Preliminary Program subject to change
BEC302 Synthetic Biology
OverviewSynthetic biology has been defined as the application of foundational technologies and engineering design principles to the construction of biological systems that exhibit complex dynamical or logical behavior. The goals of synthetic biology include the design and construction of engineered biological systems that process information, manipulate chemicals and molecular species, fabricate materials, produce energy, provide food, and maintain and enhance human health and our environment. Research focused on the use of synthetic biology strategies to achieve a better understanding of natural biological systems, the simplification of complex, evolved biological systems, and the design and construction of biological systems that solve pressing human needs are of interest to this session. In addition, research that addresses the development of new foundational technologies to drive advancements in this field are also of interest.
Primary SponsorSystems Biology and Multi-scale Integration (BEC3)

Chair

Christina Smolke
Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering
Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
California Institute of Technology
1200 E. California Blvd., MC 210-41
Pasadena, CA 91125
Phone Number: 626-395-2460
Email: smolke@cheme.caltech.edu

CoChair

Jeremy Minshull
President
DNA 2.0
1430 O'Brien Drive, Suite E
Menlo Park, CA 94025
Phone Number: (650) 853 8347 x14
Email: jminshull@dna20.com
Design of Tumor-Killing Bacteria
John Christopher Anderson, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94710, Adam P. Arkin, Bioengineering, University of California, Berkeley, 201 Gilman Hall, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720 and Christopher Voigt, Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of California - San Francisco, Box 2540, 1700 4th Street, San Francisco, CA 94143
Suicide Design, Oscillations, and Host Interactions in a Synthetic Gene Circuit
Philippe R. Marguet1, Eric M. Spitz2 and Lingchong You2, (1)Dept. of Biochemistry, Duke University, Durham, NC 27705, (2)Biomedical Engineering, Duke University, Durham, NC 27705
Engineered Bacterial Chemonavigation
Justin P. Gallivan, Department of Chemistry and Center for Fundamental and Applied Molecular Evolution, Emory University, 1515 Dickey Dr., Atlanta, GA 30322
The Modular Logic of Cell Signaling Systems
Wendell Lim, Department of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology and Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California, San Francisco, UCSF MC 2240, Genentech Hall Room N414, 600 16th Street, San Francisco, CA 94158-2517

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