559 Synthetic and Systems Biology in Human Health

Wednesday, November 11, 2015: 12:30 PM - 3:00 PM
155A (Salt Palace Convention Center)

Description:
This session will cover tools and applications geared towards using synthetic and systems biology to solve problems in human health. Areas include but are not limited to the study and engineering of microbiomes, antibiotic resistance, immunology, cell metabolism, and cell-based diagnostics and therapeutics. Speakers from both academia and industry are encouraged to present in this session.

Sponsor:
Emerging Frontiers in Systems and Synthetic Biology
Co-Sponsor(s):
Bioengineering (15C), Engineering Fundamentals in Life Science (15D)
Chair:
Yvonne Chen Email: yvchen@ucla.edu
Co-Chair:
Deepak Nagrath Email: deepak.nagrath@rice.edu


12:30 PM
(559a) Chemical-Genetic Inference of Antibiotic Interactions for Combination Therapies
Sriram Chandrasekaran, James J Collins and Murat Cokol


12:48 PM
(559b) Dissecting the Effects of (5Z)-4-Bromo-5-(bromomethylene)-3-Butyl-2-(5H)-Furanone on Bacillus Anthracis Metabolism
Christine Endicott and Ranjan Srivastava


1:06 PM
(559c) Discovery and Dissection of Metabolic Oscillations in the Nitric Oxide Response of Escherichia coli Under Microaerobiosis
Jonathan L. Robinson and Mark P. Brynildsen


1:24 PM
(559d) Identification of Gut Microbiota-Derived Metabolites As Liver Inflammation Modulators in Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease
Smitha Krishnan, Maria Choi, Yufang Ding, Nima Saedi, Martin L. Yarmush, Arul Jayaraman and Kyongbum Lee


1:42 PM
Break


1:48 PM
(559e) Identifying Motifs Associated with Autoimmune Diseases Using Next Generation Sequencing Experiments
Robert J. Pantazes and Patrick Daugherty


2:06 PM
(559f) Novel Approach to Target Endogenous KRAS Mutations By the Crispr/Cas9 Technology
Yi Li, Saurabh Mendiratta, Kristina Ehrhardt, Neha Kashyap, Michael White and Leonidas Bleris


2:24 PM
(559g) Rewiring Cellular Input-Output to Engineer Cell-Based Therapies That Interface Robustly with Human Physiology
Kelly A. Schwarz, Rachel M. Dudek, Nichole Daringer and Joshua N. Leonard


2:42 PM
(559h) Understanding Tumor Microenvironment's Metabolic Regulation of Cancer Cells
Deepak Nagrath and Lifeng Yang
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