Conference opening
08.45 - 09.00
Chair: Eriko Takano, University of Manchester, UK
Session 1A: Synthetic biology - the state-of-the-art
09.00 - 12.30
Chair: Eriko Takano, University of Manchester, UK
09.00 - 09.30 Tim Gardner, Ryffin, US
Moving on up: the essential role of measurement quality and modeling in scaling to 200,000L fermentations
09.35 - 09.45 Guillermo Rodrigo, University of Evry-Val-d'Essonne, France
Dynamic response of the multiple antibiotic resistance circuit of bacteria
09.50 - 10.00 Ylaine Gerardin, Harvard Medical School, US
Selection for Antibiotic Producers in Structured Environments
10.05 - 10.15 Axel Trefzer, ThermoFisher Scientific, Germany
Synthetic Biology: Tools for design and engineering of biological systems
10.20 - 10.30 Alfonso Jaramillo, University of Warwick, UK
Engineering synthetic RNA-based regulation in living cells
10.30 - 11.00 Coffee break
11.00 - 11.30 Patrick Boyle, GingkoBioworks, US
Design Principles for Natural Product Manufacturing
11.35 - 11.45 Balint Csorgo, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary
Temporal inactivation of DNA repair by conditional mutants enables highly precise in vivo genome engineering
11.50 - 12.00 Maggie Smith, University of York, UK
Mechanism and applications of serine integrases in synthetic biology
12.05 - 12.15 Delépine Baudoin, University of Evry-Val-d'Essonne, France
FullSense: Expanding the observable space for sensing devices in biosynthesis pathways
12:30 Lunch and Free Time
Session 1B - Synthetic biology - the state-of-the-art
15.00 - 16.50
Chair - Rainer Breitling, University of Manchester, UK
15.00 - 15.30 Tim Lu, MIT, US
Engineering Next-Generation Antimicrobials with Synthetic Biology
15.35 - 15.45 Patrick Yizhi Cai, University of Edinburgh, UK
Synthetic genomics: from Parts to Genomes
15.50 - 16.20 Joyce Tait, Edinburgh University, UK
Regulation-Innovation Interactions and their Impact of Synthetic Biology
16.25 - 16.35 Olga Radchuck, Biofaction KG, Austria
SYNMOD game: conveying synthetic biology to broad public
16.40 - 16.50 Camille Delebecque, Synbio Consulting, US
Towards engineering breakthrough biology - past, present and future synthetic biology trends
16.50 - 17.20 Coffee break
Session 2A: Biochemistry and biotechnology of antibiotic production systems and natural antibiotics in the environment
17.20 - 18.30
Chair: Huimin Zhao, University of Illinois, US
17.20 - 17.50 Jörn Pïel, ETH Zürich, CH
New opportunities for pathway engineering from microbial dark matter
17.55 - 18.05 Ryan Seipke, University of Leeds, UK
Understanding and manipulating antimycin-type depsipeptide biosynthesis and its regulation
18.10 - 18.20 Justin Nodwell, University of Toronto, Canada
Chemical elicitation of cryptic secondary metabolism
18.25 - 18.30 Mikko Metsä-Ketelä, University of Turku, Finland
Targeted activation of two silent angucycline-type gene clusters by reported-guided mutant selection
18.30 1 min poster presentations (odd numbers)