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
Perspectives on the application of plant synthetic biology in climate change mitigation



December 17

Closing ceremony (Moderator: Megan J. Palmer, Stanford University, USA)

08:00 - 08:40 am
US Pacific Standard Time

AE Diane DiEuliis, National Defense University, USA
Expanding Biosecurity by Design

08:40 - 09:20 am

AE Gigi Kwik Gronvall, Johns Hopkins University, USA
Biodesign security, safety, and social responsibility

09:20 - 10:00 am

Megan J. Palmer, Stanford University, USA
Biodesign from molecular to social scales

10:00 - 10:40 am

Closing remarks by the conveners and Poster award

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