Synthetic Biology: At the Crossroads of Genetic Engineering and Human Therapeutics
May 3-4, 2021 | 10:00AM EDT | 2:00PM UTC | 4:00PM CEST*
*Program is in development and subject to change
10:00am
- 10:40am EDT
- May 3, 2021
Jose M. Lora, PhD, Organizer, enGene, Inc;
Joshua N. Leonard, PhD, Chair, Northwestern University
Track: Welcome and Keynote Address
Monday
10:00am
- 10:40am EDT
- May 3, 2021
Martin L. Fussenegger, PhD, ETH Zürich
Track: Welcome and Keynote Address
10:40am
- 01:15pm EDT
- May 3, 2021
Joshua N. Leonard, PhD, Co-Chair, Northwestern University;
Zhen Xie, PhD, Co-Chair, Tsinghua University
Track: Engineering Life with Synthetic Biology Tools and Principles
Monday
10:40am
- 11:05am EDT
- May 3, 2021
Joshua N. Leonard, PhD, Northwestern University
Track: Engineering Life with Synthetic Biology Tools and Principles
Monday
11:05am
- 11:30am EDT
- May 3, 2021
Timothy K. Lu, MD, PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Track: Engineering Life with Synthetic Biology Tools and Principles
Monday
11:40am
- 12:05pm EDT
- May 3, 2021
Jeff Hasty, PhD, University of California, San Diego
Track: Engineering Life with Synthetic Biology Tools and Principles
Monday
12:05pm
- 12:30pm EDT
- May 3, 2021
Yvonne Y. Chen, PhD, University of California, Los Angeles
Track: Engineering Life with Synthetic Biology Tools and Principles
Monday
12:30pm
- 12:55pm EDT
- May 3, 2021
Zhen Xie, PhD, Tsinghua University
Track: Engineering Life with Synthetic Biology Tools and Principles
Monday
12:55pm
- 01:15pm EDT
- May 3, 2021
Matthew Chang, PhD, National University of Singapore
Track: Engineering Life with Synthetic Biology Tools and Principles
Monday
02:30pm
- 03:30pm EDT
- May 3, 2021
Roger Geiger, PhD, Panelist, Institute for Research in Biomedicine;
Virginia W. Cornish, PhD, Panelist, Columbia University;
David Hava, PhD, Panelist, Synlogic, Inc.
Track: Keystone Symposia Roundtables
05:00pm
- 08:00pm EDT
- May 3, 2021
Francisco J. Quintana, PhD, Co-Chair, Harvard Medical School and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard;
Jason Paul Lynch, PhD, Co-Chair, Massachusetts General Hospital
Track: Bioengineering Cells and Viruses in Disease
Monday
05:00pm
- 05:25pm EDT
- May 3, 2021
Luis Ángel Fernández, PhD, National Center of Biotechnology - CSIC
Track: Bioengineering Cells and Viruses in Disease
Monday
05:25pm
- 05:50pm EDT
- May 3, 2021
Jose M. Lora, PhD, enGene, Inc
Track: Bioengineering Cells and Viruses in Disease
Monday
05:50pm
- 06:15pm EDT
- May 3, 2021
Howard L. Kaufman, MD, Massachusetts General Hospital
Track: Bioengineering Cells and Viruses in Disease
Monday
06:15pm
- 06:40pm EDT
- May 3, 2021
Francisco J. Quintana, PhD, Harvard Medical School and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
Track: Bioengineering Cells and Viruses in Disease
Monday
06:55pm
- 07:20pm EDT
- May 3, 2021
Roger Geiger, PhD, Institute for Research in Biomedicine
Track: Bioengineering Cells and Viruses in Disease
Monday
07:20pm
- 07:45pm EDT
- May 3, 2021
Cammie Lesser, MD, PhD, Massachusetts General Hospital
Track: Bioengineering Cells and Viruses in Disease
Monday
07:45pm
- 08:00pm EDT
- May 3, 2021
Jason Paul Lynch, PhD, Massachusetts General Hospital
Track: Bioengineering Cells and Viruses in Disease
10:00am
- 12:40pm EDT
- May 4, 2021
Breanna DiAndreth, PhD, Co-Chair, A2 Biotherapeutics, Inc.;
Jose M. Lora, PhD, Co-Chair, enGene, Inc
Track: Synthetic Biology: Industry Perspective
Tuesday
10:00am
- 10:25am EDT
- May 4, 2021
David Hava, PhD, Synlogic, Inc.
Track: Synthetic Biology: Industry Perspective
Tuesday
10:25am
- 10:50am EDT
- May 4, 2021
Virginia W. Cornish, PhD, Columbia University
Track: Synthetic Biology: Industry Perspective
Tuesday
10:50am
- 11:15am EDT
- May 4, 2021
Gary K. Lee, PhD, Senti Biosciences
Track: Synthetic Biology: Industry Perspective
Tuesday
11:40am
- 11:55am EDT
- May 4, 2021
Breanna DiAndreth, PhD, A2 Biotherapeutics, Inc.
Track: Synthetic Biology: Industry Perspective
Tuesday
11:55am
- 12:10pm EDT
- May 4, 2021
Michael Fero, PhD, TeselaGen Biotechnology
Track: Synthetic Biology: Industry Perspective
Tuesday
12:10pm
- 12:25pm EDT
- May 4, 2021
Rajkamal Srivastava, MS, Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, HBNI
Track: Synthetic Biology: Industry Perspective
Tuesday
12:25pm
- 12:40pm EDT
- May 4, 2021
Tim Joseph Chris De Coster, PhD, Leiden University Medical Center
Track: Synthetic Biology: Industry Perspective
Tuesday
02:30pm
- 03:30pm EDT
- May 4, 2021
George Inglis, PhD, Panelist, Nature Portfolio;
Kusumika Mukherjee, PhD, Panelist, Cell Press;
Maria Polychronidou, PhD, Panelist, Molecular Systems Biology (EMBO Press)
Track: Keystone Symposia Roundtables
05:00pm
- 07:50pm EDT
- May 4, 2021
Tingxi (Tim) Guo, PhD, Co-Chair, Massachusetts Institute of Technology;
Samira Kiani, MD, Co-Chair, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine;
Owen J. L. Rackham, PhD, Co-Chair, Duke-NUS
Track: Next Generation Synthetic Biology
Tuesday
05:00pm
- 05:25pm EDT
- May 4, 2021
Kole T. Roybal, PhD, University of California, San Francisco
Track: Next Generation Synthetic Biology
Tuesday
05:25pm
- 05:50pm EDT
- May 4, 2021
Owen J. L. Rackham, PhD, Duke-NUS
Track: Next Generation Synthetic Biology
Tuesday
05:50pm
- 06:15pm EDT
- May 4, 2021
Samira Kiani, MD, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Track: Next Generation Synthetic Biology
Tuesday
06:40pm
- 06:55pm EDT
- May 4, 2021
Iowis Zhu, BS, University of California, San Francisco
Track: Next Generation Synthetic Biology
Tuesday
06:55pm
- 07:10pm EDT
- May 4, 2021
Rogelio A. Hernandez-Lopez, PhD, University of California, San Francisco
Track: Next Generation Synthetic Biology
Tuesday
07:10pm
- 07:25pm EDT
- May 4, 2021
Tingxi (Tim) Guo, PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Track: Next Generation Synthetic Biology
Tuesday
07:25pm
- 07:40pm EDT
- May 4, 2021
William C.W. Chen, MD, PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Track: Next Generation Synthetic Biology
Tuesday