Synthetic Biology: At the Crossroads of Genetic Engineering and Human Therapeutics
May 3-4, 2021 | 10:00AM EDT | 2:00PM UTC | 4:00PM CEST*
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Monday, May 3, 2021
Engineering Life with Synthetic Biology Tools and Principles
10:40 AM - 1:15 PM EDT
Monday, May 3, 2021Co-Chairs
Joshua Leonard, PhD
Northwestern University
Zhen Xie, PhD
Tsinghua University
Engineering Life with Synthetic Biology Tools and Principles
Advancing the Frontiers of Design-Driven Engineering for Programmable Cell-Based Therapies
10:40 AM - 11:05 AM EDT
Monday, May 3, 2021Speaker
Joshua Leonard, PhD
Northwestern University
Engineering Life with Synthetic Biology Tools and Principles
Engineered Gene Circuits for Diagnostics and Therapeutics
11:05 AM - 11:30 AM EDT
Monday, May 3, 2021Speaker
Timothy Lu, MD, PhD
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Engineering Life with Synthetic Biology Tools and Principles
Coffee Break
11:30 AM - 11:40 AM EDT
Monday, May 3, 2021Engineering Life with Synthetic Biology Tools and Principles
[NOT AVAILABLE ON DEMAND] Modulating Bacterial Populations with Synthetic Biology
11:40 AM - 12:05 PM EDT
Monday, May 3, 2021Speaker
Jeff Hasty, PhD
University of California, San Diego
Engineering Life with Synthetic Biology Tools and Principles
[NOT AVAILABLE ON DEMAND] Synthetic Biology in Immunotherapy
12:05 PM - 12:30 PM EDT
Monday, May 3, 2021Speaker
Yvonne Chen, PhD
University of California, Los Angeles
Engineering Life with Synthetic Biology Tools and Principles
Oncolytic Adenovirus Programmed by Synthetic Gene Circuit for Cancer Immunotherapy
12:30 PM - 12:55 PM EDT
Monday, May 3, 2021Speaker
Zhen Xie, PhD
Tsinghua University
Engineering Life with Synthetic Biology Tools and Principles
Reprogramming Microbes to Rewire Host-Microbiome Interactions
12:55 PM - 1:15 PM EDT
Monday, May 3, 2021Speaker
Matthew Chang, PhD
National University of Singapore
Engineering Life with Synthetic Biology Tools and Principles
Career Roundtable
2:30 PM - 3:30 PM EDT
Monday, May 3, 2021Panelists
Roger Geiger, PhD
Institute for Research in Biomedicine
Virginia Cornish, PhD
Columbia University
David Hava, PhD
Synlogic, Inc.
Keystone Symposia Roundtables
Bioengineering Cells and Viruses in Disease
5:00 PM - 8:00 PM EDT
Monday, May 3, 2021Co-Chairs
Francisco Quintana, PhD
Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
Jason Lynch, PhD
Massachusetts General Hospital
Bioengineering Cells and Viruses in Disease
Engineering E. coli for the Targeted Injections of Proteins into Tumor Cells
5:00 PM - 5:25 PM EDT
Monday, May 3, 2021Speaker
Luis Ángel Fernández, PhD
National Center of Biotechnology - CSIC
Bioengineering Cells and Viruses in Disease
Synthetic Immunotherapy with Engineered Bacteria
5:25 PM - 5:50 PM EDT
Monday, May 3, 2021Speaker
Jose Lora, PhD
enGene, Inc
Bioengineering Cells and Viruses in Disease
New Strategies for Improving the Therapeutic Potential of Oncolytic Viruses in Cancer and Other Diseases
5:50 PM - 6:15 PM EDT
Monday, May 3, 2021Speaker
Howard Kaufman, MD
Massachusetts General Hospital
Bioengineering Cells and Viruses in Disease
Engineering Bacteria and Yeast for the Control of Inflammation
6:15 PM - 6:40 PM EDT
Monday, May 3, 2021Speaker
Francisco Quintana, PhD
Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
Bioengineering Cells and Viruses in Disease
Coffee Break
6:40 PM - 6:55 PM EDT
Monday, May 3, 2021Bioengineering Cells and Viruses in Disease
Metabolic Modulation of the Tumor Microenvironment with Synthetic Biology
6:55 PM - 7:20 PM EDT
Monday, May 3, 2021Speaker
Roger Geiger, PhD
Institute for Research in Biomedicine
Bioengineering Cells and Viruses in Disease
Leveraging Bacterial Secretion Systems to Develop Therapeutic Designer Probiotics
7:20 PM - 7:45 PM EDT
Monday, May 3, 2021Speaker
Cammie Lesser, MD, PhD
Massachusetts General Hospital
Bioengineering Cells and Viruses in Disease
Short Talk: Development of Designer Probiotics for the Treatment of Inflammatory Bowel Disease
7:45 PM - 8:00 PM EDT
Monday, May 3, 2021Speaker
Jason Lynch, PhD
Massachusetts General Hospital
Bioengineering Cells and Viruses in Disease
Tuesday, May 4, 2021
Synthetic Biology: Industry Perspective
10:00 AM - 12:40 PM EDT
Tuesday, May 4, 2021Co-Chairs
Breanna DiAndreth, PhD
A2 Biotherapeutics, Inc.
