Agenda

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Day 1: September 6, 2018

Synthetic biology to understand and engineer environmental bacteria

Kevin Metcalf (Northwestern University): Creating proteins with large sizes and multiple functions for biomedical applications
Sagardip Majumder (University of Michigan): Artificial nuclear membranes: A synthetic biology platform for the reconstitution and mechanistic dissection of LINC complex assembly
Patrick Donahue (Northwestern University): Development of synthetic biosensors for engineering cell-based therapies
Aseem Ansari (University of Wisconsin-Madison): Designing synthetic transcription factors

Vladimir Vinnik (University of Wisconsin-Madison): Directed evolution of an adenylation domain specificity code
Adam Silverman (Northwestern University): Deconstructing cell-free extract preparation for in vitro activation of transcriptional biosensors
Mia Mihailovic (University of Texas-Austin): Exploiting SynBio for the high throughput in vivo characterization of functional RNA sites
Daniel Schmidt (University of Minnesota): Domain insertion permissibility is a measure of engineerable allostery in ion channels

Jessica Stark (Northwestern University): Cell-free glycoprotein synthesis technology enables portable, on-demand conjugate vaccine production
Matthew Deaner (University of Texas-Austin): Modular Ligation Extension of Guide RNA Operons (LEGO) for multiplexed dCas9 regulation of metabolic pathways in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Ke Xu (University of Wisconsin-Madison): Engineering Escherichia coli for production of poly(3-hydroxyoctanoic acid) from glycerol
Zengyi Shao (Iowa State University): Elucidating core design principles to engineer nonconventional yeasts as novel microbial factories