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Genome Engineering and Synthetic Biology (Virtual 4th edition)

22-24 September 2021, Virtual
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Genome Engineering and Synthetic Biology (Virtual 4th edition)

Genome Engineering and Synthetic Biology (Virtual 4th edition)

A VIB Tools & Technologies conference

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The Genome Engineering field has been revolutionized by CRISPR technologies, resulting in rapid, affordable and multiplex editing of genomes. Moreover, the number of CRISPR applications is continuously increasing. Next to this, progress in the Synthetic Biology field has been accelerated by recent developments in DNA synthesis and assembly technologies, and the expansion of the genetic code.

During this two day conference, the latest developments in the fields of Genome Engineering and Synthetic Biology will be presented by over 30 speakers from academia and industry. The world-renowned academics will showcase their latest research breakthroughs, while the technology developers in industry present their disruptive new technology platforms which drive the field forward.

After three successful editions (organized in Sept 2013, January 2016 and January 2018) featuring each time ~300 attendees, we hope to further increase the impact of our meeting in this field.

The conference will cover the following topics:

  • Tissue engineering
  • Bionanomaterials
  • Direct evolution of pathways
  • Protein design
  • CRISPR (applications)
  • Single Cell (meets CRISPR)
  • DNA Synthesis
  • Truly genome engineering

At this virtual edition we will aim that speakers, attendees and exhibitors can interact remotely through a virtual environment, as one of the main goals of the VIB Conference Series is to provide the possibility for networking and collaboration.

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The time zone of the program is CET (Central European Time).

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Confirmed speakers

Edward Lemke
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Edward Lemke

Edward Lemke

Institute of Molecular Biology (IMB), DE, Johannes Gutenberg University (JGU), DE & EMBL, DE

Program

Day 1 - Wednesday, 22 September, 2021

14:30
15:10
Virtual Coffee
15:10
15:20
Welcome word
15:20
17:30
Plenary session 1: Tissue engineering
15:20
15:50
Understand, simplify, study, and test the regulatory mechanisms controlling stem cell fate and identity
Academic speaker
15:50
16:20
Using synthetic biology to engineer therapeutic devices
Academic speaker
16:50
17:30
Poster pitches
Combining nanotechnology with CRISPR/Cas9 to achieve efficient delivery and genome editing

Soultana Konstantinidou

University of Pisa, Department of Biology, IT
Selected from abstracts
Scaffolding functional molecules in proximity to enhance bioactivity

Nga T. Lam

School of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, AU
Selected from abstracts
ReScribe: an unrestrained tool combining multiplex recombineering and minimal-PAM ScCas9 for genome recoding Pseudomonas putida

Maria Martin Pascual

Wageningen University & Research, NL
Selected from abstracts
Directed Evolution of Bioactive Compounds: Azol(in)e-containing Post-translationally Modified Peptides

Shamal Withanage

KU Leuven, BE
Selected from abstracts
A general approach for stabilizing nanobodies for intracellular expression

John Dingus

Harvard Medical School, US
Selected from abstracts
17:30
18:00
Meet the speaker sessions "Tissue engineering"
17:30
19:00
Virtual Poster Session 1

Day 2 - Thursday, 23 September, 2021

11:30
12:10
Virtual Coffee
12:10
13:40
Plenary session 2: Bionanomaterials
12:10
12:40
Synthetic Biology and Next Generation Industrial Biotechnology for PHA Production
12:40
13:10
Bacterial cell surfaces as a source of novel biomaterials
Academic speaker
13:10
13:40
Synthetic biology as an enabling technology for NASA’s missions
13:40
14:10
Meet the speaker sessions "Bionanomaterials"
14:10
15:55
Parallel session 1: Direct evolution of pathways
14:10
14:40
Introducing a C4 metabolic pathway into rice
14:40
15:00
Massively parallel microbial genome engineering using the Onyx™ Platform
15:00
15:30
An engineered Calvin cycle enables the yeast Komagataella phaffii to grow and produce organic acids from CO2
15:30
15:50
Reinventing Chemical Manufacturing Using Biotechnology: Manus Bio Approach
15:50
15:55
Sponsor talk: Enhance productivity in genome editing workflows

Jason Lehmann

Codex DNA, US
Sponsored talk
14:10
15:50
Parallel session 2: Protein design
14:10
14:40
Expanding the Universe of Functional Proteins by Computational Design
14:40
15:10
Coiled-coil modules for designed cellular logic circuits
15:10
15:40
Designer membraneless organelles enable orthogonal translation in eukaryotes with two genetic codes

