Program

SBAFLF 2019 Program

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Monday, March 11

Time Session/Lecture info
09:00-09:30
Registration & Coffee
 
09:30-09:35
Opening Remarks
Roee Amit, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology 
09:35-11:15
Session 1 Manufacturing towards a sustainable future: plants, delivery, sensors and scale-up
 
09:35-10:15
June Medford, Colorado State University
Towards a sustainable Future Using Plant Synthetic Biology
10:15-10:45
Karen Polizzi, Imperial College London
A low-cost, modular platform for field-based detection
10:45-11:05
Ofra Chen , TransAlgae Israel
Algae based drug delivery platform
11:05-11:15
Zohar Erez, Weizmann Institute of Science
Peptide based, externally controllable expression systems for synthetic biology
11:15-11:40
Coffee Break
 
11:40-13:10
Session 2 Synbio for medicine and well-being
 
11:40-12:10
Ariel Lindner, Center for Research and Interdisciplinarity (CRI), Paris Descartes University
Learning through Research: From student-based project to anti-tuberculosis drug discovery
12:10-12:30
Ido Bachelet, Augmanity
Next-generation medicine driven by molecular computing
12:30-12:50
Lior Nissim , Hebrew University Jerusalem
Synthetic gene circuits for cancer immunotherapy
12:50-13:00
Yaron Orenstein, Ben-Gurion University
Algorithms for universal, unbiased and compact DNA and amino acid libraries
13:00-13:10
Dan Alon, Tel Aviv University
Engineering a synthetic DNAzyme–based operon–like system for protein organization within living bacteria using ssDNA scaffolds
13:10-15:00
Lunch & posters session
 
15:00-17:10
Session 3 Engineering new biochemistry
 
15:00-15:40
Dan Tawfik, Weizmann Institute of Science
Synthetic metabolism nothing makes sense except in the light of evolution
15:40-16:00
Mira Amiram, Ben Gurion University of the Negev
Expanding the genetic code to produce semi-synthetic biomaterials
16:00-16:20
Coffee Break
16:20-17:00
Kristala Prather, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Engineered autotmonous control of metabolic pathways
17:00-17:10
Eden Ozer, Ben Gurion University of the Negev
Genetic code expansion of Pseudomonas aeruginosa and its applications
17:10-17:15
Poster award, Closing remarks
 
17:15-18:30
Drinks & networking
Including a best poster award 

Submission deadline 
for short talks & posters 
abstracts:

February 15, 2019

Organizing committee

 

Sponsors

  • Weizmann Institute of Science
  • Feinberg Graduate School
  • Faculty of Biochemistry

  • Faculty of Biology
  • Azrieli Institute for Systems Biology
  • SAERI, Sustainability And Energy Research Initiative
  • Technion, Israel Institute of Technology
    Faculty of Biotechnology and Food Engineering
  • The Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences

Conference Coordinator

Talia Suissa
talias@weizmann.ac.il