| Synthetic Biology 2.0 |
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| Conference Agenda |
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| May 20 - 22, 2006 |
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| Saturday May 20, 2006 - Haas Business School |
| 7:30 - 8:30 am |
Registration |
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Poster setup - Wells Fargo Room |
| 8:00 - 8:30 am |
Breakfast - Lobby |
| 8:30 - 8:40 am |
Welcome: Jay Keasling - Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory / UC Berkeley |
| 8:40 - 8:50 am |
Opening Remarks: Graham Fleming -Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory / UC Berkeley |
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| ENERGY SESSION: |
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| 8:50 - 9:10 am |
Chairman: Steven Chu - Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory / UC Berkeley |
| 9:10 - 9:40 am |
Craig Venter - J. Craig Venter Institute, "Synthetic Genomics" |
| 9:40 - 10:10 am |
Nancy Ho - Purdue University, "Ethanol production" |
| 10:10 - 10:40 am |
Timothy Gardner - Boston University, "Shotgun mapping of transcription regulation: the hunt for genetic gadgetry" |
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| 10:40 - 10:55 am |
Break - Lobby |
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| MATERIALS SESSION: |
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| 10:55 - 11:05 am |
Chairman: Matt Francis - Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory / UC Berkeley |
| 11:05 - 11:35 am |
Arash Komeili - Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory / UC Berkeley, "Magnetite Biomineralization in Bacteria" |
| 11:35 - 12:05 pm |
Dan Morse - UC Santa Barbara, "Biologically inspired nanofabrication" |
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| 12:05 - 1:05 pm |
Lunch - Courtyard |
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| 1:05 - 1:35 pm |
Paul Rothemund - California Institute of Technology, "DNA origami" |
| 1:35 - 2:05 pm |
Dyche Mullins - UC San Francisco, "From signal to structure: Engineering artificial cytoskeletons" |
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| FOUNDATIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SESSION: |
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| 2:05 - 2:15 pm |
Chairman: Tom Knight - Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| 2:15 - 2:45 pm |
Mitsuhiro Itaya - KEIO University, Japan, "A novel genome vector for giant DNA assembly" |
| 2:45 - 3:15 pm |
Vincent Noireaux - University of Minnesota, "Cell-free gene expression in synthetic vesicles" |
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| 3:15 - 3:30 pm |
Break |
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| 3:30 - 4:00 pm |
Christina Smolke - California Institute of Technology, "Engineering nucleic acid-based molecular sensors for probing and programming cellular systems" |
| 4:00 - 4:30 pm |
Drew Endy - Massachusetts Institute of Technology, "On a System for Engineering Genetic Machines" |
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| DNA SYNTHESIS PANEL: |
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| 4:30 - 5:15 pm |
J. D. Kittle - Coda Genomics |
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John Danner - Codon Devices |
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Jeremy Minshull - DNA2.0 |
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Hans Buegl - GeneArt |
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| 5:15 - 7:00 pm |
Poster session and reception - Courtyard |
| Dinner |
No host, off-site |
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| Sunday May 21, 2006 - Haas Business School |
| 7:30 - 8:30 am |
Registration |
| 8:00 - 8:30 am |
Breakfast: Hosted by conference on site |
| 8:30 - 8:45 am |
Welcome: Jay Keasling, Drew Endy |
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| CHEMISTRY SESSION: |
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| 8:45 - 8:55 am |
Chairman: Carlos Bustamante - Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory / Howard Hughes Medical Institute / UC Berkeley |
| 8:55 - 9:25 am |
Lei Wang - Salk Institute, "Protein Biosynthesis: Encoding Unnatural Amino Acids and Evolving in Cells" |
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| 9:25 - 9:55 am |
Frances Arnold - California Institute of Technology, "New bacterial communication lines by laboratory evolution of LuxR" |
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| 9:55 - 10:05 am |
Break - Lobby |
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| 10:05 - 10:35 am |
Carolyn Bertozzi - Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory / Howard Hughes Medical Institute / UC Berkeley, "Chemical tools for probing the glycome" |
| 10:35 - 11:05 am |
Jack Szostak - Harvard, "Towards the Design and Synthesis of an Artificial Cell" |
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| HEALTH SESSION: |
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| 11:05 - 11:15 am |
Chairman: Wendell Lim - UC San Francisco |
| 11:15 - 11: 45 am |
David Schaffer - Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory / UC Berkeley, "Directed evolution of new viruses for gene delivery" |
| 11:45 - 12:15 pm |
Adam Arkin - Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory / Howard Hughes Medical Institute / UC Berkeley, "Design of Tumor-Killing Bacteria" |
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| 12:15 - 1:15 pm |
Lunch - Courtyard |
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| 1:15 - 1:45 pm |
Martin Fussenegger - Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich, "Synthetic mammalian gene networks" |
| 1:45 - 2:15 pm |
Chris Voigt - UC San Francisco, "Secreting Spider Silk in Salmonella" |
| 2:15 - 2:45 pm |
David Baltimore - California Institute of Technology, "Synthetic immunology" |
| 2:45 - 3:15 pm |
Jef Boeke - Johns Hopkins University, "Synthetic retrotransposons" |
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| 3:15 - 3:30 pm |
Break - Lobby |
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| 10 MINUTE SHORT TALKS: |
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| 3:30 - 5:45 PM |
Caroline Ajo-Franklin - Harvard Medical School |