Edward Lemke

Institute of Molecular Biology (IMB), DE, Johannes Gutenberg University (JGU), DE & EMBL, DE
Academic speaker
15:40
15:45
Sponsor talk: Beckman Coulter Life Sciences Overview

Maria Savino

Ph.D, Field Marketing Manager, Beckman Coulter, EU
Sponsored talk
15:45
15:50
Sponsor talk: Advanced Gene Delivery Solutions, from Design to Therapy

Olivier Petitjean

VectorBuilder, US
Sponsored talk
15:55
16:25
Meet the speaker sessions "Direct evolution of pathways"
15:55
16:25
Meet the speaker sessions "Protein design"
16:25
19:00
Plenary session 3: CRISPR (applications)
16:25
16:45
Crop improvement in maize for increased water and nitrogen use efficiency through application of Inari’s SEEDesignTM platform
16:45
17:05
The next-generation CRISPR applications platform
17:05
17:35
Synthetic biology approaches to retune RNA regulation
17:35
17:55
Plant gene editing at scale

Dan Voytas

University of Minnesota, US & Co-Founder & CSO, Calyxt, US
Company speaker
17:55
18:25
Investigating the enzymatic and cellular mechanisms of base editing
18:25
18:55
Harnessing novel CRISPR effectors for genome engineering and health
18:55
19:00
Sponsor talk: Genome-wide CRISPR screening made simple

Malathi Raman

Takara Bio Europe, EU
Sponsored talk
19:00
19:30
Meet the speaker sessions "CRISPR (applications)"
19:00
20:30
Virtual networking

Day 3 - Friday, 24 September, 2021

12:00
13:00
Virtual networking
13:00
15:05
Parallel session 3: Single Cell (meets CRISPR)
13:00
13:20
Single-cell CRISPR screens in primary human T cells
13:20
13:40
Exploring Next Generation Cell Engineering Using Microfluidic Picodroplets
13:40
14:10
Single-cell CRISPR screens in primary T-cell cultures

Jan Cools

VIB-KU Leuven Center for Cancer Biology, BE
Academic speaker
14:10
14:30
Single and combinatorial CRISPR gene editing with 3Cs gRNAs
14:30
15:00
Multimodal techniques for high content and high throughput cellular phenotyping
15:00
15:05
Sponsor talk: Your one stop shop Reagent supplier

Richard Kerr

Genscipt, EU
Sponsored talk
13:00
15:05
Parallel session 4: DNA Synthesis
13:00
13:20
Enabling synthetic biology with precise enzymatic DNA synthesis
13:20
13:40
Re-inventing DNA synthesis. How Evonetix is building the next generation of gene synthesis platforms.
13:40
14:10
Harnessing the potential of DNA ligases for Xenobiology
14:30
15:00
Adventures of Nucleic Acid Chemistry for therapeutics and Synthetic Biology
15:00
15:05
Sponsor talk: Leveraging cell and gene therapy development through DNA synthesis at scale

Leonie Alten

Scientific Development Manager, SynBio, Twist Bioscience, DE
Sponsored talk
15:05
15:35
Meet the speaker sessions "Single Cell (meets CRISPR)"
15:05
15:35
Meet the speaker sessions "DNA Synthesis"
15:05
16:00
Virtual Poster Session 2
16:00
17:00
Plenary session 4: Truly genome engineering
16:00
16:30
Synthetic Yeast Genomes Beyond Sc2.0 – Synthetic Clusters
Academic speaker
16:30
17:00
Opening a new avenue for plant breeding: CRISPR/Cas mediated chromosome engineering

Holger Puchta

Botanical Institute, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), DE
Academic speaker
17:00
17:10
Closing words
17:10
17:40
Meet the speaker sessions "Truly genome engineering"
17:00
19:00
Virtual networking

Organizing committee

Marjan De Mey

Marjan De Mey

Metabolic Engineering of Microorganisms (MEMO) group, Centre for Synthetic Biology (CSB), Ghent University, BE

Abstracts

The full list of abstracts will be available on 13-09-2021 until 21-10-2021
This list will only be available for registered attendees of the event.

Attendees

The full list of attendees will be available on 13-09-2021 until 21-10-2021
This list will only be available for registered attendees of the event.