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Topic |
Speaker |
Title |
| 8:30-9:00 |
Registration, Breakfast |
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| 9:00-9:15 |
Welcome & Overview |
Todd Peterson, Life Technologies |
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| 9:15-10:15 |
Keynote Address |
Geoff Duyk, TPG Ventures |
Lost in Translation: The Myth of Technological Determinism |
| 10:15-10:30 |
Break |
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Session 1: Genome Engineering, Approaches and Tools. Jef Boeke, Session Leader |
| 10:30-11:00 |
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Dan Gibson, JCVI |
Assembling and Engineering Bacterial Genomes in Yeast |
| 11:00-11:30 |
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Zack Serber, Amyris |
The Industrialization of Synthetic Biology: Rapid Yeast Strain Engineering |
| 11:30-12:00 |
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Jef Boeke, Johns Hopkins |
Building Saccharomyces cerevisiae 2.0: Probing genome plasticity |
| 12:00-12:10 |
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Aindrila Mukhopadhyay, JBEI |
Study of Yeast Transcription Factors as a Strategy to Discover New Parts for Cellular and Metabolic Engineering |
| 12:10-12:20 |
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Jingjing Sun, MIT |
Artificial Cell-to-Cell Communication and Population Control in Yeast |
| 12:20-1:30 |
Lunch |
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Session 2: Engineering Metabolic and Regulatory Pathways. Chris Paddon, Session Leader |
| 1:30-2:00 |
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Chris Paddon, Amyris |
Microbially-Derived Artemisinin: Engineering Yeast Using Synthetic Biology to Stabilize the Supply of an Important Anti-malarial Drug for the Developing World |
| 2:00-2:30 |
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Sergio Peisajovich, UCSF |
Signaling Network Engineering by Combinatorial Recombination |
| 2:30-3:00 |
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Quinn Zhu, DuPont |
Systemic Engineering of Yarrowia lipolytica for Production of Commercial Products |
| 3:00-3:10 |
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Pamela Peralta-Yahya, JBEI |
A Heritable Recombination System for Synthetic Evolution in Yeast |
| 3:10-3:20 |
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Josh Michener, Stanford |
Riboswitch-Guided Enzyme Engineering in Saccharomyces cerevisiae |
| 3:20-3:30 |
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Kim Tipton, UC Berkeley |
Engineering Specific Degradation Circuits in yeast |
| 3:30-3:45 |
Break |
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Session 3: Fermentation, Process Development and Production. Ton van Maris, Session Leader |
| 3:45-4:15 |
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Danie La Grange, University of Stellenbosch |
Engineering Saccharomyces cerevisiae for Consolidated Bioprocessing |
| 4:15-4:45 |
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Ton van Maris, Technical University of Delft |
Engineering of Saccharomyces cerevisiae for Efficient Alcoholic Fermentation of Plant Biomass hydrolysates |
| 4:45-5:15 |
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Mickel Jansen, DSM |
Yeast as an Industrial Platform for Fermentation Processes: Succinic Acid - A Case Study
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| 5:15-5:45 |
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Maitreya Dunham, University of Washington |
Use of Fermentors for Strain Selection |
| 5:45-6:30 |
Mixer |
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| 6:30-8:00 |
Topical Dinners |
Each table will focus on one the day's three sessions. Discussions to center on what is still needed in each of the areas. |
| 8:10-8:30 |
Group Summaries |
Leader of each group will present a list of what still needs to be achieved |
