Schedule
THURSDAY JANUARY 8th
3:00 pm: Welcome remarks: Keith Kozminski, UVA and Sam Schaffter, NIST
Session 1: New to the Mid-Atlantic
3:05 pm: Session Chair: Bill Bentley, UMD
3:10 pm: David Glass, Stony Brook
Talk title: Engineering synthetic multicellularity for understanding consortia and tissue behavior
3:30 pm: David Garcia, UMBC
Talk title: Leveraging cell-free synthetic biology and AI for point-of-care diagnostics, biomanufacturing, and materials
3:50 pm: Tara Deans, Georgia Tech
Talk title: Harnessing synthetic biology for next-generation therapeutics
4:10 pm: Emma Chory, Duke
Talk title: Navigating the Evolution Multiverse: A real-time platform for tracking evolution outcomes
4:30 pm: Coffee break
Session 2: Cell-free expression systems
4:45 pm: Session Chair: Mark Styczynski, Georgia Tech
4:50 pm: Fernanda Piorino, NIST
Talk title: Cell-free systems for measuring, building, and screening biology
5:10 pm: Pamela Peralta-Yahya, Georgia Tech
Talk title: From C1 feedstock to value-added chemicals using cell free expression-based biocatalysts
5:30 pm: Widianti Sugianto, UMD
Talk title: Integrating cell-free systems with biomaterials for enhanced chemical bioproduction
5:50 pm: Casey Bernhards, DEVCOM
Talk title: Low Burden Sensors for In-Field Detection of Water Contaminants
6:15 pm: Reception and poster session
FRIDAY JANUARY 9th
9:00 am: Welcome and Speaker introduction: Ed Eisenstein and Bill Bentley, UMD
9:05 am: Keynote address: Matthew DeLisa, Cornell
Adventures in synthetic glycobiology: designing glycosylation for better biologics
9:50 am: Coffee break
Session 3: Engineering Living Materials
10:00 am: Session Chair: Sara Molinari, UMD
10:05 am: Fuzhong Zhang, WashU
Talk title: Synthetic Biology for Protein-based Materials
10:25 am: Anna Duraj-Thatte, Virginia Tech
Talk title: TBD
10:45 am: Linchong You, Duke
Talk title: Predictive engineering of self-organized patterns
11:05 am: Anne Meyer, University of Rochester
Talk title: Self-assembled, living bacterial microlenses with tunable light-focusing behavior
11:25 am: Lunch and poster session 2
Session 4: Synthetic Biology for Agriculture and the Environment
1:00 pm: Session Chair: Scott Lenaghan, Tennessee
1:05 pm: Mike Timko, UVA
Talk title: Approaches to the development of plant biosensors for environmental monitoring
1:25 pm: Alex Pfotenhauer, Tennessee
Talk title: Engineering Encapsidated TRV1 as a Complete VIGS Platform
1:45 pm: Anne Simon, UMD
Talk title: Virus Vectors as Delivery Vehicles for Peptides and siRNAs: The Future of Crop Protection?
2:05 pm: Anna Yaschenko, NC State
Talk title: Design principles of synthetic promoters: Insights into promoter grammar for predictable gene expression in plants
2:25 pm: Hannah Parks, Applied Physics Lab
Talk title: Metabolomics uncovers silent metabolic potential of Rhodopseudomonas palustris
2:45 pm: Coffee break
Session 5: Measurements and standards for synthetic biology
3:00 pm: Session Chair: Samuel Schaffter, NIST
3:05 pm: Elizabeth Strychalski, NIST
Talk title: Setting standards for synthetic biology
3:20 pm: Panel discussion
Ian Hines – NIST
Ryan Bing – Capra Biosciences Jonathan Jacobs, ATCC
4:00 pm: Conclude conference