** Program is Subject to Change - Last Update 12/4
All Times are Eastern Time.
| Eastern Time | December 7, 2020 |
| 9:50 AM - 10:00 AM | Welcome Remarks |
| 10:00 AM - 10:30 AM | Plenary Speaker: Engineering human gastrointestinal tissues from pluripotent stem cells James Wells, Cincinnati Children's Hospital |
| 10:30 AM - 10:45 AM | Hallway Chats and Stretch Break |
| 10:45 AM - 11:40 AM | Session 1: Immunology, Vaccination and Infectious Disease Session Chair: Leonidas Bleris, University of Texas at Dallas |
| 10:45 AM - 11:05 AM | Invited Speaker: What is in your water? Giving individuals the power to monitor their environments with cell-free synthetic biology Julius Lucks, Northwestern University |
| 11:05 AM - 11:25 AM | Invited Speaker: Exploring the capacity to modulate macrophage function with biomaterials Elizabeth Wayne, Carnegie Mellon University |
| 11:25 AM - 11:40 AM | Thermal Control of Engineered T Cells Mohamad Abedi, California Institute of Technology |
| 11:40 AM - 11:55 AM | Hallway Chats and Stretch Break |
| 11:55 AM - 1:05 PM | Session 2: Organoids Session Chair: Leonardo Morsut, University of Southern California |
| 11:55 AM - 12:15 PM | Invited Speaker: Engineering solutions for kidney organoids derived from human pluripotent stem cells Nuria Montserrat, Institut de Bioenginyeria de Catalunya |
| 12:15 PM - 12:35 PM | Invited Speaker: Synthetic morphogenesis: what do cells know how to do for themselves, and when and why is external information required? Jamie Davies, University of Edinburgh |
| 12:35 PM - 12:50 PM | Optogenetic Control of Apical Constriction Induces 3D Deformation in Mammalian Epithelia Guillermo Martínez Ara, EMBL Barcelona |
| 12:50 PM - 1:05 PM | Cell-State Specific Digital to Analog Signal Conversion in Human Pluripotent Stem Cells Laura Prochazka, University of Toronto |
| 1:05 PM - 2:00 PM | Poster Session |
| Eastern Time | December 8, 2020 |
| 10:00 AM - 10:30 AM | Plenary Speaker: The pandemic coronavirus: replication, disease and immunity Britt Glaunsinger, University of California, Berkeley |
| 10:30 AM - 10:40 AM | Hallway Chats and Stretch Break |
| 10:40 AM - 11:20 AM | Session 3: Immunology, Vaccination and Infectious Disease Session Chair: Joshua Leonard, Northwestern University |
| 10:40 AM - 11:00 AM | Invited Speaker: Katharina Ribbeck, MIT |
| 11:00 AM - 11:20 AM | Invited Speaker: Development of SARS-CoV-2 vaccines using nucleoside-modified mRNA Norbert Pardi, University of Pennsylvania |
| 11:20 AM - 11:25 AM | Synthetic Biology Funding Opportunities at the NIH David Rampulla, NBIB |
| 11:25 AM - 12:10 PM | Career Workshop Session Chair: Tara Deans, University of Utah |
| 11:25 AM - 11:40 AM | Plenary Speaker: Robert Deans, Chief Scientific Officer, Synthego |
| 11:40 AM - 12:10 PM | Panel Discussion Katie Galloway, Assistant Professor, MIT Tim Lu, Associate Professor, MIT and Co-founder & CEO of Senti Biosciences Ernesto Andrianantoandro, Editor, Cell Press |
| 12:10 PM - 2:20 PM | Session 4: Foundational Advances and Control Engineering Session Chair, Laura Segatori, Rice University |
| 12:10 PM - 12:30 PM | Invited Speaker: Detangling DNA: Balancing biophysical tradeoffs drives cellular reprogramming Katie Galloway, MIT |
| 12:30 PM - 12:50 PM | Invited Speaker: A mammalian cell programming platform that integrates synthetic biology and computer-aided design Alec Nielsen, Asimov |
| 12:50 PM - 1:05 PM | Neural Computing in Mammalian Cells Christian E. Cuba Samaniego, UCLA |
| 1:05 PM - 1:20 PM | Modular RNA-Responsive Elements for Versatile Eukaryotic Translational Control Evan Zhao, Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering |
| 1:20 PM - 1:35 PM | Uncoupling gene expression noise along the central dogma using genome engineered human cell lines Taek Kang, University of Texas at Dallas |
| 1:35 PM - 1:50 PM | Development of a Toggle Switch Based on Post-Transcriptional Regulation That Resists Epigenetic Silencing Noreen Wauford, MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY |
| 1:50 PM - 2:05 PM | Rosa26 Docking Sites for Investigating Genetic Circuit Silencing in Stem Cells Mark Livingston, University of Utah |
| 2:05 PM - 2:20 PM | Addressing Gene Expression Burden in Mammalian Cells Timothy Frei, ETH Zürich |
| 2:20 PM - 2:25 PM | Closing Remarks |