Day 2: September 13, 2019
8:30 AM Statistics in Synthetic Biology Workshop
- Prof. Keith Tyo (Northwestern):
9:45 AM Coffee Break, Networking, Poster Viewing
10:30 AM Panel: Lab to Start-Up
Moderator: Kieran Furlong, UW-Madison DISCOVERY TO PRODUCT
- Sean Kendall, Associate, ARCH Venture Partners
- Bill Faulkner, Managing Principal, Talmont Holdings; Co-Founder & Chairman Hennepin Life Sciences; Founder Ascenix Biotechnologies
- Jessica Martin Eckerly, Co-Founder at Forward BIOLABS; Venture Fellow, Bascom Ventures
- Rob McBride, Co-Founder, Felix Biotechnology
11:30 AM Boxed Lunch to Go
1:00 PM Selected Short Talks 2
Session Chair: Amy Weeks
- Joon Lee (Northwestern): Identifying substrate design rules for flexizyme and expanding the substrates scope for genetic code reprogramming
- Liang Lin (Northwestern): Parallel screening and rapid identification of tetra orthogonal N-glycosylation enzymes
- Nolan Kennedy (Northwestern University): An apparent fitness landscape of the bacterial microcompartment shell protein PduA reveals an evolutionary hierarchy
- Mike Smanski (Minnesota): Engineering Species-like Barriers to Sexual Reproduction
2:00 PM Snack, Coffee, and Networking Break
2:30 PM Selected Short talks 3
Session Chair: Phil Romero
- Dianna Long (Nebraska): Transcriptional regulators generate a large dynamic range in Actinobacillus succinogenes 130Z
- Xiangyang Liu (UW-Madison): De novo Design of Programmable Inducible Promoters
- Arjun Khakhar (Minnesota): Reprogramming plants with synthetic transcription factors and RNA viruses
- Jason Peters (UW-Madison): Enabling Genetic Analysis of Diverse Bacteria with Mobile-CRISPRi
3:30 PM Closing Keynote: Prof. Jeff Tabor (Rice University): Bacterial two component systems as sensors for synthetic biology