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| Time | Event |
|---|---|
| 8:00 - 9:00 | Registration and Breakfast |
| 9:00 - 9:15 | Welcome address |
| Theme: Microbial Synthetic Biology | |
| 9:15 - 10:15 |
Keynote 1 Dr. Rebecca Shapiro University of Guelph |
| 10:15 -10:45 |
Drug Resistance Evolution in Yeast Harboring Synthetic Gene Circuits -Daniel Charlebois |
| 10:45 - 11:00 | Coffee Break |
| 11:00 - 11:15 |
Kluyveromyces marxianus – A green cell factory for organic acid production -Mackenzie Thornbury |
| 11:20 - 11:35 |
Screening and characterization of bidirectional promoter in Saccharomyces cerevisiae -Zimo Jin |
| 11:40 - 11:55 |
Methanivore: a comprehensive solution to landfill gas emissions through bacterial metabolic engineering -Evelyn Chen |
| 12:00 - 13:30 | Lunch |
| Theme: Regenerative Medicine | |
| 13:30 - 14:45 |
Keynote 2 Dr. Ron Weiss MIT |
| 14:45 - 15:15 |
Engineering Collective Behavior in Stem Cell Driven Colonie -Tiam Heydari |
| 15:15 - 15:30 | Coffee Break |
| 15:30 - 15:45 |
A Synthetic Device to Monitor the Interaction between Human Embryonic Stem Cells -Omar Bashth |
| 15:50 - 16:05 |
Theme: Microbiome Engineering Engineered Saccharomyces boulardii: A Probiotic Approach for Combating Pathogen-Derived Gastrointestinal Diseases -Laura Enekegho |
| 16:10 - 16:25 |
Genetic tools for the spatial characterization of gene expression in the commensal gut bacterium Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron -Giselle McCallum |
| 16:30 - 18:00 | Poster Session 1 |
| Time | Event |
|---|---|
| 8:00 - 9:15 | Breakfast |
| Theme: Genome Engineering | |
| 9:15 - 10:15 |
Keynote 3 Dr. Leopold Parts Wellcome Sanger Institute |
| 10:15 - 10:30 |
PHYCUT: A multiguide CRISPR editing system for glycoengineering of Phaeodactylum tricornutum -Emily struckless |
| 10:30 - 10:45 |
Surveying the Diversity of GIY-YIG Nuclease Domains for Gene Editing -Kurt Loedige |
| 10:45 - 11:00 | Coffee Break |
| 11:00 - 11:30 |
Enzyme reaction cascades to screen and engineer oxidoreductases -David Kwan |
| 11:30 - 12:00 |
Engineering elephant TP53 mutations -Emil Karpinski |
| 12:00 - 13:30 | Lunch |
| Theme: Systems Biology | |
| 13:30 - 14:45 |
Keynote 4 Dr. Pulin Li Whitehead Institute, MIT |
| 14:45 - 15:15 |
Exploring duplicated gene retention using single-cell imaging of protein dynamics -Elena Kuzmin |
| 15:15 - 15:30 | Coffee Break |
| 15:30 - 16:00 |
Environmental protein interaction dynamics at a proteome scale -Dayag Sheykhkarimli |
| 16:00 - 16:15 |
Invisible heroes: Role of a non-catalytic auxiliary protein as a(n) (iso)flavonoid metabolic flux conductor -Lee-Marie Raytek |
| 16:15 - 16:30 |
Linked RNAs – new tools for the in vitro selection of a model Origin of Life -Hendrik Boog |
| 16:30 - 16:45 | Concluding Remarks |
| 16:45 - 18:15 | Poster Session 2 |
| 18:30 - 20:30 | Gala Dinner |