Symposium Agenda

DAY 1

  8:00 am                 Breakfast and Registration

  9:00 am                 Welcome and Introduction
                                    Stephen Mayfield, UC San Diego

  9:05 am                Synthetic Biology for Engineering Organisms in the 21st Century (Keynote)
                                    Hamilton Smith, J. Craig Venter Institute

  9:45 am                 Transporters: Structure, Function, and Application
                                    Geoffrey Chang, UC San Diego

10:15 am                 Coffee Break

10:45 am                 Predictive Biology Through Genome Scale Models
                                    Bernhard Palsson, UC San Diego

11:15 am                 A new dawn for photosynthesis research: high-throughput genetics in algae
                                    Martin Jonikas, Carnegie Institution for Science

11:45 am                 Cyanobacterial conversion of carbon dioxide to 2,3-butanediol
                                    Shota Atsumi, UC Davis

12:15 pm                 Lunch

  1:15 pm                Getting to the Root of Meristem Development
                                    Marty Yanofsky, UC San Diego

  1:45 pm                Regulatory Dynamics in Hormone Signaling and Response Pathways: Enabling
                                        Technologies
                                    Joe Ecker, Salk Institute for Biological Studies

  2:15 pm                Engineered Gene Circuits: From Oscillators to Synchronized Clocks and Biopixels
                                     Jeff Hasty, UC San Diego

  2:45 pm                 Coffee Break

  3:15 pm                Carbon partitioning into lipids, protein, carbohydrates, and pigments induced by
                                        irradiance, CO2 and N-limitation in the marine diatom Thalassiosira pseudonana
                                    Greg Mitchell, Scripps Institution of Oceanography

  3:45 pm                Algae Expression of Nanobodies for Oral Enteric Therapy
                                    George Oyler, Synaptic Research

  4:15 pm                 End of Day One Round Up

  4:20 pm                 Reception and Poster Session

DAY 2

  8:30 am                 Breakfast and Registration

  9:00 am                 Going beyond the S & T bench to Impact those it Serves (Keynote)
                                    Roger Beachy, World Food Center – UC Davis

  9:40 am               Genomic Strategies for the Production of Disease Resistant Cassava to Bacterial       
                                       and Viral Pathogens
                                    Brian Staskawicz, UC Berkeley

10:10 am                 Coffee Break

10:30 am                Pathway diversity and heterologous synthesis of microbial omega-3
                                      polyunsaturated fatty acids
                                    Eric Allen, Scripps Institution of Oceanography

11:00 am                 Molecular approaches for protection of cyanobacterial crops
                                    Bianca Brahamsha, Scripps Institution of Oceanography

11:30 am                 Cyanobacterial Strains, Genetic Tools, and Crop Protection
                                    Jim Golden, UC San Diego

12:00 pm                 Lunch

  1:00 pm                 Expanding Synthetic biology tool box: Advances in precision genome
                                          engineering and algal tools
                                     Sanjay Kumar, Life Technologies

  1:25 pm                 The Missing Link: Reaching commercial scale with novel biologics
                                     Sara Iverson, Heliae

  1:50 pm                 Human and Animal Health Through Enhanced-Algae Botanicals
                                    Jason Pyle, Triton Algae Innovations

  2:15 pm                 Life Cycle Assessment of Transportation Fuel Production from Hydrothermal
                                         Liquefaction of Algae Grown in Open Ponds

                                    Ben Saydah, Sapphire Energy

  2:40 pm                 Coffee Break                      

  3:00 pm                The two sides of algae biofuels: building both molecular and political toolboxes
                                    Emily Trentacoste, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

  3:15 pm                "Natural" Products from Microalgae: Bio-plastic at Scale
                                   Nathan Schoepp, UC San Diego

  3:30 pm                Tools for algal nuclear engineering: homologous recombination
                                    Liz Specht, UC San Diego

  3:45 pm                CAB-Comm Wrap up
                                    Stephen Mayfield, UC San Diego

  4:15 pm                Closing Remarks