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John Anderson - UC San Francisco/UC Berkeley |
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Addison Ault - Princeton University |
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Frederick Balagadde - Stanford University |
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Steffen Mueller - SUNY Stony Brook |
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Jack Newman - Amyris Biotechnologies |
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Samantha Sutton - MIT |
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Trevor Swartz - UC Santa Cruz |
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Brian Yeh - UC San Francisco |
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Peter Carr - MIT; Farren Isaacs - Harvard Medical School |
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| 5:45 - 6:00 pm |
Poster Awards - Jay Keasling, Drew Endy |
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| PERSPECTIVES/CHARGE - DAY 3: |
| 6:00 - 6:15 pm |
David Baltimore - California Institute of Technology |
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| 6:15 - 7:00 pm |
Reception - Clark Kerr Campus - Courtyard |
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Buses provided from Haas |
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| 7:00 - 9:00 pm |
Dinner Banquet - Clark Kerr Campus - Great Hall |
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| Monday May 22, 2006 - Clark Kerr Campus - Auditorium |
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| 8:00 - 8:45 am |
Breakfast - Auditorium |
| 8:45 - 9:00 am |
Welcome: Jay Keasling & Drew Endy |
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| SAFETY & SECURITY SESSION |
Chair & Moderator: Eric Eisenstadt - Institute of Genomic Research |
| 9:00 - 9:15 am |
Security Self-Governance White Paper & Proposals |
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• Steve Maurer - Goldman School of Public Policy, UC Berkeley |
| 9:15 - 9:35 am |
Sequence Screening with BlackWatch |
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• Rob Jones - Craic Computing |
| 9:35 - 9: 50 am |
On Next Generation Screening Frameworks |
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• Jonathan Eisen - UC Davis |
| 9:50 - 10:00 am |
Summary of Open Issues |
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• Drew Endy - Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| 10:00 - 10:45 am |
Open Discussion |
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• Eric Eisenstadt - The institute of Genomic Research |
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• On-Stage Advisors: Gerald Epstein - CSIS; Michele Garfinkel - Venter Institute; Stephen Maurer - UC Berkeley; Harry Rubin - U Penn/NSABB |
| 10:45 - 11:00 am |
Next Steps |
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• Eric Eisenstadt - The institute of Genomic Research |
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• Expected Contributors: Michael Stebbins - FAS; Industry; EU; Asia; Drew Endy - Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
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| 11:00 - 11:30 am |
Break - Lobby |
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| UNDERSTANDING AND PERCEPTION SESSION: |
Chair & Moderator: Oliver Norton - Nature |
| 11:30 - 11:40 am |
Understanding Risk |
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• Paul Slovic - University of Oregon |
| 11:40 - 12:00 pm |
Discovering Synthetic Biology |
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• Lawrence McCray & Natalie Kuldell - Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| 12:00 - 12:20 pm |
Ethical Challenges in Synthetic Biology |
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• Laurie Zoloth - Northwestern |
| 12:20 - 12:40 pm |
Framing Risks |
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• Paul Rabinow - UC Berkeley |
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Open Discussion |
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• Oliver Morton - Nature |
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| 1:00 - 2:00 pm |
Lunch - Courtyard |
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Media Q&A - Room 102 |
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| OWNERSHIP, SHARING & INNOVATION SESSION: |
Chair & Moderator: Richard Newton - UC Berkeley |
| 2:00 - 2:20 pm |
Synthetic Economics |
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• Ken Oye - Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| 2:20 - 2:40 pm |
Synthetic Biology: Caught Between Property Right, the Public Domain, and the Commons |
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• Arti Rai - Duke University |
| 2:40 - 3:00 pm |
Open Discussion |
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• Richard Newton - UC Berkeley |
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| COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION SESSION: |
Chair & Moderator: Tom Kalil - UC Berkeley |
| 3:00 - 3:05 pm |
Synthetic Biology 3.0 |
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• Sven Panke - Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich |
| 3:05 - 3:15 pm |
iGEM & The Registry of Standard Biological Parts |
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• Randy Rettberg - Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| 3:15 - 3:25 pm |
Technical Standards |
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• Tom Knight - Massachusetts Institute of Technolgy |
| 3:25 - 3:30 pm |
Community Organization |
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• Drew Endy - Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| 3:30 - 3:40 pm |
Funding Strategy |
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• Tom Kalil - UC Berkeley |
| 3:40 - 4:00 pm |
Open Discussion |
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• Moderator: Tom Kalil - UC Berkeley |
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| 4:00 - 4:30 pm |
Break - Lobby |
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| DECLARATION SESSION: |
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| 4:30 - 5:30 pm |
Review and Approval of Community-Wide Declarations |
