Presentations
See the abstract book.
Day 1
09:30 Registration
10:00 Welcome and introduction
Session 1: What is synthetic biology, and what can it be used for?
10:15 Jim Haseloff (University of Cambridge) Engineering plant form
10:40 June Medford (Colorado State) Rewiring a plant and digital-like controls
11:05 Andy Boyce (BBSRC) Research Council strategy and funding for synthetic biology
11:30 Belinda Clarke (TSB) Funding new frontiers in synthetic biology
Session 2: From molecules to cells and circuits
11:55 Dek Woolfson (University of Bristol) Generating and applying toolkits of de novo peptide components for synthetic biology
12:20 Lunch
13:15 Cameron Alexander (University of Nottingham) Synthetic polymers – new containers and communication materials for synthetic biology
13:45 Lee Cronin (University of Glasgow) Bottom up meets top down: From inorganic biology to synthetic biology manipulations in 3D printed wet-ware
14:05 Martin Howard (JIC) Implementation of analogue arithmetic circuitry in plants
14:30 Anne Osbourn (JIC) Making new molecules
14:55 Rob Edwards (University of York; FERA) Plant Synthetic Biology: a New Platform for Industrial Biotechnology?
Session 3: Plant synthetic biology
15:20 Chloe Singleton (University of Exeter) Synthetic metabolons
15:45 Afternoon tea
16:05 Giles Oldroyd (JIC) Redesigning the symbiotic signalling pathway for rhizobial recognition
16:30 Sebastian Schornack (Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge) Targeted variation of genomes using TAL effectors
16:55 Breakout groups: What can plants do for synthetic biology?
19:30 Dinner at the NCSL
Day 2
08:45 Tea and coffee
Session 4: Synthetic biology tools
09:00 Susan Rosser (University of Glasgow) Recombinases as tools for Synthetic Biology
09:25 George Lomonossoff (JIC) eVLPs for plant synthetic biology
09:50 Tom Ellis (Imperial College London) Assembling designer genomes
10:15 Sylvestre Marillonnet (Icon Genetics) Developing tools for synthetic biology: Golden Gate Cloning and the MoClo System
10:40 Jim Ajioka (University of Cambridge) A guide to Gibson assembly
11:05 Coffee break
11:30 Breakout sessions to discuss future community needs
12:30 Lunch
13:30 Feedback from breakout groups
14:05 Claire Marris (Kings College London) Responsible Research and Innovation for Synthetic Biology
14:30 Natalio Krasnogor (University of Nottingham) Computational tools for rapid model prototyping in synthetic biology
14:55 Jim Haseloff (University of Cambridge) Registry of DNA parts for plants
15:20 Richard Kitney (Imperial College London) Foundational Resources from cSynBi
15:45 Guy-Bart Stan (Imperial College London) Taking a forward-engineering approach to the design of synthetic biology systems