Jose Lora, PhD
enGene, Inc
Synthetic Biology: Industry Perspective
Targeting Metabolic Diseases with Synthetic Biotic Medicines
10:00 AM - 10:25 AM EDT
Tuesday, May 4, 2021Speaker
David Hava, PhD
Synlogic, Inc.
Synthetic Biology: Industry Perspective
Expanding the Synthetic Capabilities of Yeast
10:25 AM - 10:50 AM EDT
Tuesday, May 4, 2021Speaker
Virginia Cornish, PhD
Columbia University
Synthetic Biology: Industry Perspective
Precise Targeting of Acute Myeloid Leukemia with OR / NOT Logic-Gated Gene Circuits in CAR-NK Cells
10:50 AM - 11:15 AM EDT
Tuesday, May 4, 2021Speaker
Gary Lee, PhD
Senti Biosciences
Synthetic Biology: Industry Perspective
Coffee Break
11:15 AM - 11:40 AM EDT
Tuesday, May 4, 2021Synthetic Biology: Industry Perspective
Short Talk: Engineered T Cells Directed at Tumors with Defined Allelic Loss
11:40 AM - 11:55 AM EDT
Tuesday, May 4, 2021Speaker
Breanna DiAndreth, PhD
A2 Biotherapeutics, Inc.
Synthetic Biology: Industry Perspective
Short Talk: Machine Learning Models for Predictive Bioengineering
11:55 AM - 12:10 PM EDT
Tuesday, May 4, 2021Speaker
Michael Fero, PhD
TeselaGen Biotechnology
Synthetic Biology: Industry Perspective
Short Talk: Engineering Reversible Logic Based Synthetic Gene Circuits in Living Bacteria and Its Potential Application in Therapeutic Delivery to Human Cancer Cells
12:10 PM - 12:25 PM EDT
Tuesday, May 4, 2021Speaker
Rajkamal Srivastava, MS
Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, HBNI
Synthetic Biology: Industry Perspective
Short Talk: Anti-Arrhythmic Ion Channel Engineering Enables Self-Restoration of Cardiac Rhythm: Towards Synthetic Biomedicine in Cardiology
12:25 PM - 12:40 PM EDT
Tuesday, May 4, 2021Speaker
Tim De Coster, PhD
Leiden University Medical Center
Synthetic Biology: Industry Perspective
Meet the Editors Roundtable
2:30 PM - 3:30 PM EDT
Tuesday, May 4, 2021Panelists
George Inglis, PhD
Nature Portfolio
Kusumika Mukherjee, PhD
Cell Press
Maria Polychronidou, PhD
Molecular Systems Biology (EMBO Press)
Keystone Symposia Roundtables
Next Generation Synthetic Biology
5:00 PM - 7:50 PM EDT
Tuesday, May 4, 2021Co-Chairs
Tingxi (Tim) Guo, PhD
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Samira Kiani, MD
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Owen Rackham, PhD
Duke-NUS
Next Generation Synthetic Biology
Enhancing Engineered Immune Cell Therapies with Synthetic Biology
5:00 PM - 5:25 PM EDT
Tuesday, May 4, 2021Speaker
Kole Roybal, PhD
University of California, San Francisco
Next Generation Synthetic Biology
Using Data-Driven Approaches to Develop Engineered Cell Therapies
5:25 PM - 5:50 PM EDT
Tuesday, May 4, 2021Speaker
Owen Rackham, PhD
Duke-NUS
Next Generation Synthetic Biology
CRISPR-Based Genetic Circuits: Immunomodulation as a Tool to Address Safety and Developing Therapeutics
5:50 PM - 6:15 PM EDT
Tuesday, May 4, 2021Speaker
Samira Kiani, MD
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Next Generation Synthetic Biology
Coffee Break
6:15 PM - 6:40 PM EDT
Tuesday, May 4, 2021Next Generation Synthetic Biology
Short Talk: Next Generation Receptors for the Enhanced Control of Cellular Immunotherapy
6:40 PM - 6:55 PM EDT
Tuesday, May 4, 2021Speaker
Iowis Zhu, BS
University of California, San Francisco
Next Generation Synthetic Biology
Short Talk: T Cell Circuits that Sense Antigen Density with Ultrasensitive Threshold
6:55 PM - 7:10 PM EDT
Tuesday, May 4, 2021Speaker
Rogelio Hernandez-Lopez, PhD
University of California, San Francisco
Next Generation Synthetic Biology
Short Talk: Sense-and-Respond Payload Delivery using a Novel Antigen-Inducible Promoter Improves Suboptimal CAR-T Activation
7:10 PM - 7:25 PM EDT
Tuesday, May 4, 2021Speaker
Tingxi (Tim) Guo, PhD
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Next Generation Synthetic Biology
Short Talk: Highly Programmable Synthetic Transcription System for Precision Control of Gene Expression and Functional Phenotype in Mammalian Cells
7:25 PM - 7:40 PM EDT
Tuesday, May 4, 2021Speaker
William Chen, MD, PhD
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Next Generation Synthetic Biology
